17th May 2023 (Norwegian Constitution Day)

Borgir, coleslaw and a cheesecake

17th May is Norwegian constitution day, and to celebrate, we normally...ehm...Don't really have anything typical for dinner to be honest... If the weather is good, many people fire up the barbie and enjoy an evening of delicious grill.

Since I don't have a setup for cooking streams on the barbeque outside, I'm doing this indoors, so the borgir will be fried in a griddle pan.

(I'm also a bit dumb, forgot to buy salad and tomatoes for borgir, so we enjoy it veggie free)

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Ingredients

Borgir

  • Ground beef (high fat)
  • Bacon fat
  • Pepper
  • Salt
  • Onion
  • Garlic powder
  • Finely ground breadcrumbs
  • Egg

Coleslaw

  • Carrot
  • Green apple
  • Cabbage
  • Sour Cream
  • Worcestershiresauce
  • Mayonnaise
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Lemonjuice

Cheesecake

Biscuit bottom

  • Biscuits
  • Butter
  • Sugar
  • Cinnamon

Cheesecake filling

  • Lemon flavour jelly powder
  • Water
  • Sour cream
  • Spread cheese
  • Icing sugar
  • Vanilla sugar
  • Whipping cream

Jelly cover

  • Jelly powder mix
  • Water for said jelly
  • Strawberries for decoration

Onyo rings

  • Onyo (D'uh)
  • All purpose flour
  • Maizena
  • Baking Powder
  • Beer
  • Seasoning
  • Breadcrumbs

Borgir

Its a borgir, come on

Plan is quite simple:

  1. Mix ground beef and bacon fat
  2. Form into borgir
  3. Fry in griddle pan (no grill today)
  4. Add your favourite borgir toppings
  5. Enjoy borgir

Coleslaw

Simple and straight forward too

  1. Peel carrot and apple, clean cabbage
  2. Cut into decently chonky strips
  3. Mix in a bowl with the rest of the ingredients and season to taste

Note: If you grate the carrot/apple then it will "leak" more fluid so be aware of that.

Cheesecake

I could do a separate article on this one (and probably will some day)

This is the big time eater for todays kitchen

Anyways...

  1. Crush biscuits (Last year I used everything from a rolling pin to a model aircraft carrier). Melt some butter and add the sugar/cinnamon. Shape into the cake crust and compress. Chill in fridge.
  3. Boil water for jelly powder. Follow the instructions (for once)
  4. Mix sourcream and spreading cheese (Philadelphia cheese if you know it by that name) with icing sugar, vanilla sugar and mix
  5. Whip cream and carefully add to the cheese mix
  6. Carefully mix with the gelatin mix you heated up earlier. Try to avoid it clumping up. Make sure that gelatin mix isn't too hot
  7. Leave in fridge for a few hours until solid
  8. Make the jelly top by following the instructions on the jelly packet
  9. If you want to have fresh berries suspended in the jelly, then let half of it jellify in the fridge before placing berries on it, then cover with the remaining jelly and let sit in fridge

Onyo rings

They sound simple, yet it can take quite a bit of work to make these

  1. Cut onyo into thicc rings.
  2. Remove any skin membrane that exists between each ring.
  3. Mix the batter. Needs to be decently runny to cover the onyo properly
  4. Batter your onyo rings
  5. Drip dry
  6. Mix in breadcrumbs
  7. Deep fat fry in 185C oil until golden brown
  8. Dry off on rack/on paper

We need to make sure each onion ring doesn't have this little skin/membrane between each ring/layer. This layer prevents the batter from sticking to the onyo itself.

Shake off excess batter and breadcrumbs to prevent it from contaminating the oil too much.

Once you've applied batter and breacrumbs/panko you can actually freeze them. Make sure you put it on a baking tray with parchment paper or something similar so it doesn't stick to the tray