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Burning Love

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Servings: 4

Burning Love is a classic Danish dish consisting of mashed potatoes topped with fried bacon and onions and that is easy and quick to make. You can, for example, serve rye bread and pickled beets on the side.

Burning Love

Ingredients

  • 1 kg potatoes
  • 50 g butter
  • 150 ml milk
  • 1½ tsp salt
  • 200 g bacon cubes
  • 2 onions
  • Fresh parsley

Instructions

  1. Peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes, and boil them in a pot without salt for 20 minutes.
  2. Drain most of the potato water – leave a little, and mash them with a whisk.
  3. Fold the butter into the potatoes and let it melt.
  4. Add milk and stir.
  5. Season the mash with salt.
  6. Fry the bacon in a pan without fat.
  7. Chop the onions and sauté them in the pan with the bacon until everything is browned and crisp.
  8. Arrange the mashed potatoes and top with bacon and fresh parsley.

Burning Love

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Burning Love

Burning Love is a classic Danish dish consisting of mashed potatoes topped with fried bacon and onions and that is easy and quick to make. You can, for example, serve rye bread and pickled beets on the side.

Posted on 9/30/2024

Servings

4

Total time

45 minutes

Servings

4

Total time

45 minutes

Ingredients

•
1 kg potatoes
•
50 g butter
•
150 ml milk
•
1½ tsp salt
•
200 g bacon cubes
•
2 onions
•
Fresh parsley

Instructions

1

Peel the potatoes, cut them into cubes, and boil them in a pot without salt for 20 minutes.

2

Drain most of the potato water – leave a little, and mash them with a whisk.

3

Fold the butter into the potatoes and let it melt.

4

Add milk and stir.

5

Season the mash with salt.

6

Fry the bacon in a pan without fat.

7

Chop the onions and sauté them in the pan with the bacon until everything is browned and crisp.

8

Arrange the mashed potatoes and top with bacon and fresh parsley.


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