Cooks Food Vocabulary in Russian

You can also use Google Translate to hear the words spoken in Russian – https://translate.google.com/

• First course — per’vey kyrc
• Appetizers — zakus’ki 
• Soup — sup 
• Salad — salat’
• Main Dish — troy blood 
• Dessert — desert’ 
• Bread — khleb
• Rice — rees 
• Rye — rosh 
• Wheat — shenee’tsa 
• Sausage — kielbasa’ 
• Beef — myas’a 
• Pork — svinin’a 
• Lamb — baran’ina
• Rabbit — kro’lik 
• Chicken — tsyplyon’ok 
• Veal — telyat’ina
• Ham — vetchina’ 
• Dumplings — pelmen’ee 
• Fish — ree’ba
• Trout — forel’ 
• Apple — yab’laka 
• Pears — groosh’a 
• Peaches — per’siki 
• Cucumber — agurets’ 
• Tomatoes — pomidor’ee 
• Potato — kartof’el 
• Cabbage — kapust’a 
• Onion — lyk
• Sour cream — smetan’a 
• Milk — moloko’ 
• Juice — sok
• Tea — chai 
• Coffee — kof’ee 
• Salt — sol
• Pepper — pyear’ets 
• Sugar — sa’xar 
• Parsley — petroosh’ka 
• Dill — ookrowp’ 
• Basil — basil’ik
• Egg — yait’sa 
• Omelet — omlet’ 
• Sandwich — buterbrod’ 

[u] = “oo” sound as in boot

[i] = “ee” sound as in see

[ai] = “i” as in “hi”

[ui] = as in weed (or French “pfui”)

[“]  = “softens” preceding consonant. It helps to smile as you pronounce it.