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Russian recipes

Soured cream, mushrooms and quick pan sauces. 18 Russian recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.

The 18 recipes cover 6 of the site’s categories, among them 12 dinners, 2 breakfasts, 1 appetiser or small plate, 1 dessert, 1 healthy dish and 1 holiday dish. Of these, one is ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish. For 6, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 12 easy, 4 medium and 2 hard.

As written, 5 are vegetarian, 2 vegan, 3 gluten-free and 3 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.

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Russian recipes — all 18 recipes

Beef Stroganoff
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Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef Stroganoff

Strips of seared beef in a mustard and soured cream sauce with mushrooms, done in twenty-five minutes. It is a fast…

40 min · Easy
Olivier Salad
Russian
Prep
30m
Cook
20m
Serves
8
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Side dish

Olivier Salad

Diced potato, carrot, egg, pickle and ham bound in mayonnaise. Known as Russian salad almost everywhere else, and…

4 hr+ · Easy
Pelmeni
Russian
Prep
60m
Cook
15m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Pelmeni

Small Siberian dumplings with a thin wheat wrapper and a raw meat filling, boiled and eaten with soured cream…

115 min · Medium
Blini with Soured Cream
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
20m
Serves
6
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Breakfast

Blini with Soured Cream

Small yeasted buckwheat pancakes, thicker and more savoury than a crêpe, served warm with soured cream and whatever…

2.5 hr · Easy
Mushroom Stroganoff
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Mushroom Stroganoff

Mushrooms browned hard in three batches, then a paprika and mustard sauce finished with cashew cream. The sourness…

40 min · Easy
Stroganoff Sauce
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Sauce

Stroganoff Sauce

Mushrooms, mustard and soured cream reduced into a sauce for beef or anything else. Forty minutes and no beef…

40 min · Easy
Syrniki
Russian
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
4
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Breakfast

Syrniki

Curd cheese pancakes, crisp outside and almost custardy in the middle, eaten with soured cream and jam.

35 min · Easy
Medovik
Russian
Prep
45m
Cook
40m
Serves
12
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Desserts

Medovik

Eight or nine paper-thin honey layers stacked with soured cream, left overnight until the whole thing softens into…

10 hr · Hard
Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff Bake
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
35m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff Bake

Beef strips, mushrooms and egg noodles in a soured cream and paprika sauce, topped with breadcrumbs and cooked for…

50 min · Easy
Smoked Salmon Blinis
Russian
Prep
20m
Cook
15m
Serves
12
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Appetizers

Smoked Salmon Blinis

Small, thick pancakes topped with crème fraîche, smoked salmon, dill and lemon.

35 min · Medium
Chicken Stroganoff
Russian
Prep
10m
Cook
20m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Chicken Stroganoff

Strips of chicken breast and mushrooms in a paprika and soured cream sauce, served over rice or noodles.

30 min · Easy
Vinegret
Russian
Prep
20m
Cook
35m
Serves
6
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Side dish

Vinegret

A Russian salad of boiled beetroot, potato and carrot with pickled cucumber, onion and sauerkraut in sunflower oil.

55 min · Easy
Buckwheat with Mushrooms
Russian
Prep
10m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Side dish

Buckwheat with Mushrooms

Toasted buckwheat groats cooked with fried onion and mushrooms until fluffy, a Russian and Eastern European side or…

35 min · Easy
Uzbek Plov
Russian
Prep
25m
Cook
75m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Uzbek Plov

Lamb, carrots, onions and rice cooked in layers in one heavy pot with whole garlic and cumin, so the rice absorbs…

2 hr · Medium
Beshbarmak
Russian
Prep
40m
Cook
130m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Beshbarmak

Boiled lamb and beef served over wide, flat noodles with sliced onion and a ladle of rich broth, the national dish…

3 hr · Hard
Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff
Russian
Prep
15m
Cook
25m
Serves
4
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Dinner

Instant Pot Beef Stroganoff

Strips of beef cooked under pressure with mushrooms and onions, stirred through egg noodles with soured cream and…

40 min · Easy
Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff
Russian
Prep
20m
Cook
360m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Slow Cooker Beef Stroganoff

Beef chuck and mushrooms slow cooked on low for 6 hours in a savoury sauce, finished with soured cream and served…

6.5 hr · Easy
Solyanka
Russian
Prep
20m
Cook
40m
Serves
6
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Dinner

Solyanka

A tangy Russian soup of mixed meats, pickled cucumbers, olives and tomato, simmered for 40 minutes and finished with…

60 min · Medium