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Ingredients:

1.5 lb fish (steelhead, rainbow trout, chum salmon, salmon, etc.)
2 tsp large milling salt (coarse sea salt)
1 tbsp sugar or honey

Method:

Defrost in a refrigerator if necessary.
Make a cut on the spine. Remove bones.
Mix salt and sugar. Sprinkle fish meat with this mix evenly. Then stack fillets (skin outside), full in the salt. Any salt that does not stick to the fish, put on a clean fabric piece in an even layer. Put fish over it, and roll tightly with the fabric.

Ingredients:

1 large salted herring
Small shallot onion
1 medium apple
0.4 lb sour cream
1-2 tbsp lemon juice
Salt and sugar on taste
Dill greens for decoration

Method:

Soak the herring in water for 12 hours, drain, and soak the herring in milk for 12 hours.
Clean, remove all bones, and cut into medium pieces.
Cut onions into medium slices; grate peeled the apple, then mix the apple, onions, and sour cream.

Ingredients:

1 lb buckwheat kasha
0.5 lb grated cheese
2 eggs
0.5 lb bread crumbs
3 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:
To make buckwheat kasha, cook 2 measure cups of buckwheat and 4 measure cups of water in a rice-cooker or in a saucepan under a lid for 25 minutes. Cool until warm.
Mix kasha, cheese, eggs, salt, and pepper (optional).
Make round pancakes from the dough. Turn them in breadcrumbs to cover both sides, fry on a skillet with vegetable oil.

Georgia means Georgia in the Caucasus, a former part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

Ingredients:

4 lb chicken
¼ lb butter
2 lb onions
2 large tomatoes
1 large sweet red pepper
4 tbsp tomato paste
½ hot chili pepper
Salt on taste

2 bunch Italian parsley
1 bunch coriander greens
3 cloves garlic
Hot pepper on taste
Salt on taste

Method:

Melt butter in a deep non-stick saucepan.

Ingredients:

1-1.5 lb chicken de-boned breasts
1/5 lb uncooked bacon
4 tbsp cold water
Salt and pepper on taste
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Breadcrumbs

For stuffing:
1 hardboiled egg
1 small bunch parsley greens

Method:

Grate the egg, cut greens into small pieces, and mix them together.
Grate the chicken and bacon together; add salt, pepper, and mix, adding cold water by tablespoons.

This Russian dish came from Poland.

Ingredients:

2 lb cabbage
1-2 lb sour cabbage
1 lb boneless pork
½ lb veal
½ lb smoked sausage
2 tbsp margarine
2 bay leaves
3 tbsp dried porcini
1 large shallot onion
2 tbsp prune preserves
½ cup Madeira vine

Method:

Ingredients:

1 lb peeled potatoes
3 eggs
1 peeled shallot onion
1 medium peeled carrot
3 tsp vegetable oil
½ lb mushrooms
½ lb ground pork, or ground beef, or mix of ground pork and ground beef
Breadcrumbs

Method:

Boil potatoes until ready, then drain and grate.
Cool until it is warm, add eggs, and blend.
Fry ground carrots and onions until carrots are mild.
Fry ground meat until the color changes, mixing thoroughly.

Ingredients:

1 lb buckwheat kasha
0.5 lb grated cheese
2 eggs
0.5 lb bread crumbs
3 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt and pepper on taste

Method:
To make buckwheat kasha, cook 2 measure cups of buckwheat and 4 measure cups of water in a rice-cooker or in a saucepan under a lid for 25 minutes. Cool until warm.
Mix kasha, cheese, eggs, salt, and pepper (optional).
Make round pancakes from the dough. Turn them in breadcrumbs to cover both sides, fry on a skillet with vegetable oil.

Ingredients for 2:

1 lb fish fillets without skin and bones
2 eggs
½ cup beer
4 tbsp vegetable oil
Salt
Breadcrumbs

Method:

Make dough from the breadcrumbs, beer, eggs, and salt.
Pre-heat a fryer or a deep skillet with 4 or more tbsp vegetable oil.
Cut fillets to medium-size pieces, dip every piece in dough a couple times.
Fry for about 4 minutes in a fryer, or 4 minutes per side in a skillet.
Drain on paper towels, and serve with your favorite garnish and dip.

Ingredients:

4 lb zucchini
3 eggs
1 cup pancake flour
0.5 tsp baking soda
Garlic, salt, pepper on taste
0.5 bunch Italian parsley
0.5 bunch dill
0.5 lb mayonnaise

Method:

Peel and grate zucchini and garlic, add flour, salt, pepper, and baking soda, and make dough.
Cook like usual blinis (look at blinis recipe). Cut dill and parsley.
Put the first blin on a flat plate, smear with mayonnaise, and sprinkle with greens, and then cover with a next blin.