A Swedish Easter in Stockholm

An Easter food fest

Much like for Christmas and Midsummer, it is Easter Eve that is the holiday’s major feast day and it is also the day for traditional food. The Swedish Easter table is covered in delicious dishes, such as Gubbröra - an egg salad with anchovies. You’ll also find different variants of pickled herring, infused with spices, cloves and onion, or mustard; and of course salmon, which may be poached, fried  or served chilled in cured (‘gravlax’) or smoked form.

Other dishes include Janssons frestelse (Jansson’s temptation), a gratin-like dish made from potatoes cut into strips and layered with onion and anchovies, and Västerbottenpaj, a quiche laden with extra mature Västerbotten cheese. But one food that Swedes are particularly fond of during Easter is sweets. At any supermarket in the country you’ll see people of all ages scooping up fizzy strawberry laces, rainbow-coloured jelly eggs or vegan lemon toffee into paper bags or in decorative paper eggs.