Nordic recipes
21 Nordic recipes for a home kitchen, from 15 minutes. Have some of the ingredients already? Match them to what you have.
Dinner
30 min
Nordic · dinner
Swedish chicken and banana bake
A casserole inspired by Sweden's Flying Jacob, with cooked chicken, banana and bacon in a chile-spiked cream, topped with roasted peanuts. Sweet, salty and creamy at once.
30 min
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Pollock meatballs in dill broth
Soft poached balls of chopped pollock in a light leek broth, finished with fresh dill and a squeeze of lemon.
35 min
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Buttered potatoes with braised cucumber and dill
Cucumber is gently cooked in butter and stock until just soft, then folded through warm potatoes with fresh dill. Humble, soft and a little unexpected.
35 min
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Swedish-style salmon and potato hash
A skillet hash of crisp potatoes, sweet onion and flaky salmon, served with a tangy yogurt sauce spiked with Dijon mustard and fresh dill.
35 min
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Finnish salmon and dill soup
A creamy Finnish soup of salmon and potatoes in a leek and fish stock broth, stirred with fresh dill at the end.
40 min
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Fiskesuppe (Norwegian fish soup)
Creamy Bergen-style fish soup with salmon, white fish, shrimp, carrots and leek.
40 min
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Plokkfiskur (Icelandic fish stew)
Creamy hash of flaked cod and potatoes in béchamel with onion, served on rye bread.
45 min
Nordic · dinner
Swedish meatballs
Tender allspice-scented meatballs in a creamy brown gravy, with lingonberry jam.
60 min
Nordic · dinner
Kjøttkaker (Norwegian meat cakes)
Flat Norwegian beef patties seasoned with nutmeg and ginger, simmered in brown gravy with potatoes and lingonberries.
Lunch & snacks
15 min
Nordic · lunch
Danish smoked trout on rye
A quick open-faced sandwich: flaked smoked trout mixed with yogurt, mustard, dill and lemon, piled on toasted rye with sliced radish.
15 min
Nordic · lunch
Shrimp and cucumber rye toasts
Open-faced rye toasts piled with chilled shrimp and crisp cucumber in a lemon and dill yogurt dressing. No cooking beyond the toaster.
15 min
Nordic · lunch
Danish hot dogs (ristet pølse)
Grilled red sausages in buns with remoulade, ketchup, mustard, raw and crispy onions and pickles.
30 min
Nordic · lunch
Smørrebrød (Danish open-faced sandwiches)
Buttered rye topped three ways: egg and shrimp, roast beef with remoulade, and smoked salmon.
30 min
Nordic · lunch
Gravlax
Nordic salt-sugar-dill cured salmon, sliced thin with mustard-dill sauce.
Breakfast
Baking & sweets
60 min
Nordic · baking
Risalamande (Danish Christmas rice pudding)
Cold vanilla rice pudding folded with whipped cream and almonds, with warm cherry sauce.
60 min
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Kleinur
Icelandic twisted cardamom doughnuts, crisp outside and dense-tender inside.
120 min
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Karelian pies (karjalanpiirakka)
Finnish open rye-crust pastries filled with creamy rice porridge, topped with egg butter.
150 min
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Korvapuusti (Finnish cinnamon rolls)
'Slapped ears': cardamom dough rolled with cinnamon sugar, cut into wedges and pressed into ear shapes.
150 min
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Kanelsnurrer (Norwegian twisted cinnamon buns)
Twisted, knotted cardamom buns with a butter-cinnamon filling.
180 min
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Kanelbullar (Swedish cinnamon buns)
Cardamom-scented knotted buns with cinnamon butter filling, topped with pearl sugar.
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