RECIPES

This page is made in the honor of my NY friend Sherrie, who's so curious about Norwegian habits :-)
This is a few recipes of typical Norwegian food, not necessarily ORIGINALLY Norwegian, but eaten a lot in Norway

Lapskaus (Stew or hot pot)

2-3 persons (?)
You will need: dark meat (preferably with bones), common cabbage, yellow turnip, carrots, potatoes, salt, black pepper, butter and flour (red whortleberry/cranberry jam). All the amounts I mention is aproximately, you just have to try

400 grams meat
300 grams potatoes
300 grams carrots
200 grams common cabbage
200 grams yellow turnip

Cook the meat for an hour or two in at least 2 litres of water. Take the meat out and cut it into pieces, put it aside for a while. Cut all the vegetables in small pieces and boil them in the water you boiled the meat in. Boil the vegetables for aproximately half an hour (untill they are soft). Put in the meat (add more water if needed). Add salt and pepper as you like.
Now you have a "meat soup" (kjøttsuppe) which is also quite regular in Norway. To make it into a stew you melt aproximately 200 grams of butter in a frying pan. Mix in flour untill its not fluid anymore. Bake it in the pan untill it is brown (middle temperature), stir all the time. Mix this with the soup, and you have a stew! You can serve it with bread and butter, and red whortleberry jam/ cranberry jam.

Kjøttkaker i brun saus (meat balls in brown sauce)

4 persons
You will need minced meat, salt, 1 egg, flour, potato flour, milk, pepper, common cabbage, butter, nutmeg and potatoes (and red whortleberry/cranberry jam).

Meat balls:

500 grams minced meat
1/2 tea spoon of salt
1 egg
1 table spoon of flour
1 table spoon of potato flour
2-4 decilitres of milk
pepper

Stir the minced meat and the salt in a kitchen machine untill it's "tough" (sticky). Mix in the egg and both types of flour, and pepper. Mix in the milk, don't make it too loose. Fry the meat in balls in a frying pan: take a table spoon of the mixture and shape it in your hand, put it ina pre heated frying pan and press it a bit flat. Dip the spoon in water between every meat ball it doesnt get too sticky. Fry them untill the meat is baked all through.
Make brown sauce: Melt butter (200-300grams) in the pan and add flour untill it's not fluid. Bake it untill it's brown on missle heat. Add water (careful, it's hot)untill it is as thick as you want it. Put it in a casserole with the meat balls. Serve with potatoes, cabbage stew and red whortleberry/cranberry jam.

Kålstuing (cabbage stew)

500 grams common cabbage
1 litre of water
1-2 tea spoons of salt

Hvit saus (White sauce):

2 table spoons of butter
2 table spoons of flour
half a litre of milk
half a tea spoon of nutmeg

Cut the cabbage in small pieces and cook it in the water untill it's soft (not too soft, you can easily stick a fork through it, but it shouldn't fall apart). Filter the water out. Make white sauce: melt the butter in a pan, stir in the flour. Pour in milk and make it boil. If it looks too thick after boiling, just add more milk and let it boil once more. Stir all the time or it will get burned to the bottom. Add the nutmeg, stir, and add the cooked cabbage. The stew is ready

Oksegryte (ox pan)

2 persons
You will need ox meat, onion, flour, salt, pepper, ketchup, mustard, potatoes.

300 grams ox meat
1 big onion
2 dl of water
Half a deciliter of ketchup
1 table spoon of mustard
1-2 cups of flour
1-3 tea spoons of salt
black pepper

Mix flour, salt and pepper(use as much as you feel like) in a bowl. Cut the meat in pieces and roll it in the flour mixture. Fry it in butter in a pan, and when it's brown you put it in a casserole. Pour aproximately 2 deciliters of water in the pan you've been frying the meat in (don't wash the pan beforehand), make it boil and stir out the flour rests. Pour that in the casserole with the meat. Cut the onion in pieces and bake it, mix it with the meat. Boil all of this for an hour and then put in the ketchup an dthe mustard. Served with moshed potatoes and white bread.

Fiskegrateng (Fish made in oven)

4-5 persons
You will need white fish (cod, coalfish or similar), macaroni, butter, flour, milk, salt, nutmeg, eggs, cheese or bread crumbles (from the crust). Potatoes, carrots and a lemon

400 grams of boiled white fish
2 deciliters of macaroni
2-3 table spoons of butter
4 table spoons of flour
aproximately 5,5 decliters of milk
3 big eggs
a couple of handfuls of crust or 250 grams grated cheese

Spread butter in a fireproof form, cut the fish up in small pieces and put it in the bottom of this form.
Make a white sauce: Melt the butter, stir in the flour, put in the milk and let it boil. Add nutmeg and salt. The sauce is supposed to be a bit thin
Boil the macaroni and mix it in tghe hwite sauce, and add the eggs to the sauce. Stir.
Pour the sauce over the fish, and spread cheese/bread crumbles on top.
Put the form in a pre heated oven (225 celcius degrees) and bake it for 30 minutes (if you use cheese it might be handy to bake it for 20 minutes before you spread the cheese on, otherwise the cheese might get burned).
Serve it with potatoes (boiled) and carrots (boiled or grated), a couple of slices of lemon and melted butter.