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Russian Apple & Cottage Cheese Blini with tvorog, apples and whole milk — Russia recipe

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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

Russian Bliny (Thin Pancakes) with wheat flour, milk and eggs — Russia recipe

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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

Russian Cottage Cheese Blini with tvorog, whole milk and plain flour — Russia recipe

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Russian Cottage Cheese Blini

Thin Russian crepes with a sweet cottage cheese filling — blended smooth so it stays creamy instead of grainy, bound with one egg so it holds its shape, then fried in butter until the outside is golden and slightly crisp. The kind of breakfast people ask for by name. Serve with sour cream or jam, and do not skip the second fry.

55 min390 kcal5 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Russian Meat Blini with ground beef and pork, whole milk and plain flour — Russia recipe

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Flour and Confectionery Products

Russian Meat Blini

Thin Russian crepes filled with pan-fried beef and pork mince, caramelized onion, and a little butter — then folded into envelopes and fried again until the outside is crisp. The double fry is non-negotiable. It is what separates a good blinchik from a great one. Serve with cold sour cream and nobody leaves the table early.

60 min822 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

Russian Vinegret Salad with beets, potato and carrot — Russia recipe

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Salads

Russian Vinegret Salad

Boiled beets, potatoes, and carrots diced small and tossed with briny dill pickles, sauerkraut, green onions, and a simple sunflower oil dressing. This salad has been on Russian holiday tables for over a century. It is earthy, tangy, and satisfying cold — the kind of thing that gets better by the day and tastes best made a day ahead.

75 min195 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Sauerkraut Shchi with beef, sauerkraut and potato — Russia recipe

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Soups

Sauerkraut Shchi

The soul of Russian cuisine — a rich, dark soup made from braised sauerkraut and beef on the bone, slow-cooked for hours. Gets better overnight, develops incredible depth of flavor. The only soup that improves with freezing.

240 min350 kcal8 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink) with honey, water and cinnamon — Russia recipe

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Beverages

Sbiten (Russian Honey Spiced Drink)

Sbiten is an old Russian hot drink: honey simmered in water with warming spices — cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, black pepper, and usually a bay leaf, sometimes hops. You dissolve the honey in hot water, then let it simmer low and slow with the spices until the kitchen smells like a medieval apothecary. Vendors once sold it hot from copper vessels called сбитенники at markets and fairs, before tea became the everyday drink in Russia. The result sits somewhere between spiced honey tea and mulled wine without the wine — warming, aromatic, and made from little more than pantry staples.

30 min145 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick🌿Vegetarian

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake with eggs, plain flour and apples — Russia recipe

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Sweet Dishes

Sharlotka — Russian Apple Sponge Cake

The Russian home cake that appears the moment apples come into season: a whisked sponge poured over sliced apples and baked until golden. There is no butter and no mixer required beyond a whisk, and the lift comes entirely from eggs beaten with sugar. Tart apples keep it from turning cloying.

55 min210 kcal8 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Shashlik with pork neck and onion — Russia recipe

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Meat Dishes

Shashlik

A post-Soviet summer classic of fatty pork neck cut into cubes, marinated overnight with plenty of onion, lemon, and mineral water, then grilled on skewers over charcoal. The onion tenderises the meat while the coals give it a smoky char; it is served off the skewer with flatbread, pickled onion, and a spicy sauce.

40 min480 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein🌶️Spicy

Solyanka with beef, sausage and pickled cucumbers — Russia recipe

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Soups

Solyanka

Solyanka is a thick Russian soup built from several kinds of cured meat, brined pickles, olives, capers, and lemon. No other soup pairs those ingredients quite like this: three or four cured meats in one pot, pickles with a splash of their brine, olives, capers, and a lemon slice dropped in at the table. The result is sour, salty, and smoky all at once, thick enough that the spoon meets resistance. It began as a tavern soup made from whatever cured meat was on hand, and that's still the honest way to make it — a lone leftover sausage end belongs in this pot. Sour cream and parsley go on top, never into the pot.

170 min850 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Sturgeon in Cream Sauce with sturgeon fillet, cream and onion — Russia recipe

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Fish and Seafood Dishes

Sturgeon in Cream Sauce

Sturgeon in cream sauce is an exquisite dish that combines tender sturgeon meat with a rich and creamy sauce. The cream sauce gives the sturgeon a special softness, emphasizing its natural flavors.

38 min425 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Syrniki (Cottage Cheese Pancakes) with tvorog, eggs and flour — Russia recipe

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Breakfast and Brunch

Syrniki (Cottage Cheese Pancakes)

Crispy outside, soft and cheesy inside. Syrniki are small fried curd pancakes made from cottage cheese, eggs, and a little flour — nothing more. They've been a weekend breakfast staple across Russia and Ukraine for generations. Serve with sour cream and jam, or just a spoonful of honey.

25 min310 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein⚡Quick

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