Top Ten Foods to Try in Iceland!

forget the fermented shark and the hot gin. Explore the best seafood and mutton in northern Europe through our Icelandic diet guide.

Iceland is adding fuel to the fire now-we are talking about food, not erupting volcanoes. This Nordic island used to be a cooking joke, and every guide urges you to eat fermented shark (a delicious food that no one is excited about except tourists), and drink Brennivín, an unsweetened gin (also known as the' Black Death'), which tells you everything you need to know.

But the financial crisis in 28 changed everything. Icelanders can no longer eat their favorite expensive imported goods, so they start to look at food at home. Locals began to make cheese, jam, birch syrup and embroidered thread to marinate meat; And embrace Icelandic cuisine, partly influenced by the new Nordic movement.

Top Ten Foods and Drinks

Smoked salt

Local salt is produced by using geothermal energy to evaporate seawater. Besides ordinary things, you can buy salt mixed with black lava (more delicious than it sounds), or smoke it with Arctic thyme and birch, which is great for eggs.

Lobster soup

This has become a cliche, but it is still worth the S? Greifinn serves lobster soup. It's not fancy-this place is more than just a hut-but the lobster in Iceland is delicious and the soup is paradise. Another place worth visiting is located in the west of Iceland. HotelBú in fellsnes Peninsula? Ir hotel, but the cost there will be higher.

Cook cod head

Chef GísliMatthíasAu? Unsson said that he came up with this dish while working in Matur og Drykkur, which is a perfect example of the re-conception of Icelandic cuisine. Cod head is boiled in chicken soup, glazed with blowing glaze (it looks like a bronze sea monster), served with potato salad and angelica pubescens, which is a very popular plant. The best bit is the cod cheek.

Icelandic lamb

seaweed and angelica are grazing crops, and Icelandic lamb is the best I have ever tasted. Old-fashioned dishes include stewed mutton (an Icelandic-Irish stew) and smoked mutton (cold rye bread or warm potatoes and white juice). Visit sheep farms such as Bjarteyjarsandur, which is one hour away from the capital, talk to farmers and taste their pickled mutton, stew and sausage.

rye bread

one of my favorite things is soft cake-like rye bread, which is cooked slowly in the ground with geothermal heat. You can see that its bread is sold everywhere. It is lovely to eat Icelandic cheese or rhubarb jam.

Icelandic beer

It was not until 1989 that beer in Iceland was banned. However, in order to make up for lost time, there are beer factories everywhere now. Most cafes and restaurants offer beer on the menu, while some offer seasonal "tasters" (five to six servings are served together, which is especially good in summer). Some can be briny, and some can be as fragrant as a meadow.

salt licorice

Icelanders are crazy about licorice; You can find it in cakes, meringues and even ice cream. Buy ice cream in Valdis, Reykjavík, or look for salted licorice and licorice-flavored dark chocolate bars in any supermarket.

Fruit gin

Vodka is indeed produced in high quantities (and there are some very good products), but gin and liqueur made from plants, fruits and birch leaves are more unique. Try 64 Reykjavík Brewery-Rhubarb Liqueur is especially delicious.

cinnamon bread and kleina

cinnamon bread are not particularly Icelandic, but Brau in Reykjavik? & Co's bread is so good that people line up for them from 6 am. For a special Icelandic pastry, get kleina, and sprinkle nutmeg on the fried doughnut. Try Sandholt bakery.