How to pronounce Stroganina

Stroganina is written строганина where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /strəɡɐˈnʲinə/. In plain English letters that is stra-ga-NEE-na, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Stroganina?

Stroganina is a snack of Russia. Where it comes from: Yakutia and Arctic Siberia. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are fish. It tastes fresh.

Where Stroganina comes from

Stroganina is one of 27 signature dishes of Russia on this map.

• Pelmeni пельмени · Main dish · Urals and Siberia

  Pelmeni are small dumplings of thin dough filled with raw minced meat, often a mix of beef, pork and lamb with onion, boiled and served with sour cream, butter or vinegar.

• Blini блины · Bread & pastry · Russia

  Blini are thin pancakes, traditionally made from yeasted buckwheat or wheat batter.

• Beef Stroganoff бефстроганов · Main dish · Saint Petersburg

  Beef Stroganoff is thin strips of beef sautéed and served in a sauce of mustard and smetana, sour cream.

• Pozharsky cutlet пожарская котлета · Main dish · Torzhok (Tver Oblast)

  The Pozharsky cutlet is a breaded patty of minced chicken, or sometimes veal, made especially juicy by working butter into the meat; in Russia it is coated in crumbs of white bread and fried until crisp.

• Tula pryanik тульский пряник · Dessert · Tula (Central Russia)

  The Tula pryanik is the best-known Russian imprinted gingerbread, made in the city of Tula south of Moscow.

• Olivier salad салат оливье · Main dish · Moscow

  Olivier salad is the Russian salad of the New Year's table: diced boiled potatoes, carrots, pickled cucumbers and eggs, with boiled meat or sausage and green peas, all dressed with mayonnaise.

Food of Russia

Dishes like Stroganina in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Stroganina:

• Kalix löjrom · Snack · Norrbotten, Sweden

  Kalix löjrom is the roe of the vendace, a small salmon-family fish, caught in the Bothnian Bay archipelago off Norrbotten in the far north of Sweden.

• Pol sambol පොල් සම්බෝල · Snack · All Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

  Pol sambol, in Tamil thenkai sambal, is a Sri Lankan coconut relish of freshly grated coconut, shallots, dried chillies or chilli powder, lime juice and salt, often with flakes of Maldives fish, the smoked and cured tuna used across the island's cooking.

• Harðfiskur · Snack · All Iceland, Iceland

  Harðfiskur is dried fish that has been beaten to soften it, most often haddock, wolffish or cod, though pollock, blue whiting and halibut are also used.

• Paprykarz szczeciński · Snack · Szczecin (West Pomerania), Poland

  Paprykarz szczeciński is a canned fish spread from Szczecin, made from ground fish, rice, tomato paste and vegetable oil, seasoned with onion, salt and spices.