Posts tagged with "swedish classics"

Raggmunk – Swedish potato pancakes with pork belly and lingonberries

Raggmunk should be thin, lacy and crisp at the edges. That takes a hot pan and plenty of butter, and in carbon steel you fry the pork belly first, then the pancakes in the same fat.

2026-11-06

Crispy pan-fried potatoes with thyme and garlic

Raw diced potatoes turn crisp outside and soft inside when they lie in a single layer and fry at a steady pace. A wide carbon steel pan gives them room and an even frying surface.

2026-11-06

Ärtsoppa – Swedish yellow pea soup with pork

Yellow pea soup with salted pork is the classic Swedish Thursday dinner. The 4 L enamelled pot holds a full batch for six, and the enamel is easy to clean after a thick pea soup.

2026-11-06

Swedish Christmas meatballs

The most important dish on the Swedish Christmas table deserves a proper frying pan. In carbon steel the meatballs get a crust no non-stick pan can give.

2026-11-06

Dill-boiled potatoes

Potatoes boiled with dill stalks, steamed dry and tossed in butter and fresh dill. A simple side that is at its best in a roomy enamel saucepan with a lid.

2026-11-06

Swedish plättar – small pancakes with lingonberries

Small, thin Swedish pancakes with lacy golden edges, served with lingonberry jam and whipped cream. The plättar pan cooks seven at a time, all the same size and colour.

2026-11-06

Swedish meatballs in cream sauce with lingonberries

Everyday Swedish meatballs, browned and juicy, in a cream sauce made from the pan juices in the same pan. Served with boiled potatoes, lingonberries and pickled cucumber.

2026-11-06

Janssons frestelse – Swedish potato and sprat gratin

The Swedish Christmas table's essential gratin of potato matchsticks, buttery onions, spiced sprats and cream. In a black enamelled baking tin the top turns golden and the edges crisp.

2026-11-06

Flygande Jacob – Swedish chicken, banana and peanut bake

The Swedish 1970s classic of chicken, banana and bacon in a creamy chilli sauce, topped with salted peanuts. In the enamelled steel baking tin the sauce bubbles evenly and browns lightly on top.

2026-11-06

Scandinavian Christmas rice porridge

Creamy rice porridge simmered in milk with a cinnamon stick in a roomy enamel pot, served with butter, sugar and cinnamon. Do not forget the hidden almond.

2026-11-06

Biff Rydberg – Swedish beef fillet with fried potatoes, onion and egg yolk

Biff Rydberg is three simple things fried separately: potatoes, onion and beef fillet. A carbon steel pan takes the high heat that crusts the beef in a minute, before it has time to stew.

2026-11-06

Wallenbergare – Swedish veal patties with mash, peas and lingonberries

Wallenbergare are finely minced veal patties enriched with egg yolk and cream, crumbed and fried in butter. In an evenly heated carbon steel pan the crumb turns golden without the butter burning.

2026-11-06

Stekt strömming – fried Baltic herring with mash and lingonberries

Stekt strömming is pairs of small herring fillets with dill between them, coated in rye flour and fried crisp in butter. In a properly hot carbon steel pan the fish forms a golden crust and lifts away easily.

2026-11-06

Pannbiff – Swedish beef patties with fried onions and cream gravy

Pannbiff is thick beef patties under a layer of slow-fried onions, in a cream gravy made in the same pan. The browned bits the patties leave in the carbon steel pan give the gravy its flavour.

2026-11-06