Monday, August 20, 2007

Today's Chef Menu

This is what you may find in your plate if you decide to go to a finnish Restaurant:

Chef's Menu


Starters

Forest mushroom salad

Finnish deer carpaccio with cranberry-herb salad

Crispy vendace served with grannys pickled cucumbers and dill sour cream

Reindeer tongue with Red onion marmalade and goat cheese

Raspberry marinated arctic char with vodka-mustard sauce

Smoked baltic herring pâté with yoghurt carrots

Crayfish - cottage cheese filled cabbage leaves, with melted dill butter

Terrine of reindeer liver with jelly made of berries

Cream of chantarelles

Grilled salsify and rosehip jam

Paste of wild duck and morels with sea buckthorn berry compote


Meat dishes

Fillet of reindeer marinated in Finnish brandy and Juniper potatoes

Sautéed reindeer with mashed potatoes and blackcurrant jam

Smoked elk, pearl barley cake, horn chanterelle and finnish brandy jus

Fillet of elk and Lappish potato and celery purée: Winter vegetable bake and cranberry sauce

Fillet of beef, potato gratin, traditionally braised turnip and beetroot, home-made mustard sauce

Flambéed bear meatballs, mashed potatoes, sautéed ceps, cranberries and creamy game sauce

Tender fore loin of lamb, root vegetables and potato in tasty lamb broth

Lamb fillet, grey chantarelle stock and potato pancake

Finnish duck and crowberry sauce with honeymushrooms and gratinated parsnip

Rosé fried breast of wild duck with spicy poultry sauce

Pan Fried Snow Grouse breast and confit leg, potato gratin, with rowanberry sauce

Fish dishes

Fried pike-perch, carrot sauce and swede cake

Pike perch stuffed with lobster mousse served with caper and lobster sauce and dill potatoes

Salmon baked with tar syrup, barley pancake and root vegetables, sharp onion sauce

Char grilled trout, sautéed salsify and onion, cream cheese sauce with garden angelica

Smoked whitefish, horn chanterelles, pearl barley and herb sauce

Glow-fried whitefish with calmari vinaigrette

Desserts

Lappish farm cheese in cinnamon cream, Cloudberry jam and spelt wheat-nut bread

Cranberry ice cream, warm white chocolate sauce and honey cloudberry compote

Blueberry mousse, raspberry soup and vanilla & oat cookie

Rhubarb soup with vanilla cream

Flambéed Barley pancakes with wild berry jam and home-made angelica ice-cream


Hyvää Ruokahalua
(Enjoy your meal)

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