Generally speaking, Russia is mainly based on pasta, and they like to eat black bread baked with rye (хлеб). Black bread is baked with flour, buckwheat, oats and other raw materials, and it is a staple food of Russians, just like the pasta of northerners and the rice of southerners in China. When I first tasted black Leba, it tasted a little sour and a little prickly, but the more I chewed it, the more I could taste the mellow wheat fragrance. The shape of Heileba is like a small pillow, and the shell is baked very hard. If you don't eat it for two days, it will be too hard to chew at all, which ensures that it will not go bad. Heileba is very cheap in Russia, and it is one of the few commodities that the government can control the price. In addition to brown bread, Russian famous specialty foods include caviar, pickled cucumber, yogurt, and so on. When eating fruit, they don't peel it.
Russian-style dishes are well-known, rich in flavor, heavy in oil, sweet, sour, salty and spicy, and are world-renowned delicacies. Red cabbage soup and potatoes are two characteristics of Russian cuisine. Russian cuisine is very rich. In northern, central and Siberian regions, the most common first course is soup made of beef or other meat, fresh or acid soaking-made Chinese cabbage and other vegetables. Residents in the market of Novosibirsk and Irkutsk like to eat red vegetable soup. Red cabbage soup has a long reputation in Russia. The practice is to stew beet and Golas in a pot first, then add cabbage and sweet radish after boiling, and add onion, garlic, oil, salt and meat after boiling. This is the most basic procedure. The real Russian red cabbage soup has strict procedures. When cooking soup, use slow fire and add lemon, tomato sauce and coriander appropriately, and place it reasonably. There are also cold cabbage soup made of Rumex (a wild herb with hot and sour leaves and young leaves that can be used to make salad) and left overnight. Leaves called "spices" are often added to vegetable soup to enhance the flavor and umami taste of the soup. Among many soups, fish soup is also a very popular one. There is also a broth cooked with duck pieces, hen pieces or kidney flowers and pickled cucumbers, which is delicious.
In summer, people like to prepare cold mixed soup. This is made of Gowasu and chopped meat, fresh vegetables or boiled eggs. Pour a layer of sour cream when eating, which has the effect of clearing away summer heat, relieving annoyance and refreshing the stomach. China's yuba, mushrooms, vermicelli and Russian-style chicken pieces are used to cook soup, and the taste is also very delicious. In restaurants, the more common vegetable soup is a hodgepodge of beef pieces, potato pieces or shredded potatoes, carrot pieces and red beets. Or add chicken pieces, which are generally cut into larger pieces. Most of a meal is a large plate of soup, and bread and cream are enough. Besides brown bread, there are many kinds of foods baked with flour, such as big pies, fried cakes, fried beef buns, milk residue cakes, soft buns and so on.
The most common second course is stewed beef, or beef fried with potatoes or other side dishes, sometimes with mashed potatoes, salad, red sausage and fish pieces. However, local residents generally don't eat crucian carp, and most of the cheap big crucian carp are bought and eaten by overseas Chinese. Russians like to eat raw fish pieces and marinate them in red meat color, which tastes good.
Potatoes are the favorite food of Russians. There are many ways to do it, and French fries with food is a major feature of Russian cooking. The method of burning beef with potatoes is to cook potato pieces with green peppers and beef, then add some black pepper, onion, garlic, vinegar, etc., and sprinkle some coriander when taking the pot. This dish has both meat and vegetables, and is rich in nutrition. It is the most popular dish.
Generally speaking, according to working hours, we decide whether to eat early or late, but in most cases, we have breakfast at 8: 00 10, including steamed eggs, fried eggs, sausage, black tea or coffee, milk and bread. Have lunch in the afternoon/kloc-0: 00 to 4: 00, with vegetable soup, beef, chicken nuggets, potatoes or mashed potatoes, desserts, pancakes and fruits. Drink black tea and eat some bread from 5 pm to 6 pm. Dinner at 7 o'clock in the evening, salad, meat, etc., just don't drink soup.
In summer, the sunshine is long, four meals a day, and in winter, three meals a day is enough. Although Russians, like European and American residents, mainly eat high-fat and high-calorie meat such as cream and meat. However, they drink a lot of milk and its products at the same time, and drink tea every day, which is very beneficial to reduce blood fat, lose weight and prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular sclerosis.
When it comes to Russian food, we can't help but mention one of the traditional Russian pasta-pie (пирог), and the smaller one is called пирок. It plays an important role in Russian food. Pie, as an important dish, is essential for every important festival, New Year, baptism, birthday, naming day, wedding and funeral.
Russian pie has many meanings, such as "the sun", "great festival", "bumper harvest", "children's health" and "happy marriage". There is an old Russian proverb that "Russians are accompanied by pies all their lives".
In Russia, there are not only various ways to make pies, but also differences in materials and shapes of pies. Russian pies belong to yeast fermented pies, and according to the different raw materials used, they are divided into yellow rice pies, buckwheat rice pies and flour pies. There are also many shapes of Russian-style pies, including triangle, square, rectangle, pizza-style exposed pie, semi-exposed pie, closed pie and so on. The names of pies are also very interesting, such as: "Guryevski Cake" named after people; Named after the purpose is "wedding pie"; There are also "cabbage pie", "jam pie" and "milk residue cake" named after the stuffing ... When drinking водка or giving gifts to relatives and friends, pies are ideal food or gifts. When the children at home quarrel, the mother will make a big pie for everyone to share, which means "reconciliation is as good as ever". There is also a kind of pie in Russia called "wedding pie", which has a very interesting method of making and represents a special Russian custom. When a couple of Russian youths are preparing to get married, on the wedding day, in addition to making all kinds of delicacies to entertain guests, both men and women have to make a traditional pie, which is made up of pancakes and several kinds of fillings. When making pie covers, the patterns made by the husband and wife will be different: the pattern of the pie in the husband's house should be made into a small human figure, indicating that "people are prosperous", while the pattern of the wife's side should be mainly flowers, symbolizing beauty and loyalty. The seemingly simple pie is full of deep blessings and infinite hopes and longings for a new life!
Russian-style pies show Russian culture from a special angle, which not only shows the far-reaching historical development of Russian pastry, but also reminds people of the delicate and affectionate side of the rough and unrestrained Russian people.