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Sour cream Recipes

36 recipes with sour cream for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

36 recipes

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Soups

Okroshka

A cold Russian summer soup of finely diced raw vegetables, boiled potatoes, eggs, and meat in a tangy base of bread kvass. Its name means to crumble; refreshing and light, it is served cold, often with sour cream and a dab of mustard.

30 min160 kcal5 serves

⚡Quick

🇧🇾BelarusMedium

Soups

Zhur

A traditional Belarusian sour soup whose tang comes from fermented rye (or oat) flour rather than vinegar. The starter is cooked with smoked pork, potatoes, root vegetables, and marjoram, then served with a hard-boiled egg and sour cream.

50 min320 kcal6 serves

🇷🇺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

🇺🇦UkraineMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Baked Carp in Sour Cream (Ukrainian)

Baked carp in sour cream is a Ukrainian classic: a whole fish coated in a garlicky sour-cream layer on a bed of onions. Diagonal slashes along the sides let the sour cream and heat reach inside and soften the fine bones. The foil is left open on top so the skin browns while the flesh stays moist.

55 min360 kcal4 serves

🥑Keto💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice)

Tefteli are Russian meatballs mixed with rice and braised in a creamy tomato gravy. The rice worked right into the mince pokes out and keeps them soft — which earns them the nickname 'porcupine' or 'hedgehog' meatballs. A light crust from browning holds the shape, the inside stays tender, and the gravy soaks into a side of mashed potatoes or buckwheat.

70 min420 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Zharkoe (Russian Beef and Potato Stew)

Zharkoe is a Russian stew of braised beef and potatoes in a thick gravy. The meat is browned first, then slowly simmered with onion and carrot until tender, and the potatoes go in only near the end. A spoonful of sour cream and fresh dill soften the gravy — hearty home cooking, best of all from a clay pot.

110 min390 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

🌍AzerbaijanAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Baklava (Azerbaijani Pakhlava)

Azerbaijani pakhlava is a layered walnut pastry cut into diamonds and soaked in honey — the centerpiece of the Novruz spring table alongside shekerbura and gogal. Unlike Greek-style baklava made with paper-thin phyllo, the Baku version uses a soft yeast dough layered with walnut-cardamom filling. Each diamond is topped with an egg yolk and saffron glaze and a whole walnut half, and warm honey is poured over after baking.

120 min420 kcal25 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Vatrushka (Russian Sweet Cheese Buns)

Vatrushka is a round Russian yeast bun with an open well of sweet cottage cheese in the middle. The soft, rich dough is proofed twice, shaped into balls, and pressed to hold a spoonful of vanilla-scented tvorog filling. Baked until golden, they're best fresh and slightly warm — a classic of Russian and Ukrainian home baking, traditionally shaped like the sun.

150 min250 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Medovik (Russian Honey Cake)

Medovik is Russia's iconic honey cake: eight or more thin caramel-honey layers stacked with tangy sour-cream frosting and left overnight until soft and tender. The secret to its warm caramel aroma is stirring baking soda straight into hot honey, which foams up and lightly caramelizes the batter. Finished with a dusting of the cake's own crumbs.

180 min420 kcal12 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Tvorozhnaya Zapekanka (Russian Cottage Cheese Bake)

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Tvorozhnaya Zapekanka (Russian Cottage Cheese Bake)

Tvorozhnaya zapekanka is the soft, lightly sweet cottage-cheese bake that Russians remember from childhood kitchens and kindergartens. Sieved tvorog is mixed with eggs, sugar, and semolina, studded with raisins, and baked until set with a golden top. It slices like a cross between a cheesecake and a soufflé and is just as good cold as warm, with sour cream or condensed milk.

80 min240 kcal6 serves

🌿Vegetarian💪High protein

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs

🇺🇸USAMedium

Salads

Iceberg Lettuce Salad with Blue Cheese and Herbs

Iceberg gets dismissed as the lettuce with nothing to say, which misses the point entirely: it isn't there for flavour, it's there for cold and crunch. Cut into thick wedges and left whole, it stays icy and snapping under a thick buttermilk and blue cheese dressing that would flatten any softer leaf. Chives, dill, cherry tomatoes, and raw red onion do the talking. It's a steakhouse salad that needs both a fork and a knife.

25 min290 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian⚡Quick🌾Gluten-free

🇵🇱PolandMedium

Soups

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup)

Golabki soup is the Polish cabbage roll taken apart and cooked in one pot. Ground pork, cabbage, rice and tomato give the same taste as the rolls, with no leaves to blanch and nothing to wrap. One hour instead of three.

60 min310 kcal6 serves

🌾Gluten-free

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