How to pronounce Tunnbröd

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈtɵ̂nːbrøːd/. In plain English letters that is TUN-brurd, 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 Tunnbröd?

Tunnbröd is a bread or pastry of Sweden. Where it comes from: Norrland. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner and as a snack. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour. It tastes savory.

Where Tunnbröd comes from

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

• Surströmming · Main dish · Ångermanland (High Coast)

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

• 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.

• 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.

• Småland ostkaka Småländsk ostkaka · Dessert · Småland

  Småland ostkaka is the southern of Sweden's two traditional curd cakes.

Food of Sweden

Dishes like Tunnbröd in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Tunnbröd:

• Kalakukko · Bread & pastry · Savonia (Kuopio), Finland

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

• Lefse · Bread & pastry · Norway

  Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread, also found in parts of Sweden.

• Smørrebrød · Bread & pastry · Copenhagen, Denmark

  Smørrebrød means "butter and bread": a slice of dense rye bread spread with butter or fat and topped with toppings piled high, eaten with a knife and fork.

• Kibinai · Bread & pastry · Trakai, Lithuania

  Kibinai are crescent-shaped pastries filled with chopped mutton or beef and onion, sealed with a crimped edge and baked.