NORWEGIAN POTATO FLATBREAD (LEFSE)
This is my take on Norwegian flatbread. Without really knowing what I was doing, these came out delightfully tender, supple, almost fabric-like in texture, and tasting deliciously like something between a crepe and a potato pancake. They're traditionally served with butter and a sprinkle of sugar, but I also enjoy them with some smoked salmon, sour cream, and fresh dill. My other favorite topping combo is butter and some kind of berry jam and sour cream.
Provided by Chef John
Categories Bread Quick Bread Recipes
Time 4h55m
Yield 8
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line an oven-safe skillet or baking pan with aluminum foil.
- Poke the potato skin all over with a knife and place on the prepared pan.
- Roast in the preheated oven until very tender and easily pierced with a knife, about 1 hour. Let sit until cool enough to handle but still very warm.
- Scoop potato flesh out into a bowl. Mash smooth with the back of a spatula until there are no lumps left. You can also use a potato ricer. Add the butter and mix until it disappears. Add the salt, sugar, and cream; mix until smooth. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, about 2 hours.
- Mix in flour in several additions until the dough is able to be kneaded by hand. Add enough flour to form a soft, but not too sticky, dough. You need to be able to roll it out fairly thin without it falling apart.
- Wrap dough with plastic and refrigerate until chilled, about 1 hour.
- Divide dough into 8 portions. Dust each with flour and roll out onto a well-floured kitchen towel to 1/8-inch thick, or thinner.
- Heat a very lightly buttered nonstick pan over medium-high heat. Cook the lefse in the hot pan, poking the surface lightly with a fork, until golden brown blisters form, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Stack on a plate as they're cooked and keep covered with a towel. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 139.2 calories, Carbohydrate 20.7 g, Cholesterol 15.9 mg, Fat 5.1 g, Fiber 1.4 g, Protein 2.7 g, SaturatedFat 3.1 g, Sodium 296.9 mg, Sugar 0.9 g
LEFSE (POTATO FLATBREAD)
From Bernard Clayton's Cooking Across America. This recipe comes from an Iowa cook with Norwegian ancestry.
Provided by pattikay in L.A.
Categories Breads
Time 1h5m
Yield 16 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- In a medium saucepan, cook the potatoes in water till tender but not mushy, about 20 minutes. Drain.
- Press the potatoes through a potato ricer or grater.
- In a large bowl combine the potatoes and the margarine.
- cool to room temperature add the sugar and salt.
- mix thoroughly with your hands or a wooden spoon.
- stir in one cup of flour, then add the remaining flour to make a stiff dough.
- knead for 4 minutes. Pat dough into a ball.
- preheat griddle to 400 degrees.
- divide the ball of dough into 4 portions, then divide each portion into 4 equal pieces, for a total of 16.
- on a lightly floured surface, roll one piece of dough at a time to a paper thin 10 or 11 inch circle.
- fold the dough onto a spoon handle (or lefse stick, if you have one), carry to the griddle and unroll.
- bake each piece on the griddle for 1-2 minutes each side, or till the lefse bubbles and brown spots appear. turn over and repeat.
- lefse will look dry, but will be flexible, not crisp.
- fold in half and then in half again. cool between cloths and store in plastic bags.
- to serve, unfold and spread with butter, or sprinkle with brown or white sugar.
- roll up to eat.
- to freeze, wrap airtight and store in freezer - thaw in wrapper.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 178.9, Fat 5.9, SaturatedFat 1, Sodium 217.3, Carbohydrate 28.4, Fiber 2.3, Sugar 2.2, Protein 3.4
LEFSE (USING HUNGRY JACK POTATOES)
Lefse (sounds like "left sa" ) is a Norwegian flat bread made from potatoes. I have been making this recipe for about 35 years. This is very good. Our family eats this every holiday and sometimes for birthdays. People eat it with butter and sugar, butter, jams and jellies,and peanut butter. Traditionally, you spread it...
Provided by Colleen Sowa
Categories Flatbreads
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- 1. Combine potato flakes and salt in a mixing bowl, set aside.
- 2. Put the 1/4 cup of butter in a 1-cup measuring cup and add enough water to make a full 1-cup measure. Put this into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add this to the bowl with potato flakes, mix well with a fork. Add milk and mix well. Refrigerate until mix is completely chilled. Do not let the surface get dry.
- 3. When dough is chilled, work in flour with your hands. Form into balls that are a little larger than a golf ball. Place in a container lined with a towel. refrigerate overnight.
- 4. The next day, roll out the dough very thin on a cloth covered pastry board dusted with flour. Bake on the Heritage Grill (Lefse Griddle... or any large stove top griddle) that has been preheated to 500 degrees. This recipe makes approximately 12 lefse.
- 5. *** Use a grooved lefse rolling pin to make the lefse. Roll it out very thin. Cook the lefse until bubbles appear, and when you check the underside... the bubble areas are golden brown or a bit darker. Then flip over and wait for the bubbles again.
- 6. Cool and wrap in plastic wrap to keep fresh. Refrigerate.
NORWEGIAN POTATO AND RYE PANCAKE FLATBREADS - LEFSE
These famous Norwegian Potato Pancakes are more like flatbreads; they are traditionally eaten with butter and cream as a dessert, or sprinkled with cinnamon sugar as an accompaniment to coffee. I think these would be wonderful eaten with fried bacon and mushrooms, for a delicious brunch and breakfast idea. The Norwegians will also eat these with local goat's cheese, snofrisk, or with dried/smoked reindeer meat.
Provided by French Tart
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 12-16 Lefse, 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 5
Steps:
- Put the mashed potatoes into a large bowl and add the flour, sugar and salt - mix well.
- Add some water - bit by bit, kneading well so it makes a pliable dough.
- Take little balls from the dough - the size of a small egg and roll them out thinly on a well floured surface.
- Heat up a flat griddle, hotplate or skillet and cook the Lefse with a little fat until the dough bubbles.
- Turn them over and cook the other side.
- When the Lefse have been cooked - they should be smooth and soft.
- Eat them as I have suggested in the Introduction!
- For Vegetarian make sure the Fat is from a Vegetable product such as vegetable oil not from an animal product such as lard.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 133.4, Fat 0.4, SaturatedFat 0.1, Sodium 392.2, Carbohydrate 30.3, Fiber 3.9, Sugar 1.6, Protein 3
LEFSE - SCANDINAVIAN POTATO FLATBREAD
The idea with this flatbread is to use as little flour as possible and handle quickly and lightly. From the Minnesota Scandinavian chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Provided by Molly53
Categories Quick Breads
Time 25m
Yield 12 lefse
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- When potatoes are cool enough to handle, add salt and butter; mash.
- Chill.
- Mix baking powder with a small amount of flour and add to potatoes.
- Add enough flour so that the dough can be rolled very thinly on a floured board.
- Roll only a small portion at a time.
- Cut into quarters and bake on a hot (400F), lightly greased griddle, browning lightly on both sides.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 94, Fat 3.1, SaturatedFat 1.9, Cholesterol 8, Sodium 136.2, Carbohydrate 14.7, Fiber 1.1, Sugar 0.3, Protein 1.9
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