Swedish cuisine
Swedish cooking balances rich against sour: cream sauce with lingonberry, herring with vinegar, and a cardamom bun with the coffee.
Sour berries occupy the place other cuisines give to lemon. Lingonberry goes with meat rather than pudding, and that is a necessity rather than a quirk in a kitchen this fond of cream.
Fika is not a coffee break but an institution: coffee with something baked, at a set time, every day. Half of Swedish baking exists for it.
2 dishes
- Köttbullar
Meatballs on a panade of bread and cream, in a cream sauce, with lingonberry and mashed potato.
60 min · Easy · Main course
- Kanelbullar
Cinnamon buns knotted rather than rolled. The cardamom in the dough matters more than the cinnamon inside.
135 min · Medium · Dessert