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Russian Appetizer Recipes for
Russian brides in the US
by: Anna Reddy
Russian Salad
Description
Wonderful salad will be a great appetizer with vodka and decorate
your holiday table. It will take at most 10 minutes to make it.
Method
Combine grated cheese with chopped eggs and dress with
mayonnaise.
Ingredients
- 200 g grated cheese.
- 5 ea hard-boiled eggs.
- 100 g mayonnaise.
- greens
Apple Salad
Description
Unexpected combination, but really tasty. Refreshing light salad
will go fine at th end of the dinne to relieve the feeling of
satiety.
Method
Cut apples into small cubes. Chop eggs finely. Add peas,
mayonnaise and stir thoroughly. Decorate with greens.
Ingredients
- 4 ea apples cored and peeled.
- 3 tb green peas.
- 2 ea eggs hard boiled.
- 3 tb mayonnaise.
- greens
Beet Salad
Description
A very good appetizer for any occasions. Beet is very useful for
digestions and contains a lot of trace elements necessary for a man.
Method
Grate beets and cucumbers, chop garlic cloves finely. Combine all
ingredients and stir in mayonnaise. If you don't like garlic, don't
use it, the salad will be tasty anyway.
Ingredients
- 2 ea beets boiled and peeled.
- 2 ea pickled cucumbers.
- 2 ea garlic cloves.
- mayonnaise.
- salt.
Boiled Potatoes with Pickles
Description
Boiled potatoes with pickles is a true Russian dish at any time
of a day or a year.
Method
Cut potatoes in small cubes, add finely chopped pickled cucumbers
and onion. Add salt to taste and dress with oil. Stir carefully.
Ingredients
- 250 g potatoes boiled.
- 80 g pickled cucumbers (sauerkraut).
- 60 g onion.
- 60 g oil..
Cabbage Salad
Description
Cabbage Salad is very delicious and healthy food, rich of vitamin
C. This salad can be a wonderful snack or delicious appetizer.
Method
Serves 6
Cut the cabbage in half and carve out the core. Using a long
sharp knife, cut the cabbage into julienne strips. Discard the
thicker ribs of the cabbage leaves. Sprinkle the cabbage with 1/2
teaspoon of salt and rub the strips with your hands to make them
softer and juicier. Cut the onion and apple into julienne strips and
combine with the cabbage, mayonnaise, and carrot shavings. Add salt
and sugar to taste, then chill.
Ingredients
- 1 firm head of cabbage (as white as possible) about 1 1/2
pounds.
- 1/2 teaspoon salt.
- 1 medium onion.
- 1 large apple, peeled and cored.
- 1 cup mayonnaise.
- 3-4 tablespoons thin carrot shavings.
- Sugar to taste.
- Parsley sprigs and/or thin wedges of red-skinned apples.
Carrot Salad
Description
Carrot Salad is really healthy appetizer full of vitamins. It is
better to dress the salad with oil or sour cream, as carotene is
assimilated better in rich medium. Carrot salad is very good for the
sight.
Method
Serves 6
Peel and grate the carrots and apples. In a bowl combine them
with the remaining ingredients except walnuts for garnish. Chill and
serve decorated with the apple slices and walnuts.
Ingredients
- 3/4 pound carrots.
- 2 large apples.
- 1 tablespoon Horseradish.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil.
- 1 tablespoon vinegar.
- 1 tablespoon sugar.
- Salt to taste.
- Walnut halves.
Cheese Souffle
Description
Cheese soufflé is a delicious appetizer for the holiday table.
Bake soufflé in a different small molds and your guests will be
astonished by the beauty, piquant taste and tempting aroma.
Method
Melt cheese in a small pan, add yolks, milk, flour and pepper.
Whip egg whites until there is foam and stir in cheese mass.
Pour in well greased baking molds and put in an oven on low heat
for 5 minutes. Then make the heat higher.
Ingredients
- 4 ea yolks.
- 2 ea egg whites.
- 1 c milk.
- 2 tb flour.
- 40 g butter.
- pepper.
- 250 g cheese.
Chicken or Veal in Aspic “Holodets”
Description
Chicken or Veal in Aspic “Holodets” is a perfect appetizer for
the holiday and the best snack with vodka. Holodets can be also
called Studen, there is no difference between these two dishes.
Holodets is served with horseradish sauce.
Method
Serves 8-12 as an appetizer or 6 as an entree
Rinse the calf or pork feet, put in a 4-quart pot, and add 2
quarts of water. Bring to a boil, lower the heat, cover, and simmer
for 4 hours. The stock should have reduced by half, and gristle
should fall away from the bones.
Add the beef, onion, carrot, parsley and celery root, and ?
teaspoon salt to the pot, bring to the boil, lower the heat, and
simmer, partially covered, for 40 minutes. Add the chicken breasts,
peppercorns, allspice, and bay leaves, and continue to simmer until
the beef and chicken are tender, about 20 minutes. Cool, then
refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Remove all the fat from the top of the aspic. Melt the aspic over
low heat. Remove the calf’s feet, beef, and chicken, add the garlic
and salt to taste to the broth. Skin and bone the chicken. Remove
the meat from the calf’s feet, discarding the bone and the gristle.
Cut all the meat into 1-inch pieces and place in a 2- to 21/2-quart
serving dish or in individual 1- to 1 1/2 cup dishes. Strain the
broth over the meat, discarding the vegetables and spices. Top with
slices of hard-boiled egg and refrigerate until set, about 2 hours.
Cut the meat into as many slices as you will need and serve from
the dish, accompanied by horseradish.
Ingredients
- 2 chicken breasts (about 1 pound), or 1 pound boneless veal.
- 2 pounds calf or pork feet.
- 1 pound beef round.
- 1 onion.
- 1 carrot.
- 1 parsley root.
- 2 ounces celery root.
- 1/2 teaspoon salt plus additional salt to taste.
- 10 black peppercorns.
- 5 allspice berries.
- 2 bay leaves.
- 3-4 cloves garlic, crushed or finely chopped.
- 3 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced Horseradish or Mustard.
Chopped Egg Pate
Description
Easy to make, delicious and festive! No wonder this recipe is so
popular!
Serves 6
Method
Chop the hard-boiled eggs finely, to a grainy pate. Add the
scallions, dill, butter, mayonnaise and salt to taste. Mix carefully
with a fork and chill.
Mound the pate in a serving bowl and decorate it with cucumber
slices and olives interspersed with parsley sprigs. Serve at room
temperature.
Ingredients
- 6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled.
- 6 finely chopped scallions.
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh dill.
- 1 tablespoon melted unsalted butter.
- 2 tablespoons mayonnaise.
- Salt to taste.
- Cucumber slices.
- Black olives.
- Parsley.
Corn Salad
Description
Corn salad has become very popular for last years. It is very
easy to make, will bring pleasure to you and your kids as well.
Method
Chop boiled eggs and crab sticks . Add corn and salt. Stir
mayonnaise into the salad.
Mix the salad and refrigerate for a while.
Ingredients
- 250 g canned sweet corn.
- 250 g crab sticks.
- 5 ea hard boiled eggs.
- 200 g mayonnaise.
- salt.
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About The Author
Anna Reddy is a director at Annas Agency®. The agency is the leader in
the industry and is one of the most respected. Annas Agency® is
the first Russian Marriage Agency to be managed by a team of
professional business experts. The efforts to regulate the
industry led to the agency being case-studied by an A-rated US
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