Swedish Food & What You Should Eat in Sweden
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- Heading to Stockholm or Gothenburg & Wondering What You Should Eat in Sweden? Well here we give you the best of Scandinavian and Swedish Cuisine. What you should eat & drink in Sweden.
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I think Mark should get a grant from the EU for all this excellent work he does promoting tourism in Europe.
Now you're talking :)
€1,000 per video at the very least!
+brighton dude We spend huge amounts on much worse stuff. Sounds like a great idea to make Mark a tenured EU traveler.
Yes indeed. We need to start a pressure group.
What about getting Mark involved with some other media coverage to get more viewers and thereby more earnings? - For example here in Germany we absolutely love to travel. Our number 1 destination is - Germany (followed by Spain and Italy). On TV travel documentary series like "Wunderschön!" are send on prime time sunday night. It would be great to have you, Mark, in that for german or US destinations!
7:47 That was probably the best pronunciation of "surströmming" i've ever heard from an American. Great vid!
+Chris R. Sandberg Was thinking the same. Like that was the best pronounced swedish word you said lol
you took the words right out of my mouth. :P
thats because he practiced saying it 24/7
yeah, and julmust to actually 👍
One word, 4 syllables....... "smörgåstårta"!!!! As an American living in Sweden.
Perry Holloman ahh im from sweden and have you tried fläskpannkaka it's really good
+glorius HumBug nej. jag vet inte vad det är. :-(
Perry Holloman leta rätt på ett recept på internet
one of my favorite dishes hehe :D though its not thought of as anything fancy, i freaking love it! and the best part is that it tastes even better the day after, so saving some in the frige is no problem ^^
Smörgåstårta.... my absolute favourite Swedish food.
This is kind of interesting to watch as a Swede, lol
Green_Arrow I mean I guess, yeah
no I'm a french who lived here for years and I still find it funny to watch!
jeffrey-the-potato ja
I know
jeffrey-the-potato ja ha
I'm a swede but when I read the comment section i just realised how much "national" food we have that no one else have. This makes me kind of proud! 🇸🇪
You have to touch some grass then, I mean srsly have you heard about *Indonesian foods ?* 😂🙃
@@michellekahlez2105 me *cries in Indian food*
Yes, but every country has it's own many national dishes, or food varieties & obviously, "not" only Sweden.
As a regular traveller, I have tried the very best national dishes across the world.
@@michellekahlez2105They just meant that they're proud we have something that's original to Sweden.... Not that we have something better or that other countries don't have national dishes.
How can you not mention Semla once? When in Sweden you have totry semlor!
+MizzNijna I'd say that is very particular for February
+Sorenle you're right
+Sorenle not under 2015, by gods people wouldn't shut up about selmor. The selmelwrap, sommar semla, Nutella semla and I think there was another one
semla lol
MizzNijna vist är semla gott
You forgot the most important food, biltemakörv.
vafan xD
❤️❤️❤️
Roligt
Fyyy fann😂
Helt sant
Good one. You've missed to mention the Swedish Fika ;-)
It's worth noting that Sweden have five (5!) national days dedicated to different types of pastries/desserts.
Starting in chronological order at the beginning of the year we have Fettisdagen which is the first day of the traditional fast, like Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday when you eat Semlor, which is sweat wheat bread buns filled with whipped cream and almond icing. Traditionally they are eaten in a bowl of warm milk.
Then in late March there is the våffledagen or the waffle day which is a day dedicated to eating waffles with whipped cream and jam, though originally it had something to do with religion.
Next is the 4 of October which is the day cinnamon bun or cinnamon roll because we swedes really like our cinnamon bun with coffee.
Less well known, even among swedes, is the 6 of November which is celebrated to the memory of Gustavus Aloldphus or Gustav Adolf which is an old Swedish king but more importantly this is done by eating a special pastry that traditionally have a chocolate or marzipan portrait of that king.
Last but probably the biggest day is Luciadagen or the Day of St. Lucia the 13th of December which is celebrated in the memory of an old Italian saint by having having boys and girls dress up in thin white nightshirts and going around in processions singing Christmas carols which in Swedish is called Lucia songs. While you watch this, and it is worth watching, you eat lussebullar or lusse buns which is sweet wheat bread buns flavoured with saffron and raisins.
So we swedes really like our candy, pastries and desserts.
Yellow pea soup with pork and a dollop of mustard is a classic, and pancakes with jam for dessert. Traditionally you eat it on Thursdays.
Those tiny potatoes are new potatoes or "färskpotatis" in Swedish. They're seasonal, and only available in early summer. We boil them in salted water with dill sprigs and serve with butter (accompanied by a cold beer) for the best taste. Anyway, great video and cheers from Stockholm.
Your pronunciations are fine! "Surströmming" is more of a cultural marker than a real food. I am glad that you mentioned "gravlax", which is very traditional. Mine is, of course, better than most... :) Normally served with potatoes boiled with a lot of dill.
Some other things you might try here;
Smorgasbord (one of the very few words English has picked up from Swedish!)
Souvas and renskav if you are in the north (reindeer meat, smoked and not)
Traditional Scanian goose dinner if you are in the far south
Löjrom (caviar from a small fish, a lot better than Russian caviar). Expensive though!
Pea soup with pancakes afterwards is a traditional meal on Thursdays. A little glass of "punsch" should go with it...
Hi mark, i really enjoyed this video. Please do more food themed videos. Food is definitely part of the cultural experience of visiting a new country for me. I always make it a point to visit a supermarket/foodmarket in any country i visit. I especially like the after drinks food / fast food part of the video. 😊👍
We started making "what to eat in country X" videos on our last trip. Right now we have a sweden and Denmark. New food videos coming from Germany norway Portugal and austria :)
Hey, there are like 50 varieties of black licorice and half of them are salt based and some are just sugary. Also, there is varying degrees to the intensity of the licorice flavor. And they can be soft and chewy to very hard.
My fav is the kick-candy, especially salty caramel.
This is like the fourth (or fifth vlog) viewed as of like today --- which covered 'What to eat in Germany ... to ... in Sweden.' Really extensive. Greatly [nicely] filmed and its overall vantage points to content. Plus, reviews. Quite delightfully produced. Upbeat. And super easy to digest. Right 'on-the-Money' for prospective travellers and visitors alike to each other.
Great video! Been living here for the past two years and recognized many of your suggestions
Smörgåstårta has been my favorite Swedish food so far! So good!!
2.58 "you want to have a snopp" lol
Means a different thing in swedish
Oscar Johansson (it is The penis) Jag är å svensk
That's ok, most of us would take a svensk snopp any day of the week... 😏💖
@@maurice22ravel Lol
i think that the half of us who commentates are from sweden.
lukas nilsson 👍jag tror det.
Jå
lukas nilsson More than half.
Blodpudding (or Black pudding as it's called in the UK) has always been my favourite dish. I don't remember it personally but when i was about 5-6 years old i got to choose the family dinner on a friday night, my parents took me to the store and gave me free reigns over the entire dinner. Ended up with Blodpudding, Lingonsylt (Lingonberry Jam), Grädde (cream) and Bacon.
I would very much call it an aquired taste, but as someone who was born and raised in Sweden, i've always loved it.
I love herring. I've only had it here in the US from supermarkets, so I can only imagine it's even better I'm Sweden.
I really enjoy your videos from different countries. Im native swedish, some things i question, but mostly you are correct ;) Ive had some laughs... thanks! Keep it up
If you can, try and eat Lufsa. I'm Swedish and I didn't encounter it until I was 32 years old, so it is not common all over the country. I think it is mainly from the south end, Småland or Öland region. It is kind of like a potato pancake with bacon on top made in the oven. With lingon to of course. Best Swedish food I've ever eaten, so I looked up the recipe and started making it myself. For another rarity, there is kroppkakor. More or less balls made out of mashed potatoes and flour with minced meat inside, that has been boiled. Again, with lingon.
blood pudding with hard fried bacon and lingon....just sooo good!
Thanks +woltersworld !! I love your video's! I get so see a lot of places I visited when my family was overseas due to father being in the Army.
Glad we can bring back some memories :)
...We have a Place in Canada called ...Bulk Barn store.....And you Can scoop Any CANDY you want...Even the Classic Swedish Berries.!
I am Brazilian living in Sweden. Your channel is great! Thanks!
That pretty much sums it up, good one!
great video, straight to the point and not mixed into a vlog or sth.
I definitely recommend the sill (herring). In my opinion it’s very Swedish so it might not klick for you right away but ones you get it you will probably love it
I love Swedish food😍😍 i used to work for Ikea for 2 years ate everything they had :)
Looks delicious. I always wanna try western food..
if you ask me, you did nail the pronunciation quite well on those Swedish words.
just felt like add up a few things:
sill=pickled herring
surströmming=fermented herring
many people have raisins and nuts in their glögg, which you mostly can't buy unless it is winter.
you can actually eat these tiny potatoes as they are ;)
yup, that's all I had to say, so ha en bra dag :)
So excited for my trip! Doing the tri country tour as well as copenhagen and amsterdam! Gotgenburg, stockholm, oslo, tromso, kilsijarvi! Leaving in three days so excited
I hope your stay lived up to your expectations :)
I can recommend Liver paste (leverpastej in swedish) with pickles on Knäckebröd!
Max is awesome, but in Sweden we do have two other local fast-food burger chains: Frasses and Sibylla, Frasses goes for the size, and Sibylla goes for tasty burgers that Max and Frasses don´t have (I guess, unfortunately I haven´t visited Sibylla in a while).
Thanks for the heads up! Will enjoy it all on my next visit. Tak!
Varsågod! (= You´re welcome!)
+woltersworld As göteborgare I can recommend Kalops with potatis, rödbetor and saltgurka, se thedomesticman.com/2013/04/16/swedish-stew-kalops/
Also makrillfile i tomatsås on knäckebröd with butter is very good for breakfast. (canned file mackerel in tomato sauce)
As dessert I can recommend ostkaka with jordgubbssylt and vispgrädde, se en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostkaka
The little potaoes you are talking about are färskpotatis (the first potaoes in this years harvest). You have them on Midsommar with gräddfil, sill, snaps...
If you like sweet candy you should try polkagrisar, se en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polkagris
+woltersworld It's spelled tack. And pronounced like you think it is, but with a very short "a".
+TheSwedishTraveler Frasses is pretty hard to find though deppending on where you are.. I think they are more common in the North, where they originated? We had one in my town(Sodertalje), but because of Water Damage and Bad Rep, they shut down, which was sad.. while the burgurs where meh, imo... The fries where what made them go around.. Or well.. Their spices to be exact..
Sweden is a place I want to go too someday, the food looks amazing. Thanks for the video Wolter!
You are very welcome. It's a good place to visit. I have a few more sweden travel videos on here. All the best for your future travels and eats :)
if you go to sweden you have to test the swedish choclate made by the swedish company Marabou
The tiny potatoes or "Nypotatis" (New potatoes) is mostly available during midsummer's eve and they are crazy expensive if you want to eat them before midsummer. After midsummer they drop in prize.
I’m from the US and I LOVE black licorice! 🖤
You need to try the Kalix löjrom (Whitefish roe), which you can always find at better restaurants serving Nordic. To that a snaps that goes well with seafood, or a glass of dry champagne.
A Smorgasbord in the Grand Hotel in Stockholm is SPECTACULAR! Many of the foods mentioned here and then some! In NYC the Smorgasbord at Aquavit at Holiday Time is also amazing, if very expensive.
Pickled herring...love it!
It’s good to see Fiskekyrkan in the background at the beginning! Greetings from Gothenburg!
Great video thank you!
If youre curious about julmust and in sweden around easter, try påskmust. It's the exact same drink with a different lable.
MsLilly200 no its not there is a difference
@@dj_noxxie yes in labeling, nothing else
"Meatballs" in Sweden are called "Köttbullar".
(shutt bull ar) how to say it
Why am i watching this i am swedish
the katter To get a better perspective on what contrasts your own food culture with others, and how this channel presents other food cultures.
Same xD
I liked your video. Good pics of meals. 👍
Mark, I was just wondering, do you happen to remember what restaurant you went to for the herring sampler when you were in Stockholm? My girlfriend and I are backpacking in September and we would love to do a bit of a recreation of that. Many thanks, and keep doing what you're doing, we love your videos!
Very rightly guided I must say...!
Mega super nice video, i really like it! 🤩
Loved the info. Tx
I come from Sweden and honestly, if I hadn't heard you speak I would probably assume you were Swedish too. I think you fit right in! ;) Also, fun and good list!
Max over McDonalds or Burger King anytime it's available and you want fast food!
Julmust is also sold around Easter, then known as Påskmust (some say it's the same, some say it's almost the same, we really don't know, secret recipe ^^)
In early summer, there are färskpotatis, which are the first potatoes of the season with the premier around midsommar. They are something special! Though you can't make mashed potatoes out of them. Summer is more of a färskpotatis season and winter is more a mashed potatoes season (there are other "normal" potatoes in the winter as well, but they aren't as good as färskpotatis!)
Thanks for the info and i think you look wonderful 😊
Very informative and good food to try😊
so cool .I love swedish food
This was a great video. I noticed how many are British foods also. But as the swedes and British have a long history I'm not surprised. Liquorice, (I grew up with it. My mum used to chew on the actual wooden sticks!) black (blood) puddings, new potatoes and a good kebab after a few beers. 🤣 Love Swedish food though. Very healthy.
You did really good. And btw. You DO look good.
Great video!
When it comes to "Surströmming" a way to if you didn´t fancy going to school for at least one day. Was when we put 2 can´s of surströmming in the air ventilation system in our school and opened the can´s. It smelled so much they decided to close the school for the rest of the day so they could air the smell out. And they didn´t found who had done it. That´s the best part.
We usually have Bacon and eggs to our blood pudding
Mmmm... bacon :)
+woltersworld - Blodpudding, bacon & lingonsylt. No eggs. Eggs are for breakfast and pyttipanna. ;-) (didn't you try pyttipanna?)
Also - "Swedish micro-brews are pretty good" - ping me next time you are in Stockholm and I'll show you that Swedish micro-brews are friggin awesome.
Thanks for yet another awesome video.
+LiNuS lArSsOn99 What the hell?! :) Did I miss a joke or something? Blood goes very well with lingon berries though.
+TrapX Blitz16 I have pasta and berries..=p
eggs? no. but bacon and lingon
Lovley recomendations! Im from Sweden, and youre spot on with everything! And you are cute to :D
Mark, I just saw your "What to Eat in England" and you mentioned black pudding as a part of a full English breakfast. That’s also a “blood pudding”.
When you are in Sweden you should experience the Swedish tradition of “Fika” which is coffee and pastries but is also the social event having coffee and pastries with your friends, family or colleges at a home, at a café or at work. “Fredags fika” is a Swedish tradition where colleges takes turns bringing home bakes to work for a late Friday coffee break before everybody goes home for the weekend.
To me you actually look swedish enough to fit in, you even look like a friend of mine, lol.
Another thing to try is ugnspannkaka, basically pancakes made in the oven. Not sure if it is swedish but we eat it alot so yeah
If you visit Sweden you need to try Rotmos and Fläsklägg aswell as Semla if it's the period for it.
Also if you try surströmming, don't just eat the fish itself. Eat together with Knäckebröd and butter, chopped onions and sourcream with dill.
First video viewed & I've definitely suscribed. Hello from Australia :)
one of my favorit meals is lingon, blodpudding and bacon (lingonberries, blood pudding and bacon)
Delicious... I think for me kebab and mash potatoes goes wow
Sweden is so beautiful, I can't wait to go
It's amazing
You pronunced "surströmming" quite well😉
Everything looks good.
I suggest from own experience since ive been a swede for 17 years is to of course eat foods in the cities but if you want true swedish food i would suggest you to go to the country side, for tourists i think both cities and the countryside are important but since sweden is all about nature you should try to go up north for hiking or if you here during winter you have to try our foods during the winter, i think they are much better than the foods during summer atleast :)
you should also try pyttipanna which is a mixture of diced potatoes, steak and hotdog sausage fried in butter with a fried egg on top served with beetroot and pickles :)
If you came to Sweden you need to try swedish strawberry cake and you need to try kroppkakor.
Looks absolutely delicious and tasty 😊
I really want to try licorice and fresh brew swedish beer. I bet it taste like heaven. 😄😄😄😄
Very interesting video !
+Michael Friedman thanks Michael!
another thing you should try is smörgåstårta it's absolutely delicious
some other great meals to try in sweden are pölsa and peasoup with pork and flapjacks
Your videos are great! It´s really fun to hear you talk about some things I´ve never thought of, like the lingonberries on everything, lmao :P However, as a Swede, there are some things I think you´re wrong about - like the food - and I realize it´s difficult to find the right place as a tourist but I really think u should come to my house next time you´re in Sweden and I´ll cook some traditional Swedish food, and bake and hopefully you´ll look at it differently ;-)
Ok vad bra
We put much more then butter on our knäckebröd. Cheese, ham, etc whatever you can put on a sandwich.
And it's always snaps, not snap :)
I always get a sour stomach from pickled herring, and part of my family was Germanic in lineage. Is it possible to get buffered pickled herring in Sweden?
I recommend "Raggmunk", its like a potato pancake served with slices of pork (like thicker bacon) and lingonberry jam.
It's called Snaps (and you do pronounce s at the end :-) and the blodpudding, it's horrible even for most swedes :-)
You did an excellent job with the julmust and surströmming!
Tunnbrödrulle, you'll find it in 'Sibylla' or other hot dog/hamburger stands. Flat bread, potato mash, fried or boiled sausage/hot dog, lettuce, tomato, pickled cucumbers, ketchup, mustard, and also ask for shrimp salad with it. Everything is put into the flatbread which is rolled around it as a cone and served in a paper. To drink, ask for a "Pucko" which is a chocolate milk drink. May seem like a weird mix, I couldn't tell, but it's perhaps the most Swedish meal you'll ever get next to meatballs and sill. There is also palt or kroppkakor which is a boiled potato mash ball big as a small apple, inside there's pork, onions and black pepper in the center. Served with lingon and melted butter. 2 or 3 should be enough to satisfy. Very yummy. Someone also mentioned semla which is a traditional pastry around easter but sometimes today can be found already from new year's eve and forward, but never beyond easter. A wheat bun with cardamom, the top is cut off, some of the bread are removed and replaced with almond chops (almost as marzipan), covered with whipped cream and then the lid of the bun is placed on top. To be really traditional it should be served in a bowl floating in hot milk which will turn the bun into snot, more or less, but it will taste even better. We had a king, Adolf Fredrik known to die in 1771 from eating too many semla's at a time. Smörgåstårta, or 'sandwich cake' which is something that looks like a sweet cake but is filled with 'food stuff'. White bread usually in Three layers and all goodies you could find in your fridge and then all the mayonnaise you could obtain within 100 miles radius. A good one does not contain any fruit but perhaps grapes and honeydew melon, if there's ham slices to go with it which it should be. There's always tons of shrimps sprinkled on top. There's always fresh cucumber slices involved. Probably tomatoes, maybe boiled eggs, likely dill, hard cheese slices and more. The better one's have liverwurst mixed with whipped cream and horseradish at the bottom layer. Besides that, creativity and good taste may rule. And Mayo. And no fruit, some jerks put fruit salad mixed with mayo in it, send it out immediately and act profoundly insulted if you get one of those. This is food, not dessert. The absolutely best one's have both White bread and a black rye bread called 'kavring' in it.The Vegemite of the north is Kalles Kaviar which you eat as a spread on a sandwich, it comes in a tube and you haven't truly lived if you haven't written your name on a sandwich by squeezing a Kalles Kaviar tube and then dipped the sandwich in hot chocolate milk. Knäckebröd, loaf, any bread, butter and Kalles. Or a boiled egg cut in half, one squeeze on the Mayo tube, one squeeze on the Kalles tube. There you go, it's party time. Kalles Kaviar is smoked cod caviar mixed with a kind of tomato relish. The taste will surprise you. Remember to be polite to your host. No, it's not dangerous, that caustic sensation will go away soon.
😋 Yum! I'm hungry already! .....I' 'll pass on the crayfish and the blood pudding though! 😮
Blood pudding, lingonberry and potato buns are so good!!!!! Nom nom nom!!! :D
When you said "glögg" i laught så mush!😂
First I want to say that it is hard to butcher the pronunciation of Swedish words, we have many spoken dialects here that pronounce words a bit differently, so we listen on the context rather than how each individual word are pronounced, for me it was very easy to understand the Swedish words in this video.
Another thing that you shall try when you take a fika and feel a bit hungry is "Köttbullemacka" (meatball sandwich) or more correctly a meatball sandwich with beetroot salad, that may not sound so good in American ears, but taste better than it sounds.
Marabou chocolate is addicting!
The fish church also know as the place to find a "good time" haha
Perhaps you want to know that _sill_ and _strömming_ are the names of the west- and east coast variants of herring, respectively (i.e. the fish itself, not a particular recipe or dish). Not all swedes know this, though ;)
Btw, the last s in _snaps_ is not a plural-s. So you say the word "snaps" in full, including the last s, even in singular. The plural of _snaps_ is _snapsar_.
+Sven Ekeberg It might be variants of herring, but that is not, to my knowledge, why they have different names.. While they are both Herring, Sill is a pickled Herring, usualy pickled in different sauces and served most commonly for Midsummer, easter or Christmas... Surströmming is a Fermented Herring, that is served commonly during late summer. One of the most common ways to eat it from what I've heard(meaning from the people that I know who eats it) is with mashed potatoes on hard bread(knäckebröd)
+Ted Wallin (ProfSmythe)
But we also have _stekt sill_ and _stekt strömming_ (_stekt_ means fried in a pan), old and traditional dishes, well on par with pickled herring or surströmming. Stekt sill is usually served with a creamy onion sauce and boiled potaoes. Stekt strömming is often eaten with butter on _hårt bröd_ (=knäckebröd), typically with parsley and some _ättika_ (≈vinegar) on top.
Sill is catched on the west/south coasts, while the smaller and less fatty strömming is catched north of _Kalmar sund_, on the east coast of Sweden. They are not fully distinct, but scientist have actually shown genetic differences between these two variants, although no one, of course, knew anything about this when they came up with names for their local staple food ;-)
This additional fattiness of sill is, as I understand it, the major reason it is used more often than strömming för _inläggning_ ("for being pickled"...?).
Sven Ekeberg welp.. I stand corrected then.. I've never really delved deeper on the subject to be honest and always thought they were the same.. My apologies.. ^^'
+Ted Wallin (ProfSmythe)
Well, I though the same, not long ago... Sorry for sounding arrogant. I blame it on my limited English.
Sven Ekeberg no no... No worries on that.. as a matter of fact, I was worried I might have come off as arrogant.. And also, thanks for reminding me of Stekt Strömming.. I've been meaning to try that..guess I'll try it this summer.. :P
What is that dish at 5:14? It looks AMAZING!
I wish you had the Swedish names of these dishes labeled in the video or description box. When visiting Sweden, will these dishes even be labeled in English?
You should also try _isterband_ which is something similar to a sausage
Oh, it sounded like he said: "So you shoot the snopp with the herring..." xD
Malkolm Lind yeah lol for you who don't know snopp is a Word for Dick in swedish
You should come visit the north of Sweden aswell :P
If you eat at Max, I suggest you have the Frisco meal, not the original. It has the same dressing but come with a rather unique tasty bun.