Russian cuisine is one of the most popular and widely spread in the easy to cook and they do not demand much skill and special ingredients, they do not need exotic equipment and tool and everybody who knows how to hold a cooking knife and how to peel potatoes can cook delicious Russian dishes. Russian cuisine derives its rich and varied character from the vast and multi-cultural expanse of Russia. Its foundations were laid by the peasant food of the rural population in an often harsh climate, with a combination of plentiful fish, poultry, mushrooms, berries, and honey. Crops of rye, wheat, barley, and millet provided the ingredients for a plethora of breads, pancakes, cereals, kvass, beer, and vodka.

Soups Main dishes Pies and pancakes Beverages

SOUPS Soups have always played an important role in the Russian meal. The traditional kinds of soups such as : Hot soups Shchi (cabbage soup) had been the predominant first course in Russian cuisine for over a thousand years. Cold soups Okroshka is a cold soup based on kvass or, less often, sour milk.

Main dishes Kholodets (or Studen'): Jellied chopped pieces of pork or veal meat with some spices added (pepper, parsley, garlic, bay leaf) and minor amounts of vegetables (carrots, onions). Pelmeni are a traditional Eastern European(mainly Russian) dish usually made with minced meat filling, wrapped in thin dough(made out of flour and eggs, sometimes with milk or water added). Kotlety are small pan-fried meat balls, not dissimilar from Salisbury steak and other such dishes. Made primarily from pork and beef (sometimes also from chicken or fish).

Main dishes Fish In Russian cuisine fish dishes are some of the most favorite ones. The rivers, lakes and seas by which Russian people settled always gave them this tasty and accessible food.

Pies and pancakes Blini are practically the same as English pancakes. In Russia they are served with butter and sugar. Pirozhki made with onion, mushroom, meat and rice stuffing. Syrniki are fried curd fritters, garnished with sour cream, jam, honey, and/or apple sauce. Vatrushka is a kind of cake with a ring of dough and tvorog

Beverages Alcoholic Such as vodka,sbiten, medovukha Non-alcoholic Such as kvass, mors,milk.

1.What kinds of courses of Russian food do you know? 2.What kinds of Russian soups do you know?(Give the example to each of them) 3.What is a Russian kotlet? 4.What stuffings of Russian pirozhki do you know? 5.What kinds of Russian drinks do you know?