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Russian cooking

Slow soups, dumplings, pickles, the cooking that gets you through winter. Two-day borscht and Olivier salad, both better the next day.

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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

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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

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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

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Chicken and Mushroom Julienne

A classic Russian restaurant appetizer: chicken and mushrooms baked in a creamy béchamel sauce under a golden cheese crust in individual cocotte makers. Rich, silky and aromatic.

53 min300 kcal6 serves

🥑Keto

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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

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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🌾Gluten-free

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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 min350 kcal8 serves

Grechka with Mushrooms (Russian Buckwheat)

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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

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Sweet Dishes

Guriev Porridge

Guriev Porridge is a traditional Russian dessert named after Count Dmitry Guriev, distinguished by its creamy texture, rich flavor and beautiful layered appearance with a golden caramel crust.

40 min450 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

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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

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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

Herring with Onions and Potatoes (Russian Zakuska)

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Herring with Onions and Potatoes (Russian Zakuska)

Herring with onions and potatoes is a simple Russian zakuska: salted herring fillets with rings of raw onion and warm boiled potatoes. The fish is drizzled with unrefined sunflower oil and a splash of vinegar, then scattered with dill. The contrast between cold, salty fish and hot potatoes is the whole point of the dish.

35 min340 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

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