DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Lutefisk
Matprat’s lutefisk salts and chills prepared fish, rinses and seasons it, bakes it beneath aluminium foil and serves it with boiled potatoes and crisp bacon, with butter offered when needed.
About Lutefisk
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Matprat presents lutefisk as part of old Norwegian food traditions and the period before Christmas. This version bakes the prepared fish and serves it with boiled potatoes and crisp bacon.
The fish rests skin-side down on a rack above a roasting pan, sprinkled with salt and kept cold for two to three hours. Matprat explains that this makes the pieces firmer and lets them take up flavour.
The salt and roasting pan are rinsed before the fish goes into the pan. Salt and a little freshly ground pepper season it, and aluminium foil covers the pan during baking.
The selected mandel potatoes boil while the fish bakes. Bacon cubes fry until crisp; butter is an optional addition when the bacon has released too little fat.
The bacon is kept warm until serving. Matprat asks for warm plates because the fish cools quickly, with the hot accompaniments served piping hot. The baked fish, potatoes and crisp bacon make up this selected plate.
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