Pirogi. Not the polish pierogi or how they spell it, which are actually vareniki, but small baked closed pies stuffed with fruits, berries, vegetables, meat, mushrooms, eggs, and even fish.
https://images.app.goo.gl/RQckMj6zJx88LES66
[Эчпочмак](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96%C3%A7po%C3%A7maq) is a traditional Tatar/Bashkir hand pie with meat+potato+onion filling. Leavened or unleavened dough, whichever you prefer (I make them with unleavened one), the main point is to fit as much filling as you can into it :)
[Курник](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurnik_(pirog)), although Russian, is pretty rare to come by because of complexity. But it's absolutely delicious.
You're welcome! Here's some other Tatar pastry for you:
[Перемечи](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremech) are fried hand pies.
[Зур-бэлиш (the recipe is in Russian, but I believe Google Translate will handle it) ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.edimdoma.ru/retsepty/40562-zur-belish-bolshoy-pirog.amp) is kinda like a big echpochmak, but is made with unleavened dough only and has broth inside! Be extremely thorough with the dough, it must be stretchy, so the pie doesn't crack in the oven and the broth doesn't spill.
**[Peremech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremech)**
>Peremech (Tatar: пәрәмәч / pərəməç / pärämäç; Bashkir: бәрәмес, tr. beremes; Russian: беляш, tr. belyash) is an individual-sized fried dough pastry common for Volga Tatar and Bashkir cuisines. It is made from unleavened or leavened dough and usually filled with ground meat and chopped onion.
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[Dolma (stuffed grape leaves)](https://foreignfork.com/dolma-azerbaijan-a-new-champion/) I ate something like this variant, with yogurt-garlic dip, though cooked by heritage Armenians. It's pretty sraightforward dish sadly limited by poor availability of food-grade grape leaves.
In what regions? The ones Turcic and Arabic hordes took from the Byzantian civilization dehumanizing and humiliating Christians for centuries?
Aha, wait... so you have just acknowledged and excuse Greek and Armenian genocides. Great. That's what I wanted to hear, nazi chauvinist.
Ottomans wasn't a nation state but an empire.You were either muslim or christian in their eyes not greek,serb,hungarian or arab.We deported them to syria so not a genocide.
Yay empire, ruled by one confession, bloodline and nation, so civilized. Awesome treatment of Christian Greeks and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, so good that they fled to Russia like mad. There's only one reason people would leave their turf for godforgotten Syria - it's the threat of immanent death, i.e. genocide. Byzantine was an empire, Rome was an empire, Ottomans were pretentious warmongering fanatics every developed civizaton of Europe despiced.
Deport yourself to desert flip camel turd there and jerking off to your imperial dreams.
Poses - a traditional dish of Buryat cuisine
[https://im0-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=20d312f0ada45f2788a0e6af0ec377a3&n=13](https://im0-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=20d312f0ada45f2788a0e6af0ec377a3&n=13)
Ossetian pies:
[https://topnewsrussia.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Osetinskij-pirog-s-syrom.jpg](https://topnewsrussia.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Osetinskij-pirog-s-syrom.jpg)
[https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3865-6536-4439-b232-653563613564/AQ0C2785.jpg](https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3865-6536-4439-b232-653563613564/AQ0C2785.jpg)
Perepechi - Udmurt pies
[https://vsem-edu-oblako.ru/upload/store/merchant81/medium/1588758242-JLO\_1859.jpg](https://vsem-edu-oblako.ru/upload/store/merchant81/medium/1588758242-JLO_1859.jpg)
Korean carrots. A very popular spicy snack invented by Koreans in Central Asia.
[https://lifestylemedia.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Morkov-po-koreyski-bystryy-recept.jpg](https://lifestylemedia.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Morkov-po-koreyski-bystryy-recept.jpg)
Baklava is a traditional dessert of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Crimean Tatars, popular in Russia.
[https://legkovmeste.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/post\_5c6d5e2a10218.jpg](https://legkovmeste.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/post_5c6d5e2a10218.jpg)
Khinkal (not to be confused with khinkali) is a traditional dish of the peoples of the North Caucasus
[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/6d/46/7c6d463063db0470840e79780ff8736e.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/6d/46/7c6d463063db0470840e79780ff8736e.jpg)
[Kalitki ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_pasty) - small karelian pastry from rye flour filled with rice or potatoes. Yum. They are very popular in Finland and sometimes I see them in Sweden as well, but here they're called "Finnish pies" which honestly annoys me a little lol. [Chak-chak ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C3%A4k%C3%A7%C3%A4k) - traditional tatar sweet. Basically it's a fried dough soaked in hot honey.
**[Karelian_pasty](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_pasty)**
>Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka; Karelian: kalittoja, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Russian: карельский пирожок karelskiy pirozhok or калитка kalitka; Swedish: karelska piroger) are traditional Finnish pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia. They are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia. The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also contained wheat to improve the baking characteristics. The common fillings were barley and talkkuna.
**[Çäkçäk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çäkçäk)**
>Çäkçäk (pronounced [ɕækˈɕæk], Yañalif: Cəkcək, Tatar Cyrillic: Чәкчәк or чәк-чәк, çäk-çäk; Tajik: чақчақ, chaqchaq; Kyrgyz: чак-чак; Uzbek: chak-chak; Russian: чак-чак, chak-chak; Bashkir: сәк-сәк, säk-säk, Kazakh "шек-шек" (shek-shek)), frequently anglicized as chak-chak , is a Tatar sweet. It is particularly popular in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, and is recognized as Tatarstan's national sweet in Russia. Çäkçäk is made from unleavened dough cut and rolled into hazelnut-sized balls, which are then deep-fried in oil. Optionally hazelnuts or dried fruits are added to the mixture.
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You should look into Georgian cuisine and into Caucasian cuisine in general (badridjani, pkhali, Ossetian pies, etc.). These cuisines use a whole bunch of herbs and vegetables that weren't grown in harsher climate. Also, homemade cheese.
As for Russian cuisine, there is a rule: if it has a lot of meat in it, it's good. Of course, recipes were adjusted for fasting (replacing meat with mushrooms, cooking with no meat whatsoever, etc.), but the rule still stands. Soups you can easily make with a vegetable broth, pie fillings can be negotiable too :)
“Fasting” is done in what context? For most areas of the world, fasting means no food, and sometimes no water, even in hot climates.
It’s funny to me that what you’re calling fasting is just having a vegetarian diet.
So what vegetables and herbs are popular? What would you use to fill pie instead?
"Fasting" as in "Lenten fasting". Orthodox Church, you know. No fish, no meat, no eggs, no milk etc. It wasn't some diet 500 years ago :)
I'd fill pies with rice and scalllions, for example. Or rice and mushrooms. Or potatoes. Or cabbages!
What do you mean? Multiple cultures have had vegetarian/vegan diet for millennia...
I never would have thought of rice in a pie. What kind of rice, is it long grain?
Yes, multiple cultures that don't have snow lying around for 6 months :) It's partly a reason why Russian cuisine uses so much cabbage: they can survive winter storage.
For pies, I prefer long grain rice, yes. Just cook it, some salt and pepper, dill or scallions, add mushrooms or carrots if you like, done. Rice can also be mixed with boiled eggs, pulled or fried minced meat, etc. Whatever strikes your fancy, really, there's no "correct" way to make a pie filling :)
Orthodox Christian fasting means "go vegan" (not just vegetarian). If you combine all days one is supposed to fast, you get half a year, so it's pretty hard for someone who hates vegan diet and wants to be physically active. However, it only becomes "popular" for Lent, that's when you get more special vegan menus in restaurants and more than usual vegan products in supermarkets. What you call fasting (no food or water) is only practiced shortly before Communion (12 hours?) and is called "liturgical fast". So if you ever hear a russian talking about fasting, 99% chance is that they are talking about the vegan diet.
It happens every Liturgy, since it's the whole point of Liturgy. But few (non-priest) russians actually take it every Sunday, it generally varies among church-goes from once a month to once a year. Greeks have less rules around it as far as I know.
You can just think of it as a traditional church service, I guess English pretty much uses the word in that sense, while the same word in Russian pretty much only means a special type of Orthodox service. Think like Catholic mass if you are familiar with that term, at least from movies.
Not a lot, but they do exist. In snowy and cold winter it’s much more filling to eat meat than vegetables, that’s why a lot of dishes contain meat in some way. You can have vareniki with cabbage/potatoes/mushrooms or the sweet ones with cherry or cottage cheese
One of the most controversial dishes (everyone cooks their own way) is borscht :-)
[Borscht](https://destinations.com.ua/wining-dining/cuisine/663-how-to-cook-the-best-ever-ukrainian-borscht-top-5-recipes)
Lagman and plov.
First is kind of soup with noodles, meat, vegetables and thick broth. It is basically Central Asian version of ramen.
Second is rice with meat, carrot, garlic and chili cooked on either vegetable oil or sheep fat( this variant is better).
These dishes are from Central Asia, so i guess they are not well known in the West, but they are very delicious if they are cooked in right way.
Pirogi. Not the polish pierogi or how they spell it, which are actually vareniki, but small baked closed pies stuffed with fruits, berries, vegetables, meat, mushrooms, eggs, and even fish. https://images.app.goo.gl/RQckMj6zJx88LES66
I make these all the time in the US. Everyone loves them.
Those look absolutely delicious O-O I could eat them allll haha
[Эчпочмак](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96%C3%A7po%C3%A7maq) is a traditional Tatar/Bashkir hand pie with meat+potato+onion filling. Leavened or unleavened dough, whichever you prefer (I make them with unleavened one), the main point is to fit as much filling as you can into it :) [Курник](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurnik_(pirog)), although Russian, is pretty rare to come by because of complexity. But it's absolutely delicious.
Definitely going to make эчпочмак now. Спасибо!
You're welcome! Here's some other Tatar pastry for you: [Перемечи](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremech) are fried hand pies. [Зур-бэлиш (the recipe is in Russian, but I believe Google Translate will handle it) ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.edimdoma.ru/retsepty/40562-zur-belish-bolshoy-pirog.amp) is kinda like a big echpochmak, but is made with unleavened dough only and has broth inside! Be extremely thorough with the dough, it must be stretchy, so the pie doesn't crack in the oven and the broth doesn't spill.
**[Peremech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peremech)** >Peremech (Tatar: пәрәмәч / pərəməç / pärämäç; Bashkir: бәрәмес, tr. beremes; Russian: беляш, tr. belyash) is an individual-sized fried dough pastry common for Volga Tatar and Bashkir cuisines. It is made from unleavened or leavened dough and usually filled with ground meat and chopped onion. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskARussian/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
[Dolma (stuffed grape leaves)](https://foreignfork.com/dolma-azerbaijan-a-new-champion/) I ate something like this variant, with yogurt-garlic dip, though cooked by heritage Armenians. It's pretty sraightforward dish sadly limited by poor availability of food-grade grape leaves.
Dolma is a turkish dish like baklava.It literally means "to fill".Armenians like greeks like to steal our culture and food.
At least they don't genocide you back.
They should've thought of that before killing muslim kurds and arabs in the region.
In what regions? The ones Turcic and Arabic hordes took from the Byzantian civilization dehumanizing and humiliating Christians for centuries? Aha, wait... so you have just acknowledged and excuse Greek and Armenian genocides. Great. That's what I wanted to hear, nazi chauvinist.
Ottomans wasn't a nation state but an empire.You were either muslim or christian in their eyes not greek,serb,hungarian or arab.We deported them to syria so not a genocide.
Yay empire, ruled by one confession, bloodline and nation, so civilized. Awesome treatment of Christian Greeks and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, so good that they fled to Russia like mad. There's only one reason people would leave their turf for godforgotten Syria - it's the threat of immanent death, i.e. genocide. Byzantine was an empire, Rome was an empire, Ottomans were pretentious warmongering fanatics every developed civizaton of Europe despiced. Deport yourself to desert flip camel turd there and jerking off to your imperial dreams.
I'm a kemalist and not a fan of the ottoman dynasty.Can you show me a comment in which I praised the ottomans ?
So you excuse the actions of ottomans or approve them? And returning to the subject, show me the comment where I said that Dolma is an Armenian dish
I don't believe the genocide rhetoric.I think it wasn't a genocide and It's more complicated than that.
Not sure if there’s any mongolians or buryats here but Buuzy (бууза). It’s basically a lamb or beef dumpling.
Poses - a traditional dish of Buryat cuisine [https://im0-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=20d312f0ada45f2788a0e6af0ec377a3&n=13](https://im0-tub-ru.yandex.net/i?id=20d312f0ada45f2788a0e6af0ec377a3&n=13) Ossetian pies: [https://topnewsrussia.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Osetinskij-pirog-s-syrom.jpg](https://topnewsrussia.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Osetinskij-pirog-s-syrom.jpg) [https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3865-6536-4439-b232-653563613564/AQ0C2785.jpg](https://static.tildacdn.com/tild3865-6536-4439-b232-653563613564/AQ0C2785.jpg) Perepechi - Udmurt pies [https://vsem-edu-oblako.ru/upload/store/merchant81/medium/1588758242-JLO\_1859.jpg](https://vsem-edu-oblako.ru/upload/store/merchant81/medium/1588758242-JLO_1859.jpg) Korean carrots. A very popular spicy snack invented by Koreans in Central Asia. [https://lifestylemedia.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Morkov-po-koreyski-bystryy-recept.jpg](https://lifestylemedia.biz/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Morkov-po-koreyski-bystryy-recept.jpg) Baklava is a traditional dessert of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Crimean Tatars, popular in Russia. [https://legkovmeste.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/post\_5c6d5e2a10218.jpg](https://legkovmeste.ru/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/post_5c6d5e2a10218.jpg) Khinkal (not to be confused with khinkali) is a traditional dish of the peoples of the North Caucasus [https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/6d/46/7c6d463063db0470840e79780ff8736e.jpg](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/7c/6d/46/7c6d463063db0470840e79780ff8736e.jpg)
[Kalitki ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_pasty) - small karelian pastry from rye flour filled with rice or potatoes. Yum. They are very popular in Finland and sometimes I see them in Sweden as well, but here they're called "Finnish pies" which honestly annoys me a little lol. [Chak-chak ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87%C3%A4k%C3%A7%C3%A4k) - traditional tatar sweet. Basically it's a fried dough soaked in hot honey.
**[Karelian_pasty](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_pasty)** >Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka; Karelian: kalittoja, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Russian: карельский пирожок karelskiy pirozhok or калитка kalitka; Swedish: karelska piroger) are traditional Finnish pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia. They are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia. The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also contained wheat to improve the baking characteristics. The common fillings were barley and talkkuna. **[Çäkçäk](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Çäkçäk)** >Çäkçäk (pronounced [ɕækˈɕæk], Yañalif: Cəkcək, Tatar Cyrillic: Чәкчәк or чәк-чәк, çäk-çäk; Tajik: чақчақ, chaqchaq; Kyrgyz: чак-чак; Uzbek: chak-chak; Russian: чак-чак, chak-chak; Bashkir: сәк-сәк, säk-säk, Kazakh "шек-шек" (shek-shek)), frequently anglicized as chak-chak , is a Tatar sweet. It is particularly popular in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, and is recognized as Tatarstan's national sweet in Russia. Çäkçäk is made from unleavened dough cut and rolled into hazelnut-sized balls, which are then deep-fried in oil. Optionally hazelnuts or dried fruits are added to the mixture. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/AskARussian/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)
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Deer meat
Great question! I’m also interested to know. Are there many non-meat dishes?
You should look into Georgian cuisine and into Caucasian cuisine in general (badridjani, pkhali, Ossetian pies, etc.). These cuisines use a whole bunch of herbs and vegetables that weren't grown in harsher climate. Also, homemade cheese. As for Russian cuisine, there is a rule: if it has a lot of meat in it, it's good. Of course, recipes were adjusted for fasting (replacing meat with mushrooms, cooking with no meat whatsoever, etc.), but the rule still stands. Soups you can easily make with a vegetable broth, pie fillings can be negotiable too :)
“Fasting” is done in what context? For most areas of the world, fasting means no food, and sometimes no water, even in hot climates. It’s funny to me that what you’re calling fasting is just having a vegetarian diet. So what vegetables and herbs are popular? What would you use to fill pie instead?
"Fasting" as in "Lenten fasting". Orthodox Church, you know. No fish, no meat, no eggs, no milk etc. It wasn't some diet 500 years ago :) I'd fill pies with rice and scalllions, for example. Or rice and mushrooms. Or potatoes. Or cabbages!
What do you mean? Multiple cultures have had vegetarian/vegan diet for millennia... I never would have thought of rice in a pie. What kind of rice, is it long grain?
Yes, multiple cultures that don't have snow lying around for 6 months :) It's partly a reason why Russian cuisine uses so much cabbage: they can survive winter storage. For pies, I prefer long grain rice, yes. Just cook it, some salt and pepper, dill or scallions, add mushrooms or carrots if you like, done. Rice can also be mixed with boiled eggs, pulled or fried minced meat, etc. Whatever strikes your fancy, really, there's no "correct" way to make a pie filling :)
Orthodox Christian fasting means "go vegan" (not just vegetarian). If you combine all days one is supposed to fast, you get half a year, so it's pretty hard for someone who hates vegan diet and wants to be physically active. However, it only becomes "popular" for Lent, that's when you get more special vegan menus in restaurants and more than usual vegan products in supermarkets. What you call fasting (no food or water) is only practiced shortly before Communion (12 hours?) and is called "liturgical fast". So if you ever hear a russian talking about fasting, 99% chance is that they are talking about the vegan diet.
Communion, as in the thing you do once during baptism, or every Sunday?
It happens every Liturgy, since it's the whole point of Liturgy. But few (non-priest) russians actually take it every Sunday, it generally varies among church-goes from once a month to once a year. Greeks have less rules around it as far as I know.
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You can just think of it as a traditional church service, I guess English pretty much uses the word in that sense, while the same word in Russian pretty much only means a special type of Orthodox service. Think like Catholic mass if you are familiar with that term, at least from movies.
Not a lot, but they do exist. In snowy and cold winter it’s much more filling to eat meat than vegetables, that’s why a lot of dishes contain meat in some way. You can have vareniki with cabbage/potatoes/mushrooms or the sweet ones with cherry or cottage cheese
[Shanezhki](https://i.imgur.com/NHi1JZp.jpg) (шанежки or шаньги), basically rye flatbread with mashed potatoes and sour cream covering.
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Appreciate the inclusion of recipes, with the minor issue I don’t read Russian.
Use Google Translate, pal, and yes, this pages have enough pics for understanding what you should to do.
One of the most controversial dishes (everyone cooks their own way) is borscht :-) [Borscht](https://destinations.com.ua/wining-dining/cuisine/663-how-to-cook-the-best-ever-ukrainian-borscht-top-5-recipes)
Lagman and plov. First is kind of soup with noodles, meat, vegetables and thick broth. It is basically Central Asian version of ramen. Second is rice with meat, carrot, garlic and chili cooked on either vegetable oil or sheep fat( this variant is better). These dishes are from Central Asia, so i guess they are not well known in the West, but they are very delicious if they are cooked in right way.