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Karjalanpaisti

Name: Karjalanpaisti
Total time: 240 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Finland
Ingredients: 400g Beef; 400g Pork Shoulder; 300g Lamb; 2 Onion; 1 Carrot; 1 tsp (whole) Black Pepper; 2 Bay leaf; 2 tsp Salt; 4 Potato; To taste Lingonberry Jam

Main Dish

⏱ 240 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Three kinds of meat slow-cooked in the oven for hours — a humble stew from Karelia.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Karjalanpaisti (Karelian stew) is made by cutting beef, pork, and lamb into large pieces and slow-cooking them in the oven for hours with nothing but salt, peppercorns, allspice, and onion. It was once cooked overnight in the residual heat of a wood-fired oven. Served with mashed potato and lingonberry jam, it's a Finnish holiday staple.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the day before Christmas, a clay pot is pulled from the stone oven of a country house, and meat cooked until falling apart is served beside mashed potato.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Beef 400g
Pork Shoulder 400g
Lamb 300g
Onion 2
Carrot 1
Black Pepper 1 tsp (whole)
Bay leaf 2
Salt 2 tsp
Potato 4
Lingonberry Jam To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the meat into large cubes.
Layer the meat, onion wedges, and carrot rounds in a heavy ovenproof pot and add salt, peppercorns, and bay leaf.
Add water to just cover.
Cover and cook in a 160°C oven for 3–4 hours until the meat falls apart.
Boil and mash the potatoes.
Serve with mashed potato and lingonberry jam.

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