How to Cook Lutefisk

Do you want to cook a perfect lutefisk dinner?

Call the Lutefisk Hot Line :-)
Lutefisk Hotline: (800) 882-0212
Olsen Fish Company
2115 North 2nd Street
Minneapolis, MN 55411 USA

Semi-decent Lutefish chef

It's not difficult preparing a semi-decent lutefisk dinner if you follow the recipe you find at Olsen Fish Company or Sons of Norway.

If you want to impress your "Lutefisk Lover" with a perfect Lutefisk Dinner - give him/her tickets to the annual Lutefisk Feed or bribe a merrited Lutefisk Chef to do the cooking :-)

The biggest problem making a superior lutefisk meal for the novice lutefisk "chef" is to find the secret ingredient the merrited chefs use.

My best guess is:

• one dash of passion
• one ounce of love

Small warning :-)

If you buy frozen lutefisk - allow it to thaw properly or you will end up with a yello-soup. Been There. Done That! Had to save the crisp bacon dices and grean pea stew in the freezer so I could use them at a later point :-)

In Case of Lutefisk Emergency - Lutefisk Hotline: (800) 882-0212

Fun Facts about Lutefisk

"Lutefisk is a traditional dish of the Nordic countries made from stockfish (air-dried whitefish) or dried/salted whitefish (klippfisk) and soda lye (lut). To make the fish edible, a final treatment of yet another four to six days of soaking in cold water (also changed daily) is needed. Eventually, the lutefisk is ready to be cooked." Wikipedia

Finished and ready to eat it look much like fish yello

Not everyone prefer the most wobbely version of Lutefisk, you can get lutefisk that's more flaky than yello-ish, but if you ever have seen it you sure do not forget what you have seen :-)
Try to push a plate filled with lutefisk with a finger - watch the fish shiver and shake ...
 

With the image of the wobbly lutefisk fresh in mind we can wonder why:

• a rock on the moon got the name lutefisk
• several companies named themselves lutefisk
• a rock group