Recipes

My favorite Norwegian recipes so far. Don’t be shocked when lutefisk isn’t featured. I also have to recommend some Norwegian chocolate: definitely go for the Freia Melkesjokolade, Helnøtt, and Firkløver, or Kvikk lunsj.

Trollkrem: literally translates as troll cream. If it’s bright pink, you did it right.

Ingredients

1. 1 cup tyttebær (Lingonberry/Cowberry/a billion other names in English)
2. 1 cup sugar, 5/6 regular sugar with 1/6 vanilla sugar
3. 2 egg whites

Mash everything up in a mixer until it’s very pink and liquidy-ish. Put it on waffles, preferably thinner Norwegian-style waffles.

Torsketunger: Cod tongue. I know it sounds a little weird, but it’s actually delicious, especially the smaller pieces of meat. Ingredients:

1. cod tongues
2. butter
3. flour
4. salt
5. pepper

This one is pretty simple. You just fry the tongues in butter after coating both of their sides with a mix of flour, pepper, and salt. There aren’t any specific amounts, you just add to taste. You can also throw in an egg if you want a breadier coating.

Skillingsboller: I already published the recipe to this, but here it is again.

Ingredients:

• 100 grams butter
• 1 packet yeast (50g)
• 1 deciliter sugar
• ½ teaspoon cardamom
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 liter flour
• 1 egg
• Vanilla cream

437 degrees Fahrendheit/225 degrees Celsius, 10-15 minutes

1. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add in the milk and wait for it to be lukewarm. Remove from heat.
2. Blend in the yeast, sugar, cardamom, salt, baking powder, and flour in a bowl. Stir in the milk/butter and egg and knead the dough until it’s even and smooth.
3. Let it stand for an hour.
4. Roll the dough out into a rectangle about 1 cm thick. Spread butter over it and sprinkle it with sugar and cinnamon.
5. Roll one side of the dough over until it’s a long cylinder with a “swirl” showing on both ends.
6. Cut the dough shortways into pieces about 3 cm thick, then put them in a papered pan and squish them down into circles. Now they should look like cinnamon rolls.
7. Right before they go in the oven, add a large dollop of vanilla cream in the center.
8. Check them after 10 minutes in the oven.