Welcome to Skovkær! This is your gateway to the world of wild food and foraging. Here, you’ll find a variety of delicious recipes made with wild ingredients, along with blog posts full of inspiration, tips, and practical advice to help you get started on your own foraging journey. At the top of the page, you’ll find links to our seasonal wild recipes. You can also dive into the blog to discover more about edible plants, foraging techniques, and creative ways to cook with nature’s pantry.

We hope Skovkær inspires you to explore the outdoors, try new ingredients, and enjoy the beauty of cooking with wild food.

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The sweet violet (Viola odorata) is a perennial flowering plant native to Europe and Asia. It belongs to the violet family, which includes over 500 different species. It is also known by the names of wood violet, common violet, florist’s violet, English violet, and garden violet. Odorata, which is part of the Latin name of
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Ground Elder Season Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria) is a perennial plant that typically emerges in spring and early summer. The young leaves are the most delicious and flavorful and should be harvested before the plant flowers. The best time to forage for the leaves is in April and May. Where to Find it Ground elder
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Desserts
Lingonberry ice cream is a flavorful, creamy ice cream perfect for a late summer dessert. Since the berries are quite tart, they are often cooked and sweetened before eating. The contrast between sweet, rich, ice cream and tart lingonberries, makes therefore the perfect match. Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea), are small tart red berries found in the
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Snacks
Chicken of the woods schnitzel is a battered, vegetarian version of the traditional schnitzel that most of us know. The chicken of the woods mushroom is first covered in flour, then dipped in eggs, and finally covered in a bread crumb/spice mix and deep fried in oil. Chicken of the woods is known as a
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Christmas
Risalamande “Ris à l’amande” is a Danish rice pudding dessert which is the most common Christmas dessert served on Christmas Eve. Risalamande is based on Risengrød which is a rice pudding containing rice, whole milk, water, and salt. After the rice pudding is made and cooled down completely, whipped cream, sugar, vanilla sugar, and blanched
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