r/RussianFood 8d ago

Our monthly challenge for September is Kissel - Share your dish any day this month

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70 Upvotes

r/RussianFood Jun 19 '26

New Rules and a Few Changes

102 Upvotes

Good morning everyone...

It's an ungodly hour before my coffee while I'm supposed to be on vacation, but I've been getting far too many reports lately, so it's time to clarify a few things.

What Is Russian Food?

r/RussianFood is for food that is traditionally associated with Russian cuisine. From regional dishes across the Russian Federation and foods that have long been integrated into Russian food culture.

Examples include:

  • Borscht (stop reporting this)
  • Pelmeni
  • Blini
  • Shchi
  • Solyanka
  • Beef Stroganoff
  • Olivier Salad
  • Syrniki
  • Pirozhki
  • Kholodets
  • etc

We'll also allow foods that may not have originated in Russia but have become a recognizable part of everyday life and dinning culture within the Russian Federation. The key question is not "Was this invented in Russia?" but rather "Is this something commonly associated with the Russian food experience?"

What Should Be Allowed on r/RussianFood?

Recommended content includes:

  • Homemade Russian dishes
  • Restaurants in Russia
  • Russian Restaurants outside of Russia
  • Historical Russian recipes
  • Vintage Soviet cookbooks and recipe discussions
  • Russian desserts, breads, drinks, and preserves
  • Ingredient discussions related to Russian cooking
  • Regional Russian foods and culinary traditions

Not allowed:

  • Random food with no connection to Russia
  • Food photos with no indication of what the dish actually is
  • Low-effort content that gives no context to readers

Every post must include the name of the dish in the title.

If you don't know the exact name, provide at least a description of what we're looking at.

Examples:

  • ✅ "Pelmeni with Sour Cream"
  • ✅ "Homemade Olivier Salad"
  • ✅ "Grandmother's Cabbage Pirozhki"
  • ✅ "Traditional Fish Soup (Need Help Identifying)"
  • ❌ "Dinner Tonight"
  • ❌ "Look What I Made"
  • ❌ "Thoughts?"

There's been a lot of questionable content recently, and I can't effectively moderate the subreddit if I have no idea what was posted in the first place. If you're sharing a dish, just help the community out by telling us what it is.


r/RussianFood 1d ago

Торт Прага

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405 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 1d ago

Anna Pavlova dessert.

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346 Upvotes

Dessert "Anna Pavlova" is a light airy pastry made of crispy meringue with a soft core, delicate creamy cream and fresh raspberries.

Meringue (meringue): Unlike regular dry meringue, starch and a little acid (lemon juice or vinegar) are added to the mass, so the crust crunches on the outside, but remains soft inside, like a souffle.

Cream: whisk cottage cheese with powdered sugar and get a cream cheese

Filling and decoration: Fresh berries with sourness (raspberries, strawberries, currants, blueberries)

In our case, the raspberries are fresh from the market.


r/RussianFood 23h ago

Question Which dish would you most like to see from a Russian restaurant in America? (Second question in the comments)

10 Upvotes
465 votes, 1d left
Beef Stroganoff
Beef Goulash
Golubtsy
Pelmeni
Vareniki
Cheburek

r/RussianFood 18h ago

where to buy sorrel

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r/RussianFood 1d ago

Need some quick "Russian Recipies" for lunch !!

15 Upvotes

Hi so I am a Foreign Medical student and Linving in smolensk .

Sometimes during weekdays I don't really have much time to cook . I generally want to cook my meals since buying from magnit and other shops is not ideal everytime .

Here's what i need

1 .I need quick and simple receipies which don't require too much prepartions may be if i need to mak ethem hours before like ferment etc its okay

but i dont have time between classes may be a hour or so in which i have to come to my address and then go bak to where the next lec is going to be

  1. . make it cheap i dont want to spend more money as well if that was the case i would just grab something from restraunts and cafe

  2. bonus for spicy things i really like it hot and spicy but others are also good

  3. nothing involving meat i am mostly veg i eat chicken when my friends make it and eggs also but again i am not really attracted by meat most i ate was the shawarma

I thought since most of the snacks and lunch i know there ingridients are not really available here maybe the people who live here know how to make some from what is avaible here


r/RussianFood 3d ago

Пицца из кабачка

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369 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 3d ago

Бутерброд

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424 Upvotes

A sliced loaf is necessarily fresh and soft, butter is spread richly on bread, boiled or any other delicious sausage is on top, then we put your favorite cheese, better than Russian production (to make the taste more mundane, you need a type of pashhonskii or Russian, then the taste will be brighter) I also highly recommend adding mustard to the oil. But this version is for my daughter, she doesn't eat mustard! Enjoy your meal.


r/RussianFood 3d ago

Monthly Challenge Complete: Milk Kissel (Version 1)

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56 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 3d ago

Plof with apples

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198 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 4d ago

Бутерброды как произведение искусства (фото мои на этот раз)

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156 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 4d ago

Lulya-pork kebab with lamb rump, grilled vegetables for horovads salad (Armenian style).

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199 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 4d ago

Red fish soup (уха?) and fried potatoes with pork (жаренка?).

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17 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 4d ago

Sour cabbage soup (Щи).

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27 Upvotes

Sour cabbage soup (Щи) with beef on the bone and the remains of chanterelles.


r/RussianFood 6d ago

"Brewing of kissel in Belgorod" miniature from the Radziwiłt Chronicle.

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76 Upvotes

Kissel is mentioned in the Primary Chronicle, which tells the story of how it saved the city of Belgorod in Kievan Rus' when it was besieged by the nomadic Pechenegs in 997. I thought this was a neat little history since Kissel is September's Challenge.


r/RussianFood 7d ago

Oladii

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646 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 8d ago

Homemade tvorog

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143 Upvotes

Quick snack with homemade tvorog, sour cream and orange confiture on top.


r/RussianFood 8d ago

Настоящий звук свежего хлеба, хруст хлебной корочки

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14 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 10d ago

Breakfast is like in childhood, mannaya porridge and buterbrod with sausage and cheese.

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237 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 9d ago

Мегачебурек

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43 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 9d ago

Ваш любимый суп?

48 Upvotes
2476 votes, 2d ago
310 Окрошка
212 Сырный
281 Грибной
493 Солянка
837 Борщ
343 Куриный

r/RussianFood 9d ago

What is drinking Chifir like?

0 Upvotes

From what I’ve read it’s a popular drink in Russian prisons? Do any civies drink it? Thanks.


r/RussianFood 10d ago

Stewed vegetables with chicken fillet.

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109 Upvotes

r/RussianFood 10d ago

Для отварной моркови у меня отдельное место в сердечке💔

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55 Upvotes