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Russian Breakfasts for Russian
Brides in the US
by: Anna Reddy
Bliny
Description
Bliny is a Russian traditional dish. They are baked in a great
quantity at Shrove (carnival) - last week before Lent. Bliny making
was a real sacred mystery. People told fortunes on the dough, kept
their recipes of Bliny in secret. The first Bliny were put on the
window-sills for poor people and pilgrims. The foreigners were very
surprised at how many Bliny Russians could eat. At Shrove
mother-in-law must bake a lot Bliny for her son-in-law. The most
popular Bliny were made from buckwheat flour. Good Bliny must be
very very thin. The thinner Bliny are the perfect your skill is.
Method
Mix eggs with 3 cups of milk . Add salt and flour and mix
thoroughly. The dough can be drained so that there are no flour
lumps in it. Pour vegetable oil into a saucer. Peel an onion and cut
it into 2 parts; take one part with a fork and dip it in oil. Use it
every time for greasing the pan with vegetable oil. Heat the pan.
Grease it. Pour thin layer of batter evenly. Add more flour if you
are not successful with thin bliny. Cook until light brown, about 2
minutes on each side. Servings: 2-3. Bliny can be served with
butter, sour cream, black or red caviar, fillet of sturgeon, lox,
and salmon.
Ingredients
- 1 c flour.
- 3 c milk.
- 1/2 ts soda.
- 2 tb vegetable oil.
- salt and sugar to taste.
- 2-3 eggs.
Cheeseballs
Description
This dish has proved its gustatory qualities. Golden, palatable
cheese balls will be to everyone’s liking. It is served perfectly
for breakfast and lunch.
Method
Separate yolks from egg whites. Grate cheese finely, season to
taste Pour water in a pan and add chopped butter. Heat the pan until
butter is melted. And quickly stir in the flour. Then heat the pan,
stirring constantly, for 4-5 minutes. Take the pan off the heat.
Pour in yolks and whites, one at a time and add grated cheese, stir
thoroughly. Grease a baking sheet with butter and sprinkle with
flour. Divide the cheese dough into 12 parts and shape small balls.
Brush the balls with a yolk beaten with 1 tb milk. Bake in a
preheated oven 210C for 25 minutes. The turn off the heat and let
the balls cool down in the oven.
Ingredients
- 90 g sifted flour.
- 180 g water.
- 120 g hard cheese.
- 45 g butter.
- 2 ea eggs.
- 1 tb milk.
- salt.
Curly Sausages
Description
You can make a wonderful breakfast from simple sausages. You kids
will surely have fun with that meal.
Method
Make four cuts at every end of a sausage. Heat the pan with
butter very well and sink sausages there. Fry carefully on every
side until there is a brown skin. Serve hot with ketchup or mustard.
Ingredients
- 4 ea sausages.
- 100 g butter.
- ketchup.
- mustard.
Drachona
Description
Drachona is a round cake from eggs. That was a very popular dish
for farmers family. Drachona is a very healthy dish and can be a
wonderful breakfast for your family.
Method
Separate yolks and egg-whites. Blend yolks with salt, sour cream
and flour thoroughly, pouring milk gradually. Beat up egg-whites and
stir with the mass carefully. Grease the pan with butter and pour
the batter in. Bake in the well heated oven. Drachona is served with
melted butter and green parsley.
Ingredients
- 8 ea eggs.
- 1 c milk.
- 2 tb sour cream.
- 1 tb flour.
- 2 tb butter.
- salt.
Fried Ham in Bread Slices
Description
Small, palatable and piquant sandwiches will decorate not only
your morning table, but also the holiday table.
Method
Spread mustard on every ham slice and fry in butter, then out
every slice on fried piece of bread and sprinkle with chopped
greens.
Ingredients
- Ham.
- Bread.
- Chopped greens (dill, parsley).
- Mustard.
Ghalushki Poltavskie
Description
Galushki is an Ukranian dish, as well as kletski. They are fried
in butter, breadcrumbs and served with sour cream both as an
independent dish and in soup or broth. There is a monument to
galushka, pierced on the fork in a small town of Canada.
Method
Beat eggs with beater until smooth. Add salt. Gradually add
melted butter and flour until you have a thick batter. Cook the
dumplings either in soup or broth. Put 2 l soup into a pot and bring
to a boil. Wet spoon often in the liquid, cut the batter on a board
and drop it into liquid. Cook dumplings until they come to top. Put
into a dish and butter lightly.
Ingredients
- 3 eggs.
- a pinch of salt.
- 1 1/2 cups flour (add more to make batter thick).
- 100 ml water.
- 100 g butter.
Grenki
Description
Grenki is a wonderful item for breakfast. They can be served with
jam, cheese or sausages.
Method
Slice a roll. Beat up eggs with milk and salt. Heat oil in the
pan and put well soaked in milk bread slices (30 c). Fry on every
side until light brown. Sprinkle with cheese if there is.
Ingredients
- 3 ea eggs.
- 1/2 l milk.
- 1 ea white bread loaf.
- oil to fry.
- salt.
Ham & Egg Rolls
Description
Ham and Egg Rolls is an excellent dish for the holiday table.
Palatable appetizer will diversify your holiday menu best of all.
Method
Peel the eggs; cut in halves. Roll each half of egg in a slice of
ham. Secure with wooden pick. Arrange lettuce leaves around ham and
egg rolls on serving plate. Decorate with mayonnaise and garnish
with pickles.
Ingredients
- 5 ea hard-cooked eggs.
- 10 ea cooked ham thin slices.
- lettuce leaves.
- mayonnaise.
- pickles.
Ham Sandwiches
Description
Wonderful appetizer and a rich dish for breakfast. Decorate
sandwiches with green and different vegetables bright in colours and
they will attract all the attention of your guests.
Method
Grind cold eggs, ham in the mincer. Add butter, salt, pepper and
mustard to your taste. Stir thouroughly. Spread the mass on a bread
slice 1/5 inch thick and cover with another one.
Ingredients
- 200 g ham.
- 2 ea eggs hard boiled.
- 50 g butter.
- mustard.
- salt, pepper.
Kutia with Rice and Raisins
Description
Kutia is a traditional Christmas dish, that not only decorates
the table but serves as ritual dish.
Method
Cook crumbly rice: sort out, wash under running water, pour over
water and bring to a boil. Drain the water, wash under cold water
and cook in a large quantity of water until soft. Drain the water
and cool down. Combine rice with salt, sugar and cinnamon. Add to
the rice well washed and scalded raisins, stir carefully, heat on
low heat. Cool down and serve.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c rice.
- 1 c raisins.
- water.
- cinnamon.
- sugar.
- salt to taste.
Latkes
Description
Latkes is an excellent vegetable dish that will serve as a
delicious breakfast main course as well as a light garnish with meat
dishes.
Method
Peel a squash, grate it and squeeze the juice. Combine grated
squash, eggs, salt, flour and butter. The mass should not be very
dense. Fry latkes in a well preheated pan. Serve hot with sour
cream.
Ingredients
- 400 g squash.
- 200 g flour.
- 2 ea eggs.
- salt to taste.
- 50 g butter.
Microwave Omelette
Description
This recipe is for the ideal breakfast for the people who are in
a hurry in the early morning. Just five minutes… and you have a
delicious, rich dish on your table.
Method
Whisk eggs in a deep bowl. Combine flour with milk and stir until
homogenous. Pour the mass into eggs; season to taste and add chopped
greens. Grease microwave mold with butter and pour in the liquid.
Cook in a microwave 100% power for 3 minutes. Leave it until dense.
Cut the omelette into halves, turn them down and top with a slice of
ham and cheese. Bake in a microwave 100% power for 30-40 sec. Serve
hot.
Ingredients
- 4 ea eggs.
- 1 tb flour.
- 4 c milk.
- 2 ea ham slices.
- 2 ea cheese slices.
- greens (dill, parsley, scallion).
- salt and pepper to taste.
- butter.
Millet Porridge with Pumpkin
Description
Porridge is the healthiest and useful food, but it is usually
hard to make it delicious. Taste our new version of simple porridge.
Method
Put sliced pumpkin in boiling milk and cook for 15 minutes. Add
washed millet, salt, sugar and, stirring regularly, cook for 15
minutes until it is dense. Put cooked porridge in double boiler or
in the oven for 15-20 minutes.
Ingredients
- 200 g millet.
- 750 g milk.
- 500 g pumpkin.
- 1 ts sugar.
- 1/2 ts salt.
Oatmeal Kissel
Description
Oatmeal Kissel sounds original and even unusual, but will be the
perfect dish for breakfast and dinner.
Method
Put oatmeal flour in a pan and pour over warm water and stir
thoroughly so there are not any lumps. Leave to swell for 6-8 hours,
then add honey and salt to taste and cook on low heat, stirring
regularly until dense. Pour hot kissel into molds and leave to
congeal. Serve with cold milk.
Ingredients
- 2 c oatmeal flour.
- 2 tb honey.
- 8 c water.
- salt to taste.
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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
business school and led to an elite law enforcement agency
forging a relationship with the marriage agency to fight
corruption.
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