My no meat recipes
February 19th, 2011 in Hot Soups, Soup Recipes by Julia Volhina This soup doesn’t include any meat, it is based on mushrooms and have vegetables (carrot, parsley and celery roots, potato) as well as pearl barley.
Such kind of mushroom soup is very popular in Russia. Various kind of mushrooms can be used in this recipe, but I must say fresh or frozen porcini are the best tasting ones, if you can find them, of course.
If you are not trying to follow Great Lent rules – my advise is don’t skip on sour cream, 1 tablespoon of sour cream to the bowl of mushroom soup not only adds nutrients, but also gives the soup its unique rich taste.
Tags: carrot, celery root, dill, garlic, grain, lenten, mushroom, no meat, onion, parsley root, peas, potato, russian, soup, vegetables
January 29th, 2011 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat, Side Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina Braised cabbage can be a nice meat-free dish on its own, however it also makes a good side dish for various meats, especially pork and sausages.
You can braise fresh white cabbage alone or mix of white cabbage with sauerkraut (1:1 proportion) to your taste. If you choose to use sauerkraut, rinse it with water before adding to the skillet.
Fresh tomatoes in this recipe can be replaced with tomato paste, if you don’t want to spend time blanching and de-seeding tomatoes.
Tags: cabbage, no meat, onion, russian, side dish, tomato, vegetables
January 15th, 2011 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat by Julia Volhina This recipe is a step up for russian kefir based pancakes – oladi. My mom used to add slices of apple to oladi batter and that is the way how I prefer them – oladi with apple served warm with sour cream topping.
So the recipe is quite easy: prepare oladi batter, add slices of apple and fry pancakes.
This dish is a perfect choice for breakfast or brunch, or even fast prepared snack. I bet kids would love those pancakes as well. They taste good accompanied with a glass of kefir.
Tags: apple, breakfast, egg, flour, fruits, kefir, kid food, no meat, russian
November 27th, 2010 in No-meat, Side Dish Recipes by Julia Volhina There is no easiest way to cook potato than boiling. You get tasty and nutritious dish fast and with literally no hassle: just clean it, put to the cooking pot, bring to boil and wait.
Young potato boiled skin on tastes especially good when dressed with several spoons of sour cream, seasoned with chopped dill and minced garlic.
If you don’t have young small potatoes, use red skin ones, or any others. Clean potatoes before boiling, for young potatoes washing will be enough, old potato may need to be peeled.
Tags: garlic, no meat, potato, side dish, sour cream, vegetables
November 13th, 2010 in Salad Recipes by Julia Volhina Beet salad with prunes, walnuts and onions dressed up with mayo or sour cream or both is one of the traditional salads of ukrainian cuisine.
Also, this dish is one of the not many dishes which uses beets as a main ingredient.
It is very important to use sweet and rich red color beets for this salad. So, when buying beets scratch their skin with a nail: dark red pulp under skin is a sign of good beet, not pink and not white.
It is also important to use good quality walnuts; taste before you buy them: old walnuts can be bitter and using such will make you salad taste bitter as well.
Tags: beet, mayo, no meat, nuts, onion, prune, salad, shallot, ukrainian
November 6th, 2010 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat by Julia Volhina This is my recipe in support of Faina’s with Cucee Sprouts cauliholic addiction. I hope you will like it 
Yet another vegetable pancakes recipe. These are usually healthier choice: they contain much less flour (comparing to usually flour-based pancakes) – batter mostly consist of vegetable goodness and, of course, a bit of eggs
I love cauliflower in any of its appearance, and I consider cauliflower pancakes to be one of the easiest and fun ways to cook it.
Tags: breakfast, cauliflower, flour, lunch, mayo, no meat, pancake, snack, vegetables
August 28th, 2010 in Main Dish Recipes, No-meat by Julia Volhina Oladi, or thick pancakes prepared from kefir based batter, is traditional russian breakfast food. Batter is easy to assemble and whole dish doesn’t take much time to cook.
Kefir gives a distinguishing taste to oladi, but it probably can be replaced with buttermilk in case you are having troubles finding kefir.
Oladi can be served plain or with some kind of a topping: jam, syrop or honey, as well as fresh fruits. I love oladi with sour cream.
Tags: breakfast, buttermilk, egg, flour, kefir, kid food, no meat, pancake, russian
