How to pronounce Perepech

Perepech is written перепеч where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /pʲɪrʲɪˈpʲet͡ɕ/. In plain English letters that is pee-ree-PYECH, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Perepech?

Perepech is a snack of Russia. Where it comes from: Udmurtia (Urals). People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and egg. It tastes savory.

Where Perepech comes from

Perepech is one of 27 signature dishes of Russia on this map.

• Pelmeni пельмени · Main dish · Urals and Siberia

  Pelmeni are small dumplings of thin dough filled with raw minced meat, often a mix of beef, pork and lamb with onion, boiled and served with sour cream, butter or vinegar.

• Blini блины · Bread & pastry · Russia

  Blini are thin pancakes, traditionally made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat batter.

• Beef Stroganoff бефстроганов · Main dish · Saint Petersburg

  Beef Stroganoff is thin strips of beef sautéed and served in a sauce of mustard and smetana, sour cream.

• Pozharsky cutlet пожарская котлета · Main dish · Torzhok (Tver Oblast)

  The Pozharsky cutlet is a breaded patty of minced chicken, or sometimes veal, made especially juicy by working butter into the meat; in Russia it is coated in crumbs of white bread and fried until crisp.

• Tula pryanik тульский пряник · Dessert · Tula (Central Russia)

  The Tula pryanik is the best-known Russian imprinted gingerbread, made in the city of Tula south of Moscow.

• Olivier salad салат оливье · Main dish · Moscow

  Olivier salad is the Russian salad of the New Year's table: diced boiled potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers and eggs, with boiled meat or sausage and green peas, all dressed with mayonnaise.

Food of Russia

Dishes like Perepech in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Perepech:

• Toast Skagen · Snack · Stockholm, Sweden

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• Tramezzino · Snack · Venice, Italy

  The tramezzino is a triangular sandwich of soft white crustless bread, generously filled and held together with mayonnaise.

• Kalitsounia καλιτσούνια · Snack · Crete, Greece

  Kalitsounia are small pies associated with Crete, made in both savoury and sweet versions.

• Gougère · Snack · Burgundy (Yonne), France

  The gougère is a savoury puff of choux pastry mixed with cheese, a speciality of Burgundy and especially of the Yonne department, around Auxerre and the town of Tonnerre.