North Dakota · Bread
North Dakota Lefse
- Intermediate
- 1 h 30 m
- roughly 2 of 4 for cost
- Vegetarian
Leads with richness that coats and comforts.
Ingredients
- 1kg russet potatoes, riced
- 55g butter, melted
- 60ml cream
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 200g flour
- Butter and sugar to serve
The skills inside
The words inside
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Method
- Boil, rice, and cool the potatoes completely.
- Mix the riced potato with the melted butter, cream, salt, and sugar, then chill overnight.
- Work in the flour just until it comes together.
- Roll each portion paper-thin on a floured board.
- Cook on a dry hot griddle 30 seconds a side until spotted. Fold with butter and sugar.
How to tell it is going right
This dish has no standard of its own yet. It is judged on the technique it exercises: checked at the pan, while there is still something to be done about it.
Griddle & plancha work 45 recipes
- Full contact with the metal: the food lies flat, with no dome in the middle and no curled edge lifting it away, so browning reaches the entire face rather than a ring of it.
- Contact is immediate and audible, and the food stays where it is put rather than sliding around in a slick of its own released liquid.
- The cooked face is an unbroken sheet of even colour: the whole surface browned, not a pattern of marks with pale ground between them, and not a dark centre with pale corners.
- The metal around the food is dry: no spreading wet patch steaming out from under it, nothing weeping onto the surface and boiling there.
- Turned once or twice and no more, and lifted while the crust is still brown: a piece flipped repeatedly never holds heat long enough to build one.
Where it goes wrong The surface was crowded and its temperature crashed, so everything gave up its water at once and stewed on the metal: pale, damp, grey at the edges, and stuck fast where the crust never got the chance to form.
At the Table
- The Pour
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- Also Right
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- From the Taps
- Saison
- Zero-Proof
- Sparkling water with citrus & herbs
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