Have you ever wondered in a Russian restaurant and got through the amount of calories that each dish contained a surprise? Or, maybe, thought why these Russians eat that vegetable soup with meat, then pasta with meat and then the sugar-rich drink with plenty of fruit? Read on, because we will tell you where the food comes from Russia, and especially because it is so.
To begin with, we should remember that Russia, as well as being a land of the Czars, Bolshevik Revolution,Perestroika and Sputnik is a great deal of land. It 'so big, it takes almost 01:06 the total area of all land on Earth. Obviously, the climate is not always friendly. In fact, most experiences of the Russian land of cold about 7 to 8 months a year. What is not much left for heat loving plants, animals and other food growing or running to get one.
These conditions require that the food prepared simply achieved and provided enough energy toPeople during the long cold months of survival, if the supply of food was difficult or not possible. Heavy Vegetable soup with cabbage, turnips, and some recipes, small pieces of meat, "Okroshka" - - This has to dishes such as "Borsh" took another heavy soup based on kvas or kefir with (varying from recipe on prescription) from boiled eggs, cucumbers, potatoes, diced meat, onions and a number of additional ingredients or ever famous "pelmeni" (also known as ravioli) - a nice little package 'of meat (protein) and pasta(Carbohydrates, dietary fiber), which is very simple to create and consume.
It also has a number of dry snacks, which are well preserved and usually with some type of alcoholic beverage (beer, vodka, "samogon") as well as high-energy consumed calcium and produce a sense of warmth, in the time needed Cold created.
Most of the traditional Russian dishes are not spicy. However, such a vast land, Russia inevitably happen in the place where East and West cross their paths. Roadsleading from Asia to Europe - all the way through Russian spaces. Apparently, getting spices and other ingredients, unusual, authentic Russian food business was much easier for the cooks in Russia, as it was for Europeans. The fact that this country has had a place of many junctions were also explains why meals Russian cuisine is similar to those of many countries. For example, Russian pelmeni or vareniki are very similar to ravioli and gnocchi from the West from the East.
The energyvolume of Russian meals have been, so far, rarely superseded. Traditional Russian bread and milk breakfast is hardly anywhere near (calorie-wise) to any other breakfast - weather European or Asian. Russian "vareniki" or "pelmeni" with traditional sour cream are a killer meal that is quite heavy on proteins, carbs and fat.
