🇮🇸 Icelandic Cuisine

Lundi

Smoked Puffin

Prep Time 2 hours

Servings 4

Difficulty Hard

Smoked Atlantic puffin breast, a traditional Icelandic delicacy with dark, rich, gamey meat served thinly sliced.

Ingredients

1 Cure puffin breasts with salt, sugar, and crushed juniper berries for 12 hours in the refrigerator.
2 Rinse off the cure and pat completely dry.
3 Cold-smoke over birchwood chips for 4-6 hours.
4 Alternatively, pan-sear fresh breasts: heat a skillet to high, sear 2 minutes per side for medium-rare.
5 Slice thinly against the grain.
6 Serve with wild Icelandic herbs and a drizzle of good oil.

Did You Know?

Puffin hunting in the Westman Islands uses a centuries-old technique with a háfur, a large net on a long pole used to catch puffins in flight.