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Sklandrausis

Name: Sklandrausis
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Latvia
Ingredients: 200g Rye Flour; 60g Butter; 100ml Water; A pinch Salt; 2 Potato; 3 Carrot; 1 Egg; 3 tbsp Sour cream; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Rye cups filled with potato and carrot pastes and baked — a traditional Latvian sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sklandrausis is a simple sweet pie from Kurzeme in western Latvia: small cups of rye dough are layered with potato paste and carrot paste sweetened with cinnamon and baked. It has long been eaten at seasonal festivals like Midsummer and is registered as an EU traditional specialty.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On Midsummer Day in Latvia, orange carrot pies line a wooden table in a farmyard as people wearing flower crowns reach for them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Rye Flour 200g
Butter 60g
Water 100ml
Salt A pinch
Potato 2
Carrot 3
Egg 1
Sour cream 3 tbsp
Sugar 3 tbsp
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the rye flour, melted butter, hot water, and salt into a dough.
Roll the dough thin, cut 12cm rounds, and turn up the edges into small cups.
Mix boiled, mashed potatoes with sour cream and a pinch of salt.
Mix boiled, mashed carrots with egg, sugar, and cinnamon.
Fill the cups with potato, then carrot, and bake at 200°C for 25 minutes.

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