About this dish
A baked bread loaf filled with fish and pork fat, slow-baked until the crust is firm and the filling tender.
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Ingredients
🌾3 cups rye flour
🐟500g small whole fish, cleaned
🥓150g pork fat, sliced
💧1 cup water
Method
Serves 21
Mix rye flour with water into a firm dough and roll into a large round.2
Layer the fish and pork fat in the center of the dough.3
Fold the dough up and over the filling, sealing it completely into a loaf shape.4
Bake at a low temperature for several hours, starting hot then reducing heat, until the crust is firm and the inside tender.5
Slice and serve warm or cold.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Kalakukko is a traditional dish from the Savonia region of Finland, historically valued for how well it kept while being carried to work in the fields.
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