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🇬🇱 Traditional dishes from Greenland

3 dishes people actually cook in Greenland: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

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Kiviak

1440 min · hard · 4 ingredients

Kiviak, a traditional dish from Greenland

A unique Greenlandic delicacy of fermented seabirds.

  • 4 auk
  • 1 seal skin
  • 200 g seaweed
  • 50 g salt

Mattak

30 min · medium · 4 ingredients

Mattak, a traditional dish from Greenland

Experience the unique taste of Greenland's delicacy!

  • 400 g mattak (whale skin with blubber)
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 1 lemon
  • 1 onion

Suaasat

90 min · medium · 8 ingredients

Suaasat, a traditional dish from Greenland

A warming Greenlandic soup with rich flavors.

  • 500 g seal meat
  • 300 g potatoes
  • 200 g carrots
  • 1 onion
  • 1000 ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp black pepper
  • 1 bay leaf

What do people eat in Greenland?

The three dishes from Greenland documented in Copper are Kiviak, Mattak and Suaasat. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 13 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Greenland?

The three recipes need 13 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 588 dishes from 196 countries, and these three are the Greenland entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Greenland take?

Mattak is the quickest at 30 minutes. Kiviak is the longest at 1440 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 90 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Greenland is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Greenland here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Mattak is the shortest way in.

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