Maria Lidzhigoryaeva, Fish Dishes

In this video Maria makes fish dishes including cutlets, a soup and bulmg. Maria was born in 1937. She is from Tsagan-Aman. She says her grandfather used to go fishing. He caught carp, zander, ruff, eel and other fish varieties. Maria recalls that in her childhood they ate a lot of fish, although they did not eat catfish or pike. Apart from cooking it, people also dried fish. Maria’s mother used to make bulmg from eel. In this video Maria removes a carp’s intestines. She makes the following dishes: cutlets (from the minced fish), a soup (from the head, the tail and the fins) and bulmg (from the belly and fat).Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin