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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A basket full of black trumpet mushrooms and funnel chanterelles. Foraging for edible wild mushrooms in nature is pure joy! You come home after a successful mushroom hunt with a basket full of delicious, fresh mushrooms. That means you can prepare a wonderful home cooked mushroom meal. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find more
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Rose hips are the fruits of the rose flower plant. Rose hips replace the fallen flowers when the temperatures lower. Rose hips are edible and are shaped round or oval. The color of rose hips is normally bright red to orange – the darker the red the riper.

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Description Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is a small and charming plant that grows wild in Denmark and many other temperate regions around the world. Despite rarely reaching a height of more than 15-20 cm, they have an impressive ability to spread across large areas. The plants have distinctive leaves resembling three fingers, with a pale
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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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Main Courses
Looking for a creamy pasta dish with chanterelles? You’ve come to the right place. There’s nothing more delightful than fresh chanterelles in a creamy pasta dish. Chanterelles are one of the finest gifts from the forest, with their delicate, nutty flavor and juicy texture, making them a perfect match for a creamy pasta. Fresh chanterelles
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Appetizers
Porcini carpaccio is a super delicious and not least easy starter to make. Carpaccio traditionally consists of thinly sliced raw meat or fish and is served with rocket, parmesan cheese, pine nuts and sometimes pesto. This carpaccio is therefore a great vegetarian alternative with raw, fresh porcini mushrooms, rocket and a pesto dressing. Porcini mushrooms
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Side Dishes
Delicious pan fried oyster mushrooms glazed in honey and butter. This easy recipe for pan fried oyster mushrooms can be used as a side dish to a wide variety of dishes. The fried oyster mushrooms can also be added to this Spicy Oyster Mushroom Burger The recipe can also be used for other mushrooms such as
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Appetizers

Butter-fried chanterelles with parsley is a super delicious appetizer you can get either from foraged chanterelles if you are lucky, or in the slightly more expensive supermarkets when they are in season from July to September.

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