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Sour cream Recipes

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Okroshka with bread kvass, radishes and cucumbers — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaMedium

Soups

Okroshka

Okroshka (окрошка, オクローシカ, 俄式冷汤) is a cold Russian summer soup: finely diced raw cucumber, radish, green onion and dill, boiled potatoes, eggs and beef or boiled sausage, in a tangy base of bread kvass. The name comes from the Russian verb for crumbling, which is the whole technique. It is served with sour cream and a little mustard. Hands-on work is about 40 minutes; the beef simmers unattended for an hour and the chopped mix needs an hour in the fridge, and all of that can be done the day before.

40 min316 kcal5 serves

Zhur with rye sour starter, smoked pork ribs and dried marjoram — Belarus recipe

🇧🇾BelarusAdvanced

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

Radish and Sour Cream Salad with radishes, sour cream and fresh dill — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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

Baked Carp in Sour Cream (Ukrainian) with carp, sour cream and onion — Ukraine recipe

🇺🇦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

Tefteli (Russian Meatballs with Rice) with ground beef, ground pork and white rice — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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

Zharkoe (Russian Beef and Potato Stew) with beef chuck, potato and sour cream — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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.

125 min700 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Baklava (Azerbaijani Pakhlava) with walnuts, honey and flour — Azerbaijan recipe

🌍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

Vatrushka (Russian Sweet Cheese Buns) with flour, tvorog and dry yeast — Russia recipe

🇷🇺RussiaAdvanced

Flour and Confectionery Products

Vatrushka (Russian Sweet Cheese Buns)

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

150 min250 kcal10 serves

🌿Vegetarian

Medovik (Russian Honey Cake) with honey, flour and sour cream — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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) with tvorog, semolina and raisins — Russia recipe

🇷🇺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 with iceberg lettuce, blue cheese and buttermilk — USA recipe

🇺🇸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

Golabki Soup (Polish Cabbage Roll Soup) with ground pork, white cabbage and white rice — Poland recipe

🇵🇱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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