Finnish food is pure

TEXT DIGIMAG PHOTOS KESKO, SHUTTERSTOCK

We made you a shopping list of products you at least have to taste while visiting in Finland. You can find these delicious goods at K-Citymarket Päiväranta. In addition, Finnish chocolate and liquorice are excellent gifts to take home as a tasty memory of Finland.

PERUNARIESKA

Unleavened bread from the Savo region, called “rieska,” is made with barley, potato or other hulled grain.

RUISLEIPÄ

Rye bread is made from Finnish wholegrain flour and sold fresh from our own bakery. Best eaten with egg butter.

SUKLAA

Finnish chocolate holds its own in the world because it is genuine, unique and special. Taste and enjoy.

PULLA

Bun is a traditional baked good. The most popular bun is cardamom-flavoured. Best served with coffee.

LAKKAHILLO

A jam made of cloudberries. The berries has an unique flavour and they grow in the north. Often

VIILI

A nordic kind of sour milk, eaten like yoghurt. Numerous berry and fruit flavors are available for gourmands.

LEIPÄJUUSTO

Squeaky cheese made out of cow's milk. Baked in oven or fried.

KARJALANPIIRAKKA

Karelian pasties have become an inseparable part of the Finnish culinary tradition. The thin unleavened rye base is filled with rice porridge, pearl barley porridge, or mashed potato.

SALMIAKKI

Finnish salty liquorice (salmiakki) is an ammonium chloride flavored licorice. It can taste both salty or sweet.

KYLMÄSAVULOHI and GRAAVILOHI

For cold smoked salmon, fresh fillets are salted on the surface and smoked over alder wood chips. Grawlax is prepared by salting and marinating without heating.

MUIKKU

Breaded fried vendace (muikku) seasoned with salt is a traditional food in the North Savo region.

KALAKUKKO

This traditional Finnish food is a Savo tradition. Usually fish and pork rind are baked inside the delicious rye dough shell.

K-CITYMARKET PÄIVÄRANTA Päivärannantie 18, KUOPIO FINLAND Tel. +358 10 537 9600 Open Mon–Sun 8–21 www.k-citymarket.fi