Lutefisk Recipe
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Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of lye
1 large lutefisk
White sauce or mustard sauce for serving
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Directions:Directions:
Add 2 tablespoons of lye to a gallon of water in a bathtub. Add the fish. Soak fish for 3 days in this solution.
Day 3:
Drop the fish into a large enamel pot of boiling water.
DO NOT use an aluminum pot. The lye will make it explode (Seriously!)
Cook 10 minutes or until well done.
Remove fish, place on a platter and debone.
Note: The fish should be flaky and slightly translucent. The trick is to not cook too long or it will be soft. In the wrong hands, lutefisk can turn into slimy glop.
While still firm in places, the fish may tend to be slippery and a little squishy, and may quiver a bit on the serving platter as it makes its way down the table.
Serve with a white sauce or a mustard sauce. |
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Time:240 hours |
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Notes: My dad shared fond memories of the lutefisk dinners prepared every Christmas Eve by his mother, Maude Anderson Houns. Maude’s parents, Noah and Sophia Anderson, emigrated from Sweden in the late 1800s. Dad remembered a big slab of dried cod being placed in the bathtub to soak for days before Christmas Eve dinner.
Lutefisk haters (like me) can opt for Swedish Meatballs as an alternative.
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