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Paistetut Muikut

Name: Paistetut Muikut
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Finland
Ingredients: 400g Smelt; 60g Rye Flour (or cake flour); 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 40g Butter; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; 4 Potato; 3 tbsp Mayonnaise; 1 clove Garlic; 1 Lemon

Main Dish

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Little lake fish (vendace) dusted with rye flour and fried in butter — a Finnish summer street food.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Muikku (vendace) is a small whitefish living in Finland's lakes and a summer specialty of the Lakeland region. The whole fish are dusted with rye flour and fried crisp in butter, then eaten bones and all. At markets in Tampere and Kuopio, they're sold on paper plates with mashed potato and garlic mayonnaise.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a summer market in Tampere, little fish sizzle on a big griddle and people eat them piping hot on benches overlooking the lake.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Smelt 400g
Rye Flour (or cake flour) 60g
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 40g
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Potato 4
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp
Garlic 1 clove
Lemon 1

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Wash the smelt, pat dry, and season with salt and pepper.
Dust with rye flour.
Heat butter and oil in a frying pan and fry the smelt until crisp on both sides.
Boil and mash the potatoes.
Mix grated garlic into mayonnaise.
Serve with the mashed potato, garlic mayo, and lemon.

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