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Russian & Ukrainian Cuisine and Food Culture
Russian Cuisine: Russian cuisine is the most popular, healthiest and delicious cuisines.
Russian dishes and recipes are well known for their easy preparation and also do not require much of cooking skills or any special ingredients. Here in Russian hundreds of soups, fish dishes, meat recipes and popular sweets have been invented over the centuries. The
Russian Traditional Foods can be described as “divine,” and they will have you searching for the recipes when you return home. The Russian fertile plains provide rich grains for breads, brews, pastries and cereals. Its lush rivers and sea offers fish and seafood in abundance. The Tundra in the North provides wild game. Russia is also the land of harsh winters the warm soups are must.
The king of
Russian Cuisine is definitely the soup, with a wide range like borsch,
schi, kalya,
solyanka, salomat,
pohlebka, botvinia and each one boasts dozens of varieties. The people eat turnips and cabbages cooked in various combinations; a lot of fish was eaten too, along with berries, mushrooms and all kinds of porridges. This same centaury came up with
Russian pancakes (bliny), porridges (kasha), stuffed pies (pirozhok), honey cakes (prianik) and rye bread (chyorny hleb), all made it through the centuries almost unaltered. The same era bought the
Tatar dishes, the famous
Russian Dumplings (pelmeni) and noodles (lapsha) and the nation began drinking
Tea, which evolved as a national drink now.
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Ukrainian Cuisine: The Ukrainian cuisine is well known for its great diversity and amazing flavors. This cuisine is a part of population’s culture, lifestyle and customs. The C
uisine of Ukraine is highly influenced by its natives the Russians, Germans, Turkish. The Ukrainians are extremely hospitable and their meals are served in very generous quantities. Most of the Ukraine’s land is made up of very fertile plains, or steppes, and plateaus; this makes the soil rich and perfect to cultivate crops. The earliest Trypillians (farmers) grew barley, millet, rye and wheat. Today the food of Ukraine is first and foremost fried or boiled, then stewed or baked. The dishes are made juicy and appetizing by proper dressings.
Breads are must on the Ukrainian tables and the “
breadbasket of Europe” is famous all over the world. Ukrainian cuisine flourishes in exceptionally great number of homemade meat products. A wide use have found both stuffing of meat, poultry, fish, vegetables and making of numerous flour, cereal, milk dishes. The cuisine here offers the well-known sausages, roasted meat, vareniks, dumplings, porridges, fritters and ryazhenka. Ukrainian cuisine has dozens thousands of food recipes, which are characterized with plane food cooking and high taste qualities. The modern national culinary art preserved and enriched the old good traditions.
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Russia & Ukraine Spices & Special Ingredients
Russian Ingredients: Russian cuisine has a rich history and offers a wide variety of soups, dishes made from fish, cereal based products and drinks. Vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, berries, herbs also play a major part while meat does not. Primordial Russian products such as
caviar,
Smetana,
buckwheat,
rye flour, etc. have had a great influence on world cuisine. Here is the list of popular
Russian Food Ingredients. Starting with the grains are barley, buckwheat, millet, oats, rye, wheat. The seeds are beans, flax, hemp, lentils and peas. The vegetables are cucumber, pumpkins and
turnips. The popular Fruit and berries are apples,
cherries, currents,
plums and raspberries.
Ukrainian Ingredients: Ukrainian dishes show a sophisticated simplicity based on pleasing combinations of fresh, pickled, and smoked ingredients. Ukrainian cuisine has a very rich history and boasts a wide variety of special dishes. Main ingredients of
Ukrainian Cooking include meat (pork especially), potatoes, vegetables, fruit, mushrooms, and berries.
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