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🇷🇺 Traditional dishes from Russian Federation

3 dishes people actually cook in Russian Federation: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Russian Federation? 3 traditional Russian Federation dishes, from Beef stroganoff (150 min, the quickest) to Borscht (190 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Beef stroganoff

2 hours and 30 minutes · medium · 11 ingredients

Beef stroganoff, a traditional dish from Russian Federation

Russian dish of tender beef seared quickly with onion and finished in a broth sauce sharpened with mustard and enriched with sour cream, served with crisp potato straws.

  • 600 g beef tenderloin
  • 1 tsp mustard
  • 2 tbsp sour cream (smetana)
  • 300 ml beef broth
  • 50 g butter
  • 1 tbsp flour
  • 1 onion
  • 600 g potatoes
  • 500 ml sunflower oil
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 0.5 tsp black pepper

Borscht

3 hours and 10 minutes · medium · 12 ingredients

Borscht, a traditional dish from Russian Federation

Beet soup on a beef-bone broth whose deep red color and sourness come from beets braised separately with vinegar and tomato before going into the pot.

  • 400 g beets
  • 500 g beef on the bone
  • 450 g white cabbage
  • 400 g potatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 onion
  • 100 g tomato paste
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 4 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp lard
  • 200 g sour cream (smetana)
  • 2 tsp salt

Pelmeni

3 hours · medium · 10 ingredients

Pelmeni, a traditional dish from Russian Federation

Thin-skinned dumplings whose raw beef-and-pork filling is beaten with ice water so each one releases its own broth when bitten.

  • 500 g ground beef and pork
  • 500 g all-purpose flour
  • 200 ml water
  • 1 egg
  • 2 onions
  • 100 ml ice water
  • 30 g butter
  • 150 g sour cream
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper

What do people eat in Russian Federation?

Copper documents three dishes from Russian Federation: Beef stroganoff, Borscht and Pelmeni. Onion and sour cream each appear in more than one recipe. All three are boiled. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 24 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Russian Federation?

The three recipes need 24 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Sour cream the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 23 use sour cream. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Russian Federation take?

Beef stroganoff is the quickest at 150 minutes. Borscht is the longest at 190 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 180 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Russian Federation is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Russian Federation here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Beef stroganoff is the shortest way in.

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