COOKING AND CULINARY
23/11/2012 by Natasha M
I would like to continue educating our readers on Russian cuisine and its unique dishes
Sonyanka
Solyanka is a thick, piquant soup that combines components from schi (cabbage, smetana) and rassolnik (pickle water and cucumbers), spices such as olives, capers, tomatoes, lemons, lemon juice, kvass, salted and pickled mushrooms make up a considerably strong sour-salty base of the soup. Solyanka is much thicker than other soups, about 1/3 less liquid ratio. Three types are distinguished: meat, fish, and simple solyanka. The first two are cooked on strong meat or fish broths, and the last on mushroom or vegetable broth. All the broths are mixed with cucumber pickle water.
There are three basic types of solyanka, with the main ingredient being either meat, fish, or mushrooms. All of them contain pickled cucumbers with brine, and often cabbage, salted mushrooms, smetana (sour cream), and dill. The soup is prepared by cooking the cucumbers with brine before adding the other ingredients to the broth.
I would like to continue educating our readers on Russian cuisine and its unique dishes
Sonyanka
Solyanka is a thick, piquant soup that combines components from schi (cabbage, smetana) and rassolnik (pickle water and cucumbers), spices such as olives, capers, tomatoes, lemons, lemon juice, kvass, salted and pickled mushrooms make up a considerably strong sour-salty base of the soup. Solyanka is much thicker than other soups, about 1/3 less liquid ratio. Three types are distinguished: meat, fish, and simple solyanka. The first two are cooked on strong meat or fish broths, and the last on mushroom or vegetable broth. All the broths are mixed with cucumber pickle water.
There are three basic types of solyanka, with the main ingredient being either meat, fish, or mushrooms. All of them contain pickled cucumbers with brine, and often cabbage, salted mushrooms, smetana (sour cream), and dill. The soup is prepared by cooking the cucumbers with brine before adding the other ingredients to the broth.
- For meat solyanka, ingredients like beef, ham, sausages, chicken breast, and cabbage, together with salted mushrooms, cucumber pickles, tomatoes, onions, olives, capers, allspice, parsley, and dill are all cut fine and mixed with cream in a pot. The broth is added, and heated for a short time on the stove, without boiling.
- Fish solyanka is prepared similarly, but soup vegetables are cooked in the broth. The meat is replaced with fish such as sturgeon, salmon, and freshwater crayfish. Finally, some lemon juice is added to the soup.
- For mushroom solyanka, cut cabbage is heated in butter together with vinegar, tomatoes, cucumber pickles, and a little brine. Separately, mushrooms and onions are heated, and grated lemon zest is added. Cabbage and mushrooms are added in layers, breadcrumbs and butter are added, and the soup is briefly baked.
Ingredients:
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 black peppercorns
- 4 allspice berries
- Soup:
- 10 cups water
- 4 tablespoons beef base
- 1/2 head shredded cabbage
- 1 cup chopped celery
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 2 medium chopped onions
- 2 peeled and chopped carrots
- 1 pound Polish kabanosy sausage, sliced 1/4-inch thick
- 2 cooked chicken breasts, cubed
- 1 cup cubed ham
- 3 large chopped dill pickles
- 1 (6-ounce) can tomato paste
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 3/4 cup sliced black olives
- 2 (14-ounce) cans stewed tomatoes
- 1 cup dry white wine
- Salt
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh dill
Directions:
1. Preheat a pan with oil or butter.
2. Cut onion in thin semi rings and stir until transparent, but not browned.
3. Cut pickled cucumbers in strips and add to onions.
4. Add tomato paste and stir until mixed - 2-3 minutes.
5. Add meat chopped into fine pieces (you can actually use any variety of meat you prefer, but above is what I chose to use).
6. Add to Crock pot.
7. Add can of stewed tomatoes and water to just the top of mixture.
8. Cook on high for 4 hours.
9. About 1 hour before serving add olives, mushrooms and capers.
10. Add flour to thicken.
11. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and lemon slice for garnish.
Beef Stroganoff recipe
Beef stroganoff is a dish consisting of strips of lean beef sauteed and served in a sour-cream sauce with onions and mushrooms. The recipe, which is of Russian origin, has been known since the eighteenth century, but its name appears to come from County Paul Stroganoff, a nineteeth-century Russian diplomat. Legend has it that when he was stationed in deepest Siberia, his chef discovered that the beef was frozen so solid that it could only be coped with by cutting it into very thin strips.
1. Preheat a pan with oil or butter.
2. Cut onion in thin semi rings and stir until transparent, but not browned.
3. Cut pickled cucumbers in strips and add to onions.
4. Add tomato paste and stir until mixed - 2-3 minutes.
5. Add meat chopped into fine pieces (you can actually use any variety of meat you prefer, but above is what I chose to use).
6. Add to Crock pot.
7. Add can of stewed tomatoes and water to just the top of mixture.
8. Cook on high for 4 hours.
9. About 1 hour before serving add olives, mushrooms and capers.
10. Add flour to thicken.
11. Serve with a dollop of sour cream and lemon slice for garnish.
Beef Stroganoff recipe
Beef stroganoff is a dish consisting of strips of lean beef sauteed and served in a sour-cream sauce with onions and mushrooms. The recipe, which is of Russian origin, has been known since the eighteenth century, but its name appears to come from County Paul Stroganoff, a nineteeth-century Russian diplomat. Legend has it that when he was stationed in deepest Siberia, his chef discovered that the beef was frozen so solid that it could only be coped with by cutting it into very thin strips.
Ingredients:
2 1/4 lb beef (boneless)
4 tbsp flour
4 tbsp ketchup
5 oz sour cream
2 c broth
1 tbsp flour pounded with butter
1 ea onion
salt to taste
pepper
Method:
Chop the meat long wise fibers (fibres) and beat the pieces a little. After that cut the pieces into stripes 2 cm long and 1/2 cm wide. Season and roll them in flour. Fry chopped onion in the pan and when it is gold brown, put the stripes there. Fry on hot heat until the meat is light brown. Make a sauce: fry 1 tb flour pounded with butter for few minutes, add sour cream, ketchup, salt. Pour the sauce over meat and stew on a low heat during 15-20 minutes. Don't let sauce to boil, overwise the meat will be hard. Beef Stroganoff is served with fried potatoes.
2 1/4 lb beef (boneless)
4 tbsp flour
4 tbsp ketchup
5 oz sour cream
2 c broth
1 tbsp flour pounded with butter
1 ea onion
salt to taste
pepper
Method:
Chop the meat long wise fibers (fibres) and beat the pieces a little. After that cut the pieces into stripes 2 cm long and 1/2 cm wide. Season and roll them in flour. Fry chopped onion in the pan and when it is gold brown, put the stripes there. Fry on hot heat until the meat is light brown. Make a sauce: fry 1 tb flour pounded with butter for few minutes, add sour cream, ketchup, salt. Pour the sauce over meat and stew on a low heat during 15-20 minutes. Don't let sauce to boil, overwise the meat will be hard. Beef Stroganoff is served with fried potatoes.
Baba Romovaya cake recipe
Ingredients:
3 ea eggs
5 oz flour
5 oz sugar
--Icing:
5 oz cherry juice
2 tbsp rum
--Sauce:
4 tbsp rum
2 ea yolks
8 oz cream
1 tbsp starch
Method:
Beat up eggs with sugar with the mixer until there is foam. Stir in flour very gradually and make dough very quickly. Fill in the form half (the dough wil rise twice) with dough very very carefully. Grease the form abundantly with butter and sprinkle with flour. Close all windows and doors to avoid draughts otherwise "baba" will catch a cold". Put in a warm place, don't move it. As soon as the dough rise up to the top, bake in the oven (180C) until it is golden. It is very important to keep the form of "baba" after baking. Put upside "baba" in the form down on the paper until it is cold. Don't take it out of the form until it is cold. Mix rum with cherry juice in a large bowl and sink "baba" in this syrup. Beat up yolks with cream and starch, pour in rum. Put the mass on a "steam bath" (put a smaller pan with cream mass in a large pan with water) and bring to thickening. Pour the sauce over "Baba" before serving.
Ingredients:
3 ea eggs
5 oz flour
5 oz sugar
--Icing:
5 oz cherry juice
2 tbsp rum
--Sauce:
4 tbsp rum
2 ea yolks
8 oz cream
1 tbsp starch
Method:
Beat up eggs with sugar with the mixer until there is foam. Stir in flour very gradually and make dough very quickly. Fill in the form half (the dough wil rise twice) with dough very very carefully. Grease the form abundantly with butter and sprinkle with flour. Close all windows and doors to avoid draughts otherwise "baba" will catch a cold". Put in a warm place, don't move it. As soon as the dough rise up to the top, bake in the oven (180C) until it is golden. It is very important to keep the form of "baba" after baking. Put upside "baba" in the form down on the paper until it is cold. Don't take it out of the form until it is cold. Mix rum with cherry juice in a large bowl and sink "baba" in this syrup. Beat up yolks with cream and starch, pour in rum. Put the mass on a "steam bath" (put a smaller pan with cream mass in a large pan with water) and bring to thickening. Pour the sauce over "Baba" before serving.
Power peppers! The stuffing in these was off the charts. by Masha M
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