3 dishes people actually cook in Greenland: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Greenland? 3 traditional Greenland dishes, from Mattak (10 min, the quickest) to Suaasat (930 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Greenland on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
Greenland's coffee cake: a soft, lightly sweet yeast loaf with raisins, dusted with cardamom sugar and sliced at a kaffemik, the Greenlandic open-house coffee gathering.
Raw whale skin with its layer of blubber, cut cold into cubes and eaten with nothing on it.
Greenlandic seal soup thickened by barley left to soak so its starch leaches into the broth, seasoned with almost nothing.
Copper documents three dishes from Greenland: Kalaallit kaagiat, Mattak and Suaasat. Two of the three are boiled. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 18 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 18 ingredients between them. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Greenland entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Mattak is the quickest at 10 minutes. Suaasat is the longest at 930 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 130 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Kalaallit kaagiat and Mattak are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Greenland is part of Nordic.
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