Main dishes

Main dishes

Salmon with pine nut butter

Ingredients for 4:

4 pieces salmon filets by ½ lb each
¼ cup pine nut oil
¼ cup butter
¼ cup crushed pine nuts
2 tbsp red wine
2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp cut chives
1 garlic clove, crushed

Method:

Wash salmon, and put in small saucepan.
Mix pine nut oil, red wine, lemon juice, and chives, pour over salmon, and mix.
Cover saucepan with lid, and place it in refrigerator for 3 hours.

Vareniki with cabbage and mushrooms

Ingredients for 8:

3 cups wheat flour
1 cup water
6 tbsp vegetable oil
1 lb cabbage
½ lb mushrooms
1 onion
Salt on taste

Method:

Clean and wash mushrooms and boil until ready (10-15 minutes), then dry and cut into small cubes.
Slice cabbage thinly into short thin stripes, fry for 15 minutes on a pre-heated skillet with 3 tbsp oil, stirring thoroughly. Cut onions into small cubes, fry with 2 tbsp oil.
Mix cabbage, onions, salt, and set aside.

Asparagus and ham

Ingredients for 4:

3/4 lb trimmed thin asparagus
4 slices boiled ham
1 cup grated cheese
1 1/4 light cream
1 cup chicken broth
1 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1 lemon
1 tsp sugar
salt and peper on taste

Method:

Bring to boil 2 cups water, add salt, sugar, and lemin juice, put asparagus, and cook for 15 minutes, ot until asparagus is tender but still firm.
Mix in small saucepan chicken broth and cream and cook until reduced by half.

Macaroni a la fleet

One of the huge advantages of this dish is that it’s fast to cook, and is cheap and flavorful, and this allows a lot of variations. This is a traditional fleet dish, and also favorite dish of tired college students and tired wives.

Ingredients for 4:

1 pack of ground beef or ground pork (possible, use canned meat instead of this)
1 pack of any pasta (traditionally, in Russia this is macaroni)
1 large shallot onion
Salt, black pepper, other spices, – on taste


Method:

Tender Salmon

Time required: 15 minutes

Russian Nobility Cuisine: Tender Salmon

The original recipe is somewhat involved, so I am giving you a simpler version that still tastes great. That includes using ingredients available in your nearest grocery store (although I usually buy them in Costco.)

Lulya-kebab

Ingredients:

2 lb lamb
4 medium onions
Species: cumin (black sort is preferable), grinded coriander seeds, dried sumac or barberry, and salt on taste
½ tsp vinegar or lemon juice

Method:

Grind the lamb with the lamb fat (or without it.)
Cut 3 onions into small cubes (or grind it too.)
Add all spices, knead it all together until the color is almost white, and let sit for about 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 380 F.
Grease the baking sheet.

Chicken “kneles” - Main dish

Ingredients:

1 pack (1 lb) ground chicken
1 lb prepared rice (white, brown, any other one)
1 medium shallot
2 cans chicken broth (optional)
2 eggs (optional)
Salt on taste
Ground black pepper (optional)

Method:

Set large pan with water (2 cups) or chicken broth to heat.
Peel onion and cut it into small cubes.
In a large dish, mix ground meat, rice, onions, salt, and (optionally) eggs.
Knead until even consistency (3-5 minutes).

Fish cutlets - Main dish

This is a basic recipe.

Ingredients for 4:

1 ¼ fish fillets without bones and skin (preferable, non-fat fish like cod or hake)
2-3 slices of white bread
½ cup milk
3 tbsp breadcrumbs
1 egg
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tbsp thinly cut green onions (optional)
Salt, pepper on taste

Method:

Soak bread in milk and knead.
Grind fish fillets, or cut them into small cubes.
Mix soaked bread, ground fish, egg, salt, pepper, and (optionally) green onions.

Cutlets Pozharsky

There are many legends about this recipe, but we consider the following one the most believable.
A tavern, which belonged to the Pozharsky family, was in the small town Torzhok, which is on the Moscow-St.Petersburg road.
Emperor Alexander the First had to stop because his coach‘s wheel was broken, and his servant ordered a breakfast for the Emperor and his court. The Pozharsky tavern was the most respectable around, so they got this order.
But, there was a problem with the veal cutlets in this order.

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