My Recipes
Salmon Puff Pastry Canapé
This elegant salmon canapé is a classic at my house parties as it is savoury, easy to make, and possible to prepare in advance. The combination of smoked salmon, crème fraiche, and chives is also classically Swedish.
Wild Garlic Triptych
This wild garlic triptych is for me as much about a way of life as it is about flavour. It reminds me of the simple and self-sufficient life my grandmother enjoyed in her house in Småland, Sweden. Wild garlic is also abundant in Britain, and on one of my recent lockdown walks, I was able to pick enough for this pesto, soup, and risotto recipe, which only require about 30 leaves each.
Beetroot Pesto Pasta
A beautiful and healthy pesto, packed with flavour, yet kindly mild and creamy. It perfectly pairs with pasta as in this dish but also deserves taking centre stage as a dinner party canapé on a salty cracker.
Toast Skagen – Classic Swedish Prawn Starter/Canapé
For me, this dish is about the seaside, the smell, and the taste of the sea, and painted simple timber houses in the archipelago. In Sweden, we eat this delicious prawn dish all year round, as a luxurious lunch or as an elegant party canapé or starter.
Salmon, Avocado and Grapefruit Salad
Salmon meets grapefruit and avocado in this combination of sweet, sour, salty, and savoury flavours. Add peppery rocket leaves for a refreshing yet fulfilling lunch or dinner.
Beetroot Cured Salmon
A Nordic dish with centuries-old history, there are few things so associated with Swedish cuisine as Gravlax or cured salmon. Gravlax is easy, and tastier made at home as shown in this recipe. The use of aromatics can be endlessly varied; here I am using beetroot, which gives the salmon a beautiful tinge of deep pink.
Råraka – Swedish Rösti with Fish Roe
Råraka is a classic Swedish dish similar to Swiss Rösti. Raw and grated potato is fried in butter and formed into crispy cakes. In this luxurious recipe, I served it with salty fish roe, crème fraiche, and diced red onion and finished it off with a slice of lemon and chopped chives.
No Yeast Kavring – Swedish Dark and Sweet Rye Bread
Kavring is a compact, sweetened rye bread, brought over from Denmark to the south of Sweden at the end of the middle ages. Dark, juicy, sweet, musty, and spicy, it is made with a mixture of rye and wheat flour, black treacle, porter, yoghurt and spices.
Smoked Sausage Stroganoff
This smoked sausage stew is tasty and straightforward weekday food and difficult to do wrong. A variant of the classic Beef Stroganoff, it is creamy and packed with smoky flavours from the sausage meat and the paprika.
Roast Beef Canapé with Danish Remoulade
In this Nordic canapé, roast beef, Danish remoulade sauce, shitake mushrooms, and crispy onions are wrapped in a Swedish flatbread and cut into delicious party pieces.