How to pronounce Palt

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /palt/. In plain English letters that is PALT, 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 Palt?

Palt is a main dish of Sweden. Where it comes from: Norrland. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are potato, pork and wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Palt comes from

Palt is one of 22 signature dishes of Sweden on this map.

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• Köttbullar · Main dish · Sweden

  Köttbullar are small meatballs of minced beef and pork with onion, breadcrumbs soaked in milk, and white pepper, fried in butter and served with cream sauce, boiled or mashed potatoes, lingonberry jam and pickled cucumber.

• Gravlax gravad lax · Main dish · Scandinavia

  Gravlax means "buried salmon".

• Kanelbulle · Dessert · Sweden

  The kanelbulle, Swedish cinnamon bun, is a yeasted wheat dough spiced with cardamom, rolled with a filling of butter, sugar and cinnamon, twisted into a knot or spiral, and sprinkled with pearl sugar.

• Surströmming · Main dish · Ångermanland (High Coast)

  Surströmming means 'sour herring': small Baltic herring, called strömming in Swedish, lightly salted and left to ferment.

• Kroppkakor · Main dish · Öland, Småland, Blekinge and Gotland

  Kroppkakor are boiled potato dumplings about the size of a tennis ball, usually filled with salted pork and onion.

Food of Sweden

Dishes like Palt in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Palt:

• Raspeball · Main dish · Western Norway, Norway

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