Cuisine of Commander Islands

Cuisine of Commander Islands 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, game meat and vegetable which was brought to the Commander island by Russians.

Typical dishes

Typical dishes include:

Fish

Fish snack - fish pieces with vegetable flavoured with vinegar, salt and pepper.Fish pie - pie from dough, fish, onion and potatoes or rice.Yukola - dried fish. Cod frikadeller - pan-friend cutlets of minced cod.

Snail

Chimigin - boiled snails, the traditional aleut dish.

Seal

Tachi - roasted meat from scapula of northern fur seal.Salted flippers - harbor seal or fur seal flippers in salt pickle.