Korv stroganoff
Korv stroganoff or korvstroganoff, Swedish for sausage stroganoff, is a Swedish dish, originally based on the Russian dish beef Stroganoff, where the beef is replaced with pieces of sausage and the sauce features a partial tomato base.
History
Korv Stroganoff started as a budget-friendly variation of beef Stroganoff, first introduced as a school meal in the 1950s, before spreading to households. It has since become a staple of Swedish cuisine, later also spreading to other countries. In Finnish, the dish is called makkarastroganoff.The dish was Sweden's fifth most popular dish in 2022.
Description
The recipe can vary, but typically consists of chopped sausage and chopped yellow onions, which are often sautéed beforehand, sometimes together with tomato paste and flour. The sausage is typically falukorv by tradition, but any sausage of choice can be used, like Swedish style chorizo, Vienna sausage, or even hotdog leftovers.These are cooked in a tomato- and dairy-based sauce, potentially tossed into the same cooking vessel used to sauté the sausage and onion before. The tomato component can be tomato sauce, tomato purée, tomato paste, or a combination of types, but some people also use ketchup or thereof. The dairy component can be anything from cream, sour cream, crème fraîche, smetana, milk, or filmjölk. A poor man's version simply use ketchup and milk for the sauce.
Spices vary greatly, and may be simple, like salt and pepper, or varied to preference, like the use of paprika, or soy sauce, or Italian seasoning, such as basil, oregano, rosemary and garlic. Flavorings such as Dijon mustard and thickeners like flour may be added.
The dish is traditionally served with rice, but pasta is also quite typical, and alternatives, such as boiled potatoes, fried potatoes, mashed potatoes, bulgur, quinoa, oat rice or wheat berries, also occur.