Cuisine of Kazan for gourmets. Places for dinner - best restaurants

Rest in Kazan is simply impossible to imagine without visiting popular restaurants, this city has embodied all the best traditions of the national Tatar cuisine. Tatars who lived on the territory of Russia, early began to engage in sedentary farming and livestock, and that is why meat, dairy and flour dishes became the basis of national cuisine.

Initially, the most important dishes of national cuisine were broths and soups. Later, various vegetable dishes took a worthy place in national cuisine, but soups with flour dressing are still a daily dish in any family. Gourmets certainly should try tokamach and noodles soup cooked on classic recipes; this is one of the most delicious national treats. The basis of the second dishes is potatoes and vegetables. Often as a second dish boiled meat is served, and the broth is used for making other treats. Usually boiled meat is a little stewed in oil with pepper and vegetables; it turns out incredibly tasty and juicy.

In addition to meat, regular boiled potatoes with horseradish are often served, a significant part of the national treats are simple to cook. On holidays, one of the main dishes is a chicken stuffed with eggs and milk. Considering the fact that the dough plays an important role in the national cuisine of the Tatar people, there are also a lot of pies baked here; local hostesses are able to cook hundreds of different types of dough. The most ancient of all existing pies is "kystybai" - a combination of mashed potatoes, millet porridge and unleavened dough. Copyright www.orangesmile.com

A fairly common treat is a "balish" cake, which is made from unleavened dough, and as a filling, pieces of lamb, ducklings or goose with the addition of potatoes is used. This popular cake is made both large and small. If we talk about sweets, the real symbol of the Tatar cuisine is the "chak-chak". In appearance, it is a bit like a pie but chak-chak is prepared with the addition of fragrant honey. In addition to it, it is customary to serve fragrant herbal tea. In Kazan there are excellent restaurants, which serve Tatar cuisine. Very popular restaurants are "Bilyar", "House of Tatar Cooking", "Alan-Ashe" and "Azu". Popular pastries can be tried not only in a restaurant or cafe; it is sold literally in all local supermarkets.