It's usually not regular salt on the liquorice. It's acutally ammonium chloride (salmiak) which is even more salty than salt I'd say. Lovely stuff! The liquorice he was showing after the Djungelvrål is called Svenskjävlar and is really, really salty, but super good.
Difference between sodium chloride (table salt) and ammonium chloride (Salmiak) is that ammonium chloride tends to make you salivate rather than sucking the moisture out of the mouth. Like... No way in hell that I was just take some table salt and lap it up, I could do this with salmiak though.
We have voileipäkakku (smörgåskaka/ sandwichcake) also here in Finland 🇫🇮. Traditionally served at weddings, birthdays and other party's as a savory cake. Usually fish (salmon) or meat (ham) filling. Layers of wheatbread and filling have cream cheese and/or mayonnaise and spices.
If I recall, the reason that some people love salty licorice, or just very salty food overall, while others can't stand it, is actually genetic. Like with the coriander, but on a much more important level. The need to stand the taste in order to survive. Natural selection basically. I don't remember the details, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the need to salt food in order to conserve it simply made it so that people who couldn't stand the taste practically starved and died off. And also, smörgåstårta, the sandwich cake, is amazing. It's so versatile, everyone can have their own spin on it. There is no right or wrong in how to make it. The base is sandwiches with some king of creamy filling/coating, which people make in a lot of different varieties. And then you top it with whatever you want. Vegetables, fruit, shrimp, ham, fish or whatever match your taste. It's amazing!
The reason why Taco Friday is so popular here in Sweden is kinda synonymous with Fredagsmys (Cosy Friday). Families gathering in the sofa in front of the TV, watching shows or movies, while enjoying tacos, pizza, whatever good food you want to have. It's the end of the standard work week and families are bonding and taking it easy.
friday is the onley day you have time to have tacos. thuesday you have maccaroni and meatballs in the best families at the same time you now mom work late some plays soccer or skiing some five o clock some at six or some at seven.
Smörgåstårta + Pear Cider is a must have if you visit Sweden. salmon, roastbeef or shrimp is all good for topping. Inside there is usually a ham, dill & creme fraiche layer and a mimosa layer.
There is a gene that is common in the Nordics that makes us perceive licorice differently (that's why we eat a lot of licorice in Nordic countries), don't know if it's the same gene as coriander. Then it is usually not "salt" on it but Ammonium Chloride which is another salt
@@Jacqueen Lots of youtube content about it, now even a stronger one, with Carolina Reaper chip powder on it. Both saltiest and spiciest in world. (spoiler, the salt drench the hot spicy flavor)
It's right on the border of being too salty, but still palatable. My dad almost threw up when he tried it, but still finished one. I'm fine with it, but only in small portions.
@@Jacqueen Djungelvrål är mesigt i jämförelse med Svenskjävlar. 😜 😂 Men jag tycker personligen inte att Svenskjävlar är särskilt god, min favorit är Djöflar från Lakritsroten. 😋
Nowadays, many Swedes like spicy food, but there are many who don't like it either. Fish is very important in our food culture because of the proximity to lakes and seas and also because of our climate. I assume it's the same in the UK. Salty licorice candy is popular here, both my sister and I can eat a whole candy bag with it
An advice if you gonna try the surströmming. Make sure to be outside, cause the smell will be stuck in the walls for days if you open it inside. I have never tried it either but they say it's gross. I think they who say they love it in the north is like youths who says they love coffee. They want to be cool and say they like it, then they make faces for every sip, or chew they take, but still say "I love it, it tastes so good"
For homemade pizza for me there are two options: make the dough yourself (not hard, but time consuming; the results are divine) or store bought flat pizza dough, which you can fill what ever toppings and sauces you want, easy but not as good.
We do sometimes make home-made pizza, but when we do it properly as an actual dinner we make the bread too and try to make it, well, pizza-ish. I personally sometimes make a simplified "lunch" pizza that's simply a Polarbröd rågkaka (a kind of soft round bread) with chili-sauce spread on it, sandwich ham torn into smaller bits and spread over, and finally cheese, with this run in a microwave for a bit.
My brother loves the dish ”plankstek”, which is beef, tomatoes and mashed potatoes that you put in the oven on a wooden plate and serve with béarnaise sauce. He has eaten it a few times as pizza topping too and he loved it. 😋
"Homemade Pizza at home" Me and some friends during Uni would meet up and have a Potlock type party where the host would make sure that there's dough and possibly a base tomato sauce, but then every guest would bring their own Pizza topping (we had a list where people would sign up that they'd attend as well as what topping they'd bring so people didn't all go with ham or cheese and so people knew how much topping to bring so everyone could potentially try it). Then we'd just start making wierd combinations of pizzas! One evening we had 16 different toppings (and yes, 16 different types, no repeats)
Sandwichcakes are amazing. I make mine layered with a mix of liver paté, mayo, pickled cucumber in between the layers. and then obviously, rolled up cheese, rolled up ham, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, shrimp, boiled egg halves, dill, and some folded slizes of lemon.
I've heard of the Scandinavian gene for not enjoying coriander; I remember having a few kids in school who despised coriander. Fortunately, I have some mixed ancestry. So, due to my upbringing and the fact that my family isn't picky eaters, I became accustomed to eating cuisines from different parts of the world, especially an appreciation for coriander.
Oh yes I love it! But without the pineapple. I also like to order some extra topping for my kebabpizza. I like to add bacon, fresh tomatoes, fresh mushrooms and onions if it's not already added.
BTW, "taco friday"/fredagsmys is a new thing thanks to an advertisement in the 2010s. It was a massive success, but nothing I did as a kid. We always had special friday "cosy dinner" however, we called it "fikamiddag" (all kids chose one thing they wanted each, we were four siblings), eaten in livingroom and not the dining table. Pobably just a way for my family to make things easier. Koriander/cilantro is a genetic thing, many of us love spicy however.
As a Swede, my favourite pizza is the Swedish version of the Capricciosa (No artichokes!). There's nowhere to hide when you only have such basic toppings as tomato sauce, cheese, ham, mushrooms, and oregano, so it's very easy to tell which pizza places are good. A strong second place is of course the kebabpizza.
Shrimp with drops of lemon is a must for the absolute best sandwich cakes... Basically it's a huge sandwich with whatever we pull out of the sea or hunt for dinner. Glaze it with mayonaise or some other cold and delicious sauce for sandwich. My best recipe is 50/50 mayonaise and sour cream and mix it with a bunch of tuna and red onions or leek. Spread this over sandwiches and lap them on eachother. When you reach a good height, you add cheese, shrimp, salad, ham, tomatoes, cucumbers. Well here you can just add anything. Advocados.. Berries.. Put it into the refridgerator and enjoy breakfast for a week. Best for summer mornings when you can drink it with a beer.
we like spicy food, but since international dishes with a lot of spice in them haven't really been much of a thing since maybe the 1990's a lot of people have a very low tolerance to the stronger spices. Also, you should try the dish flygande jakob, it's a chicken casserole with peanuts, bacon and bananas that's served with rice.
About licorice, salt-licorice to be precise, there is not "salt" in it, or ON it the traditional sense, it contains salmiak which is another word for ammonium chloride, gives it a rather distinctive smell which might not be too surprising ;) It is also a fairly common flavor ingredient in cough syrups.
I love banana curry pizza! I probably never would have ordered it on my own because I thought it sounded strange but I tried a slice when a friend ordered it. Now it's one of my favourites. The version I have is chicken, onions, bananas and curry powder. Sometimes I ask them to add pineapple (it has to be in small pieces, not in large rings). The curry powder is essential to make it work.
Smörgåstårta (sandwischcake) is something I learned as a kid to like. We ate it every family reunion. Now I love it. And I get some huge cravings sometimes for salty licorice. Really love it. And you should really try that bananpizza. I love it without ham. And with peanuts on! With béarnaise sauce. Oh I’m hungry now.
The reason the the taco Friday is probably that kids loves tacos as well. And it's not as unhealthy as for example a pizza. Fridays are a day when the parents want to have a special night with their kids, eat together, spend more time than they can usually do, and at the same time they are tired from work and want to cook something that go fast to cook, and tacos is that dish. It's really good, you can put your own twist on it, (There is some people having banana as you love in food ;) ) and if you don't like something you don't need to add it, as you make your own, which is perfect, so the children can't say "I dont like onion" or " I don't like cucumber or tomato" then they don't need to take it. So taco Friday for us parents, is amazing.
1. Love that, pizza is one of my favorites. I usually ask for garlic sauce if it not already on the pizza too. 2. The potato dish is a based on a Swedish take on the French dish potato gratin, and the anchovies are an extra condiment in it of Christmas. It's thinly sliced of potato cream, onions, herbs, and garlic done in the over, often topped with cheese. 3. Surströming is not very popular in Sweden and most Swedes don't even dare to eat it, it is food of by gone times when food was not as an abundant. Some people do love it, thou. 4. Salty liqureish is a very Nordic thing and I personally like at the level of djugelvrål but not more salt than that. 5. Smörgåstårta is basically just a cold stacked sandwich with mayo and some form of protein, typically either shrimp, salmon, roast beef. 6. Vindaloo is an actually Indian dish, and you did colonize India for a long time, so the Indian inspiration on food is not weird. Sweden just looks at all the food in the world and take their own spin on it. Also, the English curry is what led to the Japanese curry which is one of my absolute favorites, even though it is very mild. 7. Except taco Friday, we have Sunday steaks with roasted potatoes as a common thing as well here. 8. Sweden is divided on spicy food, most don't like it, but those that thou usually absolutely love it. That is why different restaurants with the same type of food can have very varying spiciness degree, and you have to try the food to know if it is either super spicy or nothing at all at the spiciest level. Mostly Thai and Indian suffer from this. The habit of eating chillies comes from warmer country as an efficient way to counteracts diseases. We all the way up north have had it way too cold to ever truly adopt these costumes, and we never colonized countries that had them either, really. The curry on the pizza is yellow curry, so close to the English one.
Do home-made Pizza almost every Saturday. We usually buy ready made dough that is already rolled out onto parchment paper and usually includes a jar of tomato sauce. Super easy. The potatoes in the Janson is NOT frenchfries. Its julienned potatoes. Smörgåstårta is amazing and you can basically put anything you want in it. There are ofcourse classic versions. Iceberglettuce, tomatoe and cucumber is often called a Swede-sallad (jokingly from foreigners liveing here mostly). We use it for everything so ofcourse it goes in Tacos.
If you aim to try eating surströmming, please do the following: eat something solid first > have 1-2 shots or "nubbe" first to loosen up > eat it the way it is supposed to be eaten > Flat bread, hard or soft > mashed amendine potatoes > silver onion > small parts of surströmming > small dabs of sour creame > a pinch of red onion: enjoy at your own pace! It's a hate/love relationship so make sure to take the time you need :)
Tip from the coach, when trying surstömming add 1/4 of the surstömming to the rest (ex bread, potato, and the other things ppl want: cream fraishe, tomato, dill, union and more)
In Sweden we love to get influenced by other culture's food but we always tend to make it our own thing. And we have to have sauce on it, whatever it is. Liqourice is actually best made in Iceland and Finland nowadays. Svenskjävlar is wonderful! A smörgåstårta's taste you can always know. On top of it you always have all the things in it so you know beforehand whats in it. Taco friday is quite a new thing. When I grew up (1970's) it was weird with spaghetti. Everyone just ate "husmanskost". Regarding spicy food it's okey as long as it is not too spicy.
Sandwitch cake is basicaly a big club sandwitch that you cut peaces from. But it has something creamy to hold it together instead of a stick. Usualy mayonnaise or creme fraiche or a mix of them.
Never heard about that tacos on friday thing. You can have tacos any day you like. And if you want to try swedish foods there are a couple of more things he didn't mention. Obviously there's the traditional meatballs with potatoes with sauce and lingonberry-jam. But there's also kåldolmar, falukorv, rotmos, pitepalt, ärtsoppa, and spättekaka comes to mind.
The candy whit a lot of salt, or amoniumcloride "salmiak" is called "svenskjävlar" it can translate to Swedish Devils. I dont like them but djungelvrål and other salty black licorice I love!🖤
Tacobread pizza (tortilla bread pizza) - 2 Tortilla bread with grained cheese between (cheese type dealers choice), Taco sauce / spiced tomato sauce spread out on top, 2-3 toppings of your own choice (Fried Minced meat, bell pepper and onions are a popular combo), the same cheese that was layered in between the bread also spread on top of it all and then season it with oregano. In the oven for 200°C (400°F) for roughly 8-10min (golden brown color) and it's ready to serve. Enjoy 😉
I love pizza with banana, pinapple, curry and chicken. Also very nice if you add some bacon and some pizzerias even have peanuts on (which is AMAZING). Highly recommend trying one of these out! :)
Always have to say that its not regular salt, its salt of ammonia. Or "sal ammoniac" in Latin, and from that "salammoniakki" in Finnish, though better known as "salmiakki". Can be rarely found in nature, but most often made artificially.
Just bought a jar of Svenskjävlar last week, it's so salty it burns your tounge so you can't eat to much of it at once, but it's delicious! The salt used doesn't taste like regular table salt, it's salty, but it has a bit of a different flavour. :D Comparing Janssons frestelse to french fries is the strangest comparison i've ever heard. What it ACTUALLY is, is this: Potatoes cut into thin strips, sliced yellow onions, anchovies, some swedish caviar and heavy cream which is then gratinated. It doesn't really taste of anchovies since they are a in a relatively small amount, instead they just provide a very pleasant salty umami flavour to the whole thing. For a short period in the early 2000's, before tex mex came to sweden and took over, everyone would have chicken on fridays, due to a very successfull ad campaign from chicken producer Kronfågel.
I hate banana on pizza but I absolutely agree with the concept of adding something sweet to balance the savory of the pizza itself! Same as adding salt to mozerella and tomatoes or adding salt to water melon! It just makes sense!
Salty food is party of our DNA after centuries of using salt as a preservative. Salty licorice are soooo good and very addictive. Can't live without it!!
You have to try stuvade makaroner! It’s macaroni pasta that are boiled in milk instead of water. That with sausage (especially swedens Falukorv) and ketchup is something that can be added as well
You can buy pizza kits in any grocery store for an easy home made pizza if you. Personally only had pizza made on knäckebröd once at a food fair, but it was definitely tasty! Also banana curry pizza is 100% the best pizza!
The salt covering salty liqourice is actually a mix of powdered sugar and ammonium chloride. While the last (also known as sal ammonia or salmiak) is a salt it's not salty in the same way that table salt is salty. Like... it's hard to explain, it has a strong salty taste but not unpleasant in the way eating a pinch of salt is. It also doesn't dry your lips out the way, say, eating a lot of salty popcorn will do.
Black salty licorice is not my favorite, but I can eat it no problem. Probably has something to do with my childhood as a swede ;) The fermented herring doesn't really taste much... it tastes... well, salty. The smell is kinda beside the point. Our ancestors used this as a way to preserve meat, and this is what we got ;)
i personaly love kebab pizza the most but if your visiting sweden and want to try something new go for the curry and chicken pizza. i love to make pizza at home. its very simple, just buy the pizza kit wich contains the dough and sometimes the tomato sauce and also buy what ever toppings you want to have.
I usually get a pizza with fillet of beef, béarnaise sauce as the main toppings but also usually tomato, the usually pizza tomato sauce of course, onion perhaps, garlic ... But the kebab pizza is also a favourite. When we make a "pizza" on bread it's called a warm open faced sandwich, "varm macka" and it's been around for way longer than the pizza in Sweden. The main difference is that it is made on already made bread while the pizza is made from dough that are baked with the rest of the pizza. I do often make pizza myself. And then cut it in pieces suitable for lunch and put in the freezer. "Curry" in Sweden is spice mix and not (hot) Indian food. "Curry" is just called Indian food, regardless of if it's from India or not. If you manage to get used to the smell of surstömming, the taste is not that bad. The salt used in salty liquorice is not table salt (sodium chloride) but a different kind that tastes about ten times as salty as regular table salt. It's also known as ammonium chloride, or salmiak. Don't think of sandwich cake as cake but more like a lunch meal in a more festive form, or afternoon tea that will keep you full a bit longer.
Svänskjävlar is my favourite candy, whenever i see that they have it in the store i buy like three cans of them (svänskjävlar is the licorice coverd in the salt)
The low spice tolerance is completely true. None of our traditional dishes are spicy whatsoever because those ingredients don't grow here. We're not used to spicy food growing up and we're bad at using spices in our cooking (but we're learning). I once told my friend about a quesadilla I made, she's got Caribbean and Indian heritage and when she asked what spices I used she laughed at me when I answered "salt and pepper"🤣
Häxvrål - ”witches scream” a salty liquorice stick with a creamy, ammonium chloride (salmiac) filling. Could be an introduction to salty liquorice (if Svenskjävlar are too much). At work we used to have a liquorice club, called Lakritstrollen (the liquorice trolls )where someone would bring some really special Nordic salty liquorice instead of fikabröd every Friday. Absolutely delicious- but Iceland makes even better salty liquorice than Sweden
Yes we both do pizza at home and we buy them. I love banana/pineapple pizza and of course I appreciate salty licorice (and so do my wife). Jansos frestelse is a must at Christmas, but I stay far away from Surstromming.
I looove salt licorice. I used to love djungelvrål but the licorice is to hard on them nowadays. Love svenskjävlar but you can only eat a few. I first tried them from Iceland where they are called Lakkris Djöflar. Some strange food that is delicious is bloodpudding with lingonberry (blodpudding med lingon) and öländska bodycakes (öländska kroppkakor). Im from Öland but live in western Sweden now and there is a lot of people here who have never tried bodycakes.
The fishballs he is talking about or queneller it called in the fancy restaurant is really, really good they are made from different type of fich or mussels or crab or… a delicacy could be awful expencive or made from pike cheaper. Surströmming is actually really really good, but you need to treat it as a meal not a joke. It has really strong taste and mix perfectltly with sourcream, potatoes and raw onioins with a piece of bread on the side.
I'm a swede and I love spicy food. BTW svenskjävlar is f-ing awsome. One of my favorite pizzas is with grilled bits of grilled chicken, curry, banana, pineapple and roasted peanuts.
11:27 - I love (!) djungelvrål and tasted svenskjävlar for the first time about two years now and kinda feel in love with it. It IS salty as F even for a salt licorice fan as me, but that's the thing - your stepping up a bit which gets you on the toes. Like an adventure 😅 Favorite roping on pizza - the combo of halloumi, beef, pepper, small tomato, maybe add some arugula and finally some béarnaise on top 😋 I would say in general we're not too into spicy food, but as you might get by my obsession with salt I also like pretty spicy food myself. He didn't mention it, but have you heard of toast skagen? I highly recommend you trying it out, it's delicious!
Black salty licorice is God's gift to humanity! 😋
Yeh if he wanted to get rid of them....
Agree! 😍
True it is definitely an acquired taste I think
Agree! It’s so good ❤
He called licorice food, its not food its a candy, no one eats licorice to get full, Americans are weird.
It's usually not regular salt on the liquorice. It's acutally ammonium chloride (salmiak) which is even more salty than salt I'd say. Lovely stuff!
The liquorice he was showing after the Djungelvrål is called Svenskjävlar and is really, really salty, but super good.
Difference between sodium chloride (table salt) and ammonium chloride (Salmiak) is that ammonium chloride tends to make you salivate rather than sucking the moisture out of the mouth. Like... No way in hell that I was just take some table salt and lap it up, I could do this with salmiak though.
Svenskjävlar is kind of djungelvrål on steriods. I like them but can only eat a few at the time.
@@Templarofsteel88The actual liqourice underneath all that salmiak is a lot tastier than the Djungevrål though.
@@RaXXha yep, love svenskjävlar
@@RaXXha 100%. Djunelvrål is bad liquorice (especially when rock hard, then it's downgraded to awful). Only the salt is actually good on them.
We have voileipäkakku (smörgåskaka/ sandwichcake) also here in Finland 🇫🇮. Traditionally served at weddings, birthdays and other party's as a savory cake. Usually fish (salmon) or meat (ham) filling. Layers of wheatbread and filling have cream cheese and/or mayonnaise and spices.
If I recall, the reason that some people love salty licorice, or just very salty food overall, while others can't stand it, is actually genetic. Like with the coriander, but on a much more important level. The need to stand the taste in order to survive. Natural selection basically. I don't remember the details, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the need to salt food in order to conserve it simply made it so that people who couldn't stand the taste practically starved and died off.
And also, smörgåstårta, the sandwich cake, is amazing. It's so versatile, everyone can have their own spin on it. There is no right or wrong in how to make it. The base is sandwiches with some king of creamy filling/coating, which people make in a lot of different varieties. And then you top it with whatever you want. Vegetables, fruit, shrimp, ham, fish or whatever match your taste. It's amazing!
The reason why Taco Friday is so popular here in Sweden is kinda synonymous with Fredagsmys (Cosy Friday). Families gathering in the sofa in front of the TV, watching shows or movies, while enjoying tacos, pizza, whatever good food you want to have. It's the end of the standard work week and families are bonding and taking it easy.
friday is the onley day you have time to have tacos. thuesday you have maccaroni and meatballs in the best families at the same time you now mom work late some plays soccer or skiing some five o clock some at six or some at seven.
Smörgåstårta + Pear Cider is a must have if you visit Sweden.
salmon, roastbeef or shrimp is all good for topping.
Inside there is usually a ham, dill & creme fraiche layer and a mimosa layer.
There is a gene that is common in the Nordics that makes us perceive licorice differently (that's why we eat a lot of licorice in Nordic countries), don't know if it's the same gene as coriander.
Then it is usually not "salt" on it but Ammonium Chloride which is another salt
11.28 It's called Svensksjävlar and they say it's the worlds saltiest licorice. I like it alot :)
Aldrig hör talas om dem. Trodde inte det fanns något starkare än djungelvrål
Me tooo!
@@Jacqueen Lots of youtube content about it, now even a stronger one, with Carolina Reaper chip powder on it. Both saltiest and spiciest in world. (spoiler, the salt drench the hot spicy flavor)
It's right on the border of being too salty, but still palatable. My dad almost threw up when he tried it, but still finished one. I'm fine with it, but only in small portions.
@@Jacqueen
Djungelvrål är mesigt i jämförelse med Svenskjävlar. 😜 😂 Men jag tycker personligen inte att Svenskjävlar är särskilt god, min favorit är Djöflar från Lakritsroten. 😋
Dwayne: Which sick human being thought of salt black liquorice?
Finland: 😳👀
I make Sandwich cake for my birthday every year. I don't do the fish or shrimp on my cakes though. Generally meat based.
Nowadays, many Swedes like spicy food, but there are many who don't like it either. Fish is very important in our food culture because of the proximity to lakes and seas and also because of our climate. I assume it's the same in the UK. Salty licorice candy is popular here, both my sister and I can eat a whole candy bag with it
We have sandwich cakes in Finland. Absolutely love those 😋. Especially chicken curry sandwich cake.
Done that with added mangos. Delicious
I absolutely love smörgåstårta, it's delicious and the most swedish thing you can eat.
I make a smörgåstårta with shrimp, eggs and curry, its my husbands favorite and he always requests it on his birthday 🤗
eggs mixed with curry is bomb!
I had Svenskjälvlar a couple of days ago, yes its really salty but the salt disappears rather fast and then you got the nice licorice to enjoy.
An advice if you gonna try the surströmming. Make sure to be outside, cause the smell will be stuck in the walls for days if you open it inside. I have never tried it either but they say it's gross. I think they who say they love it in the north is like youths who says they love coffee. They want to be cool and say they like it, then they make faces for every sip, or chew they take, but still say "I love it, it tastes so good"
For homemade pizza for me there are two options: make the dough yourself (not hard, but time consuming; the results are divine) or store bought flat pizza dough, which you can fill what ever toppings and sauces you want, easy but not as good.
I LOVE, LOVE salty licorice. Salty licorice ice cream is the best.🤩😅
We do sometimes make home-made pizza, but when we do it properly as an actual dinner we make the bread too and try to make it, well, pizza-ish. I personally sometimes make a simplified "lunch" pizza that's simply a Polarbröd rågkaka (a kind of soft round bread) with chili-sauce spread on it, sandwich ham torn into smaller bits and spread over, and finally cheese, with this run in a microwave for a bit.
My brother loves the dish ”plankstek”, which is beef, tomatoes and mashed potatoes that you put in the oven on a wooden plate and serve with béarnaise sauce. He has eaten it a few times as pizza topping too and he loved it. 😋
"Homemade Pizza at home"
Me and some friends during Uni would meet up and have a Potlock type party where the host would make sure that there's dough and possibly a base tomato sauce, but then every guest would bring their own Pizza topping (we had a list where people would sign up that they'd attend as well as what topping they'd bring so people didn't all go with ham or cheese and so people knew how much topping to bring so everyone could potentially try it).
Then we'd just start making wierd combinations of pizzas! One evening we had 16 different toppings (and yes, 16 different types, no repeats)
The pizza you really want to try: Chicken, Banana, Peanuts and Curry.
Sandwichcakes are amazing.
I make mine layered with a mix of liver paté, mayo, pickled cucumber in between the layers. and then obviously, rolled up cheese, rolled up ham, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, shrimp, boiled egg halves, dill, and some folded slizes of lemon.
I've heard of the Scandinavian gene for not enjoying coriander; I remember having a few kids in school who despised coriander. Fortunately, I have some mixed ancestry. So, due to my upbringing and the fact that my family isn't picky eaters, I became accustomed to eating cuisines from different parts of the world, especially an appreciation for coriander.
Banana curry pizza is my favorite by far, together with pizza sallad ofc.
Oh yes I love it! But without the pineapple. I also like to order some extra topping for my kebabpizza. I like to add bacon, fresh tomatoes, fresh mushrooms and onions if it's not already added.
Banana Pizza with pineapples the best, but i always put béarnaise sauce on top 😋
I’ e heard that Surströmming just isn’t the same if you aren’t already piss-drunk.
BTW, "taco friday"/fredagsmys is a new thing thanks to an advertisement in the 2010s. It was a massive success, but nothing I did as a kid. We always had special friday "cosy dinner" however, we called it "fikamiddag" (all kids chose one thing they wanted each, we were four siblings), eaten in livingroom and not the dining table. Pobably just a way for my family to make things easier.
Koriander/cilantro is a genetic thing, many of us love spicy however.
As a Swede, my favourite pizza is the Swedish version of the Capricciosa (No artichokes!). There's nowhere to hide when you only have such basic toppings as tomato sauce, cheese, ham, mushrooms, and oregano, so it's very easy to tell which pizza places are good. A strong second place is of course the kebabpizza.
Our local pizzeria got a pizza with chevré, cremé fraiche, gorgonzola, mint leaves, honey. pear, figs and walnut. I love it.
Shrimp with drops of lemon is a must for the absolute best sandwich cakes... Basically it's a huge sandwich with whatever we pull out of the sea or hunt for dinner. Glaze it with mayonaise or some other cold and delicious sauce for sandwich. My best recipe is 50/50 mayonaise and sour cream and mix it with a bunch of tuna and red onions or leek. Spread this over sandwiches and lap them on eachother. When you reach a good height, you add cheese, shrimp, salad, ham, tomatoes, cucumbers. Well here you can just add anything. Advocados.. Berries.. Put it into the refridgerator and enjoy breakfast for a week. Best for summer mornings when you can drink it with a beer.
Africana pizza - Beef Filet, Pineapple, Mandarines and Banana with curry.
Thats life!
Definitivt inte mandariner
Sounds amazing :)
we like spicy food, but since international dishes with a lot of spice in them haven't really been much of a thing since maybe the 1990's a lot of people have a very low tolerance to the stronger spices.
Also, you should try the dish flygande jakob, it's a chicken casserole with peanuts, bacon and bananas that's served with rice.
Banana Curry pizza is my absolute favourite!
A tip: I have lately started adding sriracha hot sauce to my Banana Curry pizza. Absolutely awsome!!
I like going a step further and also getting peanuts on my banana curry pizza. It adds a nice crunchy texture to the sweetness of the banana.
Black salty licorice is so good, and the Svensk Jävlar is one of the best one.
About licorice, salt-licorice to be precise, there is not "salt" in it, or ON it the traditional sense, it contains salmiak which is another word for ammonium chloride, gives it a rather distinctive smell which might not be too surprising ;) It is also a fairly common flavor ingredient in cough syrups.
Coriander tastes like dish-soap to me. Curry banana pizza is a classic had it first time in the 90’s.
For the fermented Surstömming the smell is terrible but the taste is salty if you prep it with onions and stuff in the tunnbrödrulle its salty,
I love banana curry pizza! I probably never would have ordered it on my own because I thought it sounded strange but I tried a slice when a friend ordered it. Now it's one of my favourites. The version I have is chicken, onions, bananas and curry powder. Sometimes I ask them to add pineapple (it has to be in small pieces, not in large rings). The curry powder is essential to make it work.
as a swede, the worst part of living abroad is not being able to get banana curry pizza 😔
Smörgåstårta (sandwischcake) is something I learned as a kid to like. We ate it every family reunion. Now I love it. And I get some huge cravings sometimes for salty licorice. Really love it. And you should really try that bananpizza. I love it without ham. And with peanuts on! With béarnaise sauce. Oh I’m hungry now.
The reason the the taco Friday is probably that kids loves tacos as well. And it's not as unhealthy as for example a pizza. Fridays are a day when the parents want to have a special night with their kids, eat together, spend more time than they can usually do, and at the same time they are tired from work and want to cook something that go fast to cook, and tacos is that dish. It's really good, you can put your own twist on it, (There is some people having banana as you love in food ;) ) and if you don't like something you don't need to add it, as you make your own, which is perfect, so the children can't say "I dont like onion" or " I don't like cucumber or tomato" then they don't need to take it. So taco Friday for us parents, is amazing.
We have sandwich cake in Finland as well. Very popular in special celebration.
pineapple banana chicken curry pizza
The Jamaica pizza is the best.
Chicken, banana and Curry. ❤❤
1. Love that, pizza is one of my favorites. I usually ask for garlic sauce if it not already on the pizza too.
2. The potato dish is a based on a Swedish take on the French dish potato gratin, and the anchovies are an extra condiment in it of Christmas. It's thinly sliced of potato cream, onions, herbs, and garlic done in the over, often topped with cheese.
3. Surströming is not very popular in Sweden and most Swedes don't even dare to eat it, it is food of by gone times when food was not as an abundant. Some people do love it, thou.
4. Salty liqureish is a very Nordic thing and I personally like at the level of djugelvrål but not more salt than that.
5. Smörgåstårta is basically just a cold stacked sandwich with mayo and some form of protein, typically either shrimp, salmon, roast beef.
6. Vindaloo is an actually Indian dish, and you did colonize India for a long time, so the Indian inspiration on food is not weird. Sweden just looks at all the food in the world and take their own spin on it. Also, the English curry is what led to the Japanese curry which is one of my absolute favorites, even though it is very mild.
7. Except taco Friday, we have Sunday steaks with roasted potatoes as a common thing as well here.
8. Sweden is divided on spicy food, most don't like it, but those that thou usually absolutely love it. That is why different restaurants with the same type of food can have very varying spiciness degree, and you have to try the food to know if it is either super spicy or nothing at all at the spiciest level. Mostly Thai and Indian suffer from this. The habit of eating chillies comes from warmer country as an efficient way to counteracts diseases. We all the way up north have had it way too cold to ever truly adopt these costumes, and we never colonized countries that had them either, really. The curry on the pizza is yellow curry, so close to the English one.
Do home-made Pizza almost every Saturday. We usually buy ready made dough that is already rolled out onto parchment paper and usually includes a jar of tomato sauce. Super easy.
The potatoes in the Janson is NOT frenchfries. Its julienned potatoes.
Smörgåstårta is amazing and you can basically put anything you want in it. There are ofcourse classic versions.
Iceberglettuce, tomatoe and cucumber is often called a Swede-sallad (jokingly from foreigners liveing here mostly). We use it for everything so ofcourse it goes in Tacos.
If you aim to try eating surströmming, please do the following: eat something solid first > have 1-2 shots or "nubbe" first to loosen up > eat it the way it is supposed to be eaten > Flat bread, hard or soft > mashed amendine potatoes > silver onion > small parts of surströmming > small dabs of sour creame > a pinch of red onion: enjoy at your own pace! It's a hate/love relationship so make sure to take the time you need :)
DJUNGELVRÅL IS MY CHILDHOOD LOVE THEM. And Hockey pulver is sooo good
Tip from the coach, when trying surstömming add 1/4 of the surstömming to the rest (ex bread, potato, and the other things ppl want: cream fraishe, tomato, dill, union and more)
In Sweden we love to get influenced by other culture's food but we always tend to make it our own thing. And we have to have sauce on it, whatever it is. Liqourice is actually best made in Iceland and Finland nowadays. Svenskjävlar is wonderful! A smörgåstårta's taste you can always know. On top of it you always have all the things in it so you know beforehand whats in it. Taco friday is quite a new thing. When I grew up (1970's) it was weird with spaghetti. Everyone just ate "husmanskost". Regarding spicy food it's okey as long as it is not too spicy.
Sandwitch cake is basicaly a big club sandwitch that you cut peaces from.
But it has something creamy to hold it together instead of a stick. Usualy mayonnaise or creme fraiche or a mix of them.
Ice cream with salty liquorice sprinkles is amazing! :)
11:40 It's not regular salt, it's "Salmiaksalt" Ammonium chloride (NH4Cl)!
Vikingbåt (Viking boat) is the most badass pizza you can have! Half-inbaked kebab-pizza!
Never heard about that tacos on friday thing. You can have tacos any day you like. And if you want to try swedish foods there are a couple of more things he didn't mention. Obviously there's the traditional meatballs with potatoes with sauce and lingonberry-jam. But there's also kåldolmar, falukorv, rotmos, pitepalt, ärtsoppa, and spättekaka comes to mind.
The salt on salty licorice isn’t regular salt. It’s salmiac, natriumclorid.
Natriumklorid or in English sodium chloride (NaCl) is regular table salt. Salmiak is ammonium chloride (NH4Cl).
@@equani Of course it is. 😀 Thanks for correcting.
@@pernilla5300 Thank you for being chill. I worried about typing the answer, because people often just attack when mistakes are pointed out.
The candy whit a lot of salt, or amoniumcloride "salmiak" is called "svenskjävlar" it can translate to Swedish Devils. I dont like them but djungelvrål and other salty black licorice I love!🖤
Tacobread pizza (tortilla bread pizza) - 2 Tortilla bread with grained cheese between (cheese type dealers choice), Taco sauce / spiced tomato sauce spread out on top, 2-3 toppings of your own choice (Fried Minced meat, bell pepper and onions are a popular combo), the same cheese that was layered in between the bread also spread on top of it all and then season it with oregano.
In the oven for 200°C (400°F) for roughly 8-10min (golden brown color) and it's ready to serve. Enjoy 😉
We have chicken curry pizza with peach and jalapenos in Finland but I'm not sure if it's popular only in my town🤔 but it's gooood
One of my favourite pizza toppings are banana, curry, peanuts, chicken and pineapple as a combo. So good!
I love pizza with banana, pinapple, curry and chicken. Also very nice if you add some bacon and some pizzerias even have peanuts on (which is AMAZING). Highly recommend trying one of these out! :)
Always have to say that its not regular salt, its salt of ammonia. Or "sal ammoniac" in Latin, and from that "salammoniakki" in Finnish, though better known as "salmiakki".
Can be rarely found in nature, but most often made artificially.
a friend of mine who lives in england loves the banana, chicken, curry and peanut pizza. He always has it when he is visiting
There are some food in south of Sweden that might not be that well know for example äggakaka and spettekaka, they’re worth looking into as well
Just bought a jar of Svenskjävlar last week, it's so salty it burns your tounge so you can't eat to much of it at once, but it's delicious! The salt used doesn't taste like regular table salt, it's salty, but it has a bit of a different flavour. :D Comparing Janssons frestelse to french fries is the strangest comparison i've ever heard. What it ACTUALLY is, is this: Potatoes cut into thin strips, sliced yellow onions, anchovies, some swedish caviar and heavy cream which is then gratinated. It doesn't really taste of anchovies since they are a in a relatively small amount, instead they just provide a very pleasant salty umami flavour to the whole thing. For a short period in the early 2000's, before tex mex came to sweden and took over, everyone would have chicken on fridays, due to a very successfull ad campaign from chicken producer Kronfågel.
I hate banana on pizza but I absolutely agree with the concept of adding something sweet to balance the savory of the pizza itself! Same as adding salt to mozerella and tomatoes or adding salt to water melon! It just makes sense!
Salty food is party of our DNA after centuries of using salt as a preservative. Salty licorice are soooo good and very addictive. Can't live without it!!
I'm one of the banana pizza lover! But homemade pizza, I often go with fennel, mozzarella and balsamic creme.
Licorice is great, the real kind I mean. Salty and sweet ones is great. Djungelvrål, old hard ones are my favorite
Senaps sill!! ( mustard herring)The best! Surströmming is opened under water because of the smell.
11:46 we have lakris (i forgot how to spell it in engish) so salty it has dehydration warnings.
You have to try stuvade makaroner! It’s macaroni pasta that are boiled in milk instead of water. That with sausage (especially swedens Falukorv) and ketchup is something that can be added as well
It is the best thing ever!!!!
Stuvade makaroner with meatballs is probably my favorite childhood comfort food.
You can buy pizza kits in any grocery store for an easy home made pizza if you. Personally only had pizza made on knäckebröd once at a food fair, but it was definitely tasty! Also banana curry pizza is 100% the best pizza!
The salt covering salty liqourice is actually a mix of powdered sugar and ammonium chloride. While the last (also known as sal ammonia or salmiak) is a salt it's not salty in the same way that table salt is salty. Like... it's hard to explain, it has a strong salty taste but not unpleasant in the way eating a pinch of salt is. It also doesn't dry your lips out the way, say, eating a lot of salty popcorn will do.
Black salty licorice is not my favorite, but I can eat it no problem. Probably has something to do with my childhood as a swede ;)
The fermented herring doesn't really taste much... it tastes... well, salty. The smell is kinda beside the point.
Our ancestors used this as a way to preserve meat, and this is what we got ;)
i personaly love kebab pizza the most but if your visiting sweden and want to try something new go for the curry and chicken pizza. i love to make pizza at home. its very simple, just buy the pizza kit wich contains the dough and sometimes the tomato sauce and also buy what ever toppings you want to have.
hello from Finland.When i live in sweden 1980. there is traditional hotdog whit mashed potatoes,and that is goood
Svenskjävlar is so good! You also have Tomtejävlar, red liquorice with lots and lots of salt 😋
I usually get a pizza with fillet of beef, béarnaise sauce as the main toppings but also usually tomato, the usually pizza tomato sauce of course, onion perhaps, garlic ... But the kebab pizza is also a favourite.
When we make a "pizza" on bread it's called a warm open faced sandwich, "varm macka" and it's been around for way longer than the pizza in Sweden. The main difference is that it is made on already made bread while the pizza is made from dough that are baked with the rest of the pizza.
I do often make pizza myself. And then cut it in pieces suitable for lunch and put in the freezer.
"Curry" in Sweden is spice mix and not (hot) Indian food. "Curry" is just called Indian food, regardless of if it's from India or not.
If you manage to get used to the smell of surstömming, the taste is not that bad.
The salt used in salty liquorice is not table salt (sodium chloride) but a different kind that tastes about ten times as salty as regular table salt. It's also known as ammonium chloride, or salmiak.
Don't think of sandwich cake as cake but more like a lunch meal in a more festive form, or afternoon tea that will keep you full a bit longer.
Svenskjävlar is amazing, Djungelvrål is great, but Svenskjävlar is purely amazing, You need to try both! 😋
Smörgås tårta is something you most try. Its so good!!!
Spicy food, well I'm married a Thai woman and won the Som Tham contest 4 times in Stockholm at the Thai festival, chili is common in our house.
Svänskjävlar is my favourite candy, whenever i see that they have it in the store i buy like three cans of them (svänskjävlar is the licorice coverd in the salt)
The low spice tolerance is completely true. None of our traditional dishes are spicy whatsoever because those ingredients don't grow here. We're not used to spicy food growing up and we're bad at using spices in our cooking (but we're learning). I once told my friend about a quesadilla I made, she's got Caribbean and Indian heritage and when she asked what spices I used she laughed at me when I answered "salt and pepper"🤣
Häxvrål - ”witches scream” a salty liquorice stick with a creamy, ammonium chloride (salmiac) filling. Could be an introduction to salty liquorice (if Svenskjävlar are too much). At work we used to have a liquorice club, called Lakritstrollen (the liquorice trolls )where someone would bring some really special Nordic salty liquorice instead of fikabröd every Friday. Absolutely delicious- but Iceland makes even better salty liquorice than Sweden
I despise licorice HOWEVER i love salted licorice for some reason
Yes we both do pizza at home and we buy them. I love banana/pineapple pizza and of course I appreciate salty licorice (and so do my wife).
Jansos frestelse is a must at Christmas, but I stay far away from Surstromming.
I looove salt licorice. I used to love djungelvrål but the licorice is to hard on them nowadays. Love svenskjävlar but you can only eat a few. I first tried them from Iceland where they are called Lakkris Djöflar. Some strange food that is delicious is bloodpudding with lingonberry (blodpudding med lingon) and öländska bodycakes (öländska kroppkakor). Im from Öland but live in western Sweden now and there is a lot of people here who have never tried bodycakes.
There's literally NO salt on the "salty" licorice. It's ammonium chloride. VERY different and VERY good if you're used to it.
Salty Licorice isn't usually salted with table salt, but with Salmiak.
The fishballs he is talking about or queneller it called in the fancy restaurant is really, really good they are made from different type of fich or mussels or crab or… a delicacy could be awful expencive or made from pike cheaper.
Surströmming is actually really really good, but you need to treat it as a meal not a joke. It has really strong taste and mix perfectltly with sourcream, potatoes and raw onioins with a piece of bread on the side.
I'm a swede and I love spicy food. BTW svenskjävlar is f-ing awsome. One of my favorite pizzas is with grilled bits of grilled chicken, curry, banana, pineapple and roasted peanuts.
curry bananas and pinapple with smoked ham or shrimp. The tomato base has to be good tho like no acidic taste or oregano..light basil.
My favourite pizza topping is actually pineapple, banana, curry, and peanuts - with either chicken or ham as the meat.
11:27 - I love (!) djungelvrål and tasted svenskjävlar for the first time about two years now and kinda feel in love with it. It IS salty as F even for a salt licorice fan as me, but that's the thing - your stepping up a bit which gets you on the toes. Like an adventure 😅
Favorite roping on pizza - the combo of halloumi, beef, pepper, small tomato, maybe add some arugula and finally some béarnaise on top 😋
I would say in general we're not too into spicy food, but as you might get by my obsession with salt I also like pretty spicy food myself.
He didn't mention it, but have you heard of toast skagen? I highly recommend you trying it out, it's delicious!
Pineapple is the best topping on a pizza with bearnaisesacuce.
I'm eating Haribo salty black licorice while watching this. It's delicious.
I'm Finnish but like Swedish salmiakki better. Don't tell anyone..
Banana curry pizza is delicious, actually been craving that for a while, it's a rare order for me.