Mains

Kjötfars (Icelandic meat farce)

Ingredients

  • 500 g minced lamb1 lb minced lamb
  • 2 tbsp potato starch
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp white pepper (The dash is a ditto mark for 'tsp'.)
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 3–4 dl milk1¼–1⅔ cups milk

Method

  1. Put the mince and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until the meat turns sticky.
  2. Add the potato starch, baking powder, white pepper and nutmeg and mix in.
  3. Pour in the milk a little at a time and beat the farce well in the mixer until it is firm and light.
  4. Shape into balls with a wet spoon and fry them in a pan, or poach them, until cooked through.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Kjötfars.
500gr Lambahakk 2 msk. Kartöflumjöl 1 tsk. lyftiduft. 1 - hvítur pipar 2 - salt 1 - múskat 3-4 dl. mjólk
stífþeytt í hrærivél.