Main courses are eaten at the dinner (afternoon meal) and at the supper (evening meal). Most often they include meat (beef, chicken, fish) or vegetables and are served with various garnishes and dressings.Main Courses:
Omelets - usually eaten in the morning
Sausages – usually served two sausages with ketchup
Pelmeni. Chops (kotlety) – made of various kind of meat in various regions
Pelmeny – (on the photo) the small balls of minced meat covered with the pastry
Vareniky – it looks like pelmeny however inside the pastry there is no meat but berries, potato or curds
Steak (otbivnaya) – beef and pork ones are most popular
Beef stroganov – pieces of beef prepared with cream sauce
Kiev style chicken (kotleta po-kievsky) – the special type of chicken chop with butter insidePotato with mushrooms - favourite countryside meal
Russian Cuisine: Main Courses Recipes —Abbreviations: ea - Each, tb - Table spoon, sm - Small, c - Cup, ts - Tea spoon.
Vegetable Meals
Draniki recipe Ingredients : 12 medium potatoes , 1-2 tbsp flour, 7-8 tbsp vegetable oil , 1 egg, 100-200 g of salted pork fat, 1/2 glass of sour milk, salt
Method:
1.Peel the potatoes and grate them, add flour, sour milk or kefir, egg, salt and mix everything. 2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Lay the potato mass with a tablespoon in separate small pan-cakes (each no more then 10 cm / 4" in diameter). Cook until crisp and browned, then turn on the other side. 3. Serve hot with sour cream.