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[AnonymBruker]

Hello! I’m new in this country, and trying to learn some Norwegian dishes. When I look on the internet for recipes, about 90% of the recipes for Norwegian food has some sort if heavy cream in it (I guess this is Matfløte)? Or they fry in butter and so on. Do people in Norway actually eat dinner made with «fløte» several times a week? Or am I wrong here? Thanks for your time

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[AnonymBruker]

You’re wrong! 

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[AnonymBruker]

You're right 

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[AnonymBruker]

Which recipes have you been looking at? Most Norwegian dishes that I make doesn’t have any heavy cream (kremfløte or matfløte).

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[Brunhilde]

Norwegian food without heavy cream:

Lapskaus, ertesuppe, får-i-kål, fiskegrateng, kjøttkaker i brun saus, bolle/hønse/lammefrikasse, seibiff med løk, kokt torsk med potet og gulrot

And on and on and on. 

[AnonymBruker]

Most norwegians only eat norwegian food during holidays.

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[AnonymBruker]

Heavy cream means Kremfløte, which is more heavy than Matfløte. '

I really hope my fellow Norwegians don't eat fløte several times a week, but some probably do. It's not an ingredient in tradional Norwegian everyday cuisine, it's more for festivity and holidays. 

Modern Norwegians eat according to their own preferences. I prefer 1-2 vegetarian meals, 1-2 with meat and 1-2 with fish during a week. I use fløte if the dish needs it, but I don't eat several meals a week with fløte in it. 

 

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[AnonymBruker]

AnonymBruker skrev (1 minutt siden):

Most norwegians only eat norwegian food during holidays.

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Jupp.  

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[Maia70]

Yes they use cream a lot, but like somebody else wrote above, there are a lot of recipes without too. My favorites are komle med salt kjøtt, fårikål served with potatoes, and fiskeboller i hvit saus, which actually has milk and butter... 

I believe dairy products have been so important here in the past because of the climate and economy, people needed a cow to survive, so it's in a lot of our traditional dishes.

And the people on this forum are NOT representative for Norwegian people in general, there is a disproportionate amount of assholes and trolls here. I just needed to say that 

Oh, and I have to mention the langpannepizza/familiepizza which is a Norwegian traditional pizza, and kjøttdeig og spaghetti which is our own variant of the Bolognese.