Latvian recipes

Get to know the best and most unique Latvian food, drink, and desserts to try at home or on your future trips to Latvia.

Latvian Food: 14 Most Popular and Traditional Dishes to Try in Latvia. #nomadparadise

I served this stew to my book club during the monthly dinner we hold in conjunction with our book selection. We try to prepare food that has a connection to the book, and in this case, it was Amor Towles, "A Gentleman In Moscow." It's a book that I've read twice now, and could read it again and again, for its witty, elegant style and its urbane central character, a Russian count who is confined by the Bolsheviks in Moscow's famed Metropol Hotel, and is relegated to a tiny garret from his…

This Latvian recipe came up frequently when looking up Latvian food. It's actually delicious on its own, but also quite good on po...

Latvian dill potatoes are perfect to enjoy with the pork cutlets or would be lovely as a side for just about anything. You use small potatoes like Yukon golds or red or white new potatoes

Latvian cold beet soup is loved all over the Baltic States and many other places as well. It is a refreshing soup for a hot summer day. There are numerous variations to this dish and this one was excellent. The color is a spectacular bright pink. It is served with a topping of a cut up ...

Latvian pork cutlets called karbonade is made with an amazing mushroom cream sauce. Honestly, I have made a similar dish most of my life using a can of cream of mushroom soup. Wow, what I have been missing all these years. If I would have known how incredibly simple this dish is to make, ...

Salt-cured herring becomes a lavish centerpiece when layered with apples and a sour cream—mayonnaise dressing in this beautiful composed salad. This recipe first appeared in our May 2011 issue, with the article Riga Revisited.

Have you ever heard of Lithuanian foods? The country might be small but it is mighty in culinary terms. Numerous scrumptious Lithuanian dishes deserve a

Latvians, our southern neighbours, celebrate the 92nd anniversary of an independent Latvian Republic today. I thought it's a great opportunity to blog about one of the best-know Latvian dishes (at least here in Estonia) - a pork stroganoff that gets its name from historical Courland region. While boeuf stroganoff is a dark beef stew, then Kurzeme stroganoff is pale (colour-wise, not taste-wise) and just as delicious, if not as sophisticated. Excellent autumn and winter dish that's best…