Icelandic Recipes

"Midsummer would not be Midsummer without strawberries, and this is a simple Swedish recipe to make, to celebrate Midsummer, wherever you may be! In Scandinavia, the summer solstice is a magical time. The lavender twilight lasts until 11 p.m. and the day breaks again at about 2 a.m.; above the Arctic Circle, the sun doesn't sink below the horizon for..."

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Ingredients: cornflour, cornstarch...

"Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. Just picked this recipe up when I was in Iceland from a cookbook called Cool Dishes. I think kids might really like this recipe, and it's relatively healthy too! A dessert soup might tickle their fancy. The book recommends serving this with crumbled rusks. Have not tried this recipe yet."

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Ingredients: cinnamon, cocoa powder...

"I love oatmeal and i eat it regulary for breakfast. I sometimes have it even for lunch or dinner and when i am hungry and need something good and that fast i even love more to have an oatmealcookie handy to dip into my latte. If you like you can skip half of the honey and the oil but add 1 cup dark choclate chips or raisins."

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Ingredients: honey, spelt flour, milk...

"For a girlie night out, decorated with a cherry it is such a treat! I recommend to put loads of crushed ice to make this drink super creamy."

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Ingredients: coconut milk, ice...

"I call it Icelandic as I found it in an Icelandic newspaper and it really IS typical. We love easy, yummy food and this is great as a snack or side dish."

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Ingredients: salsa, avocados, nacho chips...

"When I turned the pg of *Cool Cuisine* (Traditional Icelandic Cuisine) by Nanna Rognvaldardottir & read this recipe, it made me so hungry that I went straight to my kitchen for some food! Per her intro, "This is a luxurious dish! Altho langostines, prawns & other crustaceans now enjoy great popularity in Iceland, this has not always been..."

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Ingredients: cream, salt & freshly ground black pepper...

"*Kokkteilsosa* in Icelandic, this recipe from *Cool Cuisine* (Traditional Icelandic Cuisine) by Nanna Rognvaldardottir surprised me - mainly due to her intro: "This universal dipping sauce became popular in Iceland in the 1960s & is served w/chips, hamburgers, fried & deep-fried fish, fried chicken & other types of fast food. Some..."

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Ingredients: ketchup, mayonnaise, paprika...

"This is so easy to make and yet delicious. Even tough I do not like rice crispies at all I enjoy these muffins. I was acctually looking for a recipe like this here but could not find it so i posted my recipe here. In Iceland you will hardly find a potluck where these are not one of the treats. But don't be late as they are usually gone soon. Your..."

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Ingredients: syrup, Rice Krispies...

"Posted for Zaar World Tour 2006 Icelanders eat skyr as a dessert with sugar or cream. (Or fruit.)"

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Ingredients: milk, rennet tablets...

"I came up with this as the ham i wanted to use was so short that i could not wrap it around the slices of melon. I came out much better and it is great for picky eaters like me as i do not like to blend my foods. That way allows me to have a piece of melon, eat the ham in one bite and finish of with some more melon. A great starter, serve with dry,..."

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Ingredients: prosciutto, melon...

"I recently fel in love with cookies as i only have to make them once and they keep up to one or two weeks in your cookie jar. Well, if you let them. That way i do not waste anymore tears of left over cake which i have to trow away. We are only two and sometimes, we just feel for a bite of cake but we can never finisih it all - and we should not even..."

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Ingredients: flour, Dutch-processed cocoa powder...