Q: I was recently given a jar of lingonberry jam and would love some ideas of how to use it.
Perhaps a Swedish potato pancake recipe?
Sent by Eresea
Editor: Eresea, we love this jam on buttered toast — it's great straight from the jar. But we could also see using it as a topping on a dessert, like these bars:
• Recipe: Raspberry Hungarian Pastry
Readers, what's your favorite way to use lingonberry jam?
Related: Ingredient Spotlight: Lingonberries
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Comments (32)
I stir in it oatmeal, dollop it on greek yogurt, toss it in fruit salads, or thin it way down with oil and balsalmic for a fruity salad dressing. I've also used it as ice cream topping.
I like it with Sweedish Meatballs... with Mashed Potatoes !
I use it like a chutney, except with comfort food rather than east Asian food. My kids love it with cornbread and chili, with chicken pot pies, and with swedish meatballs, natch.
I would use it as a base for a sauce for duck or other gamey meats. It'll tone down the gameyness.
I loooove Lingonberry jam! We like to slather it on Schnitzel. I also like to make Kurt Gutenbrunner's recipe for red cabbage salad with Lingonberry dressing. Its a half of a head of cabbage, shredded, with 2 tbsp walnut oil, 2 tbsp sherry vinegar and 1-2 tbsp - depending on your taste and how thick you would like the dressing of lingonberry jam (IKEA's works great). Add some sliced apples and its a very yummy side!
I use it to replace cranberry sauce with turkey dinner, on crepes, and it's wonderful mixed with a little buttercream as a macaron filling.
In Norway, lingonberry jam is almost always served with game, meatballs or other forms of meat - preferably with potatoes in any form as well. It's delicious!
There is also a traditional norwegian dessert called trollkrem (="troll cream") that is normally made with lingonberry, sugar, egg whites and some vanilla sugar, but I guess you could cut back on the sugar and use jam instead:
Whip 2 egg whites + 150 g sugar + 2 dl lingonberry into a thick foam. Gently fold in 2 dl lingonberry and taste if you want to add about a tsp of vanilla sugar. Serve with even more lingonberry on top :)
I recently used some to make a lingonberry, brie, and pistachio pizza. It was great! You can read about it here:
http://theweeklypizza.com/2011/01/28/week-5-lingonberries-brie-and-pistachio-dessert-pizza/
Try Swedish pancakes. I don't have a recipe, but either google it or you can buy a box of Swedish pancake mix at Williams Sonoma or Trader Joe's or other specialty places.
crepes!
I love it with crepes! Also, on meats (esp chicken -- makes for a great sandwich) and soft cheese.
a simple sweet/hot dip, which I like to use as fondue sauce:
1 part lingonberry jam, 1 part mayonnaise, as much as wasabi or horseradish as you can handle
I love to use this jam on a grilled cheese sandwich. My favorite it with a hardy bread like pumpernickel and a more mild cheese like provolone or mozzarella. SO tasty!
I love this jam, I buy it every time I go to IKEA. I use it for anything that I would use cranberry sauce for. For example on turkey sandwiches, with ham,meat balls, jello and I also have made thumbprint cookies with it, yum.
Here's a quick an easy 5 ingredient dessert you can make w/ the jam:
Ingredients
Ligonberry Jam
Canned Sheet of "Crescent Roll" Dough
Container of cream cheese
1 Egg
Raw Sugar
Directions
Roll our canned dough and cut into 4 equal squares. In the center of each square place 1 TBSP jam and 2-3 TBSP cream cheese. Fold up the corners of each square into the center. and pinch the "seams" together.
Crack the egg into a small bowl/mug and beat until well mixed. Using a pastry brush, brush top of each "pastry" with egg. Then, sprinkle each with a little raw sugar.
Bake according to directions on the can of dough and enjoy!
A traditional way that I learned from my Swedish MIL is to eat it on rice pudding.
I love Lingonberry jam. I made danishes with the jam last weekend and they were so delicious.
Ostakaka is a classic, I highly recommend it while the weather is still cool out.
http://www.dinnerwithkirsten.com/2008/12/30/ostakaka-swedish-cheesecake/
Swedish meatballs all the way! Swedish meatballs are spiced with some sweet spices, so the sweet/savory combo goes very well together.
Pork or venison would also be delicious. Or turkey. Pretend it's cranberry sauce!
Mix some in with blueberry muffin batter. Soooo delicious!!!
A peanut butter and lingonberry jam sandwich is pretty great. I've also used it as a filling in those litte round filled pancakes, ebelskivers.
I use it in place of apple or cranberry sauce on the side with meat at dinner time. PB&J obviously, on buttered toast, in thumbprint cookies. I also love it on pancakes. If you mix it with a tiny bit of water and microwave it, stir it and put it on pancakes you can make it into more of a syrup rather than jam. I hoard lingonberry jam like nobody's business every time I go to Ikea so I think I've used it for pretty much everything I can!
Swedish potato sausage, leafs, and crepes. The first two are available in Minnesota supermarkets.
That was LEFSE.
uh yeah, here's a recipe for ya:
lingonberry jam+spoon+mouth.
That stuff's friggin amazing.
i use it in all sorts of things like the ones mentioned above. also have made a spicy/sweet pork chop by doing a rub of ancho chile powder and herbs on the chop, cooking on a grill pan and then glazing with the jam. very yummy!
Jam + plain whole milk yogurt. I know what I'm doing for breakfast now.
Lingonberry jam was used as a side dish for holiday dinners at my husband's grandparent's house. They were Swedish.... I would
liken it to cranberry sauce served as a side at Thanksgiving. A little tangy, tart and sweet element to the lingonberries
You can use it in place of cranberry sauce. I love it with Norwegian meatballs (or Swedish) or with rice pudding.
Here is a basic recipe for svenska plättar (Swedish pancakes)!
3 eggs
2 1/2 cups milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
Mix the eggs with half of the milk and then mix in flour until smooth. Add the rest of the milk and melted butter, and make sure to pour a thin layer when making.
Best to use a swedish pancake pan! Otherwise a smallish, flatbottomed fryingpan or griddle will do the trick. Serve with lingonberry jam, gooseberry jam or sprinkle with sugar!
For swedish potato pancakes (rårakor), mix 2 punds shredded raw potatoes with 4 eggs, 2 tablespoons flour and some salt. Add butter to a frying pan and fry 1/2 cup portions, slightly flattened, until they are brown and crispy.
Serve with the lingonberries and bacon!
In my family, it's for finishing fruit soup. I keep eying a bottle at the local Polish deli, and I'm going to pick it up next time I need jam.
If you can't get to IKEA and want to approximate lingonberry jam...pulse together 3/4 cup whole berry cranberry sauce (homemade is best) and 1/4 cup raspberry jam in the food processor. Put it in a jar and refrigerate to let it set again.