The first is a love for coffee, the second is the word "kalabalik" and the third is the dish of meatballs packaged in cabbage leaves that we Swedes call "kåldolmar".
According to an unconfirmed theory, it was through our king Charles XII (1697-1718) and/or his soldiers that this delicious dish was brought to Sweden, along with coffee and the word "kalabalik" (uproar or uprising), which is a word that only exists in the Swedish and Turkish languages.
Here is the recipe for Swedish kåldolmar.
Ingredients
1 head of cabbage
Water covering the cabbage
1 teaspoon salt per liter of water
Mince Mixing:
350 grams of ground meat (50-50 pork and beef)
3 cups cooked, cold long grain rice
1.5 cups milk
1-2 eggs
1 onion
2 pinches of white pepper
2 teaspoons salt
Roasting:
2 tablespoons butter
0.5 ml syrup
Sauce:
4 cups gravy
2 tbsp plain flour
0.5 cups water
Soy sauce
Cream
Bouillon fund
For the packaging of the dolmas:
String or tooth picks
Cooking
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees centigrade.
Boil salted water in a generous pot. Stick a knife in the root of cabbage and immerse in the boiling water so that it is easy to lift up every now and then. Boil the cabbage with the root upward. Unscrew and remove the leaves by hand as they soften. Let the leaves drain and cut away the thick veins.
Finely chop the onion and fry it without adding color. Mix the ground meat with rice, eggs, milk, spices and fried onions. Place a heaping tablespoon of loose ground meat in every cabbage leave, fold in sides and roll up into a package.
Use string or tooth picks to keep the packaging in place. (My mother can do it with only one well placed tooth pick, I need loads of string.)
Fry the "dolmas" golden brown all over in a frying pan, seam-side down at first. Add them tightly in a baking dish. Mix the juice in the pan with some water and pour this over the dolmas. Pour over the syrup and a few clicks of butter. After bake in oven for about 30 minutes.
Upload the "dolmas" onto a hot plate. Stir a little flour and water into the baking dish (without cleaning it first). Boil the sauce and season with soy sauce, cream, broth and spices.
Serve with mashed or boiled potatoes and lingonberry jam. (The jam can be bought at any IKEA store in the world.)
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