How to pronounce Shchi

Shchi is written щи where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɕːi/. In plain English letters that is SHCHEE, 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 Shchi?

Shchi is a soup or stew of Russia. Where it comes from: Central Russia. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are vegetables and beef. It tastes sour and savory.

Where Shchi comes from

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

• Kulebyaka кулебяка · Main dish · Central Russia

  Kulebyaka is a traditional Russian closed pie, a large pirog usually filled with salmon or sturgeon, rice or buckwheat, hard-boiled eggs, mushrooms, onions and dill, baked in a shell of brioche or puff pastry.

• 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.

Food of Russia

Dishes like Shchi in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Shchi:

• Borscht борщ · Soup & stew · Ukraine

  Borscht is a sour soup, and in Ukraine it is usually red with beetroot, cooked with cabbage, potatoes, carrots, beans and often meat, soured with vinegar or fermented beet juice, and served with sour cream and garlic bread rolls called pampushky.

• Sodd · Soup & stew · Trøndelag, Norway

  Sodd is a clear meat broth with mutton and beef, or sometimes elk, served with small meatballs or flour dumplings, potatoes and carrots.

• Cawl · Soup & stew · Wales, United Kingdom

  Cawl is the Welsh national soup-stew: lamb or beef simmered with leeks, potatoes, swede, carrots and whatever vegetables are in season.

• Egusi soup ọbẹ̀ ẹ̀gúsí · Soup & stew · Southern Nigeria, Nigeria

  Egusi soup is thickened with ground melon seeds, which turn creamy and slightly nutty as they cook.