CLASSIC SWEDISH FOOD

Swedish home cooking springs from a combination of severe winter climate and intensive summer light.

Swedish culinary tradition includes numerous dishes that are based on seafood or meat that has been salted to last a long time.

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RAGGMUNK

Raggmunk is the name for a Swedish potato pancake. The pancakes are fried in butter and served with fried pork and lingonberries.

Kroppkakor

Kroppkakor is Swedish for filled potato dumplings. Potatoes have been staple food in Sweden during the past few centuries. Despite a variety of local names, potato dumplings are eaten throughout the country.

GRAVLAX

Gravlax or dill-cured salmon is always featured on the Swedish smorgasbord, but to experience its fine flavour to the full, enjoy a few thin slices of gravlax unaccompanied by other dishes. It is perfect as a starter as well.

TOAST SKAGEN

Toast Skagen is an elegant combination of prawns and other ingredients on a small piece of sautéed bread. When you really want to celebrate something, be extravagantly generous with the whitefish roe. The sprig of dill on the top serves as a fanfare.

GUBBRÖRA

Gubbröra is an egg–anchovy salad whose colourful Swedish name means ‘old man’s mix’. Works well both as a starter and as a midnight snack.

JANSSON’S TEMPTATION

Mix potatoes with onions, anchovies and cream and you’ve got a Jansson’s temptation. It’s quite remarkable that something as simple can taste so heavenly.

Jansson’s temptation, or Janssons frestelse − a creamy potato and anchovy casserole − is said to have been named after Pelle Janzon, a food-loving Swedish opera singer of the early 1900s.

CINNAMON BUNS

Swedes have a sweet tooth. Apparently, the average Swede eats cakes and pastry equivalent to 316 cinnamon buns per year – and that’s not counting the home-baked ones.

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What is the most popular food in Sweden?

Meatballs (köttbullar), the internationally most famous Swedish dish. Served with potatoes, brown sauce and lingonberry jam. Hash (pytt i panna) consisting of meat, onions and potatoes, all diced and fried.

What is the typical food in Sweden?

Many meat dishes, especially meatballs are served with lingonberry jam. Fruit soups with high viscosity, like rose hip soup and blueberry soup (blåbärssoppa) served hot or cold, are typical of Swedish cuisine.

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Certain holidays have trademark dishes: The feast of Saint Lucia (13 December) calls for saffron buns, Midsummer revelers eat pickled herring and new potatoes, and late summer is a time for crayfish parties (kräftskivor) and, in the north, gatherings for the ingestion of fermented herring(surströmming).

It is more common for guests to be invited to a Swedish house for coffee and cakes, rather than meals like dinner or lunch.

Apparently its rude in Kingdom of Sweden to show that you don't like the food, and a person must eat everything on a plate leaving no food, as they consider it's rude also not to finish the plate.

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