Karjalanpiirakat

Traditional fastfood (not to make but to consume) from East Finland. If you want to taste an industrial version, visit any Finnish foodstore.

Ingredients:

rice porridge - portion for 4 peoplerye

flour - ca. 6 dl

water - ca. 2 dl

salt - ca. 2 teaspoons
milk - ca. 5 dl

Make the porridge. Mix the rest of the ingredients and make a dough. Make small balls of dough and roll them out to 1-2 mm thick ovals.

Spread a layer of about 1 cm rice porridge in the middle, leave the edges (about 1,5 cm wide) free of porridge.

Pinch the edges between two fingers bending them upwards around the porridge layer.

Bake in hot (250-300 C) oven for around 15 min, until the pies are starting to get brown. Optional: drown the pies shortly in hot milk or melted butter or a mixture of these and dry them on a grid.