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52 Delicious Swedish Meals You Need To Try Before You Die

Swedish cooking has more to it than meatballs.

1. Västerbotten cheese pie

2. Nettle soup

3. Semla

4. Swedish pancakes

5. Shrimp sandwich with egg, mayo, and lemon

6. Cinnamon rolls

7. Hasselback potatoes

8. Egg salad with anchovies

9. Smoked sausages with dill potatoes and pickled beets

10. Saffron buns

11. Fried herring with mashed potatoes, parsley butter, and lingonberries

12. Sausage and macaroni

13. Toast Skagen

14. Beef Ryberg

15. Veal burger with mashed potatos, peas, gravy, and lingonberries

16. Small potato pancakes with lingonberries

17. Poached salmon

18. Hash brown with bleak roe

19. Crispy waffles

20. Black pudding with lingonberries

21. Reindeer stew with juniper berries

22. Rhubarb compote

23. Jansson’s Temptation

24. Sandwich cake

25. Strawberries with milk and sugar

26. Spinach soup with soft-boiled egg and horseradish

27. Split-pea soup with bacon

28. Potato pancake with bacon

29. Raspberry Swiss rolls

30. Swedish beef stew

31. Veal rissoles

32. Cabbage rolls

33. Sailor’s beef

34. Swedish potato dumplings

35. Rice porridge with cinnamon

36. Meatballs with cream sauce

37. Swedish cheesecake

38. Poached pears

39. Oven-baked pancake with leek and bacon

40. Lingonberry parfait

41. Sticky chocolate cake

42. Seven kinds of cookies

43. Swedish flatbread

44. Swedish crispbread with eggs and a smoked fish roe spread

45. Princess cake

46. Blueberry cake

47. Gingerbread cookies

48. Rice pudding with raspberry jam

49. Strawberry cream cake

50. Cured salmon with potato salad

51. Pork shank with turnip mash

52. Baked chicken with bananas and peanuts