BALTIC SEA MENU

baltic sea menu

Savor Baltic Sea–friendly flavors

Celebrate the Baltic Sea by enjoying foods that are good for the sea – an easy way to help the sea. Find tips and recipe ideas on this page!

Local fish on your plate

The Baltic Sea and many inland waters suffer from excess nutrients. You can help by eating fish such as bream, roach, (Baltic) herring, vendace, or perch. Catching these species removes nutrients from the waters. Local wild fish is also a climate-friendly alternative to intensively farmed meat or imported fish.

choose seasonal vegetables

You can lower your climate footprint by choosing in-season vegetables. Build your vegetarian dish with ingredients such as beans, peas, or broad beans. Seasonal vegetables like cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, and zucchini make the dish colorful and delicious in August. Potatoes, domestic grains, and local berries are also great ingredients.

Person holding an open container with fried fish pieces on one side and a creamy dill sauce on the other, outdoors with blurred background.

EAT OUT or cook at home

Indulge in Baltic Sea flavors at a restaurant or cook in your own kitchen using recipes below.

Recipe ideas

Create, alone or together with friends, a menu that truly matters!

Porkkalaa eli porkkanasta tehtyä kasvisgraavia lautasella — Photo: the Martha Organization

The Baltic Sea menu is built from Baltic pancakes, Porkkala, roach caviar, sesame-cured herrings and lingonberry-cranberry meringues. A lovely spread for the Baltic Sea Day dinner!

The recipes

Eat smart, choose roach

Unlike many other species, roach and other small fish thrive in nutrient-rich waters. Roach rummage along the sea bottom in search of food, and in doing so they stir nutrients such as phosphorus into the water. This further exacerbates eutrophication. Therefore, choosing roach in addition to a plant-based diet, is the most effective way to help the sea.

Phosphorus is not harmful to humans: it is an essential mineral in our bodies and can be obtained from foods such as milk and cereal products. In addition to phosphorus and protein, fish provides vitamin D, iodine, and zinc, all of which are essential nutrients.

THEMES

OTHER IDEAS TO CELEBRATE BALTIC SEA DAY

Pieni lapsi menossa uimaan uimarenkaan kanssa mereen jossa on paljon uimareita

Plunge

Get your crew together and take a Baltic dip in your nearby waters!

Enjoy maritime culture

Experience the sea through music, stories, and other forms of art.