Yakut cuisine

Kumis ( , ), alternatively spelled coumis or kumyz, also known as airag ( ), is a traditional fermented dairy product made from mare milk. The drink is important to the peoples of the Central and East Asian steppes, of Turkic and Mongolic origin: Kazakhs, Bashkirs, Kalmyks, Kyrgyz, Mongols, and Yakuts. Kumis was historically consumed by the Khitans, Jurchens, Magyars, and Han Chinese of North China as well.

thumb|Sliced and prepared muktuk

thumb|300px|Prepared stroganina on a table thumb|Whittling off stroganina with a Yakutian knife

cuisine of the Yakut people

traditional meal from Lapland and Sakha (Yakutia)

Suorat (, suorat) is a thick, Sakha yogurt which was traditionally the most common summer food in Sakha. By itself, it tastes of buttermilk, but various foraged products such as bilberries, sapwood, and roots were also added, in addition to bones which dissolved from the lactic acid. Suorat was traditionally kept in large birchbark vats, and was also stored in frozen slabs for winter consumption. It is made from the skim milk of cows after separating the crème fraîche.