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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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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Main Courses
Porcini and chanterelle risotto is a creamy and very delicious mushroom risotto. Try to serve this as an appetizer for 4 people or as a main course for 2. I like to use fresh porcini and chanterelle mushrooms since they, in my opinion, have a way stronger taste than if they were dried. The rice used
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Bread & Cakes
If you are looking for a tasty recipe for your foraged ground elder leaves, you have come to the right place. This delicious ground elder bun recipe contains lots of ground elder, oatmeal, and all-purpose flour. Ground elder is a delicious plant that can be eaten raw in a salad or briefly cooked. In this
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Soups
Two of the most commonly foraged wild edibles in spring are stinging nettles and wild garlic. I cannot get enough of them - and there are endless options on how to use them. Fortunately, they also match perfectly together in dishes. Therefore, I developed this stinging nettle and wild garlic soup recipe. It is filled
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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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