Cuisine of Commander Islands

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Cuisine of Commander Islands (Russian: Командорская кухня) is a mixture of traditional Russian cuisine and cuisine of Aleut people, who inhabit the Commander Islands. Commander cuisine is largely based on fish meat, seafood, mushrooms, meat of sea mammals (seals, whales), game meat and vegetable (potato, onion, garlic, carrot) which was brought to the Commander island by Russians.^[1]

Typical dishes

Typical dishes include:

Fish

Fish snack (Russian: рыбная закуска) - fish pieces with vegetable (onion, pea, capsicum) flavoured with vinegar, salt and pepper.
Fish pie (Russian: пирог рыбный) - pie (pirog) from dough, fish, onion and potatoes or rice.
Yukola (Russian: юкола) - dried fish.
Cod frikadeller (Russian: котлеты из трески) - pan-friend cutlets of minced cod.

Snail

Chimigin (Russian: чимигин) - boiled snails, the traditional aleut dish.

Seal

Tachi (Russian: тачи) - roasted meat from scapula of northern fur seal.
Salted flippers (Russian: соленые ласты) - harbor seal or fur seal flippers in salt pickle.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Alexander Victorovich Avdeienko. "Commander cuisine (Командорская кухня)" (in Russian). Commander Islands (Командо́рские острова́).

[commander_cuisine-1] Alexander Victorovich Avdeienko. "Commander cuisine (Командорская кухня)" (in Russian). Commander Islands (Командо́рские острова́).

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