Stroganina is one of the traditional dishes of the indigenous northern peoples of Eurasia, North America and Greenland. Prepare a slice of freshly frozen, but well-frozen meat or fish.
Meat or fish cut into chips, served to the table and eaten raw. With stroganina usually served Makanin, in the simplest version, it can be salt, mixed with ground black and / or red pepper or any hot sauce, for example, tomato-garlic.
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Residents of the extreme North, northern regions of Siberia and the Far East, as a rule, learn from the elders to correctly prepare the stroganina. Our article is for the rest.
The classic recipe for strogana from a fish is simple.
Preparation
With a frozen fish carcass, the fins are cut and skin is removed. The fish are pinned against the board by the head and, holding the tail by the hand in a standing position, remove the shavings from the flesh with an acute knife.
What kind of fish do stroganina?
For the preparation of fish stroganina use a variety of marine and freshwater fish species that are found in water in the terrain. The most delicious strogana is obtained from red fish : whitefish and other salmon (muksun, nelma, chir, northern sea omul, pink salmon, trout, etc.).
General rules for safe preparation of fish stroganas
To prevent infection by harmful microorganisms, fish should be well-blown. For example, a fish carcass weighing about 2 kg should be frozen at a temperature of -18 ° C for 72 hours (at -30 ° C for at least 2 days). Cook the stroganina on clean, separate boards with clean sharp knives. River fish (especially from some specific water bodies) are more dangerous for cooking such dishes than sea fish. When choosing fish, be careful.
You can cook stroganina not only in the extreme North, but also in warmer areas with a modern powerful refrigerator or freezer. Tasty and useful stroganina can be prepared from mackerel or from a pelamid, in general, from any mackerel fish (mackerel and others).
We will tell you how to cook sherbet from mackerel or salmon in home urban conditions.
As a rule, in most areas of the post-Soviet space, sea fish (and salmon too) is sold frozen. We, however, do not know at what temperature and how long it was stored, so we simply try to choose the best kind of fish. We bring the fish home, for the control prophylactic pro-frost, we place it in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator or in the freezer. We keep the fish at the right temperature for the required time (read above about the general rules for safe cooking).
Preparation
With the frozen fish carcass we cut the fins and remove the skin in the classical way (see above). If the skin is removed badly, slightly cut it lengthwise and remove the stripes. Leaning the carcass head down on the chopping board, we remove the shavings with a knife.
Variants of sauces (macanin) to mackerel sauerkraut:
- acute tomato (tomato paste + hot red pepper + chopped garlic);
- oil-acetic-mustard (vegetable oil, fruit vinegar or table natural, ready-made mustard + garlic and ground spices);
- in Latin American style (avocado paste, tomato paste, lemon juice, hot chilli, garlic);
- in a pan-Asian style (lime juice, soy sauce, hot red pepper, ground coriander seeds, anise, fennel + lime juice, grated fresh ginger root and garlic).
Make sauces, orientated to your taste.
A simple Russian mustard and / or horseradish will work well with a fish stroganne.
Ordinary stroganina served to vodka, bitter berry tinctures or other strong drinks.
- "Polar Bear" (vodka with champagne);
- "Brown Bear" (cognac with champagne);
- "Northern Lights" (food alcohol with champagne).
- After such a wonderful meal, you may have a desire to cook a second portion of stroganina, but this is not always and not everyone is doing well. Then the soberest prepares the ruban, that is, cuts the fish, which are finely lying on the board, with a kitchen-hatchet-hatchet. Serve to rubane you can not only vodka and wonderful cocktails (see above), but a mixture of these cocktails, called "Kiss of Aelita." Do not overdo it with alcohol, take a pill of aspirin before bed, prepare brine and beer for the morning.