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Lefse

Name: Lefse
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Norway
Ingredients: 500g Potato; 40g Butter; 3 tbsp Heavy Cream; 150g All-purpose flour; 1/2 tsp Salt; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1 tsp Cinnamon powder; as needed (for brushing) Butter

Dessert

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Potato flatbread spread with butter and cinnamon sugar and rolled up — a traditional Norwegian treat.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Lefse is a soft flatbread made from potato and flour, a traditional Norwegian food. It's cooked with a special wooden rolling pin on a large griddle, spread with butter, sugar, and cinnamon, and rolled up to eat. At Christmas, families gather to make big batches. It's also eaten wrapped around sausages.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a weekend before Christmas in a Norwegian farmhouse kitchen, grandmother cooks thin lefse on a big griddle as grandchildren spread butter and cinnamon sugar and roll them up.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Potato 500g
Butter 40g
Heavy Cream 3 tbsp
All-purpose flour 150g
Salt 1/2 tsp
Sugar 3 tbsp
Cinnamon powder 1 tsp
Butter as needed (for brushing)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil the potatoes, press through a sieve while hot, mix with butter, cream, and salt, and chill completely in the fridge.
Add the flour, bring together, and divide into 8 balls.
Dust generously with flour and roll each into a translucent round about 25cm across.
Cook in a hot dry frying pan for 1 minute per side until brown-speckled.
Keep between kitchen towels to soften.
Spread with butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, roll up, and cut.

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