STARTERS:
- Garlic toasts
- Cheese plates
- Smoked meat
- Marinated mushrooms
- Smoked fish
- Dried fruits and berries
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SOUPS - Latvians eat many seasonal soups. |
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Spring, summer:
- Fresh vegetable milk-based soup
- Fish soup
- Chilled soup
- Sorrel, nettle soup
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Autumn, winter:
- Sauerkraut soup
- Bean soup
- Mutton soup
- Solyanka
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ENTREES:
- Pork chops
- Steak haché
- Kabobs
- Roast fish
- Potted dishes
- Roast pork
- Roast chicken fillet
- Hunter’s sausage
- Stroganoff
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SIDE DISHES - Potatoes, grits, rice, seasonal vegetables |
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Spring, summer:
- Green salad, dills, parsley, green onions
- Cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots
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Autumn, winter:
- Sauerkraut
- Marinated pickles
- Marinated beets
- Marinated pumpkin
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BAKED GOODS:
- Cottage cheese torte
- Honey cake
- Apple/rhubarb tarts
- Carrot buns
- Pierogi
- Biscuits
- Oatmeal cookies
- Caraway or poppy seed buns
- Pretzel-shaped birthday pastry
- Gingerbread
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DESSERTS: |
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Spring, summer:
- Berry or rhubarb fool
- Strawberry soup
- Blackberry dumplings
- Ice cream with berries
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Autumn, winter:
- Layered rye bread
- Manna-based desserts
- Cottage cheese and chocolate creams
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BEVERAGES:
- Coffee
- Herb teas
- Fruit juices
- Birch juice
- Kefir
- Kvass
- Fresh water
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ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES:
- Beer
- Home-brewed sweetened beer (“miestiņš”)
- Vodkas
- Berry-flavoured vodkas
- Cider
- Homemade wine
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