Dishes and drinks of Finland.

1. General characteristic

2. Breakfast

3. Lunch

4. Dinner

5. Dishes

6. Soups

7. Dairy produce

8. Pastry

9. Desserts

10. Drinks

GENERAL CHARACTERISTIC

Finnish national cuisine was formed under the influence of harsh natural conditions, geographical location and culinary traditions of the Finno-Ugric peoples. All Finnish dishes are made from natural and organic products. In any city in Finland is sure to have food markets, where there are tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, corn, cherries, strawberries, and local production. It's amazing how local farmers can grow such splendor in such a cold climate. Well, let's move on to a more detailed acquaintance with the national dishes .

BREAKFAST

For Breakfast, Finns prefer porridge or muesli in milk, but mostly limited to a cup of tea or coffee (most often-a glass of milk) with sandwiches .

LUNCH

At lunchtime, as a rule, eat one dish – as "first" or "second". Most often it is a thick soup. But it could be potatoes with meat. At lunch they eat bread and butter and drink milk. At 14.00 drink tea.

DINNER

The working day ends at 16.00-17.00 hours, and at 17.00-18.00 Finns have dinner. Dinner is similar to lunch, just the opposite, if you eat lunch "first". The on dinner prepare " the second." And if you eat steaks with potatoes during the day, then soup is served for dinner.

• Finnish cuisine is rich fish dishes. Fish can be cooked in the form that is found in other kitchens (in the form of appetizers, soups, salads, baked, fried and smoked, grilled), and in a specific Finnish form — for example, fish, stewed in milk. In addition, there is a number of fish dishes that do not involve heat treatment and are typical for all Northern European Nations .

• From other, traditional dishes, I want to highligh :
• "libecal" — lye-soaked cod or burbot (dish has very specific smell, but foodies should appreciate the unique taste);
• "kalekukko" - fish cake made of rye flour, with the addition of fat;
• "graavi lohi" - salmon in its own juice;
• "calacatta" — fish soup;
• "clinicomp" — the ear with dumplings;
• "kalalaatikko" - herring with stewed potatoes;rosolli-Finnish herring salad;
• "autoclimate" — marine fish, stewed in milk;
• "namaroka" — a soup of dried fish;
• "Matty" - fish caviar with onions and sour cream.

MEAT DISHES

Meat dishes are no less popular. For preparation is used pork, beef, venison, moose, lamb, poultry. It is worth tasting such dishes as:

"poronpaisti" - roast venison, which is served with mashed potatoes and cranberries;

"karjalanpaisti" — pork, beef and lamb in the pot with carrots and onions;

"Sara" — lamb stew in a wooden dish;

"makalatia" — chopped liver, rice and raisins;

"lancinator" — pork sausage with sweet mustard;

"pyttipanna" meat offal, potatoes and eggs.

• As a side dish, potato dishes are most often used, especially mashed potatoes, cooked with fatty cream. Other vegetables is used much less frequently. The second most traditional dish is cellatica (stewed potatoes with herring); also in Finland prepared a variety of cereals, for example, calvelli — cabbage porridge, for cooking which, in addition to the cabbage, used pearl barley, peas, carrots, turnips and milk.

• In Finnish cuisine is widespread use of rye bread, which is baked in the form of round loaves or in the form of cakes with a hole in the center. Some varieties of rye bread, for example makalapa (fin. reikäleipä), suggests long storage in the form of crackers. An interesting dish is potato cakes (fin. perunarieska), especially in combination with grabilki. Recently popular are breads with a high content of oats (karalama) (fin. kauraleipä). Widely known, including outside Finland, became a dish kalakukko (fin. kalakukko, in literal translation, "fish cock"), a cake made of unleavened rye dough, the filling is made of fish and bacon (fat). Kalakukko is considered a Christmas delicacy.

SOUPS

Soups are prepared in Finland is rarely, often only on holidays, and are important enough dishes (only some soups, such as pea soup "hernekeitto" (fin. hernekeitto) is strongly associated with the everyday menu), due to the culinary influence of Sweden, under whose rule the country was until the beginning of the XIX century (for Swedish everyday cuisine is characterized by "cold table"). Traditional Finnish soup is calacatta — fish soup with milk. Another traditional first course clinicomp: soup dumplings. The composition of fish dishes and soups often include dairy products — milk, cream, yogurt, butter, cottage cheese. This combination in other cuisines of the world is quite rare.

DAIRY PRODUCE

Finns like a variety of dairy products — cheese, yogurt, popular types of cheese - "Emmental " and " Edam". Especially popular in the national cuisine of Finland, enjoys "viili" - a kind of fermented milk product (similar to yogurt), which is often used as an additive to various dishes. For dessert, in Finland, prefer dishes of fruit and wild berries, sweet vanilla rolls of yeast dough — "pulla". Also, Finnish originality and provide jelly.

PASTRY

A characteristic feature of Finnish cuisine is an open berry pie, usually on a short bread or cottage cheese dough. As a filling are used blueberries, cranberries, red and black currants, pour cream. Interesting dish in Finnish cuisine are pancakes made from rye flour Suldina (fin. sultsina), served with cream and cinnamon sugar .

PASTRY

Gate – (open the mince pies), the favorite dish of the residents of Karelia and Finland. They are prepared quickly and simply and are considered quite ordinary, not festive, dish.

DESSERTS

Finnish dessert table make jelly (fin. kiisseli) served cold sweet porridge with whipped jam, berries or cream (fin. vispipuuro) and just whipped chilled, usually low-fat cream with fresh berries. An interesting dish, one of the symbols of Finnish cuisine, causing the gourmets polar emotions, is an Easter dessert made of rye flour and malt mummy. Finnish dessert table make jelly (fin. kiisseli) served cold sweet porridge with whipped jam, berries or cream (fin. vispipuuro) and just whipped chilled, usually low-fat cream with fresh berries. An interesting dish, one of the symbols of Finnish cuisine, causing the gourmets polar emotions, is an Easter dessert made of rye flour and malt mummy.

DRINKS

Drinks is coffee most popular. Finns are in the first place in the world in terms of coffee consumption per capita. Very good Finnish beeris - "Lapin Kulta"and " Koff". A special place is occupied by berry liqueur "puolakkainen" (from the cranberries), "laccolite" (cloudberry), "carpological" (from cranberry). In addition, the berries produce sparkling wines - "Elissy", "Cavlieri" and others. Of spirits — vodka "Koskenkorva wine" and vodka "Finlandia“ are popular.

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The presentation was made by Dasha Pavlova , 21 ТС

SOURCES

http://krugozorro.com/kuxnya/nacionalnaya-kuxnya-finlyandii-muzhchiny-ocenyat.html

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Финская_кухня

http://travelask.ru/questions/8392-kakaya-natsionalnaya-kuhnya-traditsionnye-blyuda-i-eda-v-fin

http://e-finland.ru/info/culture/osobennosti-finskoyi-kuhni.html

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