Blog # 9

                                            Russian Food

            Today I decided to write about yummy stuff ; therefore,I will introduce some of the national food of Russia. Russian cuisine widely uses fish, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of wheat and barley provide the ingredients for breads, pancakes, cereal, and bear. Black bread is relatively more popular in Russia if compared with the rest of the word. Flavorful soups and stews include borsch and okroshka. Borsch (I can say vegetable hot soup) is made of beetroot and cabbage as the main ingredient, giving it a deep reddish-purple color. Also includes in it carrots, potatoes, and meat. Most people likes to eat borsch with sour cream,so you have to add sour cream right before serving.

              Another type of a soup is okroshka. Compared with the borsch it’s a cold soup and its mix of mostly raw vegetables like cucumber and spring onions. Also includes boiled potatoes and eggs. Okroshka is usually garnished with sour cream and plane yogurt (has to be the sour one). All ingredients are diced and then mixed with sour cream and yogurt just before eating. This allows the vegetables to retain their texture. Okroshka is mostly served in summer.
   
 

                After borsch and okroshka, I stated to feel hunger …J I am going to write about my most favorit food which would be pelmeny. I definetlly will ask my mom in the morning to make it. Maybe on the weekend I will have a chance to eat them. I did not eat this kind of food long time. Pelmeni usually made with minced meat filling, wrapped in thin dough (made out of flour and eggs, sometimes with milk or water added). Pork, lamb, beef or any other kind of meat can be used as a filling and mixing several kinds is popular.  Often various spices, such as pepper and onions are mixed into the filling. By my self I like eat them with sour cream. Pelmeni belong to the family of dumplings. They are also similar to Chinese pot stickers. The main difference between pelmeni and other kinds of dumplings is in their shape and size - typical pelmeni is roughly spherical and is about 2 to 3 cm in diameter, whereas most other types of dumplings are usually elongated and much larger.

    

After this article  I will better get something to eat J