Only in Russia! - Food For Thought Youth Project

Only in Russia!
Gymnasium # 26,
Chelyabinsk,
Russia
Blini with caviar
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Bliny
Bliny are also served rolled with a variety of fillings: jam, cheese, onions, or
even chocolate syrup. At any restaurant where you aren’t sure of any of the
other dishes, bliny are always a safe betwith them.
. Bliny
are such an important part of Russian
cuisine, a festival called Maslenitsa celebrates the
beginning of spring
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Recipe
for Russian pancakes (bliny)
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Ingredients (for 4-6 Persons)
300 g (=2,5 cups)
wheat flour
500 ml (=2 cups)
milk (warm)
25 g (=1 oz)
yeast
25 g (=1 oz)
butter
100 ml (=1/2 cup)
cream
2
eggs
2 tsp
sugar
1 tsp
salt
frying oil
Pelmeni
•Pelmeni are pastry dumplings
filled typically with meatballs.
They can be served alone,
slathered in butter and topped
with sour cream, or in a soup
broth. Definitely a favorite in
Russia and abroad!
You can expect to find sour
cream, or smetana,
accompanying almost any
Russian traditional food—with
crepes, in soups, and even
sometimes in dessert. Often,
this sour cream is fresh and
often melts into any warm dish,
adding to its distinctive flavor.
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Russian pelmeni recipe involves only 2 steps: making the dough and making
the filling. Well, assembling pelmeni is also a big step, but very interesting. Do not
believe if anyone says that molding pelmeni is a pretty tedious business! It’s all
about to having fun! Time-honored tradition of making pelmeni gathers all family
members around the table and makes the process cooperative and interesting
often accompanied by hours of songs and stories. Pelmeni can be bought premade in the freezer section of any Russian supermarket. They are a hearty meal
that cooks quickly and easily, but most Russians still prefer the tradition of
making them by hand, and Russian housewives consider it a question of honor to
do so. Moreover the taste of home-made pelmeni is absolutely different. Anyway
pelmeni are tasty and a true taste of Russia.
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