How to pronounce Sultsina

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈsultsinɑ/. In plain English letters that is SOOLT-see-nah, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Sultsina?

Sultsina is a snack of Finland. Where it comes from: North Karelia. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour, rice and dairy & cheese. It tastes savory.

Where Sultsina comes from

Sultsina is one of 20 signature dishes of Finland on this map.

• Karelian pasty karjalanpiirakka · Bread & pastry · Karelia

  Karjalanpiirakka, the Karelian pasty, has a thin rye crust crimped by hand around a filling of rice porridge, sometimes barley or mashed potato, and is baked in a very hot oven.

• Lohikeitto · Soup & stew · Coast and lakes

  Lohikeitto is a salmon soup: pieces of salmon simmered with potatoes, leeks or onions and allspice, finished with cream or milk and a lot of chopped dill.

• Kalakukko · Bread & pastry · Savonia (Kuopio)

  Kalakukko is a loaf of thick rye bread with fish baked inside it, usually small vendace (muikku) or perch, with pork fat.

• Karelian hot pot karjalanpaisti · Main dish · Karelia

  Karjalanpaisti, Karelian hot pot, is a meat stew from the region of Karelia.

• Särä · Main dish · Lemi (South Karelia)

  Särä is a South Karelian dish of lamb and potatoes baked in a wood-fired bread oven, and the municipality of Lemi is known for it.

• Lörtsy · Street food · Savonlinna (South Savo)

  Lörtsy is a thin, flat, half-moon pastry from Savonlinna in eastern Finland, and today it is seen as a Savonlinna dish above all.

Food of Finland

Dishes like Sultsina in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Sultsina:

• Halve Hahn · Snack · Cologne (Rhineland), Germany

  Halve Hahn means "half a chicken" in the Rhineland dialect, but there is no chicken in it.

• Shrimp croquettes garnaalkroketten · Snack · West Flanders, Belgium

  Garnaalkroketten are croquettes filled with North Sea grey shrimp, a Flemish dish closely tied to the Belgian coast.

• Croque-monsieur · Snack · Paris, France

  The croque-monsieur is a hot ham and cheese sandwich from the cooking of Paris.

• Welsh rarebit caws pobi · Snack · Wales, United Kingdom

  Welsh rarebit is seasoned melted cheese, often mixed with ale, mustard or Worcestershire sauce, poured over toast and browned under the grill.