How To Make Scandinavian Breakfast

karolineal

Yeah I'm from iceland and never ever have I had that rice thing for breakfast... the rice thing we make here is pretty much just rice, milk and a wee bit of salt and served with raisins on the side and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and usually if we have it, it's for lunch or dinner.... never breakfast. And yeah on christmas it's a totally different thing, ris a la mande or something, sounds french but is actually danish I think and that has almonds, whipped cream and the rice and milk, served with cherry sauce. The hard bread is true though.... but if we're like going all out on the breakfast it's usually fresh bread either from the bakery or baked at home with the vegetables, cheese and cold meat and after that: cinnamon buns and danishes and all that :P

agreatcook

Scandinavian breakfast? I live in Sweden and I have never eaten anything of that except the crisp bread and maybe the fresh fruits to breakfast... I didn't know that waffles were typically Scandinavian and I have never seen porridge been made with apple, raisins and vanilla essence in it before...

pellebee

oh, forgot the musli with milk or yughurt (filmjölk if you can get it) or other tame cereals like corn flakes, etc...

pellebee

sorry but this isnt right. The porrage isnt scandinavian, maybe on christmas or other times, but never apples...or so much vanilla! The crips bread and meats is pretty accurate, all the fruits maybe, but they are quite expensive here! To make it more right, add hard or soft boiled eggs, any gröt: oatmeal, whatever, pretty bland! also caviar in a tube, breads, cheeses, vegetables (usually tomato, paprika and the essential cucumber!) juice, tea, whatever, its a pretty simple breakfast called frukost or the like in most languages!

nowayjose

the rice dish is scandinavian aswell as the harring. but I have never heard of them as breakfast dishes. it's mainly for christmas and/or other traditional hollidays. and those waffles as definetly belgian. and the fresh fruit? kiwis? c'mon...

Tomte

Generally eaten at Christmas and only really given as a token gift to Tomte (Santa/Father Christmas/St Nicholas) think cookie and a glass of milk for Santa.

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This looks very much like what my grandmother from Sweden called Swedish rice. We would have it for breakfast when there was left over rice from dinner. She would put egg in it as well. I don't remember her cooking it with a cinnamon stick but she would sprinkle it with cinnamon sugar and pour a little milk on it. Wish I had her recipe cause it was soooo good!

this is the way it's done finnish style every morning

I guess we scandinavians have an agreement that this is something we have never heard of. The cook didn't look very scandinavian either. :-) Rice porridge? In Finland we eat it mostly on Christmas, and with cinnamon powder instead of apple and vanilla! If it's not Cristmas, we might eat rice porridge but we'd use just sugar and berries. No raisins, apple or vanilla. That's outright horrible. Use oat porridge or barley porridge with either butter or sugar and berries for taste, depending on whether you like your porridge salty or sweet. For the berries, you can mix strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and redcurrant. Crisp bread is great, but we Finns like rye bread with butter even better. Speaking of butter, it's an imporant element of the Finnish kitchen. Cooked fresh potatoes, baltic herring (pickled in a mild dill-and-water mix), dill and butter is an amazingly simple dish but it's extremely tasty.

This isent scandinavian except from the fish - "Sill" Looks good though