Iceland recipes
Recipes from Iceland: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
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Kleinur: Iceland's Twisted Fried Doughnuts
A recipe for kleinur, the twisted fried pastry sold almost daily in Icelandic bakeries and supermarkets, made with sour cream, buttermilk, and nutmeg. Covers dough thickness and cutting, the shaping that pulls one end through a slit in the middle, controlling the oil at 190°C, and the old custom of frying in mutton fat.
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Plokkfiskur: Iceland's Comforting Cod and Potato Fish Stew
Plokkfiskur is an Icelandic home-style fish stew of boiled cod and potatoes broken up together with onion, butter and milk. Here's how to make it in a home kitchen, plus the story of dried cod, the Cod Wars, and serving it with sweet rye bread.