Mulgi Puder appears as a signature dish in 1 Estonia cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
Mulgi Puder · Tallinn
Estonia's national peasant dish: a creamy porridge of mashed potato and pearl barley, finished with butter, bacon and onion. Mulgimaa-region origin.
Mulgi puder takes its name from the Mulgimaa region in southern Estonia, where pearl barley grew well on the heavy soils. Peasant farmers cooked the barley into a porridge then mashed it with potato to stretch the dish through winter. The barley was usually pearled and slow-cooked, then loosened with cream or milk and topped with bacon and onion. Tallinn's Old Town traditional rooms like Rataskaevu 16 still keep it on the menu year-round, alongside lingonberry jam.
Where to eat in Tallinn:
- Rataskaevu 16
- Olde Hansa
- III Draakon