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Prepared stroganina on a table
Whittling off stroganina with yakutian knife.

Stoganina — is a dish of indigenous people of the nothern Arctic Siberia made from raw thin sliced frozen fish [1]. Traditionally, stroganina is made with white meat salmonids fish found in the Siberian Arctic waters: nelma, muksun, chir, omul [2][3]. This dish is popular in yakutian cuisine [4], eskimo cuisine, komi cuisine, Yamal cuisine etc.

Usually, fish for stroganina is caught late fall under ice and fresh frozen in order to avoid formation of ice crystals in meat. Before preparation of stroganina, strips of skin are cut from the back and abdomen from tail to head. Vertical incisions are made in the flesh. The fish is placed head down on a hard surface and skinned. Pieces must be long, wide and thin, and they must be served with salt and black pepper powder.

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