Swedish Cuisine
Swedish cuisine is the cuisine of the Swedish people, mainly living in Sweden. The Swedish people are a Scandinavian people who speak the Swedish language, related to Danish and Norwegian.
Stockholm is a Swedish cultural center.
Nyckelharpa is a traditional musical instrument from Sweden.
Ingredients
Rye and wheat are used for bread.
rutabaga
berries, lingonberry
apple
herring
pork(fläsk)
Dishes
- porridge(gröt):
- crispbread(knäckebröd):
- smorgas(smörgås): open sandwich; bread with toppings
- rotmos: mashed rutabaga and/or other roots
- pickled cabbage
- pickled herring
- gravad lax: sliced, cured raw salmon, usually seasoned with dill
- fish balls(fiskbullar)
- meatballs(köttbullar)
- lingonberry jam
- rose hip soup
- blueberry soup
- pea soup(ärtsoppa)
- meat soup(köttsoppa): meat soup, usually with potato or other root vegetable, sometimes with dough balls called klimp
Recipes
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Graved Salmon
Gravad lax, or gravlax, is a traditional Scandinavian dish of thinly sliced cured salmon. It is typically seasoned with dill. It may also be spelled gravad laks or gravlaks, which are the more common Danish spellings. The ancestors of today’s gravad lax were made by burying and fermenting salmon. This method of burying salmon gave…