Denmark Traditional cuisine

Danish national cuisine has absorbed the culinary traditions of almost all peoples of the north European mainland. Especially clearly traced kinship with the German and Scandinavian cuisine, of which borrowed the propensity for a simple but hearty meal, as well as the abundance of vegetables as a garnish.

The most characteristic feature of the Danish kitchen - a huge variety of different sandwiches - smerrebred ", which are used and as a separate dish, and also as an excellent appetizer. There are more than two hundred traditional recipes of different sandwiches with a wide range of "filling", with any of them has its own name! Many of them are made by multi-layer, and combine the most unusual at first glance, products - you can find a combination of fresh radishes, and pineapple, chicken and salmon and so sandwiches are often served to salads, onion, radish, seaweed, anchovies or capers, or make individual sandwiches with salad mass. The most popular are the original salad of pasta, vegetables and ham, or salad of herring and green beans, and salad of boiled fish with vegetables. And, of course, on the table is always a fish of different ways of cooking and other seafood.

Very popular dish of pork, especially the stew with red cabbage, and various sausages and frankfurters, the buyout is served, the German style, a side dish of potatoes or cabbage with mandatory sauce. Many people eat meat and poultry, mostly - in the hot sauce, mayonnaise and garnished with baked potato. Danish national dish is considered a "red-dreams-Meuse-fleze" - a thick soup-berry pudding with whipped cream. For dessert should try the excellent Copenhagen or Danish pastries (although the Danes themselves call them "Viennese"), as well as apple pie with currant jelly, jam and other than the Danish sweets.

The country consumes huge amounts of beer. The most popular local brands, Tuborg and Carlsberg, as well as imported German class. To fans of stronger alcoholic beverages can be recommended to the famous Danish liqueur "sherrihering" and vodka "Akvavit", which for some reason most often referred to as "schnapps."