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Toast Skagen

Name: Toast Skagen
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Sweden
Ingredients: 300g Shrimp; 4 Bread; 3 tbsp Mayonnaise; 3 tbsp Sour cream; 1 bunch Dill; 1/4 Red Onion; 1/2 Lemon; 20g Butter; A pinch Black Pepper

Snack

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

A starter from Sweden's west coast of shrimp in mayonnaise and dill, piled on butter-fried toast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Toast Skagen was created in the 1950s by the renowned Swedish restaurateur Tore Wretman and is named after Skagen, the port at the northern tip of Denmark. Sweet west-coast shrimp are mixed with mayonnaise, crème fraîche, and dill and piled on bread fried in butter. It's a classic starter for celebrations.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a restaurant terrace overlooking Gothenburg's harbor, shrimp-heaped toast and chilled white wine sit side by side as the summer sun sets over the sea.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Shrimp 300g
Bread 4
Mayonnaise 3 tbsp
Sour cream 3 tbsp
Dill 1 bunch
Red Onion 1/4
Lemon 1/2
Butter 20g
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and peel the shrimp, then roughly chop.
Mix the mayonnaise, sour cream, chopped dill, minced red onion, lemon juice, and pepper.
Fold in the shrimp.
Trim the crusts from the bread and fry both sides in butter until golden.
Pile the shrimp generously on the toast.
Garnish with dill and lemon wedges.

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