COPPERLapskaus recipe
A root vegetable and beef pot where half the potatoes deliberately fall apart and bind the whole thing.
Ingredients
- 800 g floury potatoes
- 300 g rutabaga
- 500 g beef
- 200 g carrots
- 1 leek
- 1 onion
- 1000 ml beef stock
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
How to make Lapskaus
- Cut 500 g of beef shoulder or brisket into 2 cm dice and simmer it in 1 litre of beef stock for about 1 hour, until tender.
- Peel 800 g of floury potatoes. Cut half into 2 cm cubes and chop the other half small: the small ones are meant to disintegrate.
- Dice 200 g of rutabaga and 200 g of carrots into 1 cm cubes, slice 1 leek and 1 onion.
- Add the rutabaga and carrots to the pot and cook 15 minutes.
- Add all the potatoes, the leek and the onion and cook another 25 to 30 minutes, stirring as little as possible.
- Now stir hard: the small potatoes break down and bind the pot. Lapskaus is thick enough for a spoon to stand up in it; add stock only if it catches.
- Season with 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of black pepper and serve with flatbread.
What is Lapskaus?
Lapskaus is a traditional dish from Norway, simmered in one pot, and takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes from start to finish. It is built around beef stock, floury potatoes and beef. The recipe below uses 9 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Lapskaus take?
At 110 minutes it is quicker than 55% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 6 dishes built on beef stock. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 30 minutes.
Any tips for making Lapskaus?
Chop half the potatoes small so they fall apart, stir as little as possible while they cook, then stir hard at the end to bind the pot.
How Lapskaus compares
Rutabaga appears in no other dish in the atlas.
Cooked with the same thing elsewhere
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