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Simple Green Salad with Apples and Almonds

Categories: Healthy Food/ Salads/ Side Dish

Recipe for Homemade and Simple Green Salad with Apples and Almonds


This is a recipe for a very simple and delicious green salad with apples and almonds. The salad takes about 10-15 minutes to prepare and can be served as a side dish for most meat. Because this salad is very light it's a great summer salad and perfect if you are having a barbecue. We normally make this salad if we are in a hurry and still want a healthy element in our dinner. In general we have salads for most of our dinner meals - a salad can be very easy to make and it's a great way of getting a wide variety of different vitamins and oils. [Read more...]

Coleslaw

Categories: Dinner/ Salads/ Side Dish

Recipe for Homemade Coleslaw

Coleslaw is differently not a new invention but it is only in the resent years that it has become famous in Denmark and Europe in general. The fame of coleslaw is most likely a result of pulled pork which has become super famous in Denmark. Pulled pork and coleslaw is like two inseparable friends - and are both the two ingredients in a pulled pork burger. We have been traveling a lot in the homeland of pulled pork, the US, where pulled pork is one of the national dishes. You can get a pulled porker burger at each street corner - and they are super delicious. We are both in love with this food. [Read more...]

Homemade Pasta / Lasagna Noodles - Only Two Ingredients!

Categories: Dinner/ Side Dish

Homemade Pasta / Lasagna Noodles, [lastupdated]
Recipe on Homemade Pasta

Pasta is just great and can be used in endless dishes. The pre-made pasta you can buy at the grocery store can be great and are very easy when you are in a hurry. However, homemade pasta is just much more tasteful and delicious, and it is not even that difficult to make if you have your own pasta machine. Actually we are trying to cut down on pasta because the flour, which are the main ingredient, contains relatively many carbs. [Read more...]

Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Categories: Jam - Spread - Dip/ Side Dish

Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts recipe

Pesto can be used for a lot of different stuff and it is actually really easy to make. The base ingredients in pesto are herbs, parmesan cheese and olive oil, it is simple and can be twisted in the exact way you like. If you prefer a more smooth pesto you just add extra olive oil or if you want a stronger taste you just add extra herbs. The recipe I use for basil pesto gives you 2 small jars of really smooth and tasteful pesto. I never buy pesto from the grocery store - it is just too simple to make yourself and the taste, and the fact that it does not have any additives, is just must better.

Normally pesto is made based on pine nuts but they are quite expensive – This version of pesto is made using cashew nuts which has almost the same taste and consistency. Of cause you can just swap the cashew nuts with pine nuts if you feel like. As said, pesto can be used in many different recipes or simply just as a dipping for snacks. It is perfect as spreads for normal bread or maybe some bread, or as sauce you can mix in your pasta salad.

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Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Basil pesto done the Nordic way. Simple recipe but with a fantastic and very tasteful result!
Prep Time10 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Side Dish
Cuisine: Danish
Author: NordicFoodLiving.com

Ingredients

  • 3 basil plants (The leaves from)
  • 75 g parmesan cheese
  • 75 g cashew nuts
  • 1 dl olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • salt (add to taste)
  • lemon juice (add to taste)
Metric - US Customary

Instructions

  • Blend all the ingredients using a blender, food processor, hand blender or similar. Blend until the pesto has a nice and smooth consistency.

Notes

Serve the fresh pesto with some bread or mix it with pasta and have it for dinner.

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Recipe for Basil Pesto with Cashew Nuts

Danish Cucumber Salad (Agurksalat)

Categories: Side Dish/ Traditional Danish

Recipe for Danish Pickled Cucumber (Agurksalat)

This recipe for cucumber salad is very popular in Denmark and a lot of Danes will remember having had these their entire life. In Danish this side dish is called Agurksalat which directly translated means Cucumber Salad and is a kind of variation of sliced pickles. These cucumbers have a thin peel which is very crisp and together with the salty vinegar mixture they have a very refreshing and delicious taste.

See also: Recipe for Danish Hotdog

This is the original recipe for cucumber salad, it's super easy to make and the taste is way better than the ones you can buy at the supermarket. We have used this recipe many times and can highly recommend it. [Read more...]