Raggmunk med fläsk, fläsk med löksås, isterband med stuvad potatis, blodpudding med lingon, rostbiff med potatissallad, kallops, kroppkakor med lingonsylt, etc.
Bit of a reference: Swedish military had pea soup with pancakes for dessert for ages on thursdays, so even today many restaurants have this on Thursdays. It’s great.
14:32 that is not a Swedish cheesecake. Swedish cheese cake is a type of cottage cheese with ground almonds and you can take one bitter almond to get the classic taste. which is baked in the oven until it turns golden brown. served warm with whipped cream and strawberry jam or another good jam.
cheesecake is something totally different than what we called ”ostkaka” i e cheesecake in swedish. Two different desserts. Love both kinds though. The cheesecake is most often frozen or baked and then chilled in the refridgerator. And is very sweet in it self. The ”ostkaka” is baked in the avon, made of mixed almond, egg, cheese rennet and other stuff. You eat it warm with jam and whipped cream.
I had a girl once bring ham and cheese sandwiches on our second date. I think foreigners underestimate how much Swedes love simple frallor. Also räkmacka (shrimp sandwich) is a swedish phrase that means you have it good in life. So it really permuates our culture. It's like shrimp cocktail.
Yep, I was just going to mention the seasons. Nypotatis (freshly harvested small potatoes in late spring, just cooked, served with some salt and butter), the crayfish is already mentioned (late august/early september), chantarelles (in my opion best served on a toast, simply fried with salt and butter) in late summer/early autumn, sill (herring) and lax (salmon) used to be more for the big holidays, but is now more widespread. If you are lucky and know a hunter, you can perhaps get moose and deer (I love roedeer) in the autumn. If you get it, DON´T miss the gravy! I grew up with hunters around me, and we kids always came to the moment where we asked our grandmother if it was ok to mush the cooked potatoes with the gravy... :D ...she always said yes, but we had to ask first.
Very nice video, but Wolter and his fellow travelers still has a lot to learn. Swedish edibles foreigners really should discover: Seafood (except salmon and shrimps)! Try havskräftor/Norway lobsters/Dublin Bay prawns, Krabba/brown crab and Swedish oysters - and please get to know our ways of preparing cod, halibut, turbot, sole and many other kinds of fish. Costly, yes, but it will be worth the expense. Scandinavian seafood is, simply put, unparalleled. Other hearty, traditional dishes than meatballs! Try kåldolmar/kålpudding, kroppkakor, stångkorv/isterband (served with skånsk potatis if you're lucky), biff à la Lindström, wallenbergare, ärtsoppa och pannkakor, stekt fläsk med löksås, stekt fläsk och raggmunkar, järpar, slottsstek, pannbiff med lök and dillkött, just to mention a few classic everyday dishes everyone in my country loves. Game! Try deer, moose (American English)/elk (British English), reindeer (yes, we eat Rudolph), hare, bear and wild boar. And don't forget to try kebab pizza!
Korv Stroganoff is a staple in many Swedish homes as well. I also love Fiskpudding with kokt potatis and skirat smör but that might not be as common. (Fishpudding with boiled potatoes and clarified butter?)
thanks wolters for those video, we are moving from France to Sweden in a few days and your video helped a lot! can't wait to experience all this. as French you know how important food is! 😊
oh! Welcome! I hope it lives up to your expectations! // Stockholmer If in Stockholm - I hope you visit The Royal Castle, walk over to Skeppsholmen, take the ferry to Gamla Stan, walk across Slussen down to Medborgarplatsen, eat at La Neta and a beer at Mikkeller or something, walk down to Barnängsbryggan and take the ferry again to Nya Carnegiebryggeriet for more beer and food. It's a little route I take my friends who isn't acquainted with Sthlm!
Lutefisk is a traditional thing that i would say only the elder generation eats around Christmass. But i will say that surströmming (stinky fish) is something you really eat in Sweden but only in the very northen part of Sweden! If you sre in Sweden then a must is Kladdkaka and Semla!
Yea! Lutfisk is for the elder generation, by grandma used to love that shit, i have never given either lutfisk or surströmming a try, the julskinka, revben, and all the other thing we use to have on christmas is more than enouth for me.
@@paulozavala3232 I love both surströmming and lutfisk. Fermented and dry fish. Okay I am not that young anymore 😅 But in our big family all generations eat it and loves it too. With a few exeptions regarding surströmming. Anyway even they join us at the party and have something else to eat instead. 🎉🎉🍓
Fermented herring is still a thing, especially in the northern part of Sweden. The capital doesn't resemble all of Swedish cuisine. For example where my wife is from they serve "Nävgröt" (Nehvgroet) Which is a sturdy oatmeal dish typically served with Lingonberry, fläsk (flesk) i.e pork and the grease from frying the pork to blend the oatmeal with - and no she isn't from the north but west part of Sweden :)
My only comment is that we do not lack service. We just respekt integrity very much. If you. Pay big money at a restaurant you don't want someone to disturb you every 5 min..
If you get good service, which is more common than one would think, of course you can tip. Same in Finland. Ant they really appreceate it. And I strongly suggest you check out the pastry shops for international stuff like cannoli. For example Drottinggatans Karamellaffär in Stockholm. Best cannoli I have had so far.
Surströmmng is eaten in the fall, maybe once or twice a year, it's very much still eaten. I love it personally, but you can't eat too much, it is fermemted so your stomach can get upset. ;)
We had lutfisk at the now closed Oaxen Slip as part of a julbord a few years ago. I figured if I was ever going to give it a shot it was there and then. I’m glad I didn’t wimp out, but I don’t need to have it again. Everything else we had was great. Pity it closed.
Hi. big fan! Not to be like that, but the picture with your cheesecake, that looks like cheesecake, not ostkaka. I don't want to litter your comment field with links for an example though. :) Also, the punchrulle, we call them "dammsugare" colloquially. It means "vacuum cleaner", cause when they were new people thought they looked a little bit like those really old school vacuum cleaners.
@woltersworld Okay, that makes perfect sense! :) They're both so good, and so entirely different, I hope everyone who visits gets a chance to try it out :)
Yes cheesecake is something totally different than what we called ”ostkaka” i e cheesecake in swedish. Two different desserts. Love both kinds though. The cheesecake is most often frozen or baked and then chilled in the refridgerator. And is very sweet in it self. The ”ostkaka” is baked in the avon, made of mixed almond, egg, cheese rennet and other stuff. You eat it warm with jam and whipped cream.
4:00 You said kanelbulle right. But you should try some of the creamy pastries too. Like prinsesstårta/bakelse, Budapest, Napoleon, etc. Or if you don't like whipped cream, just a nice sweet and buttery wienerbröd (Yes, all fancy names that sounded grand or exotic a century ago.)
The so called lunch buffets are more likely to be dagens ratt, -todays dish- with sallad bread and coffee for a decent sum. The dish varies every day. But Thursday is often pea soup and pancakes. But you are right, thats where to find the traditional Swedish dishes. Arrive at 1pm, when the lunch battle normally is over and you can eat in peace without standing in line.
Im swedish and I really liked this video.The restaurants in Stockholm are really good nowadays. It is maybe a bit surprising that italian restaurants are really really good in Stockholm. In my opinion it is way better italian food here than in Italy. Come here and try it out.
You forgot plankstek, pretty classic restaurant/pub food. A piece of meat with pommes duchesse served on a plank, basically. I recommend going to Lion Bar or Älgen to eat it
Lutfisk (lutefish) doesn`t smeel either taste anything but my family crave thats every xmas. Surströmming (smelly fish) smells like death but taste more salty.
I agree that it's hard to find traditional swedish food (Husmanskost in swedish) in restaurants nowadays. Your best bet is either lunch buffets in working parts of towns (or touristy places if you settle for meatballs) or roadside restaurants. But if you want anything else than meatballs it can be hard regardless. The comments here are full of great suggestions, but for those your best bet is probably to befriend a swedish person and get invited to eat at their home. I think it's really sad that most restaurants here only do international stuff.
What is this heresy?! Swedes most definitely eat surströmming! Some swedes of weaker stock might shy away. But the rest of us stand proud with a surströmmings-wrapp in hand and valor in heart (at least once a year, in the late summer/early autumn)!
@@M.E.G.A While it is true, that Norrland stand above the rest of us in surströmming-glory, their wisdom was never lost to us southerners. Once each year, my neighbourhood gets to enjoy the rich aromas and joyful fragrances this culinary behemoth has to offer.
They have a word for their older more traditional food as well -- > Husmanskost. But like you stated a lot of the recipes are getting more and more rare as the younger generation isn't as enthusiastic about it.
A regional dish is "saffranspannkaka" (originally from Gotland). It is a sweet rice pudding with saffron (no surprise there) and almonds. Traditionally should be served with salmbär, which is a blue backberry cousin. Blackberry or raspberroes work in a pinch, blueberries not so much. Salmbär is known under other names in other parts of Sweden, the main thing is that wild raspberries do not exist on the island in the middle of the Baltic sea, so salmbär fills that ecological niche.
I want to give praise to the unsung (some would say better... I say better) bulle. Kardemummabullar (cardamom buns) are so god damn good! And they are served tight beside the cinnamon ones. They tend to be stickier and with that lovely floral cardamom note. Try it!
Some Americans are so obsessed by Lutfisk and Surströmming. Surströmming which is salted and fermented herring is a MASSIVE thing in some places, but the smell is terrible but some people love it. Lutefisk (Lye fish) is another deal. Lutfisk is a winter/christmas dish and you will probably never find it in a restaurant. The fish itself has zero taste, but is rather obnoxious as it is like jelly and sometimes almost translucent. The only way to enjoy it is with a creamy white grave mixed with strong mustard or allspice (?) and potatoes. So if you have heard about the odd Swedish fish dishes, don't expect to find them everywhere and all the time. When in Sweden, have lunch at a lunch restaurants, but try to be there a bit later not to disturb Swedish workers. Anyway, you get food (all inclusive often) at a fair price and also you most often get "original" Swedish food. And try to team up with some Swedes and have them make meatballs for you. Homemade meatballs are the best! I must comment on the räksmörgåsarna (shrimp sandwiches) - in Stockholm you pay a fortune for such a sandwich, but on the Westcoast they are MUCH cheaper. I did see some with too few shrimps at over SEK200 in the video. In a nice café by lake Vänern in our town, the luxury one has twice as many shrimps and is almost half the price.
In my family we eat Surströmming. My daughter somes home especially for the Surströmming, she loves it, and so do we. At least once or twice a year during the season in late August. Please stop saying that nobody eats it.
The punch roll (aka Dammsugare =Vacuum cleaner) needs something to wash it down with, coffee if you like, tea for me. Lutfisk is still eaten around Christmas, but its popularity is fading a bit I think. Surströmming is more popular in the north of Sweden, while kräftor (as in the party mentioned in the video) is probably more common in the south, and more of a special occasion food (like kräftor). As to burgers Max can be a bit hit or miss unfortunately, 20 years ago they were great, but... Falukorv is something that people should try in some form, maybe the best way is in getting some Korvstroganoff with rice (or potatoes, but rice is better). Our licorice (along with other Nordic countries) might be an acquired taste, but I love it. Just don't eat too much, it might mess with your blood pressure.
You forgot to tell that at the crayf7dh parties you can get really drunk. Normally you eat between 10 and 20 crayfishea each and for every claw you eat, you tradtionally empty a glass of snaps.
normal lunch dishes in sweden restaurants are: wallenbergare; pea soup with pankakes, oxjärpar; oval meatballs, fried rödspätta with potatoes and räkröra, gulasch. isterband och boiled potatoes and dill sauce, steak black and white with fried or boiled potatoes then as standard with lucn ther is usually a sallad buffet. cracker bread is really really good but i cant eat it, it has too much salt and is kinda unhealthy only because of it, swedes in general does not know or are aware of like the mechanics of salt in human body lol.. and btw this is probably like 99,9% the only reason swedish cracker bread isn't like a mainstay staple food around the world.. kinda funny and sad at the same time xd
We eat lutfisk one time a year around christmas and lutfisk is not the stinky fich that are fermented it is 2 difrent things thats caled surströmming and that is only some pepole that eat but thay eat it
It is called lingon, not lingen. And we do not need to say lingonberries (lingonbär) in Sweden. We just say lingon for the berries and lingon jam if a jam is made of it.
They're harder to find, but when you're aching for a chocolate ball you really want find the ones covered in nib sugar instead of coconut flakes. Is it healthy? No, but you only live once. 😊
Stop Stop. Not all are princess cakes, because this is how you learn the names: Princess cake has a green marzipan coating. Princess cake has a yellow marzipan coating. The one you are holding in the picture with a pink marzipan coating is called Opera cake. The one with a white marzipan coating and powdered cocoa and has a chocolate cake base, and other contents. Called Pavarotti cake. The reason why Swedes are so thin despite all the good food we eat is because we Swedes exercise. Running outdoors, working out at the gym, cross-country skiing on skis and if there is no snow we use roller skis. Many people practice football, handball, basketball, ice hockey, floorball, outdoor bandy, table tennis, badminton, boxing and other martial arts.
Thank you Wolter for updating your review of swedish food! Its still this that Meatballs, Pizza, Kebab, Suchi isnt that swedish.. its international! However, swedish meatballs served with brown cream sauce, with lingonberrys and pickled cucumber is a "trademark"! And then.. whatabout the most fancy dishes served at the fancyest resturants.. its fresh fish or other seafood, as a starter toast skagen/asortments of pickled herring/ and löjrom is even more expensive then Beluga caviar.. or a cheaper starter "Västerbottenpaj" could do!? In anyway.. to help Wolter and his international audience.. there is a lot of Shrimps in Scandinavia for food.. its not Prawns! One thing anybody visiting sweden need to try is a "räkmacka", an open shrimp sandwich! Only the locals new where one get the freshest shrimps.. (a hint, at Feskekörka in Gothenburg) but even in Stockholms nicest resturantes! There is still a lot of seafood to try, but altso if one is in Stockholm.. reinder, moose, elk deer.. fryed baltic herring, crayfish/lobster! Its this, no normal swede eat/use prawns in there cooking.. but when we visit the mediterainians, we love to eat prawns and octopus.. becuse they know how to cook it!
Also, I do believe that is like a crime against Sweden if you diss the punchrulle outside of parliament. Just so you know. Since Russia invaded Ukraine, we've become a bit more itchy in our trigger finger :p
Raggmunk med fläsk, fläsk med löksås, isterband med stuvad potatis, blodpudding med lingon, rostbiff med potatissallad, kallops, kroppkakor med lingonsylt, etc.
Yummie 😋😋 But you forgot PALT. 😊
Kåldolmar.
Dillkött (eller pepparotskött) med potatis 👌
@@martinfranzen9151 mums 😋😋
Hast du n Hirnschlag bruder?
Bit of a reference: Swedish military had pea soup with pancakes for dessert for ages on thursdays, so even today many restaurants have this on Thursdays. It’s great.
14:32 that is not a Swedish cheesecake. Swedish cheese cake is a type of cottage cheese with ground almonds and you can take one bitter almond to get the classic taste. which is baked in the oven until it turns golden brown. served warm with whipped cream and strawberry jam or another good jam.
cheesecake is something totally different than what we called ”ostkaka” i e cheesecake in swedish. Two different desserts.
Love both kinds though.
The cheesecake is most often frozen or baked and then chilled in the refridgerator. And is very sweet in it self. The ”ostkaka” is baked in the avon, made of mixed almond, egg, cheese rennet and other stuff. You eat it warm with jam and whipped cream.
I had a girl once bring ham and cheese sandwiches on our second date. I think foreigners underestimate how much Swedes love simple frallor.
Also räkmacka (shrimp sandwich) is a swedish phrase that means you have it good in life. So it really permuates our culture. It's like shrimp cocktail.
if you like traditional Swedish food and are in Stockholm, I can recommend Restaurant Pelikan
We eat a lot of seasonal dishes. Stews in the autumn and winter. Lighter food in spring and summer. Certain dishes only for traditional holidays.
Yep, I was just going to mention the seasons. Nypotatis (freshly harvested small potatoes in late spring, just cooked, served with some salt and butter), the crayfish is already mentioned (late august/early september), chantarelles (in my opion best served on a toast, simply fried with salt and butter) in late summer/early autumn, sill (herring) and lax (salmon) used to be more for the big holidays, but is now more widespread. If you are lucky and know a hunter, you can perhaps get moose and deer (I love roedeer) in the autumn. If you get it, DON´T miss the gravy! I grew up with hunters around me, and we kids always came to the moment where we asked our grandmother if it was ok to mush the cooked potatoes with the gravy... :D ...she always said yes, but we had to ask first.
Surströmming is huge in some parts of Sweden when it’s in season.
Very nice video, but Wolter and his fellow travelers still has a lot to learn.
Swedish edibles foreigners really should discover:
Seafood (except salmon and shrimps)!
Try havskräftor/Norway lobsters/Dublin Bay prawns, Krabba/brown crab and Swedish oysters - and please get to know our ways of preparing cod, halibut, turbot, sole and many other kinds of fish. Costly, yes, but it will be worth the expense. Scandinavian seafood is, simply put, unparalleled.
Other hearty, traditional dishes than meatballs!
Try kåldolmar/kålpudding, kroppkakor, stångkorv/isterband (served with skånsk potatis if you're lucky), biff à la Lindström, wallenbergare, ärtsoppa och pannkakor, stekt fläsk med löksås, stekt fläsk och raggmunkar, järpar, slottsstek, pannbiff med lök and dillkött, just to mention a few classic everyday dishes everyone in my country loves.
Game!
Try deer, moose (American English)/elk (British English), reindeer (yes, we eat Rudolph), hare, bear and wild boar.
And don't forget to try kebab pizza!
Korv Stroganoff is a staple in many Swedish homes as well. I also love Fiskpudding with kokt potatis and skirat smör but that might not be as common. (Fishpudding with boiled potatoes and clarified butter?)
Many of those can be found at the "lunch buffets" as dagens ratt/ todays dish.
Kabob pizza with pizza salad is good!
Salad is OK, but he other stuff is not original traditional genuine Swedish food.
A must try is "Tunnbrödsrulle med räksallad"
My family eats lutfisk every year on Christmas day. There are still plenty of people who eat it, but it's typically eaten seasonally.
thanks wolters for those video, we are moving from France to Sweden in a few days and your video helped a lot! can't wait to experience all this. as French you know how important food is! 😊
oh! Welcome! I hope it lives up to your expectations! // Stockholmer
If in Stockholm - I hope you visit The Royal Castle, walk over to Skeppsholmen, take the ferry to Gamla Stan, walk across Slussen down to Medborgarplatsen, eat at La Neta and a beer at Mikkeller or something, walk down to Barnängsbryggan and take the ferry again to Nya Carnegiebryggeriet for more beer and food. It's a little route I take my friends who isn't acquainted with Sthlm!
Lutefisk is a traditional thing that i would say only the elder generation eats around Christmass.
But i will say that surströmming (stinky fish) is something you really eat in Sweden but only in the very northen part of Sweden!
If you sre in Sweden then a must is
Kladdkaka and Semla!
Yea! Lutfisk is for the elder generation, by grandma used to love that shit, i have never given either lutfisk or surströmming a try, the julskinka, revben, and all the other thing we use to have on christmas is more than enouth for me.
Fermented herring. Eating in August for enthusiasts.
Semla is eaten on Fettisdagen/Shrove Tuesday/ Mardi gras.
I'm young and I kinda enjoy Lutefisk, the sauce is pretty good
Even though I'm from Bohuslän I only like the sauce. The fish itself is pretty disgusting.
@@paulozavala3232 I love both surströmming and lutfisk. Fermented and dry fish. Okay I am not that young anymore 😅 But in our big family all generations eat it and loves it too. With a few exeptions regarding surströmming. Anyway even they join us at the party and have something else to eat instead. 🎉🎉🍓
Very very accurate! Happy to have you! Wish you the best!
thanks amazing info
Fermented herring is still a thing, especially in the northern part of Sweden. The capital doesn't resemble all of Swedish cuisine. For example where my wife is from they serve "Nävgröt" (Nehvgroet) Which is a sturdy oatmeal dish typically served with Lingonberry, fläsk (flesk) i.e pork and the grease from frying the pork to blend the oatmeal with - and no she isn't from the north but west part of Sweden :)
Lingonberry are the best! I enjoyed this video. 😊❤
thank you! i like them too
the secret ingredient in chocolate balls is actully a splash of coffee cuz you can never get enough coffee as a swede
"It would be so un-Swedish not to Finnish this."
Thems fightin' words.
hhahahahahahaah
For me Lutfisk is a Christmas food, usually eaten at boxing day. Each family has their tradition, so it will not be the same for all.
"Peasoup and pancakes, you will find a place that has that combination."
It's not a combination, that's the dish :D
As long as you remember that pancake are the dessert and not something to put in the soup. 🙂 (Yes, I have hear of such an international mishap.)
The world do sundayfood!
Even Swedes. steak, stews and childhood favorites that only mother can, when we meet. Its all ok in our world ❤
Nothing lowkey about the chocolate balls. They are high key awesome!
More coffee than chocolate!
My only comment is that we do not lack service.
We just respekt integrity very much.
If you. Pay big money at a restaurant you don't want someone to disturb you every 5 min..
If you get good service, which is more common than one would think, of course you can tip. Same in Finland. Ant they really appreceate it. And I strongly suggest you check out the pastry shops for international stuff like cannoli. For example
Drottinggatans Karamellaffär in Stockholm. Best cannoli I have had so far.
Pelle janzon med löjrom är en riktig klassiker.
Surströmmng is eaten in the fall, maybe once or twice a year, it's very much still eaten. I love it personally, but you can't eat too much, it is fermemted so your stomach can get upset. ;)
You got the pronunciations really good. A classic dish is kålpudding - cabbage casserole or pudding (with brown sauce, potato and lingonberry : )
We had lutfisk at the now closed Oaxen Slip as part of a julbord a few years ago. I figured if I was ever going to give it a shot it was there and then. I’m glad I didn’t wimp out, but I don’t need to have it again. Everything else we had was great. Pity it closed.
Lutfisk in Swedish. Lutefisk in Norwegian.
@@annicaesplund6613 Edited. Thanks for the clarification.
It's tasteless, except fr the mustard sauce. And too much ado and work for nothing.
The meatballs and mash looks delicious
The carrot cake is a good one
Hi. big fan! Not to be like that, but the picture with your cheesecake, that looks like cheesecake, not ostkaka. I don't want to litter your comment field with links for an example though. :)
Also, the punchrulle, we call them "dammsugare" colloquially. It means "vacuum cleaner", cause when they were new people thought they looked a little bit like those really old school vacuum cleaners.
sometimes i have to use what i have from my shots i take. It was as close as i could get :(
@woltersworld Okay, that makes perfect sense! :) They're both so good, and so entirely different, I hope everyone who visits gets a chance to try it out :)
@@woltersworld the punchrulle contains alcohol (punch, swedish liqueur) and is not sweets/candy but is a coffee pastry.
@@woltersworldbut ostkaka is completely different from cheesecake as it isn’t a pastry but a dessert. And you will not find it at most cafés
Yes cheesecake is something totally different than what we called ”ostkaka” i e cheesecake in swedish. Two different desserts.
Love both kinds though.
The cheesecake is most often frozen or baked and then chilled in the refridgerator. And is very sweet in it self. The ”ostkaka” is baked in the avon, made of mixed almond, egg, cheese rennet and other stuff. You eat it warm with jam and whipped cream.
Lutfisk and surströmming is two different fishes and two different preservation types. We eat Lutfisk at Christmas.
Lutefisk is originally Norwegian stockfish.
4:00 You said kanelbulle right. But you should try some of the creamy pastries too. Like prinsesstårta/bakelse, Budapest, Napoleon, etc. Or if you don't like whipped cream, just a nice sweet and buttery wienerbröd (Yes, all fancy names that sounded grand or exotic a century ago.)
The blueberries we have in Sweden is something called Bilberries in the USA
The so called lunch buffets are more likely to be dagens ratt, -todays dish- with sallad bread and coffee for a decent sum. The dish varies every day. But Thursday is often pea soup and pancakes. But you are right, thats where to find the traditional Swedish dishes. Arrive at 1pm, when the lunch battle normally is over and you can eat in peace without standing in line.
kalops
one stew that is soo good with redbeets :D
My family always had lingonberry jam to every meal with Meat. Mostly porkchops and potato. My father picked them
12.16 Lutefisk is the norwegian spelling for Lutfisk. We still eat lutfisk at christmas in Sweden but the younger generations not so much.
Don't go to the overcrowded tourist attraction "Meatballs for the People", Try Pelikan or find another good restaurant for meatballs.
I can definitely vouch for Pelikan!
And Prinsen and Tennstopet.
Im swedish and I really liked this video.The restaurants in Stockholm are really good nowadays. It is maybe a bit surprising that italian restaurants are really really good in Stockholm. In my opinion it is way better italian food here than in Italy. Come here and try it out.
"In my opinion it is way better italian food here than in Italy" How many times in Italy to say such random thing?
You forgot plankstek, pretty classic restaurant/pub food. A piece of meat with pommes duchesse served on a plank, basically. I recommend going to Lion Bar or Älgen to eat it
Originally French. Meat version of Sole Walewska.
My exposure to Swedish food is at Ikea lol. I like Daim cakes.
Ikea serve typical Swedish food. Maybe not the best prepered though
Can't be compared to the real deal.
@@paulozavala3232 Massproduced with chemicals and preservatives and frozen.
Lutfisk (lutefish) doesn`t smeel either taste anything but my family crave thats every xmas. Surströmming (smelly fish) smells like death but taste more salty.
I agree that it's hard to find traditional swedish food (Husmanskost in swedish) in restaurants nowadays. Your best bet is either lunch buffets in working parts of towns (or touristy places if you settle for meatballs) or roadside restaurants. But if you want anything else than meatballs it can be hard regardless. The comments here are full of great suggestions, but for those your best bet is probably to befriend a swedish person and get invited to eat at their home. I think it's really sad that most restaurants here only do international stuff.
What is this heresy?! Swedes most definitely eat surströmming!
Some swedes of weaker stock might shy away. But the rest of us stand proud with a surströmmings-wrapp in hand and valor in heart (at least once a year, in the late summer/early autumn)!
@@louiebergendal6409 only 30% of Swedes eat surströmming according to a survey.
Only in norrland
@@M.E.G.A While it is true, that Norrland stand above the rest of us in surströmming-glory, their wisdom was never lost to us southerners.
Once each year, my neighbourhood gets to enjoy the rich aromas and joyful fragrances this culinary behemoth has to offer.
@@louiebergendal6409 I was living in Skåne some years ago and my Norrland friend almost was evicted for eating surströmming over a whole weekend 🤮
@@M.E.G.A The mighty scent of surströmming can be a bit overwhelming to the faint of heart.
They have a word for their older more traditional food as well -- > Husmanskost. But like you stated a lot of the recipes are getting more and more rare as the younger generation isn't as enthusiastic about it.
A regional dish is "saffranspannkaka" (originally from Gotland).
It is a sweet rice pudding with saffron (no surprise there) and almonds. Traditionally should be served with salmbär, which is a blue backberry cousin. Blackberry or raspberroes work in a pinch, blueberries not so much.
Salmbär is known under other names in other parts of Sweden, the main thing is that wild raspberries do not exist on the island in the middle of the Baltic sea, so salmbär fills that ecological niche.
I want to give praise to the unsung (some would say better... I say better) bulle. Kardemummabullar (cardamom buns) are so god damn good! And they are served tight beside the cinnamon ones. They tend to be stickier and with that lovely floral cardamom note. Try it!
Some Americans are so obsessed by Lutfisk and Surströmming. Surströmming which is salted and fermented herring is a MASSIVE thing in some places, but the smell is terrible but some people love it.
Lutefisk (Lye fish) is another deal. Lutfisk is a winter/christmas dish and you will probably never find it in a restaurant. The fish itself has zero taste, but is rather obnoxious as it is like jelly and sometimes almost translucent. The only way to enjoy it is with a creamy white grave mixed with strong mustard or allspice (?) and potatoes.
So if you have heard about the odd Swedish fish dishes, don't expect to find them everywhere and all the time.
When in Sweden, have lunch at a lunch restaurants, but try to be there a bit later not to disturb Swedish workers. Anyway, you get food (all inclusive often) at a fair price and also you most often get "original" Swedish food. And try to team up with some Swedes and have them make meatballs for you. Homemade meatballs are the best!
I must comment on the räksmörgåsarna (shrimp sandwiches) - in Stockholm you pay a fortune for such a sandwich, but on the Westcoast they are MUCH cheaper. I did see some with too few shrimps at over SEK200 in the video. In a nice café by lake Vänern in our town, the luxury one has twice as many shrimps and is almost half the price.
Lutfisk is Christmas food with white sause. It doesn't smell. You think about surströmming
Wolter do an american and make a whole video about Sweden while in Switzerland. Or vice versa. Would be hilarious 😂
I thought open top sandwiches was just a Slavic thing. Didn’t realise the vikings do it too
Sorry, but I don't really fancy Swedish cuisine from what I can see. However i find the video very informative and well edited.
I’ll do my best to stay fit and trim. It’s kind of difficult when I see Chocolate balls
Toscakaka, spungcake with almond caramel on top
I’m glad they love candy
It's not always mashed potatoes. It can be with boiled potatoes too.
To me, old school, mashed potatoes to meatballs is something served in simple places like a stand in the street or IKEA restaurants.
Yes, the original was boiled potatoes and not mashed potatoes.
In my family we eat Surströmming. My daughter somes home especially for the Surströmming, she loves it, and so do we. At least once or twice a year during the season in late August. Please stop saying that nobody eats it.
Kebabpizza
Kebabpizza, though Stockholm is famous for having bad Kebab compared to the rest of Sweden especially the westcoast and the town of Jönköping.
The punch roll (aka Dammsugare =Vacuum cleaner) needs something to wash it down with, coffee if you like, tea for me.
Lutfisk is still eaten around Christmas, but its popularity is fading a bit I think.
Surströmming is more popular in the north of Sweden, while kräftor (as in the party mentioned in the video) is probably more common in the south, and more of a special occasion food (like kräftor).
As to burgers Max can be a bit hit or miss unfortunately, 20 years ago they were great, but...
Falukorv is something that people should try in some form, maybe the best way is in getting some Korvstroganoff with rice (or potatoes, but rice is better).
Our licorice (along with other Nordic countries) might be an acquired taste, but I love it. Just don't eat too much, it might mess with your blood pressure.
Yes crawfish is definitely eaten more in the south -Louisiana. And Falukorv is similar to bologna.
You forgot to tell that at the crayf7dh parties you can get really drunk. Normally you eat between 10 and 20 crayfishea each and for every claw you eat, you tradtionally empty a glass of snaps.
i figured the drinking part was self explanatory ;)
Way to go! (Personally, I devour at least 50 of them.)
@@HerrBrutal-bl2fk And wake up in the birdbath?
normal lunch dishes in sweden restaurants are: wallenbergare; pea soup with pankakes, oxjärpar; oval meatballs, fried rödspätta with potatoes and räkröra, gulasch. isterband och boiled potatoes and dill sauce, steak black and white with fried or boiled potatoes then as standard with lucn ther is usually a sallad buffet.
cracker bread is really really good but i cant eat it, it has too much salt and is kinda unhealthy only because of it, swedes in general does not know or are aware of like the mechanics of salt in human body lol.. and btw this is probably like 99,9% the only reason swedish cracker bread isn't like a mainstay staple food around the world.. kinda funny and sad at the same time xd
We eat lutfisk one time a year around christmas and lutfisk is not the stinky fich that are fermented it is 2 difrent things thats caled surströmming and that is only some pepole that eat but thay eat it
Im swedish try The swedish strawberry cake
Kalles Kaviar (Very salty and very fishy!) for breakfast! On bread with hard-boil egg on top! :b.............
Just had it. In Indianapolis!
The word for "traditional" swedish food is "Husmanskost". Just ask for where you can find Husmanskost :)
It is called lingon, not lingen. And we do not need to say lingonberries (lingonbär) in Sweden. We just say lingon for the berries and lingon jam if a jam is made of it.
Lingonsylt....
I have put up Fermented Herring parties about 10 times, so it's not that nobody eats it. As a tourist, I can understand why you think that, but no.
Surströmming FTW
Oh no, not LuteFish with an e, LUTFISK in Swedish, try it, it's sooooooo goooood!
Matjesillstårta
Biff à la Lindström 😋
They're harder to find, but when you're aching for a chocolate ball you really want find the ones covered in nib sugar instead of coconut flakes. Is it healthy? No, but you only live once. 😊
Stop Stop. Not all are princess cakes, because this is how you learn the names:
Princess cake has a green marzipan coating.
Princess cake has a yellow marzipan coating.
The one you are holding in the picture with a pink marzipan coating is called Opera cake.
The one with a white marzipan coating and powdered cocoa and has a chocolate cake base, and other contents. Called Pavarotti cake.
The reason why Swedes are so thin despite all the good food we eat is because we Swedes exercise. Running outdoors, working out at the gym, cross-country skiing on skis and if there is no snow we use roller skis. Many people practice football, handball, basketball, ice hockey, floorball, outdoor bandy, table tennis, badminton, boxing and other martial arts.
You forgot the cheese fondue, raclette, zürcher Gschnätzelts and rösti
As a Swede, I don't like licorice either. Never did
❤ that. Fika doesn't count
Lutfisk is big come Christmas time. The rest of the year ... Nope. A once per year thing basically.
Toast skagen isnt the same as räkmacka. Toast skagen is shrimp mixed with mayo on toast not rye bread
One thing swedes dont have is "a pizzaslice". Never ever saw, seen it. Anyware.
Nope, the whole thing goes down, not just a petty slice....
Thank you Wolter for updating your review of swedish food!
Its still this that Meatballs, Pizza, Kebab, Suchi isnt that swedish.. its international!
However, swedish meatballs served with brown cream sauce, with lingonberrys and pickled cucumber is a "trademark"!
And then.. whatabout the most fancy dishes served at the fancyest resturants.. its fresh fish or other seafood, as a starter toast skagen/asortments of pickled herring/ and löjrom is even more expensive then Beluga caviar.. or a cheaper starter "Västerbottenpaj" could do!?
In anyway.. to help Wolter and his international audience.. there is a lot of Shrimps in Scandinavia for food.. its not Prawns!
One thing anybody visiting sweden need to try is a "räkmacka", an open shrimp sandwich! Only the locals new where one get the freshest shrimps.. (a hint, at Feskekörka in Gothenburg) but even in Stockholms nicest resturantes!
There is still a lot of seafood to try, but altso if one is in Stockholm.. reinder, moose, elk deer.. fryed baltic herring, crayfish/lobster!
Its this, no normal swede eat/use prawns in there cooking.. but when we visit the mediterainians, we love to eat prawns and octopus.. becuse they know how to cook it!
You forgot Kladdkaka!
Also, I do believe that is like a crime against Sweden if you diss the punchrulle outside of parliament. Just so you know.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine, we've become a bit more itchy in our trigger finger :p
Swedish style pizza. We love to put weird stuff on pizza. Be warned, this is not traditional Italian style. 😀
You didnt show a traditional ostkaka but an American cheesecake. They are totally different.
DINGLEBERRIES with meatballs??? HELL NAW
N-boll.
Tunnbrödsrulle! Thinbreadroll in english.
Nobody eats surströmming.
Semlor! Fat Tuesday (around lent)
Swedes are not thin. 50% of the population are overweight or obese. The Americans are just on another level.
we eat surströmming in sweden maybe you dont se it 😡😡
Not as often as the internet makes it seem 😉
The last you ate is called Arraksrulle or dammsugare, vaccumcleaner in english. they are terrible, only old people eat them🤑
Sweden is a worse Switzerland. (You can't) change my mind.