My Recipes
Lemon herb pasta with chilli pine nuts
This lemon and herb pasta with chilli pine nuts is a perfect dish for both our warmer and colder months. It has both freshness and spice and takes less than 30 minutes to make.
Swedish prawn salad with refreshing dill dressing
A cold prawn salad is never wrong on a hot summer’s day. In Sweden, we like to pile the prawns high, but they are too expensive in London for that. Instead, avocados, eggs and cucumber add substance to this fresh and fulfilling salad. Finish it off with my delicious creamy, dill mayonnaise.
Danish potato salad with curry, apple and pickles
Did you know that curry is integral to several classic Nordic dishes, although with less heat?
The spice is especially common in Danish cuisine, including dishes such as Smørrebröd, meatballs and potato salad as in this recipe. Try this creamy, crunchy salad with a meat or white fish barbecue. Be generous with the pickles.
green soup with horseradish cream
This soup could be described as refined rustic. The rustic quality is in the humble green peas, which are mixed with onions and stock into a smooth and light texture and then refined with lemon, egg yolk and cream. For the ultimate luxury, serve it with a splash of champagne, or as here with horseradish cream. This soup has a long tradition in Swedish cuisine, although it appeared in the North through influences from France rather than from the Nordic, peasant food culture.
Lazy Oven-Roasted Tomato Sauce
A rich tomato sauce on the stove requires time to develop depth of flavour. Roasting the tomatoes achieves the same result by concentrating and intensifying their flavours and sweetness with a fraction of the time. It is my favourite recipe during busy working days.
roasted turmeric and fennel cauliflower with saffron dressing
Saffron is an essential spice for some of Sweden's most traditional and famous culinary treats, including Saffron buns, pancakes and various fish and seafood dishes. It is especially connected with Swedish Christmas recipes but in the New Nordic cuisine, it has found...
Raw Courgette Salad with Citrus, Dill, Sunflower Seeds and Spicy Feta Sauce
This crispy and spicy raw courgette salad uses dill, common in both Nordic and Greek cuisines. I am especially fond of the authentic Greek mezethes dishes with its few but richly flavoured ingredients. In this salad, a spicy feta cheese sauce adds boldness and sunflower seeds crispiness on top of the crunchy raw courgettes.
Bacon, Thyme and Gruyère-stuffed Courgettes
When I found these cute round courgettes, I just had to make a recipe with them. Stuffed vegetables are my perfect idea of comfort food, while still getting the daily dose of the healthy stuff. The round shapes are especially easy to fill, but you can also use long courgettes cut lengthwise, if that is what you can find. Perfect for lunch with a side salad.
Nordic Cardamom and Apple Granola
This granola is special because it is homemade and has a Nordic spice, cardamom. It powerfully reminds me of this special place Dalarna north of Stockholm, where my husband and I stayed in a wonderfully old log construction hotel on a rainy summer night. For breakfast, we ate a homemade granola, which inspired me to make my own one.
Nordic Alpine Anchovy and Reblochon Canapé
This is an experiment in the Nordic Alpine crossover. Usually, the Reblochon cheese is paired with bacon or lardons but here with anchovies, which are dissolved in the frying pan alongside onions.
The flavours complement each other beautifully as anchovies has an equivalent depth of flavour and saltiness to the bacon.