How To Cook (and eat) LUTEFISK Norwegian Style

[@norwaywithpal]

Hei hei! Tusen takk for watching! Let me know if you have any questions about lutefisk. Also, consider supporting me on Patreon: www.patreon.com/norwaywithpal You support helps me to make more episodes (and I can afford more lutefisk)

[@amorsvlogs6039]

Thank you for sharing the link where I can buy. . Appreciated❤️

[@jesebsp]

the last time i had it my cousins wife asked who forgot to take the trash out. i took her to the stove. she couldn't believe we were going to eat it. my dad and uncle (not Norwegian) called it lunasick to set grandma off.

[@norwaywithpal]

@@jesebsp haha!

[@vadisquo9094]

I just got back from Norway. That fish is not fit for human consumption. Leave soap taste in your mouth for days. Even the Norwegians admit that lutefisk is horrible.

[@TheTylerRossmann]

My grandpa always made lutefisk for us every Christmas in Minnesota, and now after he's passed, I am going to try to continue the tradition! So thank you for this video

[@norwaywithpal]

You are welcome! I hope you and your family will enjoy it (again)

[@QuintTheSharker]

Bobby Hill sent me. He would be proud!

[@christiankelly6321]

Me too

[@xXxJSCOTTxXx]

That lutefisk ain't right...

[@amorsvlogs6039]

I will try to cook this for my norwegian husband . .thank you for sharing the recipes greetings from Philippines 🇵🇭

[@norwaywithpal]

You are welcome! I'm sure he'll like it :)

[@MiguelPerez-zx2wg]

Find The Man With Terrible Smell. -Cotton Hill.

[@MrMopar413]

Vary interesting way to cook lutefisk. I’m second generation Norwegian in the USA. My grandfather was from LAN Norway. Over here the way I’ve always seen lutefisk cooked is by boiling it. I like your tip on using mustard. That’s what I’ve done in the past. Then I went over the top at the Sons of Norway dinner and made a special Taylor made spaghetti sauce with extra tomato paste to compensate of the watery fish , it was great but pissed off everyone else at the dinner. It’s pretty dam good tasting.😂😂😂👍

[@norwaywithpal]

hehe.. well there is no right or wrong, but boiling the fish I think its difficult to get a nice texture. It'll be too wet. So if you do it my way you won't need the spaghetti sauce ;)

[@valkyrja--]

So you're just American

[@ajthewun]

My first time cooking lutefisk this year, I can't wait! Great video dude, thank you!

[@norwaywithpal]

Thanks! Good luck!

[@ajthewun]

@@norwaywithpal I totally nailed it, very good with lutefiskbacon and mustard sauce. I also served it with sweet potato and diced red onion. Will try with brunost next time for sure.

[@Aidan_Au]

Takk Pal for making another video. Stay warm with your family. God Jul

[@norwaywithpal]

You are welcome Aidan, god jul to you as well :)

[@aliwannigerry2060]

Like 318, It seems that the pleasant smell spread out from the kitchen as the awesome preparation of this nutrious and healthy appetizing recipe is currently on process that entice some of the viewers to keep on watching, thanks for sharing this extraordinary delectable dish and stay safe always.

[@rhyacinthlevrini6577]

Something delicious to look forward to when I come next Holiday Season (2024). God Jul!🤗🤗

[@norwaywithpal]

Yes for sure something to try out! God jul!

[@christy4616]

It actually looks good the way you make it. I've only ever seen it look like fish jello, so i have not ever tried it.

[@norwaywithpal]

Thanks! I would not eat fish jello hehe… sometimes it’s just not cooked right or the quality of the fish is poor

[@johnhinds1579]

God Jul Pal and Godt Nytt Ar!!/ Enjoy the Lutefisk.

[@norwaywithpal]

God jul John! I hope if the marzipan pig has not arrived yet, it should be right around the corner!

[@phlamingophlox8492]

How did you make lutefisk and mushy peas look delicious? 🤯 I was thrilled to see that huge dollop of mustard. 😊

[@norwaywithpal]

Years of practice 😜

[@daveclemmer4536]

I love lutefisk! I wish I had your video the last time I was in Norway, as when I made it myself it turned into a jelly. I have had wonderful lutefisk prepared by others and in restaurants. Next time I will do better making it myself!

[@norwaywithpal]

Too little salt then ;) glad you’ve had some nice experiences though!

[@DamianLarsh]

Somehow it’s similar to the Chinese century egg, both food use alkali to transfer proteins into different textures

[@norwaywithpal]

That I was not aware of! Very interesting 👍

[@garmo98]

Yours looks amazing! The Lutefisk dinner was always a huge event at the local Sons of Norway lodge. Ticket always sold out. I think their lutefisk may have been lesser quality as it was more like cod jello on the plate.

[@norwaywithpal]

Thanks! either lesser quality or just not cooked properly... or both :P

[@Aidan_Au]

Godt nytt år, Pål! Stay warm, I heard that it's -20 degrees in Oslo. I'm excited about your new website which can better promote your touring and planning service! About your Edmonton trip, if you don't mind asking, what were you doing there? Do you have relatives there? I don't know if there were many early Nordmenn immigrants there. I'm curious. Takk!

[@norwaywithpal]

Godt Nytt år Aidan! My wife is from Edmonton, so we are visiting family. But there was actually quite a few Norwegian settlers in this area back in the days. Can't wait to get my new website out there. Thanks for following me here on KZbin

[@twelvesmylimit]

God Jul, Pål!

[@norwaywithpal]

God jul!

[@corgi69]

Jeg Elsker du, Pål!!!!!

[@TheAndyseitz]

"bacon ASMR" is most beautiful in this video 😁

[@norwaywithpal]

🤣

[@familyb5625]

Looks Yummie!

[@Fernandez218]

so, lutefisk is made by using a caustic solution, pickling lime, or calcium hydroxide solution, to treat the fish. That is what I've learned so far. I wonder if this process can be applied to other types of meat. I'm a very picky eater. My childhood in the 90s consisted of 2% milk and Flintstones chewable vitamins. I am still a picky eater as an adult. I have figured out that preparation of food with the ph level makes a big difference. Kale is essentially dissolves in your mouth if you cook it in a baking soda solution for only 30 minutes. Nixtamalization is a widely known process for improving nutrition of maize. So my thought process brings me to this. There must be a reason ancient Norwegians treated fish the way they did with a caustic solution. Was it for increased nutrition? Or boredom? Did it help their health? Is it possible to do this with chicken too? I know that many chinese restaurants treat chicken in a baking soda solution (high pH solution) to make the meat more tender. I do tend to favor that type of meat.

[@norwaywithpal]

Hi there, I think you know a lot more about this than me, but traditionally Lutefisk was cured in lye made from birch tree ash mixed with water. Why and how this came about I'm not sure... But perhaps they wanted an alternative to dried cod fish. By soaking it in lye it would be semi"fresh". I don't think it had anything to do with making the meat more tender. These were pure survival techinques to get through the winter with enough food.

[@Fernandez218]

@@norwaywithpal I don't know much. I know a little. I appreciate the response, brother! If you search up pellagra you find that this lye process -- or more generally soaking in a high ph solution -- is used with maize and other vegetables to make them more palatable or more nutritionally bioavailable for human consumption. I wonder if it does something similar to meats. I wouldn't be surprised if ancient Nordics had some instincts on what made food healthier, similar to the Native Americans. Wood ash =? Birch tree ash. Wood ash was used by Native Americans to treat maize. Sounds like different groups of people thousands of miles apart had similar processes to deal with their food to make it healthier. I want to try lutefisk myself but I have no where local to buy it from. I appreciate your video and enlightening people on a different food. Like I said, I'm so picky -- and have health problems -- so I look for diet solutions. My bloodwork comes back normal from my doctor but I have low-energy, brain-fog symptoms since around 17 years old. That fact along with me being a picky eater I wonder if there is something I can do similar to what Native Americans and ancient Nordics have done. If there is some sort of lye-process or treatment of food I can do to help me live a better, healthier version of myself. I really can't stand most American food (USA) and I've lived her all my life. Only one time have I been to Europe and I found myself getting nausea from initially eating it (when I was 15y/o). I figured that I was detoxing from nasty American food, because I soon began to find it, instinctively, nourishing me -- I was getting quality of food (in Europe), over quality of food (in USA). If you made it this far, thanks for reading my text wall.

[@BrimirMe]

As far as I remember, the process reduces the nutritional value by as much as 50% , in the case of lutefisk. I think that is compared to the stockfish it is made from and not the original fish, but I may be wrong. One theory is that they would have noticed that a little ash in the water while rehydrating stockfish, sped up the process and helped with particularly dry/hard pieces. Then more and more ash was added, until it became so much, that it became necessary to rinse out the lye again. Now, this wasn't more efficient any longer, but people had become so fond of the result, that they appreciated the now extra step of creating lutefisk. The lutefisk mix particularly well with butter and soaks it in a way that regular whitefish and stock fish doesn't. Eating it with butter was practical for those that could afford and would make up for the lowered nutritional value. So it would have been kind of a high status thing too. Certainly higher than regular stock fish, which was plentiful and common.

[@amorsvlogs6039]

We dont have brown cheese here . .He misses the food in norway❤ I tried to cook European food for him. Which is he loves it.

[@norwaywithpal]

Yea, brown cheese can be hard to find outside Norway, but you can find it online in certain stores. amzn.to/4ane673

[@MichaelEMJAYARE]

Im a Minnesotan, and my grandma and the Lutherans sure love it - I want to try it but fuck.

[@norwaywithpal]

😂

[@Sarahmada-m5n]

Norway style food ❤

[@VathSophanin]

Good recipe

[@norwaywithpal]

Thanks!

[@VathSophanin]

@@norwaywithpal Welcome 🤗

[@jesebsp]

tortillas are potatoless lefse. when anyone said it was the other way around my grandma would go off.

[@norwaywithpal]

Hehe good point!

[@bubuxor]

hi, bon appétit :)

[@norwaywithpal]

Merci :)

[@lauraamundson769]

That looks good. I've never actually eaten it. My father used to talk about how awful it was at his grandparents' house. Maybe Grandma didn't know how to cook it. Or maybe Swedish Grandma was trying to ruin the meal?

[@norwaywithpal]

heheh who knows... but it sure helps to have all the sides, and maybe they did not have that back then

[@BrimirMe]

I love lutefisk, but the Swedish way of preparing it, is horrific. I don't think I could learn to like it that way.

[@YeWitchfinderNielsen]

Also known as Mortuary "Cheez", Neptune's Whiskeyshits, and OH GOD NILS DON'T ITS CORPSE NITRE N' BOOGERS UGH THE SMELL

[@norwaywithpal]

😂

[@Plarndude]

I’ve never eaten anything on that menu before. I’ve only Heard of two of them, lutefisk and lefse. I am no good at cooking things, I can do some simple stuff like bake a pizza, boil hotdogs, grill hamburgers, etc. I would probably ruin all the stuff you prepared so well. My Norwegian name, Ingebrigtsen, is pretty much the only Norwegian thing in my life. I want to try that plate at least one time, but I’d need someone else to prepare it. I only know of one Norwegian restaurant in the Phoenix metropolis where I live.

[@norwaywithpal]

Hi there! If you visit Norway during Christmas you can try many of our traditional dishes in the restaurant… including lutefisk 😋

[@lindaduran636]

Do you hear up the lefsa?

[@norwaywithpal]

Nope

[@selmabeyazgul8607]

Afiyet olsun

[@Kaister007]

WISCONSIN!!!

[@spadionkle1003]

There needs to be an ingredient list

[@norwaywithpal]

Yea agree 👍

[@ЛюдаРезниченко-б3о]

Jeg er fra Ukraine.Jeg ville prøve lutefisk som tradisjonelt norske mat, men jeg var redd 😂. Men kanskje jeg skal prøve nå .

[@norwaywithpal]

Du burde absolutt prøve! Slava Ukraini

[@billbombshiggy9254]

Egads. The texture of that fish looks.. like something I would not enjoy. I never plan to be in Norway around Christmas. Too cold. Y'all get too much snow.

[@norwaywithpal]

Not so much snow anymore with global warming.. plenty of rain and gray weather, especially in the coastal areas

[@arildbergstrm9065]

I totally disagree with the recipee. 1. Don't cut the fish in pieces. 2. Put coarse salt in a tray. Fish on top, new layer of coarse salt. Wrap it in plastic and put in the fridge for tree hours. 3. Brush of the salt and place the fish in a tray in the oven. 180 centigrades. 4. After 40 minutes, take the fish out and cut it in pieces. Serve as shown in the video.

[@norwaywithpal]

Interesting! I would have liked to try out this method. To be honest I’ve been experimenting with many different ways of cooking the lutefisk.

[@arildbergstrm9065]

@@norwaywithpal Try it out. My family has used this method "for centuries" You could fill the tray with loins. Same procedure

[@Saba15-t9d]

Du har blitt hjernevasket, dette er verken sunn eller god mat!! 😅

[@norwaywithpal]

🤣

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[@norwaywithpal]

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