Dinner
Swedish Meatballs
Small, tender meatballs in a creamy pan gravy, served with lingonberry jam and mashed potato. The bread-and-cream…
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Cream sauces, cardamom buns and lingonberry. 25 Swedish recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 25 recipes cover 8 of the site’s categories, among them 9 dinners, 5 bakes, 3 desserts, 3 holiday dishes, 2 appetisers and small plates and 1 breakfast. Of these, 4 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Toast Skagen (20 min), Swedish Pancakes (25 min) and Kladdkaka (30 min). For 15, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 17 easy, 6 medium and 2 hard.
As written, 14 are vegetarian, 1 vegan, 2 gluten-free and 3 dairy-free. Another recipe meets a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
Swedish recipes — all 25 recipes
Baking
Kanelbullar
Swedish cinnamon buns scented with cardamom, twisted into knots rather than rolled into spirals, and finished with…
Appetizers
Gravlax
Salmon cured for two days under salt, sugar and a great deal of dill, then sliced paper-thin and served with a sweet…
Desserts
Prinsesstårta
Sponge, raspberry jam, pastry cream and a great dome of whipped cream, all wrapped in a sheet of green marzipan with…
Appetizers
Toast Skagen
Prawns folded into dill mayonnaise with a squeeze of lemon, piled on a round of butter-fried bread and topped with…
Drinks
Glögg
Swedish mulled wine, served with raisins and blanched almonds in the bottom of the glass and a spoon to eat them…
Dinner
Raggmunk
Thin potato pancakes fried in butter, with bacon and lingonberry. Sweden's Thursday, and forty minutes.
Side dish
Hasselback Potatoes
Potatoes sliced almost through, brushed with butter and oil and roasted until the slices fan open into crisp, golden…
Side dish
Janssons Frestelse
A Swedish gratin of sliced potatoes, onions and anchovy fillets baked in cream for 50 minutes, the Christmas table…
Dinner
Kroppkakor
Swedish potato dumplings filled with diced smoked pork and onion, flavoured with allspice and boiled for 25 minutes.
Quick Meals
Pytt i Panna
Diced potatoes, onion and leftover meat fried until crisp in one pan and served with a fried egg and pickled beetroot.
Dinner
Ärtsoppa
A thick Swedish soup of yellow split peas and salt pork simmered for 90 minutes after an overnight soak, served with…
Dinner
Biff a la Lindstrom
Swedish beef patties mixed with chopped beetroot, capers and onion and fried until browned, ready in 55 minutes.
Baking
Kardemummabullar
Swedish cardamom buns of sweet yeast dough rolled with butter, sugar and cardamom, twisted into knots and baked for…
Baking
Semla
Swedish cardamom buns split and filled with almond paste and whipped cream, the Shrove Tuesday treat, in 1 hour 5…
Baking
Kladdkaka
A Swedish sticky chocolate cake that is crisp on top and gooey inside, baked for 20 minutes in one bowl.
Holiday Specials
Lussekatter
Swedish saffron buns shaped into S curls with a raisin in each coil, risen for 90 minutes and baked for 15 minutes…
Holiday Specials
Pepparkakor
Thin, crisp Swedish gingerbread biscuits cut into shapes with cinnamon, ginger and cloves, chilled for 1 hour and…
Desserts
Chokladbollar
Swedish no bake chocolate balls of oats, butter, sugar, cocoa and coffee rolled in coconut, ready in 45 minutes.
Desserts
Rabarberpaj
A Swedish rhubarb pie with a buttery oat crumble topping, baked for 40 minutes and served with vanilla sauce.
Baking
Princess Cake
A Swedish dome cake of sponge layers, raspberry jam, vanilla custard and whipped cream wrapped in pale green marzipan.
Dinner
Swedish Crayfish Boil
Raw crayfish boiled in a dill and salt brine for 10 minutes and chilled in the liquid overnight, the Swedish August…
Dinner
Fiskgratang
A Swedish gratin of white fish, prawns and dill in a cream sauce under a layer of breadcrumbs, baked for 35 minutes.
Breakfast
Swedish Pancakes
Thin, lacy pancakes of eggs, milk and flour cooked for 20 minutes in butter, served with jam and whipped cream.
Holiday Specials
Christmas Rice Porridge
Creamy short-grain rice simmered for 45 minutes in milk until thick and soft, served warm with cinnamon, sugar and a…