Sauerkraut and Meat Soup

The Russians have a soup meal at least once a day. Shchi, borsch, rassolnik, botvinia, ukha, okroshka, solianka and many others has been a peculiarity of Russia since ancient times. Soups can be made on meat, fish, mushroom, vegetables or milk stocks.

How about a plate of Russian shchi? Nothing can warm your heart and stomach better than this traditional soup meal. Ask Anastasia Web Tatiana to make it for you!

Ingredients:
1 1/4 lb breast beef
1/2 lb breast pork
2 1/2 to 3 1/2 cups sauerkraut
1/2 cup sour cream
1 carrot
1 parsley
2 onions
2 potatoes
3 bay leaves
4 cloves garlic
1 tbsp dill
8 black pepper corns

Pour the beef and ham with boiling water, add an onion, potatoes and a part of roots (whole), boil for 1.5 hours until the meat is half-ready. Then add the sauerkraut and chopped onion, the rest of the roots cut in strips and continue to boil for 1 hour.

Kasha is a traditional Russian dish. Kashas are made from various groats with meat, fish, liver, mushrooms, and onion. It was impossible to imagine Russian cuisine without kasha, there is a proverb: "You can't feed a Russian without a kasha".
Try real Russian kasha! It is very healthy and nutritious food.

Anastasia Web Tatiana from Rostov-na-Donu will surely do a first-class job making this traditional Russian meal for you.

Ingredients:
3 glasses (3 1/2 cups) water
1.5 glasses (1 3/4 cups) buckwheat
6 to 7 tb vegetable oil

Sort out the buckwheat, sift flour dust, pour in water, close by a cover and boil over high heat. When it starts boiling, reduce the heat twice and keep boiling for 10 minutes until the kasha is getting thick, then turn down the heat again and simmer for 5 to 7 minutes until the water evaporates completely. Take the kasha from the heat and put under a warm cloth for 15 minutes. Put diced lard on a frying-pan and sauté until golden-brown melting the entire lard down. Pour the ready kasha with crackling.

Russian pancakes

Have a taste of Anastasia Web Tatiana's special - true Russian bliny!

Ingredients:
4.5 glasses (7 cups) flour
4 glasses (4 1/2 cups) milk
25 g (1 1/2 tbsps) yeast
25 g (1 1/2 tbsps) butter
100 g (1/2 cup) cream
2 eggs, 2 tsps sugar
1 tsp salt

Dissolve half the flour, the yeast and butter in milk and let it rise. Beat up the dough, add the rest of the flour, salt and egg yolks ground with sugar. Beat again, add the beaten egg whites and cream, let the dough rest and then begin to bake.