🇱🇻Latvian Recipes
Explore Latvian cuisine — gray peas with bacon, rupjmaize rye bread, skābeņu zupa, and the Baltic rye-and-dairy table.
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Latvian cuisine is built on rye (rupjmaize dark rye bread), grey peas, pork, potatoes, and dairy. Pēku zirņi ar speķi (grey peas with fried bacon and onion) is the national dish; skābeņu zupa (sorrel soup), rupjmaizes kārtojums (rye-bread dessert), and Jāņi (midsummer) caraway cheese anchor the canon. Distinct from neighbouring Baltic cuisines through grey peas and Jāņu siers cheese.
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Rye flour (rupjmaize)Grey peasPork & baconPotatoesCaraway (for Jāņu cheese)Curd & sour creamSorrelHerringBarleyLingonberries
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Latvian Fish Aspic (Zivju galerts) — Clear Dill-Scented Baltic Fish Jelly
Latvian fish aspic is a chilled holiday cold-table dish of tender white fish set in clear, seasoned jelly. It is often served with rupjmaize and appears beside pīrāgi and jāņu siers at family celebrations.
90 min 8 152 cal
