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Baked Piroshki with Meat with wheat flour, minced meat and dry yeast — Russia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Baked Piroshki with Meat

Oven-baked yeast dough pockets filled with juicy braised minced meat. Lighter than the fried version, with a smooth glossy crust and a tender crumb. A Russian home-baking staple served warm with tea, milk, or broth.

180 min280 kcal8 serves

Beef Stroganoff with beef, onion and cream — Russia recipe

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Meat Dishes

Beef Stroganoff

A legendary Russian dish invented by Count Stroganoff. Thin strips of beef braised with mushrooms in a rich sour cream sauce.

85 min440 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🥑Keto

Chak-chak (Tatar Honey Pastry) with flour, honey and egg — Russia recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Chak-chak (Tatar Honey Pastry)

Chak-chak is the emblem of Tatar and Bashkir hospitality — a festive sweet of tiny deep-fried dough sticks bound together in honey syrup and mounded into a glistening dome. The dough is just flour and eggs, cut small, fried crisp, then folded through a honey-and-sugar syrup while hot so the pieces set into a sticky, crunchy heap. It keeps for weeks and is the centerpiece of weddings and celebrations across the Middle Volga.

90 min410 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Chicken and Mushroom Julienne with chicken, mushrooms and onion — Russia recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Chicken and Mushroom Julienne

Julienne in Russian cooking is not a way of cutting vegetables: it is the name of a hot appetizer (жюльен, zhulyen), chicken and mushrooms in cream sauce baked under cheese in small individual cocotte dishes. The word comes from French, where it means thin strips, but in Russia it stuck to this dish, a popular item on Soviet restaurant menus. You boil the chicken, sauté the mushrooms, make the sauce, fill the dishes and bake; start to finish takes under an hour.

53 min300 kcal6 serves

🥑Keto

Chicken Kiev with chicken, butter and garlic — Russia recipe

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Meat Dishes

Chicken Kiev

A legendary dish of disputed origin claimed by both Ukrainian and Russian cuisines. Tender chicken breast pounded thin, wrapped around chilled garlic herb butter, coated in crispy breadcrumbs and fried golden.

45 min450 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Crab Stick Salad with crab sticks, canned corn and cooked rice — Russia recipe

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Salads

Crab Stick Salad

A simple Russian salad of diced crab sticks and sweet corn with hard-boiled eggs, cooled rice, and fresh cucumber, bound with a light mayonnaise dressing. It is folded gently, chilled, and finished with green onion and dill, a New Year favourite.

30 min250 kcal6 serves

⚡Quick

Fresh Cabbage Shchi with beef, white cabbage and potatoes — Russia recipe

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Soups

Fresh Cabbage Shchi

A light, clean Russian cabbage soup made with fresh white cabbage rather than sauerkraut — beef broth, potatoes, a fresh tomato base, and a carrot-onion sauté, finished with sour cream and dill. It's the summer counterpart to dark, sour sauerkraut shchi: quicker, brighter, and best eaten the day it's made.

60 min180 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Fried Piroshki with Meat with wheat flour, minced meat and dry yeast — Russia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Fried Piroshki with Meat

Soft yeast dough pockets stuffed with juicy braised minced meat and onion, deep-fried to a golden crust. A beloved Russian street-food classic equally good as a snack or a meal alongside soup or broth.

150 min650 kcal8 serves

Grechka with Mushrooms (Russian Buckwheat) with buckwheat, mushrooms and onion — Russia recipe

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Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Grechka with Mushrooms (Russian Buckwheat)

Grechka with mushrooms is a classic Russian dish of toasted buckwheat with sautéed mushrooms and onions. Toasting the groats and not stirring them as they cook keeps the grains fluffy and separate rather than sticky. The mushrooms are dry-fried for deep flavor, then folded through. It's a hearty, naturally gluten-free dish and a staple of Lenten cooking.

30 min290 kcal4 serves

🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Guriev Porridge with semolina, milk and cream — Russia recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Guriev Porridge

Guriev porridge is a Russian dessert of baked semolina layered with sweet milk skins, toasted walnuts and dried apricots, finished with a caramelized sugar crust. It's named after Count Dmitry Guriev, a statesman at the court of Tsar Alexander I in the early 19th century.

40 min738 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Halva (Russian Sunflower Halva) with shelled sunflower seeds and flour — Russia recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Halva (Russian Sunflower Halva)

Sunflower halva is the crumbly, fibrous sweet that Soviet and Russian childhoods were built on — instantly recognizable by its toasted-seed aroma and the way it flakes into soft layers. Roasted sunflower seeds are ground to an oily paste, bound with a hot sugar syrup, and worked until the mass turns fibrous rather than smooth. Unlike Middle Eastern tahini halva, the star here is the sunflower seed, giving a deeper, nuttier flavor.

60 min520 kcal10 serves

🌱Vegan

Herring Under a Fur Coat with salted herring, beets and potatoes — Russia recipe

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Salads

Herring Under a Fur Coat

A layered Russian holiday salad of salted herring hidden under potato, carrot, egg, and a bright top layer of beet, with mayonnaise between each tier. It is assembled in a ring and chilled overnight so the layers meld; the beet fur coat gives the salad its name.

60 min280 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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