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A small open-faced pie with a rye-dough crust filled with mashed carrot and potato, sweetened with honey and topped with caraway; a Suiti minority specialty.
Sklandrausis is the dish of Latvia's Suiti minority, a Roman Catholic community in northwest Latvia (Kurzeme) whose food traditions remained distinct under centuries of Lutheran rule. The pie was registered as a Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) product by the EU in 2013, the first Latvian dish to receive the designation. The rye-dough crust and the carrot-potato filling reflect Kurzeme's root-vegetable economy. Centrāltirgus and Kalnciema markets are the easiest places to find sklandrausis baked the traditional way.
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Kalnciema Quarter runs every Saturday in the wooden-house Āgenskalns neighbourhood across the Daugava, anchoring the city's Slow Food farmers' weekend.
TipOpen Saturday 10:00-16:00; arrive before noon for the best produce. Live music and family workshops accompany every market day.
The bakery pavilion at Centrāltirgus runs multiple counters baking traditional Latvian pīrāgi, bacon-onion pastry pockets that anchor a Latvian lunch.
OrderTwo bacon-onion pīrāgi, hot from the oven; pair with a kvass at the next stall.
TipCounter prices stay €1 to €2 per piece; the morning bake comes out around 09:00.
Liepkalni's Krišjāņa Valdemāra branch is the central Riga outpost of the country's most-cited rye specialist, baking dark Dienas loaf and pīrāgi daily.
TipBuy a whole Dienas rye and a tray of bacon-onion pīrāgi for a picnic in Vērmanes park or by the canal.
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