Millionbøf - Million Beef with Mashed Potatoes - A Danish Dinner Recipe

A very traditional Danish dinner dish! Millionbøf is easy to make for small meals or for a family get together.  Most adults as well as children like it.  My family usually eat every drop of this dish and usually ask for seconds. 

Below we prepare millionbøf with mashed potatoes and a side of spinach and red beets. However, try millionbøf with either mashed potatoes or even spaghetti.  Both taste great with
millionbøf. 

Ingredients:

• 1 large or 2 medium onions
• 1 lb of ground beef
• 3 tblsp flour
• oil for frying
• 1-2 cups of water
• 3 tblsp flour
• 1 bouillon cube
• 2-3 bayleafs
• 2 tsp salt (to taste)
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tblsp tomato pure, optional

 

See Karen Grete preparing 

Millionbøf in our YouTube video

Instruction:  
Chop the onions coarsely and fry them in oil. When they begin to brown add the ground beef and brown it well.  It is important to brown the onions and meat well.

Add the bouillon cube, salt, pepper and bayleaves.

Mix the flour with the water and add it to the meat.  Keep stirring and make sure there are no lumps. (optional add tomato pure)

Let the dish simmer for approx. ½ hour.

Serve the million beef with boiled or mashed potatoes, red beets and your choice of vegetable.

Mashed Potatoes:

Boil the potatoes until tender in water without salt. Drain off the water and place the pot on the stove until the potatoes are steamed dry. Mash the potatoes and stir in the milk, so you get soft mashed potatoes. Add butter, salt and pepper according to taste.

Here we have spinach as a side dish but you can have any side vegetable such as peas.  Also we are serving red beets with our millionbøf dinner. Red beets is very typical to have for either a Danish lunch or dinner and it tastes great with millionbøf.

Here we serve Million Beef with Mashed Potatoes on a Royal Copenhagen plate.  The pattern we selected for this dish was the Blue Flower Curve.

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Bøf Stroganoff - Beef Stroganoff - A Danish Recipe Version

 

 
Ingredients:

• 1 lb fillet of beef
• 2 tbsp paprika
• flour
• 1 large onion sliced
• 1/2 lb mushroom, sliced
• 2 tbsp. butter
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 1/2 cup beef broth 
• a little garlic
• 1/2 cup heavy cream or sour cream
• salt and pepper

 

Click on our YouTube video to learn how to make this delicious dish!!

 

Instruction:

1. Cut the meat into strips and dust it with paprika,
2. Slice the onion and the mushrooms and fry them with the garlic in the butter until golden. Remove it from the pan.  
3. Add a little butter or oil if necessary and brown the meat on high heat quickly on each side and keep stirring.  
4. Add the tomato paste, onion, mushrooms, beef broth and heavy cream (or sour cream). 
5. Season with salt and pepper.
6. Serve hot with mashed potatoes and pickles on the side.
7. You might replace the mashed potatoes with rice or noodles.

 

 

If you like this recipe, please check out our other recipes!

*how to make Danish Christmas rice pudding with cherry sauce dessert recipe (Risalamande med kirsebærsauce)

*how to make Swedish Glogg for Christmas & cold evenings! (glögg or mulled wine recipe) 

*how to make aeblskiver (æbleskiver)

*how to make Danish Christmas Klejner

*how to make easy Danish cucumber salad (arguksalat)

*how to make Danish sugar browned potatoes (brunede kartofler)

*how to make Danish red cabbage (rødkaal)

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Swedish Hamburgers (Biff à la Lindström)

A 100 year old classic Swedish dish.  Beef A La Lindström is considered to be an ultra classic Swedish dish.  The classic Swedish beef patty dish, inspired by Mr Lindström’s original recipe.

Ingredients

• 1 lb freshly minced beef
• 1 large baked or boiled potato, minced
• 1/2 cup of a small white chopped onion, minced
• 1/2 a cup of pickles
• 1/2 a cup of minced pickled red beets, juice reserved
• 1/2 a cup of heavy cream
• 2 tablespoons of capers, coarsely chopped
• 2 egg yolks
• salt and freshly ground black pepper
• butter or oil for frying) 
• Chives, finely chopped garnish (optional) 

Preparation:

1) Put the minced beef, egg yolks, onion, beetroot, capers, water/juice, seasoning and chives (optional) in a large mixing bowl. 

2) Mix all ingredients.  Blend the ingredients together until reasonably evenly mixed.  Don’t over mix as the patties will become too dense and tough.

3) With your hands, form four nicely large shaped, flat patties

Tip: If you have time, leave the patties to rest at room temperature for about an hour.
5) Heat butter or olive oil in heavy frying pan over medium-high heat.

6) When hot add the patties to the pan. Fry the patties for 4-5 minutes on each side until nicely colored but still slightly pink in the center. They should be medium rare inside.

Serving suggestions

There are several ways to serve the hamburgers.  But really it depends on what are your favorite side dishes.  Below are several suggestions. 

One option is to serve the hamburgers with fried a fried egg on top, pan fried potatoes, garnish with chives and toast on the side.   A nice cold beer too!

 

 A second option is to serve the hamburger with small roast potatoes and dark gravy with some caramelized red onions.  Great seasonal vegetables are tender white or green asparagus, baked tomatoes or kale.