Russian in Manhattan NY

A typical Menu in a Russian Restaurant.

Appetizers

Russian serve salads as appetizers and they look and smell very delicious, stimulating appetite. Some of them can be spicy. They are served with various seasonings and condiments, such as horse- radish, mayonnaise, kvas, garlic and piquant tomato sauces, etc. lending special pungency to the dish.

- Russian vinaigrette salad
- Mixed meat jelly (holodets)
- Fish jelly
- Salted herrings, home style

Soups

Soups in Russian restaurants are served as the first course at dinner. In the Russian language the world "soup" was naturalsed quite late. Originally, Russian soups were called "khlebovo" or "pokhlyobka" - soup with cereals. The typical Russian soups are "schi" (soup with cabbage or sauerkraut), "borsch" (beet and cabbage soup), "rassolnik" (soup with pickled cucumbers), "okroshka" (cold kvass soup), "solyanka" (soup with vegetables, pickled cucumbers, olives and bits of meat) and "pohlyobka"

- Ukranian borsch
- Solyanka
- Rassolnik
- Meat schi with sauerkraut
- Green soup
- Okroshka
- Mushroom soup

Pastry

In Russian cooking bread and pastry have always been especially important. Guests were met with bread and salt. Of no lesser importance were pies - a symbol of wealth and well- being. Russian women were famous for their skills in making different sorts of cookies: blini (pancakes), kulebyakas, rasstegais, cheese cakes, spice- cakes, etc. Howere, especially popular were patties made from soudough.

- Pancakes (classical)
- Buckwheat pancakes
- Apple pancakes
- Fast thick pancakes
- Kulebiaka
- Kulich (Easter bread)
- Rasstegai (small open pie with filling)

Meat dishes

Russian cuisine has always beenrich in meat dishes. The following recipes deal with dishes of beef, pork, mutton, poultry, game, and wild animals. As a rule, meat dishes are served with vegetables. noodles and cereal.

- Beef goulash
- Boeuf Stroganoff
- Meat "Hedgehogs"
- Macaroni Naval Style
- Pork chops
- "Ushnoye" (Russian Stew)
- Pozharskiye chops
- Goose with apples
- Golubtsy
- Pelmeni

Hot fish dishes

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. Apart from fresh- water fish our ancestors also ate sea fish like cod, navaga. However, especially valued were sturgeon, salmon and other fishes of this kind. Most often fish dished are served with potatoes and boiled buckwheat.

There is one explanation why in past Russians used to cook fish dishes. It was not allowed to eat any kind of meat and any kind of milk food in duration of long fasts but fish dishes were permitted (except time of the Lent).

- Baked pike- perch
- Fish, monastery style
- Sturgeon fried in portions