Risalamande, not sure about an English name for this dish, rice pudding perhaps? Probably the most well-known Christmas dessert in Denmark, and certainly our favourite. Here you get the BEST recipe: Ingredients for the first steps (make this the day before the final step): 238 g porridge rice (rissotto rice or in Germany Milchreis is good too), 3-4 dl water x 3, 1 liter full-cream milk…

Instead of the typical boiled, warm read cabbage, we decided on a fresh, cold red cabbage salad with apple and orange. Ingredients: red cabbage, apples, oranges, walnuts. Cut the cabbage in thin slices, put it in a big bowl where you can work with it, add a LOT of coarse sea salt and squeeze it and squeeze it together with the cabbage. Rinse the cabbage…

Sugar caramelized browned potatoes is another must on a typical Christmas table. It is fairly simple, but here is the recipe. 1 kg small potatoes, 150 g sugar, 25 g butter and salt. Some use the same kind of potatoes as for cheese fondue, some use asparagus potatoes, food barbarians use canned potatoes Boil the potatoes with the peel on in salted water for 18…

For EVERY real Christmas dinner, brown sauce (sovs, in Danish. The difference between sauce and sovs is that “sovs” is when there is enough) is a must. Ingredients: 1 stake parsley, 2 stakes celery, 1-2 cloves of garlic, some carrots, 1 onion, the green top of a leek, fresh or dried thyme, whole black peppercorns, 2 bay leaves, 80 – 100 g pancetta (dried and…

Typical Danish pork roast with very crunchy cracklings. There are endless recipes for this traditional dish, but here you get the best, ours!  Get a nice size of pork roast, here it is 2,2 kgs, enough for 4 persons, with the skin still on. Some veggies – 2 carrots, one leek, a couple of celery stakes. About 50 whole black peppercorns and enough dried bay…