Local Cuisine
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Karelian Hot Pot
This dish is preferebly eaten while still hot. Made
with chuck steak, pork shoulder, stewing lamb or mutton,
onions, salt, all spice, and water.
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Cabbage Rolls
This is a unique way of serving cabbage, where the cabbage
is rolled and filled with lean minced pork or beef,
rice and other ingrediants. Eaten during lunch or dinner
with boiled potatoes and lingonberry puree.
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Fish Soup
This special dish is a traditional dish in Forssa. The
ingredients includes fish, water, salt, onion, all spice,
dill stems, leek, large potatoes, milk, and flour. Chopped
dill and chives is sprinkled on top of the soup, before
serving.
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Meatballs
This is another main dish of Finland, which consist
of minced beef, fine dry breadcrumbs, cream, onion,
oil, egg, salt and all spice or white pepper. The ingrediants
are then knead into a mixture and boiled, then served
with potatoes and grated carrots. Lingonberry jam and
gherkins will also go well with the dish.
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Rosolli Salad
The salad is made with boiled potatoes, carrots, beetroot
or pickled beetroot gherkin, onion, salt, and white
pepper. Garnish the salad with hard-boiled eggs, the
yolks and whites chopped separately and laid in stripes
on the top.
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Egg Cheese
Another traditional dish of Finland where the cake is
made from sour milk and egg, then baked till cooked.
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Oven Porridge
The porridge is different in a way, because it is baked
rather than cooked over heat. Whole oats, wheat, rice,
buckwheat or millet makes excellent porridge. The porridge
is best eaten with milk or fruit sauce.
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Tiger Cake
The cake is usually served during tea time or can be
eaten as a desert. It is made in a donut look alike,
and rich in cocoa flavor. Preferably served cold.
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Mead
Mead is a traditional drink made with water, sugar,
lemons, and a tiny bit of yeast. The mead is kept at
room temperature until it starts to ferment, about a
day. Then a couple of raisins and a teaspoon of sugar
is added into clean bottles, the mead is then strained
into bottles and stored in a cool place, it is ready
to be served when the raisins starts to rise to the
surface.
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