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Kjøttkaker

Name: Kjøttkaker
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Norway
Ingredients: 500g Ground Beef; 1/2 Onion; 2 tbsp Cornstarch; 100ml Milk; A pinch Nutmeg; a pinch (ground or grated) Ginger; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 40g Butter; 3 tbsp All-purpose flour; 1 Beef Bouillon; 4 Potato; 150g Green peas; To taste Lingonberry Jam

Main Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Large ground beef patties simmered in brown sauce — a classic Norwegian home dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kjøttkaker (meat cakes) are a Norwegian home dish: ground beef seasoned with nutmeg and ginger is shaped into large flat patties, browned, and simmered in brown sauce (gravy). They're served with boiled potatoes, mushy peas, and lingonberry jam. They're bigger and flatter than Swedish meatballs.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a weekday winter dinner in a Norwegian home, plates of big meat patties in brown sauce with boiled potatoes are set out as snow falls outside.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Ground Beef 500g
Onion 1/2
Cornstarch 2 tbsp
Milk 100ml
Nutmeg A pinch
Ginger a pinch (ground or grated)
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Butter 40g
All-purpose flour 3 tbsp
Beef Bouillon 1
Potato 4
Green peas 150g
Lingonberry Jam To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the ground meat with salt until sticky, then mix in grated onion, cornstarch, milk, nutmeg, ginger, and pepper.
Shape into flat patties about 7cm across.
Heat half the butter in a frying pan, brown both sides, and remove.
In the same pan, brown the remaining butter and flour, then add 400ml hot water with beef bouillon dissolved in it to make the sauce.
Return the patties, cover, and simmer 15 minutes.
Serve with boiled potatoes, mashed peas, and jam.

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