Karelian pasty
 A store-bought Karelian pasty | |
| Type | Pasty, pirog |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Karelia |
| Region or state | Karelia Finland |
| Main ingredients | rye flour or wheat flour, rice or potatoes, butter |
Karelian pasties, Karelian pies or Karelian pirogs (Karelian: kalittoja, singular kalitta; Olonets Karelian: šipainiekku; Finnish: karjalanpiirakat, singular karjalanpiirakka;[1] Russian: карельский пирожок karelskiy pirozhok or калитка kalitka; Swedish: karelska piroger) are traditional pasties or pirogs originating from the region of Karelia. They are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia.
The oldest traditional pasties usually had a rye crust, but the North Karelian and Ladoga Karelian variants also contained wheat to improve the baking characteristics. The common fillings were barley and talkkuna. In the 19th century, first potato and buckwheat were introduced as fillings, and later also rice and millet.
Today, the most familiar and common version has a thin rye crust with a filling of rice. Mashed potato and rice-and-carrot fillings are also commonly available. Butter, often mixed with chopped-up boiled egg (egg butter or munavoi), is spread over the hot pasties before eating.
Karjalanpiirakka has had Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) status in Europe since 2003.[2] This means that any product outside of Finland that make a similar product cannot call them karjalanpiirakka and instead call them riisipiirakka ("rice pasties"), perunapiirakka ("potato pasties") etc., depending on the filling.[3]
See also[]
- Finnish cuisine
- Karelian hot pot
- Kalakukko
- Cornish pasty
- List of butter dishes
- List of pastries
- Khachapuri
- Sklandrausis
- Vatrushka
- Sultsina
References[]
- ^ Sallinen-Gimpl, Pirkko (2000). Karjalainen keittokirja. Helsinki: Tammi. p. 59. ISBN 951-31-1540-2.
- ^ EU Profile-Karjalanpiirakka (accessed 06/01/2021)
- ^ Food Safety Authority Evira Archived 2016-01-26 at the Wayback Machine (accessed 1/19/2016)
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