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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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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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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Sauces
This winter chanterelle cream sauce is made from winter chanterelles, chicken stock, white wine, heavy cream, and salt and pepper. The sauce is perfect with pasta, steak, or chicken. If you use fresh winter chanterelles simply skip the soaking step and add them directly as they are. Winter chanterelles are also known as yellowfoot chanterelles
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Appetizers
Funnel chanterelle toast is a super tasty and not least easy dish to make. Funnel chanterelles have a deep, unique taste of umami and mushrooms, and go really well with butter, heavy cream and bread. Funnel chanterelles can be found in autumn in deciduous and coniferous forests. They love damp moss, and once you've found
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Condiments & Preserves
Looking for a recipe for a wild, refreshing, and fragrant tea that's both natural and full of flavour? Then make this easy elderflower and wild rose tea recipe! This wild tea combines the natural and aromatic properties of dried roses (rosa rugosa) and elderflowers (sambucus nigra) to create a soothing beverage that's perfect for relaxation
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Drinks
Homemade rose hip cordial is a wonderful way to make use of nature’s own ingredients, and this recipe makes it both easy and accessible to prepare rose hip cordial without any complicated steps. I picked my rose hips in December, when they are fully ripe, slightly soft and naturally sweeter after frost. Rose hips can,
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