🇳🇴 Norwegian Cuisine

Smorbrod

Open-Faced Sandwiches

Prep Time 15 min

Servings 4

Difficulty Easy

Calories 310 kcal

Traditional open-faced sandwiches on dense bread, topped with combinations of fish, cheese, eggs, and vegetables.

Ingredients

4 slices dense rye bread
butter
100g smoked salmon
100g shrimp
2 hard-boiled eggs
lettuce leaves
cucumber slices
mayonnaise
fresh dill
lemon wedges

Instructions

1 Butter bread slices generously.
2 Arrange lettuce on bread as a base layer.
3 Top with smoked salmon on two slices, shrimp on the other two. Add sliced eggs, cucumber.
4 Garnish with dill and a squeeze of lemon. Serve immediately.

Did You Know?

The Norwegian packed lunch (matpakke) of open-faced sandwiches wrapped in paper is so ingrained that it has been called Norway's greatest cultural contribution to efficiency.