Ingredients
½ kg of lamb
1 onion
4 carrots
½ stalk of celery
4 medium-sized potatoes
3 smaller turnips
1 large leek – or a bag of frozen soup herbs
Butter / margarine and olive oil
Salt and pepper
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These days we are spending more time at home than ever before. This has led to many people becoming Do-It-Yourself experts, gardening gurus and cooking extraordinaires!
Some of you had to cancel your visit to Greenland during this time of COVID-19, so we thought that instead of completely missing the Greenland experience, we’d give you some inspiration to recreate a waft of Greenland in your kitchen. Namely, lamb soup with bread rolls.
The Greenlandic diet is largely based on meat due to the limitations of growing vegetables in the polar climate. Most produce (just like everything else) is flown into the country.
Lamb, you say?
What many people don’t realise is that tucked away in the very South of Greenland lies a green grassy belt where sheep roam freely during the summer and local produce is farmed. Ask any Greenlander and they will tell you that their lamb is more full of flavour than any other of its kind in the world.
Greenlanders are definitely biased, but this natural flavouring comes from breathing in the fresh air, drinking the purest water and grazing in undisturbed mountains and meadows for much of the year.
The land of the sheep farmers is milder than the rest of Greenland so that vegetables and sheep can be farmed here. So much so that when the shrimp migrated north to colder waters during the turn of the 2000s, the locals’ focus turned to the Norse tradition of raising sheep instead. The Royal Greenland factory was transformed into Neqi, an abattoir for Greenlandic meat. This meat is sold in supermarkets all over the country and has become a source of national pride.
Package Tours
Arctic Villages in East Greenland
South Greenland 4 days
Farm Holiday - 8 days hiking round trip
