Russian Recipes
Russian Carrot Salad
Method:
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.
Abzhorka
Ingredients:
3 Carrots,
3 large Pickles,
1 lb Beef Sirloin,
2 large Onions,
Mayonnaise (about 12 oz bottle).
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Method:
Boil the carrots and the sirloin. Cut the onions into rings and then make long stripes out of the rings; roast
the onion stripes slitely till they soften. Cut the boiled carrots and pickles into thin stripes. Tear the boiled
sirloin apart making thin stripes, as well. Mix everything, add mayonnaise, and salt the salad a bit.
Even though, the salad does not have gourmet ingredients and is really easy to make, it is very tasty and it
is just impossible to stop eating it. That is why it is called Abzhorka or Food Lover. Suggestion:
American mayonnaise is usually creamier and sweeter then Russian mayonnaise. I usually add 2 table
spoons of vinegar, 2 table spoons of olive oil, and 2 table spoons of water for every 12 oz of mayonnaise.
Make sure you mix it well.
Salat S'krabami (Crab Salad)
Ingredients
2 large potatoes, cooked, peeled, and cubed
1 apples ( such as a Granny Smith or MacIntosh)
1 cup cucumbers, diced
1 cup crabmeat ( fresh or canned)
2 hard-boiled eggs
4 tablespoons mayonnaise
Directions
Peel, core and slice apple.
Chop hard boiled eggs.
Mix everything together, chill
Russian Corn Salad
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.
Salad "Ryzhik"
Ingredients:
500 g fresh carrots, 1 onion, 100 grams of cheese, 250 g of mayonnaise.
Carrots cheese and chop fine to coarse. Onions cut very thin straw. All mix and tuck in mayonnaise. You
can try to add a boiled egg. Ordinary products in the above combination, create original dish with
memorable taste.
(substitute garlic for the onion)
Russian Beet Salad
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.
Herring Salad
Herring Salad is called in Russian cuisine “Herring in a Furcoat”.
Serve this salad in a glass bowl to show off the colorful layers.
Serves 6.
Method:
Cut herring crosswise into 1-inch pieces. Peel the potatoes and the beet and dice them into 1/2-inch
pieces. Chop scallions into 1/4-inch pieces. Spread all the herring pieces on the bottom of the serving
bowl, top them with the scallions, then the potatoes, and then the beets. For the final layer, spread the
mayonnaise over the beets. Decorate with parsley springs and olives. Serve chilled.
The salad can be refrigerated, covered with plastic wrap, for up to 12 hours.
Ingredients:
3/4 pound salt herring.
2 unpeeled boiled potatoes.
2 medium cooked, unpeeled beets.
6 scallions.
1 cup Mayonnaise.
Parsley springs.
Oil-Cured Black Olives.
A 11/2-quart glass serving bowl.