Food World
Discover 1708 iconic traditional dishes from 145 countries — what they are, what's in them, and where to taste the real thing.
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All dishes
16 total
Medovik
Many-layered honey cake with sour-cream filling.
Beef Stroganoff
Strips of beef in a creamy mustard-and-mushroom sauce.
Pelmeni
Tiny meat dumplings served with sour cream or butter.
Rasstegai
Rasstegai counts among the traditional food of Russia, a savoury pastry locals hold dear.
Syrniki
Fried farmer-cheese pancakes for breakfast.
Blini
Thin yeasted pancakes served with sour cream or caviar.
Pirozhki
Soft baked or fried buns with savoury or sweet fillings.
Solyanka
Tangy soup of cured meats, pickles and olives.
Herring under a Fur Coat
Layered salad of herring, vegetables and beetroot.
Okroshka
Cold summer soup of vegetables in kvass or kefir.
Olivier Salad
Diced potato, peas and meat bound in mayonnaise.
Shchi
Ancient cabbage soup, sour and warming.
Kvass
Lightly fermented, faintly sour rye-bread drink.
Tvorog
Tvorog is one of the classic dishes in the cottage cheese tradition of Russia.
Echpochmak
Echpochmak counts among the traditional food of Russia, a savoury pastry locals hold dear.
Nevsky Pirog
Hailing from Russia, Nevsky Pirog is a much-loved cake.