[DANSK] Hot Dogs and Agurkesalat
Hot dog, Danish style: ketchup, sweet mustard, roasted and raw onions, pickled cucumbers - and sausage and bread of course! As it would be served at any of the pølsevogne here - or as you could make it yourself at home. Most of the ingredients are plain bought, but we do make our own agurkesalat.
Agurkesalat
2 large cucumbers, sliced ever so thinly, maybe with amandoline, should you be lucky enough to own one of these...
0,4 liter apple vinegar
100 g sugar
10 black peppercorns, whole
1 bay leaf
1 teaspoon salt
Bring vinegar, sugar, peppercorn, bay leaf and salt to the boil. Leave simmering until the sugar has dissolved. Place the sliced cucumber directly in a 3/4 liter pickling jar. Pour the boiling vinegar mixture over the cucumbers. Leave to cool for half an hour, then eat. Any leftovers can be kept in the jar in the fridge (observe normal pickling rules: no dirty forks go in the jar, rim of jar kept clean etc. etc.)
Agurkesalat is also great with fishcakes and roast chicken. It is a bit on the sweet side, but if you try and make it (it's not really that hard as you can tell!) you can probably come up with even more suggestions as to what to serve it with. There's always a jar in our fridge, and while they're nothing like the fat little sweet pickled gherkins I'd use for my bean salad, neither nothing like the French cornichons, agurkesalat has it's very own place in our culinary mind.
Comments
A query - how would you pronounce 'pølsevogne'?? Our hosts tried to teach us some Danish, and we couldn't stop giggling at the way it seemed that all of the vowels were ignored! I remember being taught to pronounce Copenhagen as something like 'Kuhpnhabn' . :-)
Pille - you're welcome - I always like bringing back nice memories!
Stephanie - can't wait to see that recipe - and before you know it, you'll have more cucumbers than you'd like, I'm sure!
Linda - sounds like a fab way of using them - and traditional to boot!
Ana - I've never heard of that bread and butter pickles, but I can't wait to see Stephanies recipe. And of course, you NEED pickles in your hamburger - I'd cut the cucumbers a little thicker for that though...
Cathy - I agree! Easy and yummy - doesn't get much better than that!
Which are the best cucumbers to use? Any or telegraph, english, lebanese, apple???
Hi Molly - you know, hot dogs was one of the first things that "broke" my sort-of vegetarianism, so just you go ahead!;-)
sorry... I want to make these! Yum
The poelsevogn in the picture, is not just ANY random poelsevogn in Copenhagen, but the best there is. This guy serves massive 225 gram chili dogs with homemade chili dip.
If any of you would be able to drop by the vogn, and taste the chili's, drop us a review on ole AT criticalhit . dk, and we will put it on the site :-)
On behalf of Ole,
Soeren