Balyk (from
Turkic
Turkic may refer to:
* anything related to the country of Turkey
* Turkic languages, a language family of at least thirty-five documented languages
** Turkic alphabets (disambiguation)
** Turkish language, the most widely spoken Turkic language
* ...
balïq) is the
salted and
dried
Drying is a mass transfer process consisting of the removal of water or another solvent by evaporation from a solid, semi-solid or liquid. This process is often used as a final production step before selling or packaging products. To be consider ...
soft parts of
fish, usually coming from large valuable species: ''
acipenseridae
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous, and are descended from other, earlier acipenseriform fish, which date back to the Early ...
'' (e.g.,
sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretace ...
) or ''
salmonidae'' (
salmon). The word means "fish" in
Turkic languages (written ''
balık'' in Turkish).
History
Over time, the term was applied to
smoked fish of this kind, and one may see, e.g., "
cold smoked hucho balyk." As a curiosity, recently a number of
cold smoked meat
Meat is animal flesh that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted, farmed, and scavenged animals for meat since prehistoric times. The establishment of settlements in the Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals such as chic ...
products branded "balyk" appeared in
Russia. Traditionally,
sturgeon
Sturgeon is the common name for the 27 species of fish belonging to the family Acipenseridae. The earliest sturgeon fossils date to the Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretace ...
balyk has been considered the most fine and tender one, sought and praised by
gourmets. At the same time, the tender flesh of sturgeon is more susceptible to growth of ''
Clostridium botulinum'' bacteria.
See also
*
List of dried foods
References
Balyk
Dried fish
Soviet cuisine
Russian cuisine
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