Cuisine · Russia

Russian cooking

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

Sort by

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Oladyi (Russian Fluffy Yeast Pancakes)

Thick, fluffy Russian pancakes made with yeast and warm milk. A classic breakfast dish with a soft interior and golden crust. Serve with sour cream, jam, honey, or fresh berries.

80 min450 kcal3 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Salads

Olivier Salad

The Russian potato salad — boiled potato, carrot, egg, pickles, peas, and chicken in a mayonnaise dressing. Cut everything to the same small dice. Tastes better the next day.

50 min340 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Pancakes with Caviar

Blini with caviar is a classic Russian appetizer. Thin pancakes are made from a batter with milk, water, eggs, flour, sugar, and butter.

23 min325 kcal4 serves

⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Pastila (Russian Apple Pastila)

Pastila is an old Russian confection of baked apple purée whipped with egg white and sugar until pale and airy, then slowly dried into tender, marshmallow-like layers. The Belyov version from Tula stacks several dried sheets glued with more purée into a soft loaf. Tart antonovka apples, rich in pectin, are traditional; the result is naturally light and fruit-forward.

480 min160 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Pelmeni (Russian Meat Dumplings)

Classic Siberian dumplings filled with seasoned minced meat, boiled until tender and served with butter, sour cream, or broth. The unleavened dough is rolled thin and sealed into a characteristic ear shape.

150 min400 kcal8 serves

Perlovka with Beef (Russian Pearl Barley)

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Perlovka with Beef (Russian Pearl Barley)

Perlovka with beef is a hearty Russian one-pot of pearl barley simmered with browned meat, onions, and carrots — cooked much like a plov. Soaking the barley first is the secret to plump, separate grains instead of a tough, chewy mess. It's a filling, high-protein dish that long made pearl barley a Soviet kitchen staple.

90 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Pozharsky Cutlets (Russian Chicken Cutlets)

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Pozharsky Cutlets (Russian Chicken Cutlets)

Pozharsky cutlets are juicy Russian chicken patties in a crisp crust of dried bread cubes. The trick to their tenderness is cold butter worked into the mince — it melts inside as they fry, like a mini chicken Kiev. The outside turns golden and shaggy from the croutons, while the center stays soft and moist.

105 min490 kcal4 serves

💪High protein

Pshennaya Kasha with Pumpkin (Russian Millet Porridge)

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Pshennaya Kasha with Pumpkin (Russian Millet Porridge)

Pshennaya kasha with pumpkin is a warm Russian millet porridge cooked in milk with sweet pumpkin — an autumn and winter comfort dish. Rinsing and scalding the millet first removes its natural bitterness, and simmering the pumpkin until soft lets it melt into a creamy, golden porridge. It's finished with butter and served with honey or dried fruit.

45 min230 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Ptichye Moloko (Bird's Milk Cake)

An iconic Russian confection: an airy soufflé made from a custard-butter cream folded into stiff meringue and set with gelatin, covered with a glossy dark chocolate glaze. Light, almost cloud-like in texture, it is one of the most beloved Soviet-era desserts.

180 min350 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaEasy

Salads

Radish and Sour Cream Salad

A classic Russian spring salad of thinly sliced radishes, fresh cucumber, and green onion with hard-boiled egg, dressed generously with cold sour cream and fresh dill. It comes together in minutes and is served right away while the vegetables stay crisp.

15 min110 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Apple & Cottage Cheese Blini

Golden Russian crepes filled with a mixture of smooth cottage cheese and caramelized apples — the apples are sautéed in butter with cinnamon until they soften and turn slightly translucent, then folded into the sweetened cheese filling. Each stuffed blini is pan-fried a second time until crisp on both sides. The contrast between the warm, spiced apple and the cool, creamy cheese is what makes these disappear from the plate before you’ve finished stacking them.

60 min370 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Bliny (Thin Pancakes)

Classic Russian thin crepes made with milk, eggs, and baking soda for a light, lacy texture. Versatile and beloved, they are served with sour cream, jam, butter, or honey.

40 min250 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick

Nearby flavors

Four kitchens with overlapping ingredients and similar rhythms to Russian cooking.

Ukrainian9 recipes Belarusian4 recipes Georgian14 recipes Kazakh1 recipes