Baby Veal Chops with Garlic, Dill, and Russian “Ketchup”

Telyachya Korejka Na Grile

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

If you’ve ever fantasized about experiencing the imperial cuisine of Catherine the Great’s Russia, Ermak is the place to do it. This sprawling timber and stucco edifice modeled on an eighteenth-century Russian fort is a Moscow landmark, equally popular with locals and tourists. Presiding over the kitchen is a great bear of a chef named Valery Arseev. He’s the sort of guy who serves two kinds of borscht, five kinds of piroshki, and every imaginable sort of smoked fish