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Adding a familiar descriptor to a strange word (and being CONSISTANT about that other word's use) is good too: roast emdek, mashed nuuv, pleeka kabob with spiced garhash. Make it known what kind of animals something might come up against and use earthly descriptions - "on their homeworld a rabbit served this function - but didn't have so many legs", "they thought it was a squirrel, but with an extra eye it threw the science team off a bit".

I often go with the assumption that in addition to whatever weirdly exotic animals there are, triple-tusked emdek with their massive armor plates but oh-so-tasty insides, there are also more normal things which serve exactly the same purpose as on earth, squirrels and rabbits, birds and insects. On my rpg world, insects have taken a lot of roles because they simply evolved and stayed bigger than some mammals - so I've got "singing beetles" which are the size of your head and are in their larval form quite a delicacy rather like lobster - and cooked exactly the same way. But they sing - and can't really be eaten out of their larval form... because they tend to fight back lol.