Russian New Year Food

Making pelmeni is favorite family pastime in the long winter months.

Russian new year food. Usually the Olivier salad is the staple dish of Russian New Year it is prepared in big batches and salad leftovers are eaten throughout the entire holiday season. Russians are bracing for an expensive festive. Fir trees were traditionally decorated with wooden toys fruits nuts and sweets.

Modern trees are decorated with glass balls and toys garlands of lights and LOTS of tinsel. Rising prices threaten cheerless New Year for Russian families Pensioner Gulsina Zhemaletdinova poses for a picture while selling food items at a street market in the Siberian town of Tara in the. Festive masquerade matinees called Novogodnia Elka New Year Tree are.

Eggs with ikra salmon roe meat or cabbage filled pastries and a bunch of different salads. Russian Beet Salad with Herring. Its a light cake and is very similar to Mille Feuille.

Often served in beautiful silver or porcelain dishes filled with chipped ice lemon pieces the caviar sandwich and dishes are symbols of wealth. Prices for potatoes have risen almost 80 over the last 12 months. Meat was expensive stuff the food you set aside for festivities.