Tom Victor Gausdal's recipe:
In autumn, these golden berries can be harvested high up in the Norwegian mountains.
Cloudberries have a strong and wild flavour, and are both sweet, tart, and delicious.
Norwegians often enjoy them in autumn and at Christmas, when the berries are popularly used in the traditional Christmas dinner dessert krumkaker with cloudberry cream.
Norwegian chef and Bocuse d'Or silver medallist Tom Victor Gausdal has made his own version of the popular dessert.
Try his amazing cloudberry recipe at home!
500 g cloudberries
150 ml water
150 ml sugar
1 tablespoon glucose
4 eggs
200 g sugar
200 g melted butter
200 g flour
1 teaspoon cardamom powder
For garnish, 4 tablespoons breadcrumbs or crushed biscuits (fried in butter)
500 ml vanilla quark
100 ml whipping cream
Source: Tom Victor Gausdal
1. Boil water, glucose, and sugar. Cool.
2. Clean the cloudberries and blitz them to a smooth puree together with the sugar mixture. Strain the puree and place in an ice cream maker to make sorbet. Set aside a couple of spoonfuls of the cloudberry puree to use as a sauce.
1. Beat eggs and sugar. Add the remaining ingredients and combine.
2. Fry the batter on a traditional krumkake maker or spread it out on a silicone mat and bake until golden in an oven before cooling and cracking it into pieces. Alternatively, you can bake them in a nice stencil.
Arrange a spoonful of biscuit crumbs in each bowl. Add a large spoonful of cream mixed with quark. Garnish with cloudberries and other berries. Top with a scoop of cloudberry sorbet and a wafer cookie. Enjoy!
Cloudberries can be found almost all over Norway in autumn. Note that you might need permission to pick them from the land owner in some places in Northern Norway.
But don't worry — you can find them year-round in the freezer at Norwegian supermarkets!
Autumn is also the busiest time of the year for farms, when they harvest delicious fruit and transform it into some of the world's best juices and ciders.
Visit the Fruit Village Gvarv in Telemark, and explore fruit farms in Hardanger.
Make sure to taste our wild game, as slow-cooked, bold flavours are the essence of a Norwegian autumn.
And if you can't get enough of Norwegian cloudberries, how about making this decadent dessert?
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