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Traditional Finnish Winter Salad – Rosolli

  • Tobia
  • February 8, 2023
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Every year I throw an anniversary get-together here at my internet home. And I always serve some Finnish food. This year join me in devouring a traditional Finnish winter salad called rosolli. It is usually served for Christmas and is finely diced. The husband once spent the holidays in Finland and he kept telling me about the diced food. When I served Rosolli a few weeks back he finally knew what he was eating.

If you are new around here you may wonder why I am talking about Finnland all of a sudden. In 2014 when the husband and I got married and dreamed of a perfect winter wedding it was becoming clear that even through we did all the research on precipitation and temperatures it won’t be a white snowy wedding. And since with all the planning we had no clue where to on our honeymoon a few weeks prior my parents took a risk and booked us a honeymoon in Lapland, Finland. Amazing surprise. Wonderful vacation. Even though I was sick as a dog and couldn’t eat anything due to the antibiotics I was taking.

So every year on our anniversary I am celebrating that amazing trip by serving some Finnish food and reminiscing in this experience. And today we are making some traditional salad.

Here is what you need to make Rosolli

  • 2 cups/300g off diced, cooked beetroot
  • 1 cup/150g diced potatoes
  • 1 cup/150g diced carrots
  • 1 apple
  • 1 diced onion – preferably red
  • 1/2 cup/75 g diced pickles (-> I used a bit more)
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper
  • 1/4 cup /60g plain greek yoghurt – alternatively heavy cream
  • 1 teaspoon apple cider vinegar ( I used homemade chive blossom vinegar)
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon beetroot juice – optional
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Let’s make some Finnish Winter Salad

This salad includes a lot of cutting so I would suggest get yourself an audiobook and start dicing. Start with the potatoes and the carrots. Once cut boil them until soft but noch mushy. Drain and let cool.

Pro tip: keep the vegetable water you cooked the potatoes and carrots in and use as base for a soup. I made an amazing mushroom soup with it. I hope to re-create and share the recipe at some point. Until then maybe you find some inspiration at my Soup Sundays.

Use the time it cools down to make the dressing: Mix together yoghurt, vinegar, sugar and beet root juice in a small bowl.

Dice the remaining ingredients (pickles, onions, beetroots) and add together with potatoes and carrots. Season with salt and pepper.

Shortly before serving add the dressing and mix well. You could serve the dressing on the side but I think it’s better when the entire salad is coated.

When we had the salad I felt like something is missing though. Don’t get me wrong it was a nice texture and great flavors and wonderfully colorful on a gray dark winter day. However I did a bit more research and learned that some people add pickled herring. And I think that it a flavor that would really make it even better. I think next time I do try that version.

finnish winter salad rosolli

If you are interested have a look at the previous Finnish recipes I shared to celebrate our anniversary. 2015 – Kermakakku, 2016 – Panakakku, 2017 – Lohikeitto, 2018 – Kuuma Karpalomehu, 2019 – Porkkanavesirinkelit , 2020 – Omenakakku, 2022 – Nakkikastike.

I am wondering: Do you ever re-create food you had on vacation? Do you do something special for your anniversary? Did you go on a honeymoon and if where did you go? How long have you been married?

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6 comments
  1. Elisabeth says:
    February 9, 2023 at 1:51 pm

    We’ve been married almost 14 years. We didn’t have a real honeymoon at the time, but did go to Florida about 6 months later (I was going for a work conference, so it also wasn’t a “honeymoon” but we got away).
    My favourite trip was definitely spending 5 days in Paris together for our 10th anniversary.

    My husband now works for a Finnish company, so spends ~2weeks/month in Finland!

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    1. Tobia says:
      February 9, 2023 at 2:53 pm

      Wow 14 years is a long time. That is so sweet. I love that you celebrated your 10th anniversary with a fancy trip. That must be a wonderful memory to keep.
      How fun that your husband is working for a Finnish company. Now I can see what you meant with solo parenting and many long distant trips.

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  2. Meike says:
    February 11, 2023 at 5:08 pm

    Before kids we went on a weekend getaway for our anniversary, but now we usually go on a nice dinner. This year it will be 18 years! We went to Tuscany for our honeymoon. It was kind of an afterthought at the time since we also had to plan our move to the US but I am so glad we did go (even though I had a really bad cold).
    I started to have a love- hate relationship with cooking since it’s so hard to please everyone in my family. I rather bake.

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    1. Tobia says:
      February 12, 2023 at 9:33 am

      I can see the love-hate relationship. we are only two people and I hate it because something is never right…

      Congrats on 18 years. That is so cool. And a honeymoon in Tuscany does sound wonderful. With all the planning the honeymoon really is a stretch. We always wanted to do a cabin-hopping in Canada but never gotten around. So glad we got the surprise honeymoon.

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  3. San says:
    March 4, 2023 at 9:55 pm

    We never had a honeymoon and we’ve been married for 17 years. Oh well.

    I love the recipe – I am a fan of beetroots, but never heard of this salad. I should give it a try sometime.

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    1. Tobia says:
      March 4, 2023 at 10:20 pm

      It’s surprisingly good. Can go more to the sweet side by adding more apples, more salty with more pickles or more earthy with beets. So good.

      How come you never had a honeymoon?

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