Hangikjöt — Smoked Lamb

Hangikjöt

Specialised

Lamb or mutton salted and then cold-smoked, traditionally over dried sheep dung — tað — and birch, which gives a flavour found nowhere else, then boiled and served cold in thin slices with béchamel, green peas and laufabrauð. The Christmas meat of Iceland.

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Communities and languages

Languages: Icelandic

Recipes

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