  A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is one of the four big experiments
installed at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and it is suited to study pp,
p--Pb and Pb--Pb collisions. It aims to study the strongly interacting matter
at extreme conditions of temperature and density under which the quarks
decouple to form a new state of matter called the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP).
Such a state of matter existed a few microseconds after the Big Bang in which
the universe was created. Several experimental observables, sensitive to the
evolution of the system after the nuclear collisions, reveal important
information about the properties of the QGP. Among such observables is the
production rate of strange quarks. It is now confirmed that the strange quarks
would be produced with higher probability in a QGP scenario with respect to
that expected in a pure hadron gas scenario. Therefore, studies of strangeness
production can help to determine the properties of the created system. The
studies are now revised at much higher LHC energies and are compared with the
lower energy measurements to clarify the full picture. The work which will be
presented here is related to the strangeness production in p--Pb collisions
with ALICE detector. These collisions in particular, can contribute to the
understanding of the differences between small and large interacting systems.
The excellent tracking and particle identification capabilities of ALICE can be
used to reconstruct the strange hadrons by means of the tracks of their weak
decays. The analysis status of strange ($K^{0}_{s}$ and $\Lambda$) hadrons in
p--Pb at $8.16\text{ TeV}$ at mid-rapidity as a function of $p_{\rm T}$ and
centrality will be presented. The comparison of the experimental results with
the EPOS and DPMJet predictions will be also discussed.
