My family’s traditional Russian Ukrainian recipes make an appearance every Orthodox Easter when I can normally be found in our Siem Reap kitchen baking kulich or paska, making cabbage rolls, rolling out dough for pelmeni and vareniki, and preparing my baboushka’s pink beetroot potato salad, while I recollect the family feasts of my childhood. This … Read more
This Ukrainian sweet varenyky recipe with summer berries and sour cream makes delicious boiled dumplings filled with farmers cheese and berries served with a sweet, syrupy fruit jam-like sauce of raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and red currants, called pyatiminutka (five-minute jam) to drizzle on the dumplings, and dollops of sour cream. Also eaten in Russia, where … Read more
This chicken Kiev recipe makes the retro Russian classic that was once cooked for Russia’s tsars, that was democratised during the Soviet Union, and popularised outside the USSR in the 1970s. An iconic Russian dish of chicken breasts stuffed with parsley butter, coated in egg and bread crumbs and fried, it was another dish on … Read more
Our fried dumplings recipe for your Russian and Ukrainian pelmeni and vareniki leftovers shows you how to make the most of the dumplings you couldn’t finish, so that they’re so much more than just leftovers, by frying them up with bacon, onion and garlic, and serving them with fresh dill and sour cream. My fried … Read more
This traditional Russian potato vareniki recipe makes half-moon shaped Russian and Ukrainian dumplings filled with mashed potato and caramelised onion that are eaten with sour cream and fresh dill. My baboushka made a big batch along with meat-filled pelmeni for family feasts. Boiled the first time they’re cooked, they’re fantastic fried the next day. Our … Read more