Karelian pasties

Karelian pasties

Karelian pasties or Karelian pies (South Karelian dialect of Finnish: "karjalanpiirakat"/ "karjalanpiirakka"; North Karelian dialect of Finnish: "karjalanpiiraat"/"karjalanpiiras"; _kr. kalitt / kalittoa; Olonets Karelian: "šipainiekku") are traditional pasties from the region of Karelia. Today they are eaten throughout Finland. They are a Finnish variant of pirozhki.

The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also had wheat alongside of rye to improve the baking characteristics of the available rye breads. The common fillings of this era were barley and talkkuna.The 19th century first introduced potato and buckwheat as new fillings, and later due to trade, also rice and millet.

Nowadays in the most familiar and common recipe the pasties are made from a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Butter, often mixed with boiled egg (eggbutter or "munavoi"), is spread over the hot pasties before eating.

ee also

* at Wikibooks
* [http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=26069 Karelian pasties recipe at Virtual Finland]
*Finnish cuisine
*Karelian Hot Pot
*Kalakukko
*Mämmi


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