This document lists and describes common foods and dishes that are part of Russian cuisine, including various soups, main dishes, beverages, hors d'oeuvres, pies/pancakes/desserts, and staple foods. It provides details on popular Russian porridges, soups, salads, meat and fish dishes, baked goods, and dairy products that make up traditional Russian meals and cuisine.

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3. Kasha
(porridge)
Blini / olad’i
(pancakes)
Omelette /
Fried eggs
Sirniki
(cottage cheese
pancakes)

4. Kasha (porridge)
 Buckwheat
 Millet
 Semolina
 Oats
 Barley
 Rice

5. Soup
 Shchi (cabbage soup)
 Borsch (beet soup)
 Ukha (fish soup)
 Rassolnik (soup with pickled cucumbers)
 Solyanka (thick meat or fish soup)
 Lapsha (noodle soup)
 Okroshka (cold soup on ‘kvas’)

6. Main dishes
 Kholodets/Studen’ (jellied meat)
 Pelmeni (ravioli)
 Fowl (baked or fried)
 Kotlety (minced cutlets)
 Shashlyk (marinated meat grilled on a skewer)

7. Beverages
Alcoholic
• Vodka
• Medovukha
Non-alcoholic
• Kvas
• Sbiten’
• Compote
• Kissel

8. Hors d’oeuvre
 Olivie salad (mayonnaise-based meat&potato salad)
 Seld’ pod shuboi (dressed herring)
 Vinegret (beet salad)
 Sauerkraut (pickled cabbage)
 Salted/pickled vegetables, mushrooms
 Salted fish

9. Pies, pancakes & desserts
 Pirozhki (small stuffed pies)
 Blini (pancakes, crepes)
 Pastila
 Varenie (fruit and berry preserves)
 Kulich (Easter bread)

10. Russian staple foods
 Rye bread
 Tvorog (cottage cheese)
 Sgushchenka (condensed milk)
 Kefir
 Buckwheat
 Caviar