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Palt is a traditional Swedish meat-filled potato 
Pitepalt is a potato palt and the speciality of the city of
A palt recipe from Norrland in Sweden
- from Norrmejerier Swedish cuisine Dumplings {{Sweden-cuisine-stub
dumpling
Dumplings are a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of cooked dough (made from a variety of starchy sources), often wrapped around a filling. The dough can be based on bread, wheat or other flours, or potatoes, and it may be filled wi ...
, of which there are many different variants. Palt is more common in the northern part of Sweden. Palt is traditionally served with butter and lingonberry
''Vaccinium vitis-idaea'' is a small evergreen shrub in the heath family, Ericaceae. It is known colloquially as the lingonberry, partridgeberry, foxberry, mountain cranberry, or cowberry. It is native to boreal forest and Arctic tundra through ...
preserves, and a glass of cold milk on the side.
Variations
Blodpalt is an old-fashioned Swedish dish still fairly common in northern Sweden and Finland. The dish's history goes back to a time when the households carefully made use of all parts of the animals to get enough food. Blodpalt is made out of blood (cattle or pig in the south, reindeer in the very north) mixed up with flour where the most commonly used are rye, wheat and/or barley. After allowed to swell over night, mashed winter potatoes are added. The "dough" is then formed into lumps and boiled until they float up, and then served with fried pork. This made the dish a nutritious meal often eaten during the dark part of the year. Pitepalt is a potato palt and the speciality of the city of Piteå
Piteå (; ) is a locality and the seat of Piteå Municipality in Norrbotten County, Sweden. Piteå is Sweden's 58th largest city, with a population of 23,326.
Geography
Piteå is located at the mouth of the Pite River (), at the shore of ...
, though variants are eaten in the whole country. This Swedish dish has almost as many variants as households in Piteå, but they have in common a mix of wheat and barley flour (whereas other variants of potato palt may use other flours such as rye, or exclude the barley), and can have either other filling than pork, like minced meat, or none at all, then referred to as flatpalt.
All palt is made of raw potatoes, while the dumplings made out of pre-boiled potatoes are referred to as kroppkakor. This gives the pitepalt a darker color in comparison.
Similar dishes
*Kroppkaka
Kroppkaka (plural "kroppkakor") is a traditional Swedish boiled potato dumpling, most commonly filled with onions and meat. Potatoes, wheat flour, onion, salt and minced meat/pork are common ingredients in kroppkaka. They are very similar to th ...
* Cepelinai
Cepelinai ( "zeppelins"; singular: ''cepelinas'') are potato dumplings made from grated potatoes and stuffed with ground meat or dry curd cheese, or liver, or mushrooms. It has been described as a national dish of Lithuania, and is typically serv ...
* Kartoffelklösse
* Komle – A similar Norwegian dish.
See also
*Black pudding
Black pudding is a distinct national type of blood sausage originating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is made from pork or occasionally beef Blood as food, blood, with Lard, pork fat or Suet, beef suet, and a cereal, usually oatmeal, oat ...
– Another type of food made with blood. The Swedish variety is called "Blodpudding" (Blood pudding), and is still a common dish in Sweden today.
* List of dumplings
This is a list of notable dumplings. Dumpling is a broad class of dishes that consist of pieces of dough (made from a variety of starch sources) wrapped around a filling, or of dough with no filling. The dough can be based on bread, flour or pota ...
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References
External links
A palt recipe from Norrland in Sweden
- from Norrmejerier Swedish cuisine Dumplings {{Sweden-cuisine-stub