This harsh northern country cannot boast of having dollar millionaires, at the same time it is considered the best for a person's life. As a tourist, it is best to go to Norway, of course, in the summer. Still, north … But the places here are simply magical. And the gourmet will experience a real adventure, get an unforgettable gastronomic experience.
Food in Norway
Norwegian cuisine is the cuisine of fishermen and farmers. Its menu consists mainly of meat, fish, milk.
Once upon a time, Norwegians were ashamed of their provinciality and looked at the menus of other countries. And today the cuisine of Norway is called exotic. Old culinary traditions and recipes have been rewritten with an emphasis on local organic products, game, seafood and, in principle, rare products such as, for example, whale meat or cloudberry honey.
Food in Norway is not so cheap, at the same time you can save money. Firstly, on drinking water, which can be safely drunk from the tap (50 years ago, it would have been strange in Russia to hear that plain drinking water would have to be bought in a store).
So, tap water in Norway is clean, you can safely drink it. In addition, in cities you can find shops with large counters filled with vegetables and fruits. They also sell oils, nuts, cookies and sweets, cereals, spices, fresh bread and other products. These shops are always crowded.
Well, if you want to eat with all your heart, cafes and restaurants are at your service: expensive ones with international dishes; exclusive grill bars; fish restaurants; cafe with home cooking - pies, pastries; self-service establishments, and, of course, fast food.
Interestingly, lunch in Norway starts at 11 am - the time when people eat "multi-storey" sandwiches with meat, lard, fish, offal, vegetables and other products. They eat such a sandwich, gradually removing one layer after another.
Several gastronomic festivals are held in Norway throughout the year, where you can fully taste the culinary wonders of this harsh climatic, but complacent country.
Top 8 Norwegian dishes
Game and elk
Meat platter
Well-cooked moose meat is a true venison-like delicacy. Reindeer meat is lean and delicious. Red deer meat is fried in the form of steaks, consumed in dried, smoked, dried form. The breast of a young partridge tastes soft and tender. Legs and the rest have a game flavor. A raw-cured musk ox leg may not please everyone - this dish is not for everybody's taste, but it's worth a try.
Tatars are raw bear meat flavored with onions and herbs. Tatars are also prepared from salmon and beef, eaten with chopped onions, pickles and raw yolk.
Norwegian lamb
The meat of sheep raised on remote pastures in Norway is juicy and tender. After slaughter, the whole carcass is used. Some delicacies are prepared from very unusual parts of a lamb. Fenalor is a leg of cured lamb, and pinnets are ribs cured in brine or sea salt, which they like to serve on the table at Christmas. Smalakhove is a specially prepared sheep's head.
Forikol
Forikol
Forikol is made from lamb. Take lamb and cabbage in equal amounts. A layer of cabbage, cut into large pieces, is placed on the bottom of the pan, lamb chopped into thick pieces with bone is placed on it, sprinkled with salt and black pepper. This is how several layers are formed. Pour some water and stew for several hours. The result is a spicy and at the same time very tender and tasty dish, which is traditionally served with potatoes boiled in their skins. This is a very important dish of the Norwegian menu, it is sure to be prepared and eaten by the whole family on the last Thursday of September - the holiday of forikola.
Norwegian seafood
One of the traditional fish dishes is smoked salmon, which is also deliciously baked in foil with leeks and carrots. Halibut is baked with fried apples and onions. Rakfisk, or fermented (rotten) trout, is a delicacy for the brave. The möllier dish consists of chopped boiled cod, liver and caviar. The tasty orange pulp of the sea urchin is consumed as a separate dish or added to the soup, after which it acquires an amazing nutty iodine taste. In Norway, despite the decline in popularity in other countries, whale meat is readily consumed. But still the most common among fish is cod; various dishes are prepared from it.
Lutefisk
Lutefisk
This is a traditional Scandinavian Christmas dish, a winter delicacy made with cod. Dried fish is soaked in a soda solution for three days, then soaked in water for several days. As a result, the cod meat turns into a white translucent jelly with a pungent aroma. Then it is boiled or baked. Eat with bacon, potatoes, mashed peas and mustard.
Fish soup with salmon and cream
Fish soup with salmon and cream
Hearty fish stew has long been a favorite food of the Norwegians. The basis of the soup is a broth made from the bones and fins of sea fish, and shrimp is also added. Add butter and cream to the finished broth for satiety. A few minutes before the end of cooking, add pieces of salmon fillet. In different regions of the country, the famous fish soup is prepared according to their own recipes. In the west it is thicker, potatoes and shellfish are added. In the north, they pour more cream than usual. But everywhere and everywhere the main thing is a rich broth.
Norwegian cheeses
The most diverse types of cheese are produced here from cow and goat milk and their processed products. The cheeses are salty and sweet at the same time: geytost, gammelost, pultost, camembert, musost, etc., but brunost always makes a special impression on the guests of Norway.
Brunost is a soft brown goat cheese with an unusual flavor. It looks like, as it were, a hard condensed milk of a bright caramel taste, with sourness, a little salty. It is recommended to be eaten for breakfast with crispy rye bread. This cheese has become the hallmark of Norway in the eyes of foreigners.
desserts
Kransecake
Kransecake is a popular cake, without which no wedding, birthday or even funeral goes. The dough is prepared on the basis of almonds and egg whites, 13-18 rings are baked and stacked on top of each other.
Krumkake are Norwegian crunchy waffle biscuits that can be eaten as a separate sweet or with whipped cream and other fillings.
