Well what do you do when chicken is $20 for four pieces, beef is crazy prices and not particularly good, and nothing is premade? How about when a quick dinner at McDonalds is $40 and pizza is not a whole lot cheaper? Well, check out the Knorr mixes to mix up your dinners at home. You don't have to think, you only have to buy some chicken when it's on sale and throw it in a bag. Heaven.
They are cheap and easy for all the working cooks out there and they are good! They range from 15 DKK to 10 DKK a bag. The yellow curry is one of the best but make sure you read the package because you need cream (piskefløde) and water. The Paprika chicken is also excellent and my youngest pickiest eater likes the chicken nugget coating mix. The nugget mix actually also has an attached salsa mix but I've never made it ;) It is all "in the INCLUDED bag" cooking except for the nuggets so I put one of the bags in for the rest of the family and cut up one chicken breast for my younger son and put some of the nugget coating on it and put the rest away for next time. Try it!
Knorr has a bunch of other mixes too but I have only tried the ones I described above and the Garlic Chicken, which none of us liked. Most grocery stores also carry the BBQ but I haven't got to it yet, so if you've tried it please let me know. Check it out at Netto because they have some beef ones too and they are only 10 DKK at Netto.
So you didn't think dinner could be easy, good, and affordable in Denmark but it can and you don't even have to work hard on your Knorr night. Just splash a little flour on your face when your family gets home and look tired ;)
If you are still looking for something to do with the affordable meats that they have in Denmark try making a Forloren Hare (artificial rabbit). I'm sorry, but as an American, that sounds god awful bad! It's not, it's cheap, easy and good. My husband had it at his daily "work lunch" and came home raving about it. Skeptical but willing to try anything that uses the local meat (what American grocery carries ground pork as their staple product?) I gave it a shot. It is really good so here's the recipe:
Hare
250 G minced pork
250 G ground beef
breadcrumbs
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp salt
pepper
150 g sliced bacon (Super Brugsen sell a double pack for 14 DKK)
200 ml milk - 2/3 cup or a little less
Sauce
15 G butter
1 1-72 TB flour
pan drippings
cream or milk
CAUTION: Do NOT make this is a glass pan, putting the cold milk in to the hot pan after the first baking can shatter the pan! I promise it happened to me and we are still finding pieces of glass under our tiny little refrigerator.
1) Mix meat, breadcrumbs, egg, salt and pepper. Form the mixture into a rabbit shape.(My kids like to do this), you know pointyish at one end with two legs on the back. Now wrap the whole thing in raw bacon slices. Put into 250 preheated oven for 15 minutes. Add milk and turn heat to 180 and bake for additional 30-40 minutes. That's it, it's just Danish meatloaf but I like it much better then the beef one we make at home.
2) Sauce - Melt butter and mix in flour. Add pan drippings. Add milk-dream to desired consistency. Simmer for 5 minutes.
Let me know what you think?
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