Karelian pies

The Karelian pasty is original from the region of Karelia, today they are eaten throughout Finland as well as in adjacent areas such as Estonia and northern Russia.

Karenlian pies are eaten throughout Finland as a snack during the traditional afternoon coffee break, these pastries consist of a simple rye flour and water dough tucked around a thick, creamy rice filling and topped with a salty butter mixed with chopped hard-boiled eggs.

Today the most traditional recipe is made with a thin rye base and a rice filling accompanied by munavoi, egg butter. The latter is one of the most popular innovations in Finnish cuisine, a mixture of butter and chopped hard-boiled egg. Karelia's pies became a symbol of Karelian culture in the 1900s.