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Danish Menu. Starter:
Spinach pie with feta Stewed cabbage Soup:
Carrot soup with ginger, chilli and coriander Main Course:
Beetroot salad Mashed potato Chicken meat balls Dessert:
Old-fashioned apple pie with bread crumbs
Spinach pie with feta 1 dl wholemeal flour 200 g wheat flour ½ tsp salt ½ dl Colza oil 5 tbsp cold water Spinach filling: 400 g frozen spinach 2 dl quarg or sour cream 2 eggs Salt, pepper 1 garlic clove chopped fine 150 g Feta cheese in blocks 8 tomatoes
Pastry base: Knead all the ingredients together to form a firm dough. Roll out the dough or press it out evenly in a pie dish of approximately 24 cm in diameter. Make sure the dough is evenly distributed all over, both the bottom and sides. Prick the bottom with a fork and bake for 10 minutes at 200 degrees celcius. Filling: Boil the spinach with a little water. Let it cool off and squeeze the water out. Whip quarg or sour cream with egg, salt, pepper and garlic. Turn spinach and feta in the mix and put the filling on the pastry base. Place halfed tomatoes with the chopped side up on the top of the pie and bake it for 30-40 minutes at 200 degrees celcius.
Stewed cabbage ½ a head of cabbage (ca 750 g) 2 dl wáter ½ tsp salt 3 tbsp wheat flour 5 dl low-fat milk 0,25 ml powdered nutmeg
Cut the cabbagehead into strips. Steam the cabbage tender in water for approximately 5 minutes. Add 4 dl low‐fat milk and whip the rest of the milk with flour into a starch before adding it too. Let the stew boil for 5 minutes. Season with salt, pepper and powdered nutmeg.
Carrot soup with ginger, chilli and coriander 6 Carrots 2 big potatoes 2 Onions 1 Slice of ginger (approx. 1 cm) 2 Cloves of garlic ½ Fresh red chilli 2 tbsp olive oil 1 Bundle of fresh coriander ½ Lemon 1 L chicken bouillon Salt and pepper Peel all vegetables and cut them into blocks. Put the oil in a pot. Roast the chopped garlic, ginger and chilli till it’s golden. Then you add potatoes, carrots and onions and let it roast 5-6 minutes. Pour the chicken bouillon into the pot, put a lid on and let it simmer for 25 minutes. Blend the soup. Taste the soup and add salt, pepper and lemon. Garnish with coriander.
Chicken meat balls
500 g minced chicken or turkey ½ onion chopped fine 1 tsp. salt ½ tsp. grounded pepper 2 tsp. Dijon mustard 3 tsp. flour (extra if needed) 100 g zucchini (grated) 100 g carrots (grated)
½ red bell pepper in very fine blocks 1 egg or a little water (if needed) Oil for frying Mix the meat with onion, salt, pepper, mustard and flour. Add the vegetables into the mixture and stir to proper consistency with egg or water. Form the mince meat mixture to large or small meatballs and fry them golden and crispy.
Beetroot salad Raw beetroot Carrots Sour cream (9%) or Fromais Fraise (0.5%) Lemon juice Salt
Peel and grate the carrots and beets, then place them in a bowl. Add sour cream or fromaise fraise and season with lemon juice and salt.
Mashed potato 1 kg potatoes, 1½ dl milk, 50 g butter 1 tsp salt grounded pepper
Peel potatoes and cut them into smaller pieces. Boil them until tender in a thick-bottomed saucepan in water without salt, for ca. 20 min. Drain the potatoes and steam them completely dry. Mash potatoes and add the milk little by little while whipping. Add the butter and whip lightly. Season with salt and pepper. Tip: Potatoes, for mash, should always be cooked without salt. Potatoes are well suited as an accompaniment to many stews. Leftover mashed potatoes can be mixed with milk and placed over a stew, like a lid and then heated in an oven until done.
Old-fashioned apple pie with bread crumbs 750 g apples ½ dl water 150 g sugar 1 tsp vanilla sugar 2 dl cream Breadcrumb mixture 100 g breadcrumb 75 g sugar 75 g butter Peel the apples, remove cores and cut them into small blocks Put the apples in a saucepan Add water, sugar and vanilla sugar and let it cook for 10 minutes Let the apple porridge cool make breadcrumbs mixture: melt the butter in a frying pan - it should not become brown Add bread crumbs and sugar. stir well the whole time It is done when it is light brown. Let it cool Whip the cream. Make cake 'put a layer of apple mush into a bowl. Then add bread crumbs, then a layer of apple mush and then a layer of breadcrumbs. Garnish with whipped cream.