Whats on a Swedish / Finnish smorgasbord?
Here is a good site on “Swedish culinary classics”, http://www.sweden.se/templates/cs/Common… – most of these are typical Swedish smorgasbord dishes. Look up the recipe links in the left menu. – Köttbullar, meatballs – always there! – Raggmunk and kroppkakor are wonderful potato dishes, but not very common on the smorgasbord. – Biff à la Lindström and Wallenbergare are the Swedish hamburgers. – Svampsoppa (mushroom soup) is a typical autumn dish. – Silltallrik (herring dish) – there are ALWAYS several herring dishes on the smorgasbord. Salt herring pickled with dill, or mustard, or garlic, or in curry mayonnaise – and countless other sill dishes. Sill is eaten cold with fresh boiled potatoes, “knäckebröd” (crisp rye bread) and very often sour cream with fresh chopped chives. Well matured Swedish hard cheese goes well with the sill dishes. – Gravad lax (cured salmon) is always on the smorgasbord. Smo
