Fårikål () is a traditional
Norwegian dish and the country's
national dish
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* It is a staple food, made from a selection of locally available foodstuffs ...
.
It consists of pieces of
mutton with bone,
cabbage, whole
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, and occasionally a little
wheat flour, cooked for several hours in a casserole, traditionally served with
potato
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es boiled in their skins. The dish is typically prepared in early autumn, and over 70% of the Norwegian population reports eating the dish at least once during this time period.
Fårikål Feast Day is celebrated on the last Thursday in September each year.
Name
Fårikål is a compound word literally meaning "mutton in cabbage".
The name was amended from Danish "gaas i hvidkaal" (goose in white cabbage).
In popular culture
On September 29, 2012,
Guinness World Records
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approved the World Record of making the largest portion of fårikål ever. The result was 594.2 kg fårikål, prepared to be finished at the same time, consisting of 60%
lamb and 40%
cabbage. The event happened in
Spikersuppa,
Oslo
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,
Norway
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, and there were 10,000 guests present.
In the 1970s, fårikål was elected
national dish
A national dish is a culinary Dish (food), dish that is strongly associated with a particular country. A dish can be considered a national dish for a variety of reasons:
* It is a staple food, made from a selection of locally available foodstuffs ...
of Norway by the popular radio programme ''Nitimen''. In 2014, after the controversial decision by the food and agriculture minister
Sylvi Listhaug to hold a new competition,
it was reconfirmed as the national dish.
See also
*
List of lamb dishes
*
List of stews
References
External links
Video of the preparation of fårikål, in English
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Norwegian stews
Lamb dishes
National dishes
Cabbage soups
Stock (food)