I ate smörgÄstÄrta for the first time
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 25. 09. 2021
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A few months ago I talked about 8 Swedish foods that confused me. One of them was smörgÄstÄrta, so I finally tried one for the first time!
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My take away was that it was like a fancy egg salad sandwich. Tasted okay, but I definitely think I'll skip the caviar next time!
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As a devote lover of SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta.... I'd bee weirded out by that one. Ărebro dropped the ball there! đ
I agree, superweird. But I guess if they are known and famous for them I guess it's good??? Althouht I have never before seen fruit on a smörgÄstÄrta!
Krossade ostbÄgar pÄ sidorna Àr sÄ jÀÀÀvla gott!
That's probably the weirdest smörgÄstÄrta i've ever seen .-.
So it wasn't just me?? haha
@@MeaganNouis When you're in Sweden next time you gotta try a more traditional version, they're amazing.
I wouldnt order the version you ate, just looks odd.
Yeah no thatâs not how they usually looks like, that one is a very odd side variation that I have never seen before. If someone offered that to me I would decline kindly while looking at them as if it was a joke ^^â
I always buy the kind without shrimp, so a cheese and ham one. Thereâs no fruit on it except a couple grapes which I always eat last :)
That was actully a weird smörgÄstÄrta to choose. xD
The best thing about smörgÄstÄrta is that it makes for the best leftovers.
It can be eaten for any meal (Frukost,lunch, middag, kvÀllsmat or Fika etc) and you don't have to feel bad about it in the same way as if you did the same thing with some other type of cake.
And also SmörgÄstÄrta can be made with basically infinite amount of variations.
So if there is stuff you don't like (like shrimp for example) then you can just find/make one that you like.
I think that your next step should be making your own smörgÄstÄrta using a recipe with only the kind of kind stuff that you like etc.
Since after Kanelbullar and Kladdkaka SmörgÄstÄrta is logical next step when it comes to Swedish favorites.
Kladdkaka smörgĂ„stĂ„rta?! I'm interested đ
A sandwich layer-cake only tastes better the day after when the bread has soaked in the flavours.
@@MeaganNouis, I think/hope there was supposed to be a comma after kladdkaka.
@@MeaganNouis Well, due to lack of interpunction it's hard to understand what he meant. I assume he tried to rank those delicious Swedish "inventions": 1: Kanelbullar 2: Kladdkaka 3: SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta. đ€
That is the weirdest smörgĂ„stĂ„rta I have ever seen⊠You really need a classic one with shrimp, eggs and smoked salmonâŠ
I usually love smörgÄstÄrta, but that one was very weird...
What the hell is that thing? đ
Never seen a smörgÄstÄrta look like that before.
As some has already pointed out, that is not a typical swedish smörgÄstÄrta. Jordgubbar and klementin/mandarin (?) are generally not on most smörgÄstÄrtor. I would personally put them to the side and perhaps eat at the end as a desert :)
I have never tried crushed ostbÄgar on a smörgÄstÄrta but I can see that it might fit pretty well.
Yeah, it is basically a sandwich in a cake format.
Never seen fruit on a smörgÄstÄrta before, that would weird me out too! Also It's more of a food you eat at large gatherings during the summer because you can make it beforehand or buy it ready made. It would never cross my mind to serve it for like 1-4 people. It tastes pretty good, but there are a lot of things that taste better. I'd say a substantial part of the reason it exists is for the practicality.
Some places put mimosasallad in it... :(
But, as you say, it is easy to make beforehand, and you make twice as much as you need, so you can eat leftovers for a week :) Love it!
Grapes are common, but I've never seen strawberries or tangerines!
This one ^
Agree, I have never seen fruit on a smörgÄstÄrta before
Grapes are quite common, as is mandarin/tangerine. I've seen strawberries, too. In the end, there's a lot of different varieties of smörgÄstÄrta.
Never seen the ostbÄgestuff, though.
First I was like "Please don''t let it be some old soggy supermarket sandwichcake now"
But after seeing that one, I've wonder if that would actually been a better choice ^^
Sometimes going the fancy route doesn't work. Just ask for a regular normal sandwichcake next time!
Hahaha đ I had no idea that the one I bought was so unusual. It was legitimately the most recommended one... I'm starting to think it's an Ărebro thing.
@@MeaganNouis Well it could be! But I'm more inclined to think it's more about the fancy artsy boutique you went to. They need to justify their high prices, so there you go, something you can't find elsewhere ^^
Try to ask for a "vanlig traditionell smörgÄstÄrta" next time. Because this was like going to Chicago for the first time and eating a deep dish pizza with lobster and pineapple on it. Just a strange choice for your first go, that's all
I like the ones with more ham and cheese and not so much of the fishy stuff. Sometimes there are layers of tuna and mayo (like a sandwich filler paste).. those are pretty nice. But yeah, there are many variants and some are nicer than others but it's usually a great time if smörgÄstÄrta is being served.
But yeah your smörgÄstÄrta was NOT one of the usual suspects, you found some experimental stuff with the ostbÄgepowder.
I was hoping it would be tuna! I'm happy to know that tuna smörgÄstÄrta exists because I would definitely try it. And yeah, after seeing all the comments, apparently this cake was pretty unusual lol
A great time, or a funeral lol
@@MeaganNouis IIRC you'll only find the ostbĂ„ge-powder in Ărebro, nowhere else. A personal favorite is roast beef and potato salad!
@@MeaganNouis You should try it again. You can never get too much smörgÄstÄrta. ;)
@@pspdsRobin2 SmörgÄstÄrta is the greatest time during a funeral though :D
The next step is of course to make your own smörgÄstÄra with exactly the stuff YOU want.
My opinion is that home made smörgåstårta is most often better than the bought ones and the filling is yummier and we tend to really put a lot on the top like slices of smoked ham, cheese slices. shrimps. smoked salmon, eggs. tomato cucomber and more.
Honestly, that was a weird smörgÄstÄrta. The more classic ones are amazing!
The thing is that at a party with a big SmörgÄstÄrta, you can cut your piece with the toppings you like.
People who don't like shrimp take a corner piece with ham cheese and egg, and people who like shrimp waits for someone who takes an edgepiece to leave a big middle piece for them.
When you make it yourself, you only include stuff that you like, I never have that kind of Caviar, but I do mix a little kalles into whipped cream and make a layer between the bread, also one layer of Leverpastej....
Det finns massor med olika kombinationer. Leta upp en med de ingredienser du gillar bÀst och testa igen. Som andra har skrivit, det finns bÄde med rostbiff eller skinka.
Finns hur mÄnga olika fyllningar och garneringar som helst.
DĂ„lig video - man kan inte fördöma en nationalrĂ€ttâ som sĂ„ mĂ„nga svenskar Ă€lskar innan man har smakat och testat olika sorter. Finns ju med bĂ„de kött och skaldjur och Ă€ven vegetarisk numera.
Har du provat köttbullesmörgÄs med rödbetssallad? Det Àr ocksÄ en vÀldigt svensk mÄltid.
That's the weirdest looking smörgĂ„stĂ„rta I've ever seen (I'm a swede). You're supposed to match like salty ingredients with salad etc. Not put strawberries and crunched ostbĂ„gar on it đ€ą You can have like a ham themed ones or shrimp (and caviar) ones. And cover with fresh vegetables. Not processed disgusting snack crumbs đ€ą Who is their right mind mix strawberries and caviar. The store should be reprimanded.... I'm angry and sad now đ
I am an American. I have never heard of smorgastarta. But it looks so good!! I love shrimp. Love love caviar. Love boiled eggs and the other ingredients. I am ready to swollow smorgastarta.
the thing about smörgÄstÄrta is that it can be something to get used to and like it more and more. Initially it can be feel
very different, but the more u get used to it might get better. And there are different kinds. I think u should try again, small slices, every time you are offered one (without going out of your way). Like, office parties etc. Just to see if it grows on you over time. If not, then that is fine. But if u start to enjoy it more and more, that is a new food that adds deliciousness to your life! Thats how i see it. its up to u ofc
I was very confused about the coating and thought it would be some powdered cheese you can't purchase in the store, but no, according to their website it's literally "krossade ostbÄgar". I've never heard of ostbÄgar used in cooking before, the smell alone must have been a challenge!
I love ostbĂ„gar, so I would probably enjoy that smell. đ
Hopefully youâll get invited to an event that serves smörgĂ„stĂ„rta one day. Youâd get a taste of a different kind.
If you're not into kaviar and shrimps you can basically make smörgÄstÄrta out of anything you like. I think the shrimp one is the most popular one so it's probably the easiest to find when you buy them. I would just recommend making it yourself. Look up a few different recipes, take out the things you don't like and put in some things you think might go well with the other things in it. My parents used to make multiple different smörgÄstÄrtor when we had family over during my childhood, ham was definitely the favorite for us.
Now when it's fall you should try out nyponsoppa (rosehip soup) with mandelbiskvier (small almond biscuit). It's a sweet soup and is really nice for a cold day and you can buy it ready to eat (just heat up) or in a powder (whisk with warm water). :)
A piece of smörgĂ„stĂ„rta and a cold beer by the lake a warm summer night is heaven. Also, I have never seen a strawberry on a smörgĂ„stĂ„rta before. I guess that was a thing in the 60:s when the recepie was made. Or a Ărebro thing.
Finland has the same tradition, definately savory versions only (maybe grape halves on top for garnish, but usually something like cucumber or parsley etc). Weddings, birthdays and funerals are common places to find it, too.
SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta is a Swedish dish - kind of like a cream cake- that dates back to the 1930s. The ingredients are completely up , but it normally consists of mayo or crĂ©me fraiche , egg and then different fruits and veggies, sandwich meats and/or sea foods such as salmon and shrimp. I myself am not a fan of SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta but I would suggest that you try different kinds of SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta to see if you find one that you like. That orange coating looked like it was made by someone who does not know what a SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta is Iâm sorry to say.đ
i do not eat shrimp either so for me i go with ham and cheese topping and mimosasallad filling in my smörgÄstÄrta..pretty classic and super good!
7/10 from someone who's not a fan of bolied eggs, shrimp nor caviar actually makes this an excellent smörgĂ„stĂ„rta! đ€€
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The thing with a smörgĂ„stĂ„rta is that you can put basically anything on it. I love it :-) And by the way, that thing with the cheese doodles on the side, it's local to Ărebro.
A smorgastarta: 4 bread slices, butter two. Put mayo on one of each, put lettuce on the other two, with butter. Keep them apart as pairs. lettuce on the left, mayo on the right.
Shrimp load, as many as you want, even crayfish works well for flavor.
All the veggies you love and put together, a dream rakmacka!
I only use dill as flavor, but tomatoes and cucumbers give it bit more life.
Easy peasy.
Kinda weird smörgĂ„stĂ„rta but yea, while I love it itâs definitely not for everyone. I donât think smörgĂ„stĂ„rta is a revolutionary flavor combination, itâs âjustâ a pimped out sandwich.
That one has a bit of oddities. Never heard of or seen cheese doodle dust around the sides or with fruit other than maybe grapes
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SmörgÄstÄrta is just a huge sandwich with what ever toppings you chooses or like
no fruits on smörgÄstÄrta. that made me sick just thought on it
I feel that fruit, and especially preserved fruit, was more common before. My grandmother always used it. I guess it comes with the era this food is from.
True..! Its an old people thing⊠Better let the younger generation take over the making of smörgĂ„stĂ„rta by now⊠we say no, big no, to fruit in savoury food đŹ
There's also a key ingredient in the filling, which is leverpastej (liver paste, similar to patée), a common sandwich spread that is usually topped with mustard seed-pickled cucumber and super delicious. Hated by some, loved by most and not as hard as Kalles Kavier, since it's similarity to patée (one of the few things I don't eat is Kalles).
The great thing about the SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta is that you can put literally anything you want in it. Itâs just a decadent sandwich, which for Swedes often means shrimp, salmon and other seafood.
But itâs not a must to have seafood in it, iâve had meaty smörgĂ„stĂ„rta, Iâve eaten vegan smörgĂ„stĂ„rta, Iâve eaten middle-eastern inspired, greek inspired. Just chuck anything you like in it!
Fruit!? That is a NO NO!
"Why isn't every country doing this?" When it comes to food, us swedes actually have a very strong tradition of trying new stuff and experimenting. It's quite easily noticed when it comes to foreign foodstuff. It basically goes like this:
Someone starts selling some new food thing in Sweden that a few perhaps have seen during a trip abroad. Then everyone buys it and try to combine that with whatever comes to their mind. If it tastes like crap, which it most often does, we stop doing it, but every now and then we find some weird combo that works great and that will spread and find it's way into our normal life.
That makes it quite hard to find "genuin" swedish food, since we always try to improve what we have, and we often end up with stuff like a traditional swedish meal with bananas and curry thrown into it. :)
And we marvels at the way the british does it. They love the amazing well spiced indian food. And they have their own "food" that at best tastes nothing. And nobody in that entire country, for several hundred years, have ever tried to incorporate even the tiniest spice into their own traditional food. What's wrong with them?
yeah you right, kinda the way the kebabpizza was invented, and the Italians just hate that we call it a pizza lol.
Never had it with strawberry before. That puts it over the top.
You can have what ever you want on a "smörgÄstÄrta". Fish, ham, cheese or what ever you lika. You are not wrong when you say sandwish. It is i sandwish but made as a cake more or less. If you don't like the caviar don't have eny caviar on your "smörgÄstÄrta". But it's really goos and as somebody write down below, you can eat it 24/7.
do they also use ryebread or a mix so it resembles chocolate/vanilla layers? :P
I love smörgĂ„stĂ„rta. My favourite is with a lot of shrimps and whipped cream with a taste of horseraddish between all layers! đ
When I fyllde 60 I served my daughters and their boyfriends smörgÄstÄrta med lax. I bought a BIG smörgÄstÄrta and I sent the left overs with my guests to eat another day.
SmörgĂ„stĂ„rta is sooo good!! I like the shrimp one, but I miss the salmon...đ€€đ€€đ€€
Look at it more as a Baguette/sandwhich and not as a cake. You can have a meatball+rödbetssallad baguette, a cheese+ham baguette, a roast beef sandwhich. Same here with the Sandwhichcake. You can have the shrimps and salmon, or you can go for more cheese and ham. A neighbour invited me and some others over for a SmörgÄstÄrta with roast beef and leverpastej and it was actually OK!
Love the classic one with smoked salmon, shrimp, eggs, mayo, sallad, cucumber, tomato, lemon and caviar... yummy!!!
The thing is you can pick all the stuff YOU like and cram it on it.. Roast beef, ham, shrimp, caviar, cheese, tomatoes, liver pate.... Mix and match like crazy...:) The only like required stuff is the bread and the creamy fillings..
Your "scarymovie" about the smörgĂ„stĂ„rta is a classic one.â€đđđžđȘ
7:40 Pleasantly surprised, we absolutly take that!
Russian caviar...never heard of that?? I love smörgÄstÄrta!! It's typical swedish. You can get it either with "seafood", shrimps a.s.o. or with charcuteries like ham and sliced roastbeef a.s.o. delicious too!
Using cheese doodles for the sides is a local thing. I once spoke to the previous owner and she said it was her idea and it grew popular. Haven't seen it anywhere else. SmörgÄsbutiken is a really sweet place but if you want to try other popular variants there is an italian version at Lill-Annas that is very sought after. I prefer vegetarian smörgÄstÄrta, they're more like fancy cheese platters with fruit on top of cake.
Since posting this video, Iâve learned that this was a very local cake đ The vegetarian or tuna options sound much better to me. Iâll have to find one and try it out!
Living in a town about 80 km from Ă-bro....the bakery here does the cheesdoodles crunch to. and my relatives from VĂ€rmland was chocked :-D And they to live about 80 km from Ă-bro.
Worth to note that in recent years (yeah the last 20 or so) SmörgÄstÄrta has gone downhill. Probably because the people who ate them on a regular basis have all died out : (.
Today most of them is just different companies/bakeries trying to figure out how to make it as cheap as possible (adding pickles, leverpastej, beets, mayo layers, cucumber etc). A real shrimp smörgÄstÄrta used to be more similar to a toast Skagen (minimum amount of fillers (?)), now it's just a hint of shrimp or shrimp used as decoration....
Var köper du smörgÄstÄrta nÄgonstans? Jag bor i Malmö och hÀr finns iallafall nÄgra affÀrer som bara sÀljer mackor och smörgÄstÄrtor och har gjort det lÀnge. De har rikligt med innehÄll och Àr frikostigt dekorerade. Helt enkelt fantastiska!
Your a soldier! Great job! :)
Maybe you'd like the vegan version of caviar - tÄngcaviar. It tastes pretty much the same but it's made from seaweed, so no fish eggs!
Wow, what a huge deal made of what is basically a fancier way of serving a sandwich because that's what smörgÄstÄrta is, a sandwich cake.
i've never seen a smörgÄstÄrta looking like that, you should try another one
Bravo!
Yes!
There are so many different kinds of smörgĂ„stĂ„rta and you picked one with the things you don't like? You could try ham & cheese or salmon or roast beef. My favorite drink to smörgĂ„stĂ„rta is a dry sparkling white wine. Try it! đ
SmörgÄstÄrta Àr en trevlig upplevelse om den Àr gjord bra!
If you try one with tuna salad in between the bread slices, it'll be just like eating a tuna salad sandwich on white bread, but with tomatos and cucumber and like mayo-cream cheese. Just think away the shape of "cake". It's just like a huge layered sandwich. đđđŒ (But putting Cheez Doodles on the sides, is unheard of in the rest of the country... But hey, I maybe gotta try it.) The strawberry is mostly for decoration, we love our strawberries, though. If any fruit is on a smörgĂ„stĂ„rta, it would be on the one with smoked ham, and ham salad in between. Grapes and orange slices, are common. But any fruit goes well with smoked ham, actually. Have you tried smoked ham and watermelon together? Yum!
It easily goes down with Ccampagne, as a matter of fact Champagne goes perfect with it!
It's time! SĂ„ trevligt :)
Du fÄr prova olika sorter tills du hittar en du tycker om, det finns sÄ mÄnga olika varianter av smörgÄstÄrta :)
Now i got crazy hungry!
SmörgÄstÄrta is deliscious!!
Strange combo, try one with smoked ham and cheese insted, its awesome đ
Being allergic to shrimp, i make 2 versions. One with shrimp and tuna anf one with smoked salmon and tuna.
I've never seen a smörgÄstÄrta like that. It have to be a very local version. :)
There is a smörgÄstÄrta with roast beef and cheese, I think you might prefer those? I love the shrimp/egg/fruit/lax combo (the cheeto dust is weird though) but I get that it is not everyone's cup of tea.
The whole idea with SmörgÄstÄrta is to have a compact version of a SmörgÄsbord. That one was really weird though!
Just found you, Irish sounding Meagan. Good content and welcome!
If you donât like shrimps their plenty of other recipes, if you make your own you have the option to select taste of your choice đ
The topping is often made to look nice, that why all the mixed things, just eat what you like and throw the other stuff away. Itâs supposed to be a big sandwich with nice toppings đ
There are diffrent types of smörgÄstÄrta, its possibly to buy without shrimps. But with shrip is the most common.
The best in Ărebro, also with the cheez doodles around it, a classic from here..! Greetings from a former ĂU-student (late 90s/2000) ;)
Va det ostbÄgar (cheetos) runt smörgÄstÄrtan? Jag Àr konservativ nÀr det kommer till smörgÄstÄrta :D
A bit weird topping combo. But shrimp and caviar should go well with egg and some fillings. I never had strawberry on it, though ham cheese and some like salmon.
What about the pre-dinner mayonase?
SmörgÄstÄrta Àr bÀst ingen protest woOooOo
That place is pretty good. I've eaten a lot of the smörgÄstÄrta. :) They are a bit different but pretty good. The best ones are home-made ones.
Will you buy it again?
If you don't like shrimp, you can, or should, choose a sandwich cake without shrimp. It's the easiest and best way, I think.
So you liked it after all. You are probably gonna end up like a full time Swede and have to invite your family to Sweden to dine with an American connoisseur of Swedish cuisine.
PS You put a lot of effort in editing your videos like a Pro.
ICA does some awesome ones, Cheetos is a no no. Think I gotta make one tomorrow as Iâm a swede living in London uk. Try a traditional one and Iâm sure you will love it.
Weird smörgĂ„stĂ„rta! But makes sense because it's made in Ărebro! :)
Shrimp is my personal favorite but I get that some people dont like it.
You should try the other classics, roast beef and meatball/beetroot
Theyre phenomenal.
That was a wierd one, we normally dont have fruit on them. Its like a big sandwich made like a cake with diffrent layers and the strewberry and the yellow outside i never seen before and im swedish. I love smögÄstÄrta!
I always give the shrimps to my table neighbor, shrimps are like a sponge dipped in salt water......
I work in the construction business. We celebrate with smörgÄstÄrta when we are done projects.
So at my workplace when we have done a good job and management want to reward us, we get tÄrta. And if that is prinsesstÄrta or schwarzwald or whatever we are displeased. SmörgÄstÄrta and kaffe makes Sweden work... and sill
Can't believe that whole poll on Instagram was for that ending only.
Never seen a smörgÄstÄrta like that one. Otherwise I love smörgÄstÄrta.
The history of Sandwich cake!
Sandwich cake? Yes thank you! Bread, tasty fillings and a lot of goodies as decoration, we rarely say no to. In the past, the sandwich cake was filled with buckling and pie, today there are variations even for the most discerning. But where do the Swedes' favorite cake come from? We take it from the beginning.
Sandwich hysteria
In the 30's, the sandwiches take up more and more space on the dining table and the cookbooks are filled with recipes for different kinds of sandwiches, a common word for a finer starter sandwich at the time. Sliced, white bread is new and modern, and more and more people are starting to buy industrial baked goods at home. Hakon's cookbook (published by ICA's founder Hakon Swenson) from 1938 contains ten recipes for different types of sandwiches, such as Viennese sandwiches and hot buckling sandwiches. It is also during the 1930s that the word sandwich became common as a slang for simpler sandwiches with sausage or ham as a spread.
When the sandwich and cake become one
The sandwich wave of the 1930s paved the way for the sandwich cake, which could be described as several Swedish sandwiches with toppings stacked on top of each other. But it is difficult to know exactly when the sandwich cake came about. In 1940, sandwiches are mentioned for the first time with cake in the Great Cookbook. It offers a recipe for a sandwich cake with two layers, filling and a finer decoration. A combination that is very reminiscent of today's sandwich cake. But sandwiches with several layers of bread and fillings were still not entirely new. Below we have listed some wonderful predecessors, which work just as well now as then.
The cheese dust on the sides is really weird, never seen that on a smörgĂ„stĂ„rta before đ but hey maybe its good..
Greetings from Finland! Ok that was weird one. Never seen strawberry and mandarin even in decoring. Sometimes halved grapes or even peach slices, but then it have been meet version of the cake never in fishy one. Also those yellow sides looked suspecious. IÂŽve seen cheese slices, cheese crumbles, cheese flakes, parsley, dill and many ther things, but that looked weird.
What a heck was that?!
That was the weirdest smörgĂ„stĂ„rta I have ever seen. đČđ€
0:35. That is what I am used to see when it comes to a smörgÄstÄrta. You should try that one next time.
Wow, what a strange smörgÄstÄrta.
They are always best home made using ingrediens you like.
I normally make them in 3 layers,
Important to make the layers fluffy and moist to keep it from getting dry.
Stored in a cooler over night to let the flavour soak into the fresh white bread.
The garnish must be done same day as served.