Russian National Cuisine original Recipes - Hot Pot Beef

Hot Pot Beef​
Since old times Russians used to prepare food in hot pots putting them in ovens, using firewood or coal. In Russia the preference is always given to meat dishes. Discover this traditional beef meat recipe, easy to prepare at home in modern ovens.

Ingredients (4 persons)
​500 g beef meat
1 onion
2 tomatoes
7 potatoes
2 carrots
3 pieces of garlic
6 table spoons of dairy butter or sunflower oil for frying
2 table spoons of sour cream or 100 g grated cheese

Mustard, parsley, dill, bay leaves, salt and black pepper to taste
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Directions
​Rinse and peel potatoes. Cut them into small cubes 2x2 cm and fry on low fire with sunflower oil or dairy butter  - 15 min max. Potatoes cubes should get gold and brown color. Find a special pan that can be used for oven and put your potatoes' cubes inside. You can also add 2-3 tablespoons of pure water.

Rinse and peel your onion, cut it also into small pieces and fry with oil for 5-7 minutes. Then add onion into your oven pan (pot). Take your beef, wash it and slice into small pieces, for example 4x2 cm. Clean your carrots, cut them into small cubes and put on fire together with sliced beef.
 Add sunflower oil or dairy butter, 1-2 table spoons of pure water, mix and fry on small fire for 15 minutes. ​
​After this peel garlic, cut tomato into 6-8 parts and mix all ingredients together adding, bay leaves, salt and pepper to taste. Put your oven pan into oven for 35 minutes on medium temperature level. After 35 minutes of backing add sour cream or grated cheese and mix all ingredients. Cook more for 5-10 minutes. When finally your meat pot is ready you may add parsley and dill to taste. If you want to try this dish with mustard add 2-3 spoons max because it is not good to mix lot mustard with sour cream. Any way you can also change sour cream on grated cheese and mustard during the cooking process.

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How not to get cold in Russia at autumn - winter |Rus-a| Guide to Moscow - Info tips.

In Russia it is always cold in winter time, In some regions and even in the capital the   temperature is less than +30°C. In winter we are using three times more energy than in summer. Here are some practical advice from us Russians how not to get cold in winter because of severe frosts and bad weather.

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Avoid going outside if you are tired or hungry. It is good to eat before going out. Try to eat food with many calories. If you go out don’t stay at one place because when you move your blood circulates, it is good for you and your health.

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Choose write clothes. Use warm things, scarfs, hats, gloves to protect hands throat and face. Shirt + pullover are obligatory in cold times. Wear woolen socks to warm your feet. Feather jackets, sheepskins, fur coats and snowboard sport wear, warm rubber-soled boots which don’t get wet are good variants to survive. Warm wear for winter you can easy find in sport shops and in big trade centers which start to sell winter collections since October.

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If you feel cold get inside a warm place – shop, car, café – anywhere for 5-10 minutes. This will help you to recover energy. Vodka is not a way how you can survive cold. Alcohol takes energy in fact. You may feel warm inside and positive but in fact your organism will make much more efforts. Better to take some hot tea or coffee.

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All truth about The Moscow Metro - Moscow information guide

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First line of the Moscow Metro was opened in 1935. It is named in honor of First URSS leader Vladimir Lenin. Today it has 203 stations - 45 stations are part of national cultural heritage. Total length of the Moscow Metro is over 330 km. 8 million Russians use Metro every day. It is one of the biggest and the most intensive in the world (after Tokyo Metro).

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For foreigners and expats Moscow Metro is good to move fast from one location to another. Today You can spend a few hours in traffic jams to your deception point while by Metro you will really save your time and will not have any problems with parking your car in the center where it is rather difficult to find a free place.

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Indeed very often you can get where you need by Metro 3 or 4 times faster than by your car or taxi. Even rich Muscovites who used for many years to go for meetings and work by their cars and private drivers today they more and more use Metro. 

Besides, Moscow Metro is very cheap. If you buy a special Metro Membership card Troyka (costs less 1 dollar USD) you will pay for one trip about 30 rubles (approx. 50 cents USD). Without this card if you just buy one way ticket you will pay 50 rubles (approx. 80 cents USD). And it is very fast - trains arrive every 2 minutes. For foreigners there are special information plates and stands in English.

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The only one disadvantage of the Moscow Metro is that two times a day it is completely overcrowded with people. And it is really difficult to move and feel comfortable and safe in such atmosphere. Some people even fall or get other injures. Plus in the crowd there are many thieves so you should be very careful and pay attention to your things.

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So we recommend avoiding using Metro in rush hours Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Always be careful at Russian Metro: use special handrails not to fall down in trains, be careful on escalators, watch your personal belongings, use metro map etc.

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Taxi in Moscow

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Today Russian capital is very modern. We have different taxis from simple cars to luxurious limusines and rolce royces. We have some international well known companies like Uber or Wheely. You can trust them. The most populat taxi among Russian are Gettaxi and Yandex taxi. 

They work through mibile aplications, and you can easy download them from applestore or googlemarket. The prices for taxi are much cheaper than for exemple in Europe. From one side of the city to another with traffic jams you will pay 20-30$ (USD) while in some Western countries citys you may spend about 100$ (USD). For exemple Yandex Taxi has express rides about 99 rubles it's like 1,5$ (USD). Taxi now is very fast here. Since you make an order the car arrives in 2-5 minutes. In Moscow there are also special taxi stands for exemple near Metro and Railway Stations. We also recommend to use only official taxi it is good for your personal security.

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Wi-Fi in Moscow

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Wi-Fi is widely spread in Russian capital. You can easy find free internet in Parks, malls and in Metro Railway. Most of restaurants and cafes also offer its clients free Internet. Furthermore all Russian mobile phones operators offer very fast Internet LTE. Its rather cheap - about10-15$ (USD) per month.

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