Räkröra lettuce cups with eggs
10 min · 43 g protein · 284 cals / serving
Swedish prawn mix made the light everyday way: chopped prawns, crunchy cucumber, dill and a little horseradish folded into cottage cheese and quark, spooned into crisp romaine cups and onto halved boiled eggs. One crispbread on the side for crunch; lunch in ten minutes.
Ingredients
- 9 oz peeled cooked shrimp boiled prawns, thawed, drained well
Räkröra
- 2/3 cup cottage cheese 1.5%, keso
- 1/4 cup quark
- 1/3 cucumber, finely diced and patted dry
- 1 tbsp red onion, very finely chopped
- 1/4 cup fresh dill, chopped, plus sprigs to serve
- 1 tsp horseradish, freshly grated, or 2 tsp from a jar
- 2 tsp lemon juice
- 1/4 tsp salt
- a pinch white pepper
- 2 boiled eggs, ready-boiled and peeled, halved
- 8 leaves romaine lettuce, from the heart, cup-shaped
- 1 slice rye crispbread rutknäcke (square rye crispbread), whole grain, broken in two, to share
Steps
- Squeeze the prawns gently in a clean towel so the mix does not go watery, then chop them roughly.
- Stir the cottage cheese, quark, cucumber, red onion, dill, horseradish, lemon juice, salt and white pepper together, then fold in the prawns. Taste for salt and lemon.
- Spoon the räkröra into the lettuce cups and onto the egg halves, top with dill sprigs, and serve with half a crispbread each.
Good to know
How is this different from skagenröra?
Our skagenröra is a creamy quark-and-dill spread for crispbread, made to go with drinks. Räkröra is the milder lunch mix: the prawns are chopped into keso with crunchy cucumber, and here it fills lettuce cups and eggs instead of bread.
Shell-on or ready-peeled prawns?
Shell-on prawns from the fish counter taste best; peeling 600 g takes about ten minutes more. Frozen ready-peeled prawns, thawed in the fridge overnight, keep it a ten-minute lunch.
I'd rather have it on crispbread
Then it is the classic räkröra sandwich: four slices between two, with a lettuce leaf under the röra, at about 78 instead of 85.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 68
- Protein
- (60%)
- 10 g
- Fat
- (23%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (17%)
- 3 g
- of which sugar
- 1 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 318 mg
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As written, 569 kcal goes into the pot and 834 g of ingredients comes out as about 834 g of food: 68 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.