Finnish Rye Fish Pouch | Kalakukko
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Kalakukko is a very traditional Finnish dish from the Savonia region in Finland.
It has a name that many Finns struggle to translate, and it often comes out sounding dirty. But at its simplest it's a rye bread that has been stuffed with fish and pork. It's a filling dish, but a relatively simple one.
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@blakerainey2079 3 years ago
I'm an American and I've been making kalakukko for a little bit now. Everyone I mention it to thinks that this is a weird food, but I absolutely love it. I sometimes use a little bit of honey to cover the bacon for a little extra sweetness.
@Pantsmode 1 year ago
Came here from Joshua Weissman's new video where he mentioned this! Feels very validating to see more videos on Finnish food - even when I haven't eaten kalakukko in my life, this makes it all the more tempting.
@tinke76 3 years ago
It´s always amusing to call it Fishcock :) Which is a literal translation of the word kalakukko. For those who are not finnish speakers kukko means rooster. There is a nice dessert version that is filled with blueberries(mustikkakukko).
@cookiegirl2cookie197 3 years ago (edited)
For those who understand Finnish (or like a challenge) there is a YouTube video called: Savolainen kalakukko -the whole recipe is recited in savo dialect - it's quite entertaining. Recipe is very similar.
@Krillekris 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing. My mother is from Finland, and I want to learn more about Finnish food. Just recently made Finnish rye bread
@zoolkhan 9 months ago (edited)
interesting variant... i am a finn, i never had one with pork in it.. .also we did first bake a bread then hollow it out , fill it with fish and put it back into the oven.
You did it quite differently putting the fish into teh dough right from start , but i suspect yours might taste better. Thanks for the inspiration :)
Different is not wrong, the result speak for itself.
You did it quite differently putting the fish into teh dough right from start , but i suspect yours might taste better. Thanks for the inspiration :)
Different is not wrong, the result speak for itself.
@jacobpugh9531 2 weeks ago
Would walleye work? It's a relative of zander. I wonder if bluegill would be a fine substitute for perch as well? I would have a hard time finding pork belly on its own. Would bacon work well?
@NurmiSimo 3 years ago
Can you explain the story behind the Kulta Katriina instant coffee? It's my favorite coffee, but is it so good that you'd bring it over to the States with you?
@bufordghoons9981 3 years ago
Now I see why many Finns appear so healthy looking: they eat very nutritious food, packing a lot of vitamins in clever combinations of tasty meals whereas many Americans eat foods loaded with salt, sugar, saturated fat, oils, nutritionally worthless "fillers", and artificial everything introducing probable carcinogens into our diet.
When you poured the flour at 1:35 there arose a small cloud of flour dust. I imagined it was a larger cloud, surrounding your head. You frantically waved your hand before your face, coughing, trying to clear the air so you could breathe. Two clowns danced in, honking bicycle horns before whipping out hand fans to clear the air. The air cleared, the clowns took a bow, did an about-face and departed, giving one last honk on the horn as they disappeared off camera. Red-faced, you apologized for the brief video disaster and resumed making the kalakukko
FIVE HOURS to cook that? Wow. I guess if you didn't cook it so long, the kalakukko would be a wet, slimy, stinky mess inside.
Unfortunately for me, at 10:52, it looked like you pulled out of the oven a cow patty. My first thought was, "Oh no, is he going to eat cow manure?" I watched from the beginning so I knew it wasn't. Good thing I did!
Long ago, when I was walking through a pasture with my dachshund Peaches, I came across a pile of drying horse manure. To my horror, Peaches nipped all over it then proceeded to roll in the cow manure. "What a clever way to disguise her dog smell so prey won't detect her", I thought.
Yes, she got a bath when I got her home. She stunk.
When you poured the flour at 1:35 there arose a small cloud of flour dust. I imagined it was a larger cloud, surrounding your head. You frantically waved your hand before your face, coughing, trying to clear the air so you could breathe. Two clowns danced in, honking bicycle horns before whipping out hand fans to clear the air. The air cleared, the clowns took a bow, did an about-face and departed, giving one last honk on the horn as they disappeared off camera. Red-faced, you apologized for the brief video disaster and resumed making the kalakukko
FIVE HOURS to cook that? Wow. I guess if you didn't cook it so long, the kalakukko would be a wet, slimy, stinky mess inside.
Unfortunately for me, at 10:52, it looked like you pulled out of the oven a cow patty. My first thought was, "Oh no, is he going to eat cow manure?" I watched from the beginning so I knew it wasn't. Good thing I did!
Long ago, when I was walking through a pasture with my dachshund Peaches, I came across a pile of drying horse manure. To my horror, Peaches nipped all over it then proceeded to roll in the cow manure. "What a clever way to disguise her dog smell so prey won't detect her", I thought.
Yes, she got a bath when I got her home. She stunk.
Finnish Rye Fish Pouch | Kalakukko
Finnish Your Plate
3,572 views
Kalakukko is a very traditional Finnish dish from the Savonia region in Finland.
It has a name that many Finns struggle to translate, and it often comes out sounding dirty. But at its simplest it's a rye bread that has been stuffed with fish and pork. It's a filling dish, but a relatively simple one.