Arctic Delicacy · Frozen Raw Fish Shavings
Stroganina
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It's sliced while rock-hard from the cold, curling off the fish in thin frozen ribbons that are meant to melt on your tongue rather than be chewed.
Stroganina is raw fish — typically muksun, nelma, or omul — frozen solid immediately after catching, then shaved into thin curls with a sharp knife and dipped in a mix of salt and pepper. Vendors and fishermen sell it straight off the ice at Siberian and Arctic river markets, no cooking involved.
Why it's made this way: Indigenous peoples of Siberia and the Russian North, including the Nenets and Khanty, developed the technique out of necessity, since fire and fuel were scarce on the open tundra and freezing fish naturally killed most parasites.
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