Last Updated on June 2, 2015 by Chef Mireille
Blogging Marathon #32
Theme: Miscellaneous – Street Food
On an episode of the Travel Channel’s Street Eats, I was able to get some insight into some of the street food of Northern Europe, like Stockholm’s famous tunnbrodsrolle, a flatbread stuffed with butter, mashed potato, ketchup, hot dog, shrimp salad and lettuce. Now isn’t that a mouthful! I took notes and there are several on the agenda for me to reproduce. One were these potato flatbreads, eaten with butter and sugar in Norway.
Serves 8
Ingredients:
- 5 1/4 pounds potatoes, peeled
- 1/4 cup + 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1 1/2 teaaspoons sugar
- 2 tablespoons plus 2 1/2 teaspoons heavy cream
- 1 1/3 cups all purpose flour
- extra butter and sugar, for serving
Place the potatoes in a pot with enough water to cover. Boil until tender. Pass the potatoes through a ricer.
Using an electric mixer, beat the potatoes with the cream, butter, sugar and salt until smooth and creamy.
Leave to cool to room temperature.
Add the flour to form a dough. Divide dough into 8 equal portions.
Heat a griddle.
Place parchment or waxed paper on a cutting board and sprinkle with flour. Roll into a 1/8″ thick circle and flip onto hot griddle.
Cook for a few minutes on each side, until slightly browned. Turn onto a plate with a damp towel on top.
Notes:
- This is a very soft dough. It is very difficult to flip. I used a large spatula for the first three, but after that it started to become difficult, even when I added a little butter to the griddle so that it wouldn’t stick. Finally, I had to flip it over onto a plate. Then flip onto another plate so that the uncooked side was face up. Place the griddle on top of the plate. Flip back over so that the uncooked side is face down on the griddle. Place back on the stove and cook the other side.
- When you remove the lefse, it will seem like it is very soft and will fall apart. After it cools for a few minutes, this will change and it will become the consistency of a thin breakfast pancake.
Spread a little butter and sprinkle a little sugar on top to serve.
They are incredibly soft and fluffy. While delicious the traditional way with butter and a sprinkling of sugar, they also tasted just as good with a sprinkling of salt and ketchup.
…linking to What’s With My Cuppa hosted by Avika & Kid’s Delight hosted by Nisha
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this is almost soft like a pancake, so beautiful, i can imagine the challenges while getting these cooked
Again a new dish for me,lefse looks wonderful and one more flatbread to try immediately at home..
Nice yammy dish …awesome …
wow adding potatoes make the flat bread really soft isn't .. i have tried making Frankie out of it 🙂 looks so delicious and yummy with butter spread on it !! 🙂 very well explained dear !!
Mireille love this flat bread..okay you could make mini version of this bread..flipping would be so much easier then..looks soft and melt in the mouth kinds.
One more delicious recipe from Chef Mireille. These look wonderfully delicate.
When I make this I will eat with some hot hot pickles as I am diabetic and potatoes and sugar together is a big no no.
I can understand how soft they are. I have used potatoes while making roti and they were extremely soft. Now I can also imagine how tasty it must be with that cream and butter!
Very interesting flat bread.. Looks yummy..
Yes they looks so soft and butter and sugar is the perfect choice for this…
Doesn't the potato mix get too runny because of cream?..and you add the flour to this potato mix right..?..sounds so delicious, more like the sweeter version of aloo paratha..will surely have to try for my daughter..
no it does not make it runny – it is such a small amount of cream
Very interesting bread!
Very interesting recipe Mir. Looks so inviting…
Tempting bread.. Looks inviting.
very interesting one!! potatoes, cream and flour are a great combo!! yummm
Sowmya
This is a really interesting recipe…Bookmarking this!
It seems that it is a traditional recipe and you cannot change the quantity of ingredients to present an authentic version. Otherwise I guess you can reduce the amount of potatoes, right?
Looks very delicious Mir, very soft and yummy!!
A pancake loaded with potato goodness…That's a lot of potato that went into the recipe. Also wondering if making it with whole wheat flour will help the texture and make it more manageable and healthier.
You always choose different recipe which i never heard… bookmark
This is an interesting pancake. Like Vaishali said will make it mini. Thnask