Skånsk äggakaka recipe - Swedish "egg cake" recipe

One of the easiest dishes to prepare, which I know is "äggakaka", it's a Swedish dish that comes from the southern part of Sweden (Skåne). Historically it was served to workers who helped with the fall harvest. I was very practical as could easily be packed into a sack to be eaten in the field. You could translate it as "egg cake" but it's not really a cake, it's more like a thick pancake but fluffier and you eat it for lunch or dinner.

Here is what you need (please refer to my post about the Swedish measuring cups if you need help concerning the measuring):

• 4 dl milk
• 4 eggs
• 11/2 dl flour
• 1/2 tsk salt

• bacon 
• and of course lingonberries (That's important in Sweden :))

Mix the salt and the flour. Use a big bowl for the eggs and add the milk and whisk, add the salt/flour mix bit by bit and keep on whisking until all the flour is added.

Put a pan on the oven and fry the bacon the way you like it (Soft or crispy), take them out of the pan and keep warm.

Use the same pan and maybe add some oil or butter and then add the äggakaka mix, use a wooden spoon to always lift the ground of the mix a little bit in the entire pan, so that the mix doesn't get burned and so that all of the liquid gets cooked bit by bit. Lower the heat of the oven.

As soon as the liquid has gone and you have checked that the colour on the side of the äggakaka that is frying in the pan is brown, take a huge plate that is bigger than the pan and put it on the pan like a lock and press against the pan.

Now turn it upside down, so that the uppside of the äggakaka (which has not been fried) in the pan is now downside on the plate.

Remove anything that is left in the pan from the äggakaka, add some butter or oil and let the äggakaka glide back into the pan slowly from the plate. Now the other side of the äggakaka gets fried, keep the temperature of the oven low, so that the other side doesn't get burned and don't use the wooden spoon for this side, just leave it and only check if the underside is ready and brown.

Serve the äggakaka directly from the pan, topped with the fried bacon, eat it together with the lingonberries.

Bon apetit!

Isabell