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It’s Swedish Asparagus Season: blink, or buy a Mercedes, and you’ll miss it

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Sometimes, good things are in short supply. And sometimes, that’s ok. Asparagus season in Sweden is shorter than a Munchkin’s trouser leg, but boy is it good. For a scant three to four weeks every May, the little green spears are in abundance; and a thousand times more tasty than the flaccid, bland, Peruvian offerings that fill the shelves for the remaining 48 weeks of the year. Read more » >>

Rob Hincks - Food

May 13, 2012

Green asparagus with air-dried ham, goat cheese mousse and wild garlic

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Green asparagus with air-dried ham, goat cheese mousse and wild garlic
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: Starter
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This starter was created by top Swedish chef Gustav Trägårdh. Gustav Trägårdh was nominated Swedish chef of the year in 2010 and is head chef at the legendary seafood restaurant Sjömagasinet in Gothenburg.
Ingredients
  • 20 thick asparagus, peeled
  • 20 slices air-dried ham
  • 100g (3½ oz) wild garlic
Mousse:
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 tablespoons honey mustard
  • 2dl (1 cup) cream
  • 50ml (¼ cup) milk
  • 200g (7 oz) good goat cheese
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 teaspoon gelespesa/xantana

Instructions
Mousse:
  1. Warm up all ingredients for the mousse in a saucepan, and mix it completely smooth.
  2. Cool and fill up the siphon.
  3. Charge with two cartridges, shake! Serve at room temperature.
Presentation:
  1. Cook the asparagus al dente in salted water.
  2. Roast the wild garlic very quickly, in a splash of oil, in a saucepan. Season with salt and pepper.
  3. Roll the air-dreid ham and siphon the mousse into the rolls.
  4. Serve immediately with the asparagus cut in slices and the wild garlic on the side!
Beverage suggestion:
  1. Unfiltered fresh apple juice.

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Swedish recipes

April 26, 2012

Swedish gazpacho with shrimps and dill

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Swedish gazpacho with shrimps and dill
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: Starter
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Ingredients
Gazpacho:
  • 300g (10½ oz) cucumber, peeled and chopped into small pieces
  • ½ red onion, peeled and chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled
  • 500g (1 lb) vine tomatoes, chopped into small pieces
  • 300g (10½ oz) red bell pepper, chopped into small pieces
  • 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
  • 3 tablespoons olive oil
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 2 teaspoons honey
  • 1 teaspoon cumin
  • salt & black pepper
Shrimps and dill:
  • 200g (7 oz) cooked shrimps, peeled
  • ½ cucumber, peeled and diced
  • 1 red chilli, finely chopped
  • ½ lemon, zest
  • ½ red onion, peeled and finely sliced
  • 3 tablespoons dill, off the stem
  • salt
  • black pepper

Instructions
Gazpacho:
  1. Blend all the ingredients smooth in a food processor and season with salt and pepper.
  2. Cool in the fridge overnight.
Shrimps and dill:
  1. Combine all ingredients and season with salt and pepper.
Presentation:
  1. Spoon the shrimp salad into glasses or bowls.
  2. Pour over the ice-cold gazpacho and serve with chunks of good bread.

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April 23, 2012

Seared scallops with asparagus cream and pickled fennel

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Seared scallops with asparagus cream and pickled fennel
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: Appetizer, starter
: 10
 

Ingredients
Seared scallops:
  • 10 scallops
  • salt
  • pepper
  • butter
Asparagus cream:
  • 1kg (2,2 lbs) green asparagus
  • 200g (7 oz) green peas
  • 2 banana shallots, finely chopped
  • 1 clove garlic, finely chopped
  • 1dl (½ cup) white wine
  • 2dl (1 cup) cream
  • 3 tablespoons sour cream
  • lemon juice
  • salt
  • white pepper
Sour fennel:
  • 1 fennel
  • 1dl (½ cup) lemon juice
  • 1dl (½ cup) sugar
  • 2 teaspoons salt
  • 3dl (1½ cup) water
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 teaspoon whole white peppercorns
Serving:
  • dill, picked
  • sea salt

Instructions
Seared scallops:
  1. Season the scallops with salt and pepper.
  2. Sear scallops in butter in a hot skillet, turning once, until golden brown and just cooked through, about 5 minutes total. Let rest a minute.
  3. Cut into thin slices.
Asparagus cream:
  1. Boil the asparagus soft in salted water and cool in ice water.
  2. Boil wine with onions and garlic. Add the cream and bring it to a quick boil.
  3. Mix asparagus with the peas.
  4. Add the hot cream. Strain through a fine sieve.
  5. Season with sour cream, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
  6. Pour into a piping bag.
Sour fennel:
  1. Slice fennel thinly and allow to soak in cold water.
  2. Mix remaining ingredients to a syrup.
  3. Add the fennel and let it pickle in the syrup for at least 30 minutes.
Serving:
  1. Arrange as shown with picked dill and some sea salt on top.

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Swedish recipes

April 8, 2012

Fresh shrimps with a dill and wood sorrel flavored pesto

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Fresh shrimps with a dill and wood sorrel flavored pesto
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: Appetizer
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Ingredients
  • 1 liter (2 pints) of fresh shrimps, peeled
Pesto:
  • 15g (½ oz) parsley
  • 15g (½ oz) dill
  • 20g (¾ oz) wood sorrel
  • 120g (4¼ oz) sunflower seeds, toasted
  • 200g (7 oz) Västerbotten cheese or other ripe hard cheese, grated
  • canola oil
  • 1 lemon, juice and zest

Instructions
Pesto:
  1. Mix sunflower seeds with the herbs in a mixer. Add canola oil and mix to desired consistency. Mix in the grated cheese. Season to taste with lemon, salt and pepper.
Presentation:
  1. Turn in the shrimps and serve on crisp bread. Garnish with wood sorrel.

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The Wood sorrel is very common in Swedish forests and their leaves are edible, with a sourish and fresh taste.

Swedish recipes

March 27, 2012