Swedish Side Dishes Recipes

"In England, swedish meatballs are very available and cheap. They are very good with the following cream sauce and boiled potatoes. My son, who has to be one of the faddiest people on the planet, found this delicious. This is from the cookbook 'Ikea's Real Swedish Food Book'."

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Ingredients: cream, salt, soy sauce...

"The only way to eat beets! When I harvest my beets in the fall I always make up a few batches of this for the freezer-they're just as good reheated and it's a wonderful quick veggie for winter! To prepare fresh beets, I cover them with water, cook for 30 minutes to an hour till tender, then peel and cube. This recipe is a Swedish family tradition...."

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Ingredients: cider vinegar, cornstarch...

"These potatoes are eaten throughout Scandinavia, but they are especially popular in Denmark. The Swedish version would have a bit more sugar. Posted for the Zaar World Tour 2005. Zaar World Tour II"

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Ingredients: potatoes, salt, sugar...

"A flavour packed roast potato recipe which results in crisp and crunchy little new potatoes with caramelised shallots in a wholegrain mustard crust. Wonderful for dinner parties as well as BBQ's. These are SO easy to prepare, no peeling required and they can be prepared ahead of time; just let them sit in the mustard and oil marinade until they need..."

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Ingredients: fresh ground black pepper, coarse grain mustard...

"I found this on another website researching Swedish recipes. I love to make it and not tell people it has anchovies in it until after they rave about how good it is. The anchovies melt into it to make a sauce. It has such a yummy flavor! Here is a quote from the recipe: "Jansson's Temptation is a classic Swedish dish traditionally served before..."

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Ingredients: heavy cream, onions...

"Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. The chef, Helene Henderson, has updated this classic recipe by adding garlic, lemon and parsley. I changed this slightly to specify 1 tablespoon olive oil because she suggested simmering the garlic for 15-20 minutes in half a cup of oil and draining all except for 2 tablespoons. That would have mistakenly affected..."

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Ingredients: dry breadcrumbs, fresh flat-leaf parsley...

"I'm posting this recipe for the World Tour 2005. I have never tried this recipe, but I have never come across, something similar and I surely will try it sometime. It is a swedish potato recipe."

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Ingredients: small potatoes, sugar, butter...

"Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005. Helen Henderson, the chef, says that to satisfy any potato loving Swede's craving for pasta salad, you should add angel-hair pasta tossed with olive oil, salt and pepper. I say this looks good enough to eat on its own and the olives and tomatoes look too good to leave out. I reduced the olive oil to 1 tablespoon..."

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Ingredients: Dijon mustard, extra virgin olive oil...

"An absolute "must" as an accompaniment to the Swedish Smorgasbord, this salad is very easy to make and is delicious with cold meats, fish, potatoes and open sandwiches."

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Ingredients: horseradish root, fresh dill...

"Not your typical boring rice! Dill, cardamom and jalapeño come together to lend an interesting twist that really pumps up this rice dish from Operakällaren in Stokholm. Packed with flavor, this rice is terrific with poultry or seafood entrees."

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Ingredients: ground cardamom, dill...

"Posted for ZWT II 2006- Sweden. Recipe is Tina Nordstrom's as given on a website. This is a great side to your Christmas Ham."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, honey...