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Mykyrokka
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A bowl of mykyrokka.
Alternative names Tappaiskeitto ("Butchery soup")
Type Soup
Course Main course
Place of origin Finland
Region or state Savonia (Eastern Finland Province)
Serving temperature Hot
Main ingredients Dumplings (blood and barley flour), fatty meat, offal, potatoes, onions, salt, black pepper, water

Mykyrokka is a soup that is a typical traditional dish in eastern Finland (Savo region). The main ingredient is myky: a palm sized dumpling made from blood and barley flour. The dumplings are cooked in the soup. The soup also contains potatoes, onions, fatty meat, and offal such as kidneys, liver and or heart. Salt and black pepper are the usual seasonings.

This soup is also called tappaiskeitto (i.e., "butchery soup") referring to an old farm custom of autumn butchery when some animals were butchered and the meat and organs were made into sausages, hams, and other meats, and what remained was put into the soup.

Soup is also considered the traditional parish dish of the Heinola town in the 1980s.

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