Healthy russian recipes

There are so many reasons to love Shchi - traditional Russian Cabbage Soup. It's hearty and filling thanks to the tender chunks of beef and the combo of sauerkraut and fresh cabbage.

This Russian buckwheat kasha recipe with caramelised onions, bacon lardons, pan-fried mushrooms, and soft-boiled eggs makes my take on my baboushka’s traditional Russian breakfast. Buckwheat or grechka is the key ingredient of this kasha, a savoury porridge that I serve with a dollop of sour cream and plenty of fragrant dill.

Plov is the ultimate comfort food. It's a one pot chicken and rice dish that is packed with flavors and spices and just takes a few steps to reach ultimate rice perfection. Perfect rice and tender chicken that beg you for just another bite. Plus it's SUPER freezer friendly! How awesome is that!

This traditional Russian Potato Vareniki Recipe makes half-moon shaped Russian dumplings filled with mashed potato and caramelised onion that are eaten with sour cream and fresh dill. My baboushka would make a big batch of these along with meat-filled pelmeni for family feasts. Boiled the first time they’re cooked, they’re fantastic fried the next day.

These ground chicken cutlets (kotletki) are the perfect comfort food! They are beautiful little ground chicken cutlets that are lightly flavored with fragrant dill and savory onion and pan fried or baked until golden brown.

This Russian eggplant caviar recipe for ikra – also known as the ‘poor man’s caviar’ during the Soviet period – makes a deliciously-rich version of this traditional Russian dip, spread or side dish that’s somewhere in between the ikra my baboushka made that was sumptuous and velvety and that popularised during the Soviet era that more closely resembled a diced salad. You can serve your ikra as a dip or appetiser with toasted baguette slices or spoon it onto a plate as a side, as my baba did…

The best Beef Borscht Soup is made with short ribs, bone broth, beets, and cabbage. Topped with sour cream and fresh dill, this traditional Russian recipe is a great comfort meal for the Fall and Winter seasons!

The very BEST Russian Vinegret Salad is right here. It features delicious cooked root vegetables mixed with tangy dill pickles and gree peas. This delicious and easy salad never disappoints.

This Russian beef Stroganoff recipe makes a deliciously rich and creamy rendition of the beef and mushroom dish once cooked in the grand kitchen of the Stroganoff Palace in St Petersburg. My beef Stroganoff recipe is based on a combination of my Russian family recipe, and the earliest documented Russian Stroganoff recipes by Elena Molokhovets in A Gift to Young Housewives, dating to 1861, and Pelageya Aleksandrova-Ignatieva’s Practical Basics of Culinary Arts, dating to 1899. Serve it with…

This Russian cabbage soup recipe makes shchi (Щи), the most Russian of soups. If my baboushka wasn’t cooking borscht, she was making a big pot of shchi. An old Russian dish dating to the 9th century, when cabbage came to the ‘Land of the Rus’ from Byzantium, shchi has long been eaten by nobles and peasants alike. While the rich included meat, the poor made a vegetarian broth (shchi vegetarianskiye). My easy Russian cabbage soup recipe makes a vegan shchi if you skip the sour cream. Like…