Cold salad with lutefisk and beans with a browned butter vinaigrette
: Sofia Hortlund, Grythytte akademi
: Main
: 10
Lutefisk is a traditional dish in Sweden, usually served at Christmas time. It is made from aged stockfish (air-dried whitefish) or dried/salted whitefish and lye (lut).
Ingredients
1kg (2 lbs) lutefisk, boiled
1 kg (2 lbs) fava beans, stringed
700g (1½ lbs) green peas, cut lengthwise
700g (1½ lbs) snow peas, cut a little on the slant.
Vinaigrette:
½kg (1 lb) butter
2 tablespoons white wine vinegar
salt
allspice
Instructions
Brown the butter. Mix in vinegar, salt and allspice. Mix with beans and fish.
Serve: Slice some red onion onions thinly and marinate them in 1-2-3 brine with some whole white and black pepper corns and bay leaves.
Arrange as shown.
Notes
Great recipe for leftover lutefisk from the Christmas table. If you can´t find or like lutefisk you can use cod instead.
…is a British writer and editor who moved to Sweden in 2001. A former chef turned food and travel writer, he loves everything about food, but particularly the raw ingredients themselves. When not cooking, eating or thinking about food, he can often be found hanging around in butchers shops, fishmongers and grocery stores; a hobby he can pursue for hours on end. He hopes that writing this blog will take up so much time that it halves his food shopping bills.
