Traditional Swedish Food - What to Eat in Sweden

Are you heading to Stockholm or Malmo or you just want to relive your visit to IKEA? Well this video will give you some of the best traditional food from Sweden that tourists can enjoy. Also, learn how to go out to eat in Sweden and what you should expect from service to ordering to drinks.
The Eats of Sweden.
Filmed in Stockholm, Sweden

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[PUTDEVICE]

14:32 that is not a Swedish cheesecake. Swedish cheese cake is a type of cottage cheese with ground almonds and you can take one bitter almond to get the classic taste. which is baked in the oven until it turns golden brown. served warm with whipped cream and strawberry jam or another good jam.

[hansericsson]

Raggmunk med fläsk, fläsk med löksås, isterband med stuvad potatis, blodpudding med lingon, rostbiff med potatissallad, kallops, kroppkakor med lingonsylt, etc.

[henriccarlsson]

Bit of a reference: Swedish military had pea soup with pancakes for dessert for ages on thursdays, so even today many restaurants have this on Thursdays. It’s great.

[birgittae]

cheesecake is something totally different than what we called ”ostkaka” i e cheesecake in swedish. Two different desserts.
Love both kinds though.
The cheesecake is most often frozen or baked and then chilled in the refridgerator. And is very sweet in it self. The ”ostkaka” is baked in the avon, made of mixed almond, egg, cheese rennet and other stuff. You eat it warm with jam and whipped cream.

[niclasgustafsson]

if you like traditional Swedish food and are in Stockholm, I can recommend Restaurant Pelikan

[DrunkPhotography]

I’m trying to do foodie stuff, so I knew I could trust your review! Many thanks.

[HerrBrutal-blfk]

Very nice video, but Wolter and his fellow travelers still has a lot to learn.

Swedish edibles foreigners really should discover:

Seafood (except salmon and shrimps)!

Try havskräftor/Norway lobsters/Dublin Bay prawns, Krabba/brown crab and Swedish oysters - and please get to know our ways of preparing cod, halibut, turbot, sole and many other kinds of fish. Costly, yes, but it will be worth the expense. Scandinavian seafood is, simply put, unparalleled.

Other hearty, traditional dishes than meatballs!

Try kåldolmar/kålpudding, kroppkakor, stångkorv/isterband (served with skånsk potatis if you're lucky), biff à la Lindström, wallenbergare, ärtsoppa och pannkakor, stekt fläsk med löksås, stekt fläsk och raggmunkar, järpar, slottsstek, pannbiff med lök and dillkött, just to mention a few classic everyday dishes everyone in my country loves.

Game!

Try deer, moose (American English)/elk (British English), reindeer (yes, we eat Rudolph), hare, bear and wild boar.

And don't forget to try kebab pizza!

[legus]

thanks wolters for those video, we are moving from France to Sweden in a few days and your video helped a lot! can't wait to experience all this. as French you know how important food is! 😊

[stemid]

I had a girl once bring ham and cheese sandwiches on our second date. I think foreigners underestimate how much Swedes love simple frallor.

Also räkmacka (shrimp sandwich) is a swedish phrase that means you have it good in life. So it really permuates our culture. It's like shrimp cocktail.

[annicaesplund]

We eat a lot of seasonal dishes. Stews in the autumn and winter. Lighter food in spring and summer. Certain dishes only for traditional holidays.

[zetsuki]

Surströmmng is eaten in the fall, maybe once or twice a year, it's very much still eaten. I love it personally, but you can't eat too much, it is fermemted so your stomach can get upset. ;)

[LittleLostMindBlower]

My family eats lutfisk every year on Christmas day. There are still plenty of people who eat it, but it's typically eaten seasonally.

[paulozavala]

Lutefisk is a traditional thing that i would say only the elder generation eats around Christmass.
But i will say that surströmming (stinky fish) is something you really eat in Sweden but only in the very northen part of Sweden!
If you sre in Sweden then a must is
Kladdkaka and Semla!

[hathaum]

Hi. big fan! Not to be like that, but the picture with your cheesecake, that looks like cheesecake, not ostkaka. I don't want to litter your comment field with links for an example though. :)
Also, the punchrulle, we call them "dammsugare" colloquially. It means "vacuum cleaner", cause when they were new people thought they looked a little bit like those really old school vacuum cleaners.

[E-jit]

Surströmming is huge in some parts of Sweden when it’s in season.

[joannunemaker]

Lingonberry are the best! I enjoyed this video. 😊❤

[robertjonsson]

12.16 Lutefisk is the norwegian spelling for Lutfisk. We still eat lutfisk at christmas in Sweden but the younger generations not so much.

[littlef]

For me Lutfisk is a Christmas food, usually eaten at boxing day. Each family has their tradition, so it will not be the same for all.

[Alsicufe]

Fermented herring is still a thing, especially in the northern part of Sweden. The capital doesn't resemble all of Swedish cuisine. For example where my wife is from they serve "Nävgröt" (Nehvgroet) Which is a sturdy oatmeal dish typically served with Lingonberry, fläsk (flesk) i.e pork and the grease from frying the pork to blend the oatmeal with - and no she isn't from the north but west part of Sweden :)

[joelsvensson]

Very very accurate! Happy to have you! Wish you the best!