lihapiirakka
Sign in to saveA '''''' (, literally "meat pie") is an everyday Finnish food sold in supermarkets and often available ready-to-eat as street food. It is a form of savoury pie or turnover made from doughnut dough and filled with a mixture of minced meat and cooked rice and cooked by deep frying. It does not resemble a traditional English or American meat pie or turnover because it is made of doughnut mix and is deep fried. They are usually bought ready-cooked and are simply reheated in a microwave oven.
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A ' (, literally "meat pie") is an everyday Finnish food sold in supermarkets and often available ready-to-eat as street food. It is a form of savoury pie or turnover made from doughnut dough and filled with a mixture of minced meat and cooked rice and cooked by deep frying. It does not resemble a traditional English or American meat pie or turnover because it is made of doughnut mix and is deep fried. They are usually bought ready-cooked and are simply reheated in a microwave oven.
A larger and thicker form is also known as a . Two variants from Lappeenranta are and ' ("atom" and "hydrogen"), where atomi contains either ham or egg, and vety includes both.
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