How to pronounce Vínarterta

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈviːnarˌtʰɛr̥ta/. In plain English letters that is VEE-nar-ter-tah, 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 Vínarterta?

Vínarterta is a dessert of Iceland. Where it comes from: All Iceland. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Vínarterta comes from

Vínarterta is one of 13 signature dishes of Iceland on this map.

• Skyr · Dessert · All Iceland

  Skyr is a thick cultured dairy food made from skimmed milk, warmed, soured with a bit of an earlier batch and strained until very thick.

• Brennivín · Drink · All Iceland

  Brennivín is Iceland's own style of the Nordic brännvin and is considered the country's signature spirit.

• Flatkaka · Bread & pastry · All Iceland

  Flatkaka, also called flatbrauð, is a thin, round Icelandic bread, about 15 centimetres across and 2 to 3 millimetres thick, brown with black scorch marks.

• Harðfiskur · Snack · All Iceland

  Harðfiskur is dried fish that has been beaten to soften it, most often haddock, wolffish or cod, though pollock, blue whiting and halibut are also used.

• Kjötsúpa · Soup & stew · All Iceland

  Kjötsúpa, Icelandic meat soup, is a hearty soup of lamb and vegetables, most often potatoes, swede, carrots and white cabbage, with onion or leek, dried soup herbs and often rice, oats or barley.

• Kleinur · Dessert · All Iceland

  Kleinur are small twisted pastries fried in fat, traditionally tallow, and they have long been a popular coffee-time treat in Iceland.

Food of Iceland

Dishes like Vínarterta in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Vínarterta:

• Shortbread · Dessert · Scotland, United Kingdom

  Shortbread is the classic Scottish biscuit: one part sugar, two parts butter and three or four parts flour, with no raising agent, baked pale and crumbly.

• Svele · Dessert · Møre og Romsdal, Norway

  A svele is a thick Norwegian pancake, about a centimetre thick and 18 centimetres across, raised with baking soda and hartshorn salt, which give it a characteristic flavour; the batter also has egg, flour, butter, sugar and soured milk or kefir.

• Hälsingland ostkaka Hälsingeostkaka · Dessert · Hälsingland, Sweden

  Ostkaka, 'cheese cake', is an old Swedish dessert made by curdling milk with rennet, mixing in a little flour and baking it in the oven; Swedish sources trace it back in writing to 1538.

• Flødebolle · Dessert · Denmark

  A flødebolle, 'cream bun', is a Danish treat of a wafer base topped with a light white foam of whipped egg white and sugar and coated in chocolate; with grated coconut it is a kokosbolle.