{"id":406,"date":"2015-01-21T23:29:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T07:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/?p=406"},"modified":"2019-08-27T06:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T13:26:54","slug":"russia-3-national-dishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/russia-3-national-dishes","title":{"rendered":"3 National Russian Dishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we will talk about national Russian food and introduce you to Ms. Yummy Russian\u00a0Cuisine!<\/p>\n<p>Here are <strong>3 National Russian Dishes<\/strong> that tourists try on our <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/moscow\/tours\/food-tour-moscow-st-petersburg\">Moscow food tours<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_30576\"  width=\"1070\" height=\"602\"  data-origwidth=\"1070\" data-origheight=\"602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8hrz27eV7iw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Russian National Cuisine<\/h2>\n<h2>1. Bliny, Russian crepes and pancakes<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1178\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1178\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1178 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Bankoboev.Ru_prazdnichnye_bliny1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Russian ethnic cuisine\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian traditional food, bliny. Photo: bankoboev.ru<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The history of the pancakes is rooted in prehistoric times. It is even considered that they were the first products made from flour. Some historians say that in Russia pancakes were likely to appear around 1005-1006, or, as chef William Pokhlebkin insists, even before the IX century.The Russian name &#8216;blin&#8221; is derived from the distortion of the word &#8220;mlin&#8221;, ie &#8220;grind, ground&#8221;. Thus, a pancake meant &#8220;ground flour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally pancakes were\u00a0only eaten with his hands to&#8230; stay out of\u00a0trouble! In the Ancient Rus if you cut a blin, you could even be stabbed for that!\u00a0Cooking pancakes in those days was the whole mystery: a recipe\u00a0was\u00a0kept a secret and handed down in the family from generation to generation.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from traditional mushroom and jam crepes, the filling can\u00a0be quite unexpected sometimes: a layer of fried onions or carrots, fillet of sea bass, boiled eggs, blue cheese, sorrel, or pickles\u00a0with crab\u00a0meat. Be ready for experiments ;)<\/p>\n<h2>2. Russian Soups<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1173\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1173\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1173 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/4-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"traditional food in Russia\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian national food, borsch. Photo: goodfon.ru<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Soup has been\u00a0one of the main dishes in the Russian cuisine snce\u00a0the\u00a09th\u00a0century, together with their main ingredients: cabbage in schi soup and beet in borsch soup. By the way, the culture of cultivation of cabbage came to Rus from the\u00a0Ancient Greece, and the borsch either came from the Ancient Rome, or was a purely Russian invention, as\u00a0its name\u00a0comes from the Old Russian &#8220;brsch&#8221; (beet).<\/p>\n<p>It is fair to say that the schi are present in Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, Moldovan national cuisines.<\/p>\n<p>Schi was cooked in\u00a0poor huts, and in wealthy homes and estates of the nobility and royal palaces. Only the contents of the soup was different. &#8220;Rich&#8221; cooked schi\u00a0with meat or chicken broth was for rich people, while the poor had to be happy with &#8220;empty&#8221; or\u00a0&#8220;gray&#8221; schi, with much less variety in the their soup.\u00a0For the imperial table there was invented a special recipe &#8220;royal schi&#8221;, with the addition of many overseas delicacies. In spring people cooked &#8220;green&#8221; schi\u00a0of sorrel, nettle, quinoa, and culled cabbage seedlings.<\/p>\n<p>As for the borsch, all you need to know\u00a0for now is that it&#8217;s traditionally accompanied with a\u00a0shot of vodka. ;)<\/p>\n<h2>3. Russian Pelmeni<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_1175\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1175\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1175 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/2.jpeg\" alt=\"What to eat in Russia - traditional food\" width=\"800\" height=\"563\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian dumplings, called pelmeni. Photo: cook-n-eat.net<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dumplings are the most mysterious dish in the world, with an\u00a0ancient history and recipes. Every nation fights for the right to call dumplings their national dish. Dumplings have various names:\u00a0jiao-zi in China, Wonton and Shui Yao, ravioli and tortellini in Italy, maultashen in Germany, kreplach in Israel, manti in Caucasus, khinkali in Georgia, Uzbek chuchvara and Russian pelmeni.<\/p>\n<p>Historians suggest that the Russian dumplings were borrowed by the northern Russian population in the middle of the II millennium BC from the ancestors of the Permian Komis. Russian word &#8220;pelmeni&#8221; is a borrowing from the Komi language and means &#8220;bread ear&#8221;, &#8220;pel&#8221; is an ear and &#8220;nan&#8221; is bread.<\/p>\n<p>As a traditional dish, pelmeni\u00a0in \u00a0Siberia included the meat of elk, bear, goose or forest birds. In addition to meat, the Siberian dumpling\u00a0was often filled with\u00a0berries &#8211; blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries. Pelmeni were cooked\u00a0in salted beef or chicken broth, and brought\u00a0to the table with\u00a0sour cream.<\/p>\n<p>Some ideas for\u00a0<a title=\"Best Restaurants in Moscow\" href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/best-moscow-restaurants\">best restaurants in Moscow<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/friendlylocalguides.com\/blog\/saint-petersburg-7-best-russian-restaurants\">best restaurants in Saint Petersburg<\/a> with Russian traditional treats.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Where are you from and what is the main national dish\u00a0in your country?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we will talk about national Russian food and introduce you to Ms. Yummy Russian\u00a0Cuisine! Here are 3 National Russian Dishes that tourists try on our Moscow food tours. 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