How to pronounce Västerbotten cheese

Västerbotten cheese is written Västerbottensost where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈvɛ̂sːtɛrbɔtːɛnsˌʊst/. In plain English letters that is VEST-er-bot-ens-oost, 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 Västerbotten cheese?

Västerbotten cheese is a snack of Sweden. Where it comes from: Västerbotten. People usually eat it as a snack. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Västerbotten cheese comes from

Västerbotten cheese is one of 22 signature dishes of Sweden on this map.

• 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.

• Småland ostkaka Småländsk ostkaka · Dessert · Småland

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

Food of Sweden

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Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Västerbotten cheese:

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• Olomoucké tvarůžky · Snack · Haná (Olomouc Region), Czechia

  Olomoucké tvarůžky are a ripened soft cheese from Moravia, made from low-fat curd cheese rather than directly from milk, which is where the name, "little curds", comes from.

• Gouda cheese Goudse kaas · Snack · South Holland, Netherlands

  Gouda is a family of yellow cow's milk cheeses named after the city of Gouda in South Holland, where farmers brought their cheeses to be sold on the market square.

• Bryndza podhalańska · Snack · Podhale (Lesser Poland), Poland

  Bryndza podhalańska is the soft sheep's milk cheese of Podhale, the highland region at the foot of the Tatra Mountains.