HOW TO MAKE KARJALAN PIIRAKKA

Our love for this traditional Karelian deliciousness and Marko's wish to introduce our son to it have caused us to finally learn how to make them. And we learned from the best: Marko's mum. And this is how it's done:

The dough is simple: water, rye flour and salt.

Slice off round pieces and flatten them. That's trickier than it looks.


Fill them with rice porridge ...

and fold the sides in.

And with a lot of practice, one day your piirakka will maybe look like the master's.