Swedish Cuisine

Swedish Cuisine

Swedish cuisine is practical and sustaining. In the far north there are variations such as reindeer, and other game dishes which have their roots in the Sami people. Fresh vegetables are more common in the south. The Swedes have been open to foreign influence, ranging from French cuisine during the 17th and 18th centuries, to the sushi and café latte of today. Since the 1960s pizza has been an integral part of the Swedish culture and twenty years later the same could be said about kebab and falafel, since many small restaurants specialize in these dishes.

Traditional Swedish Dishes

Swedish husmanskost – traditional Swedish dishes with local ingredients. The word husmanskost stems from husman, which means house owner (without

The beef and bones supplying the broth. Sometimes pork, reindeer or elk are used. Common root vegetables are carrot, potato, celeriac, parsnip turnip, swede, and leek. Peppercorns and bay leaves are added for seasoning. It is sometimes eaten with klimp which are simple dumplings made of wheat, milk and egg.

Kroppkaka a traditional Swedish dish which consists of potato dumplings with a filling of onions, pork or bacon. Common ingredients are potatoes, wheat flour, onion, salt and minced pork. Served with butter, cream and lingonberry jam. Kottbullar Swedish meatballs made with ground beef or a mix of ground beef and pork, mixed with breadcrumbs soaked in milk and finely chopped onions. They are seasoned with white pepper or allspice and salt. They are served with gravy, boiled potatoes, lingonberry jam and sometimes with a fresh pickled cucumber.

Lutefisk a traditional dish of the Nordic countries made from stockfish (air-dried whitefish) or dried/salted whitefish (klippfisk) and soda lye (hut).

Polsa a traditional dish which is a type of hash similar to haggis and scrapple. The main ingredients are minced beef, liver, heart, onion and pot barley mixed with stock, black pepper and marjoram. Usually served with boiled or fried potatoes, pickled beetroot and sometimes a fried