Showing posts with label Karjalanpiirakat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Karjalanpiirakat. Show all posts

6 December 2020

Karjalanpiirakat

 

It’s Finland’s independence day today, so I’m again sharing my favourite Finnish pies with you. These are savoury Karelian pies or pastries. The filling is rice pudding and the crust is a mix of rye and wheat flours. The crust is very similar to a pizza dough, it’s just rolled out very thinly for these pies. In my childhood I often made these pies with my grandmother, so she taught me also the method of closing the dough in a pretty way on the top. I thought that these turned out really nice and I scoffed them all in no time. I also made some with potato mash filling, which are my partner’s favourites. 

 

Before baking


 

With potato filling

 

Your VegHog

 

2 December 2014

Mini Karelian pies


If I would be given the choice between the most wonderful cakes, sweets or chocolates in the whole wide world, I would definitely still choose Karelian pies over them anytime! Read my first post on this Finnish treat so that you know what I'm talking about. These pies buttered with salty rice pudding in a rye crust, are my absolute favourites, and now that I'm living abroad, I can only get them if I make them myself (or carry huge amounts with me from Finland...). They need a bit of attention when you are making them, but it's all so rewarding in the end.

I followed my grandmother's recipe (that can also be found in my original post) apart from the size of the pies and this time I also reversed the flour proportions by making a more rye based crust (by using 3 dl rye flour + 2 dl wheat flour). This is what my grandmother also variated, sometimes she felt more like a hearty rye crust and sometimes more wheaty pie crust and they were all brilliant!

Smaller than the regular Karjalanpiirakat, “cocktail” pies already exist in the Finnish shops and cafés, but the ones I made today are even smaller. They are cut with a 10cm diameter round cookie cutter and the crust is rolled out very thinly. I got 35 pies with this recipe, and I froze some of them for future use. I thought that pies in this size would be nice to offer to your guests at Christmas parties and gatherings. What do you think?