"Æbleflæsk" - Delicious Apple Pork A Genuine Danish National Dish

The "æbleflæsk" dish is over 250 years old - and has been a traditional everyday meal for generations of Danes that just want to taste some warm and healthy food in the wintertime. "Æbleflæsk" - or apple pork is one of the most popular and favourite dishes in Denmark.

Ingredients

Ingredients:

8 Thick slices of streaky pork

3-4 Apples - cored and diced

1 Tablespoon of sugar

1/2 Tablespoon of brown sugar

1 Tablespoon of Lurpak butter

1 Tablespoon of water

1 Large onion

Fresh rosemary leaves

Seasoning

4 Bay leaves

Slices of dark rye bread

Spead with Danish pork lard - or lurpack butter

- Select 10 thick slices of fresh streaky pork - and place the pork slices on the oven rack. Put a little bowl of water underneath the rack to keep the streaky pork slices juicy during roasting.

- Then preheat the oven to 200°C. Place the rack with the slices of pork in the heated oven. Roast the pork in the oven for about 15-20 minutes - until the slices are crispy and golden. Remove the rack - and let the slices drip off on a paper towel.

- Melt the butter in a large saucepan. Cut the onions in rings and fry them till they are golden. Remove the onions to drip - and then ad the apples into the saucepan - with some of the remaining butter from the onions. Let the apples simmer for 3-4 minutes with some bay leaves plus rosemary leaves - to your taste - then ad some sugar and water until the apples have turned into a suitable rustic pulpy mash - where the structure of the apples still are visible. Then ad rest of the sugar.

- Serve the apple pork on fresh rough rye bread - that is spread with Danish pork lard. Start with a layer of the apple pulp - then the fried onions - and then decorate with the golden and crispy streaky pork on top of the mashed apples. Garnish with fresh rosemary leaves.

Ready-made "Æbleflæsk"

You can also buy various ready-made "Æbleflæsk" - Apple Pork in supermarkets and grocery stores - but it is not as tasty as the home cooking version.

Consuming Apples and Pork

The Danes harvest - import and eat more that 25,000 t of apples every year - and are the most pork eating consumers in the world - as each Dane eats over 70 kg of tasty pork products every year

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