This time we have reached to Island and we are cooking something from fish.
Plokkfiskur is Icelandic traditional food, what is basically homemade fish stew.
There are a lot of different recipes available and almost every family has their own recipe
This dish has few ingredients: white fish fillet (for example codfish), potatoes, onion, wheat flour, milk, salt and pepper.
I used idea for recipe from this page:
https://adventures.is/blog/icelandic-food-recipies-plokkfiskur/
Ingredients:
half onion, finely chopped
50 g butter
20 g wheat flour
400 g potatoes
400 g codfish fillet, boned
3 dl milk
black pepper
salt
Boil potatoes, skin on and remove skin after boiling.
Season water with salt and bring water to boil. Remove the pan from the heat and add codfish fillets.
Let the fillets stay in hot water for 8-9 minutes. Remove codfish from stock.
Chop the potatoes and flake the codfish fillet. Set a side.
Put butter into hot pan and add onion. Heat onion until, it changes the color and will became clear.
Add flour and heat it in butter. Add milk. Mix the gravy all the time to avoid the lumps. The ready gravy has medium thickness. It should not to be too liquid.
Add potato and fish pieces to gravy. Season with pepper and salt.
Serve with rye bread, with lots of butter spread on top of each slice.😊
Next stop is Greenland.
This time we have arrived to Norway and I have decide to prepare again something from potato. Flatbread from potato or Lefse.
Lefse is eaten either plain, with butter, sugar and cinnamon, or smeared with sweet mustard and filled with pieces of pork belly.
Lefse is eaten a lot in Christmas time.
Recipe I found from here ( I have made some minor changes in recipe):
https://www.sofn.com/norwegian_culture/recipe_box/baked_goods_breads_and_desserts/potato_lefse/
Ingredients:
2 large baking potatoes suitable for mashed potatoes
100 g melted butter
100 g milk
0,5 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
120 g of wheat flour (a little you also need for rolling)
Boil the potatoes without peeling and mash while still warm Mix should be even and without lumps. To get lumps out you could use sieve and put mashed potatoes throw the sieve.
Add remaining ingredients, half of wheat flour, mix well, cover and chill for 8 hours.
Add second half of flour and knead into dough. Divide dough into pieces with weight of 35 grams. Roll each ball out as thin as possible. Keep the dough, what you are not using in cold place. If you need add flour in rolling time then you could use it a little, but do add it too much.
Bake each Lefse in hot pan, turning until both sides are flecks with brown. Do not over bake.
Serve warm with butter, cinnamon and sugar. As a savory version serve Lefse with fried-smoked bacon and sweet mustard.
See you in Island 😊
In this time I share with you interesting recipe, what is very delicious and super easy to make.
There is only 3 ingredients and It takes really only 1 minute to prepare the ice cream.
One ingredient is PROfeel yogurt drink, which has high protein content an especially silky consistence. These properties giving to ice cream extra creamy touch. Ice cream is without any added sugar. All sweetness is coming from banana and PROfeel yogurt drink.
Really sinless dessert 😊
Ingredients:
140 g sliced and frozen banana (put banana day ahead to freezer). You can keep the bananas always in freezer, just in case you will desire a really delicious ice cream 😊
40 g frozen raspberries
80 g Valio PROfeel wild berry protein yoghurt drink with collagen 275 g
Put frozen banana and raspberries to blender and crush until you get so called frozen crumble. Add PROfeel yoghurt drink and whip until you get even creamy ice cream.
Recipe is made in cooperation with Valio Eesti AS
Serve immediately.
This stop in our food trip is Sweden and we are making Swedish potato pancakes called Raggmunk.
"Raggmunk" is one of the most common Swedish meals, often served at lunch restaurants or for dinner at home.
Recipe I got from this website:
https://visitsweden.com/potato-pancakes-aka-raggmunk-recipe/
Ingredients:
480 g milk
120 g wheat flour
1,5 tsp salt
2 M size egg
800 g potatoes (not boiled)
Butter for frying
For serving:
300 g salted pork side thinly sliced
sweet lingonberry jam
Whisk together milk and flour in a bowl. Mix eggs and salt.
Grate the potatoes on the fine or coarse part (use the size as you like) and mix them into the batter.
Let the dough rest approximately 30 minutes.
Heat butter in a frying pan and put 180 g of batter to the pan.
Spread the batter over the frying pan so the grated potatoes is evenly spread throughout the
pancake and not only as a pile in the middle,
Fry on medium heat on both sides until the pancake is golden brown and crispy on the edges. Be careful not to overheat so that they get color before the potatoes is actually cooked, it takes about 4 minutes per side.
Fry the salted and slice pork until they are golden and crispy. Serve the pancakes with fried pork and lingonberry jam
The more crispy and buttery the pancake is around the edges, the better it tastes. The trick is not to spread the batter too thickly.
Believe me- these pancakes taste amazingly delicious 😊
Next stop is Norway.
First stop in our food trip is Finland.
For introducing of Finnish kitchen I chose Karjalanpaisti recipe. It has been traditionally oven baked casserole made from veal and pork, what has been baked in low temperature for long time. Long time and low temperature gives to casserole especially flavoursome taste.
In some recipes it is recommended to use also the meat with bones, what gives especially deep flavour to casserole. For flavoring of casserole also onions, carrots, allspice, black pepper, bay leaf and salt are used. Mashed potatoes and pickled (salted) cucumbers are usually served as side dishes to Karjalanpaisti.
In year 2017 for Finland 100 anniversary ELO (ELO is a non-profit foundation established in June 2009 to promote Finnish food culture in Finland and internationally) has organized contest for choosing Finnish National Food. Karjalanpaisti got the second place. First place was given to rye bread, what is also very known in Estonia
http://www.elo-saatio.fi/suomen-kansallisruoka-on-ruisleipa
People gave altogether 38 500 votes. From this 9783 votes were given to rye bread and 9375 to Karjalanpaisti.
Idea for my recipe I got from here https://kotiliesi.fi/resepti/perinteinen-karjalanpaisti/
I have made some minor changes to this recipe.
Ingredients:
500 g veal
500 g pork belly
50 g butter
2 onions
2 carrots
2 tsp salt
20 pcs. allspice
3 bay leaf
0.5 tsp black peppercorns
ca 500 ml water
Cut meat into big pieces ca 3 x 3 cm.
Fry meat pieces with butter in hot pan, so the color is nice and golden brown.Put fried meat into oven pan (what you can cover with lid) or slow cooker (I used Crock-Pot).
Peel onions and carrots and add also this to oven pan.
Add salt, black pepper, allspice and bay leafs.
Add water to the pan, where you fried the meat and let the water come to boil, so you will get all the flavors and meat juices from the pan. Add water to meat.
Let the dish cook in oven 4-5 hours in 125 C or in slow cooker in low heat 4-5 hours.
Ready casserole meat is soft and sauce is flavorsome.
Serve with mashed potatoes and pickled cucumbers.
Bon Appetit!
Next stop is Sweden 😊
We all love to travel!
In 2019 I invite You to join me on a exciting trip around the world. 😊
In this time we will not travel by sea, air or land. The intention of this trip is to be in home kitchen and travel with food in countries, what I have marked in this map.
We have 31 stops in different countries. In every "stop" I prepare one dish, what is characteristic and usual for this country.
The recipes of my "food trip" You will find in my blog. 😊
Are you ready! Get set! Go!
Soon we will meet in Finland!
