The Girl Who Ate Everything's Iceland Posts and Icelandic Fried Dough!

Robyn from the Girl Who Ate Everything did such an amazing job capturing the culinary scene of Iceland, I am in awe. If any of you have any interest in Icelandic food, or being a tourist in Iceland I recommend checking them out! Her photo's and writing do not disappoint!


Because I now have Icelandic food on the mind, I wanted to include an Icelandic specialty which is cardamon spiced fried dough that is so good! Icelanders eat these with coffee mid morning. Back Forty(one of my favorite restaurants) does this amazing homemade doughnut that is covered with a tangy rhubarb sauce. There is nothing as delicious as homemade fried donuts, and they are not that difficult to make. I recommend it to everyone! I have a fry daddy which I can not say enough good things about, it is safe, uses less oil and is inexpensive!

Icelandic Fried Dough or Kleinur

Ingredients:

• 4 1/2 cups flour
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 5 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamon
  
• 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• canola oil for frying.

Preparation: sift the flour and cream of tartar large bowl, cut the butter into the flour add cardamon and then baking soda. Add buttermilk, then eggs incorporate into dough. Knead into a soft dough but do not knead that much. Flatten dough thinly with rolling pin, using a knife or a pizza cutter cut dough into 2 inch strips and then cut it into diamond shapes. Cut a small slit in the center of each diamond and gently pull one end through the slit, to make the twist in the doughnuts. Heat Canola oil for frying. In a hot oil, fry kleinur until done, they should be a deep brown. Store in tin and enjoy all week with coffee!
ENJOY!