🇸🇪 Swedish Cuisine

Blodpudding

Swedish Blood Pudding

Prep Time 20 min
Servings 6
Difficulty Medium
Calories 298 kcal

A traditional dark, spiced pudding made from rye flour, blood, and onions, sliced and pan-fried until crispy, served with lingonberry jam.

Ingredients

  • 500ml beef blood
  • 300ml dark beer or stout
  • 200g rye flour
  • 100g barley flour
  • 1 large onion, finely diced
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 tbsp dark syrup (mörk sirap)
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 1 tsp marjoram
  • Salt and pepper
  • Butter for frying

Instructions

  1. 1 Preheat oven to 175°C (350°F). Sauté diced onion in butter until deeply golden.
  2. 2 Whisk together blood, beer, rye flour, barley flour, syrup, allspice, marjoram, salt, and pepper.
  3. 3 Fold in the sautéed onions.
  4. 4 Pour into a buttered loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour until set and firm.
  5. 5 Cool completely, then slice into 1cm-thick slices.
  6. 6 Pan-fry slices in butter until crispy on both sides. Serve with lingonberry jam.

Did You Know?

Blodpudding was once the most common school lunch in Sweden — many Swedes have strong nostalgic memories of it from childhood cafeterias.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/swedish/blodpudding/