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Servings: 4 people

Egg Cake with Fried Pork

We present to you a delicious recipe for the classic Danish dish egg cake. Our version is prepared in a pan over a long period at low heat and is served on a slice of rye bread with oven-fried pork and chives on top.
Author: Anette Søstrøm Asmussen
Course: Dinner, Lunch
Cuisine: Danish
Keyword: Danish food, Denmark, Dinner, Pig, Pork
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

Egg Cake

  • 14 pcs. Egg
  • 50 gram Wheat Flour
  • 500 gram Milk Can be replaced with 4 dl cream
  • 6 gram Salt
  • 2.3 gram Pepper
  • 9.6 gram Baking Soda

Accessories/decorations

  • 500 gram Pork Belly
  • Chives For garnish

Instructions

Oven-fried Pork

  • Cut the pork into slices and place them on a baking rack with a baking tray underneath.
  • Fry them golden at 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit) in a convection oven. It takes about 30-45 minutes.
  • The pork can also be fried in a pan or on the grill - this is a matter of one's "belief" on how one prefers their pork.

Pan-fried Egg Cake

  • Whisk eggs, milk, flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper together well so there are no lumps in the batter.
  • Take a medium-sized frying pan and add a bit of oil to the pan (unless the pork was fried in the same pan).
  • Add the egg mixture to the pan and bake the egg cake at medium heat for 45-60 minutes.
  • Remember to stir the egg cake occasionally and lift its edge so that the uncooked egg can flow underneath the cooked egg cake.
  • When the egg cake is done, it will feel firm but still slightly soft on top.
  • Garnish the egg cake with fried pork and chives and serve with delicious rye bread and good butter.

Notes

We recommend these two rye bread recipes: Seeded Rye Bread & Sourdough Rye Bread.
If you want to treat yourself, you can make your own butter with this recipe.