How to pronounce Rømmegrøt

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈrœ̂mːəˌɡrøːt/. In plain English letters that is RURM-meh-grurt, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Rømmegrøt?

Rømmegrøt is a dessert of Norway. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are dairy & cheese and wheat & flour. It tastes sweet and rich.

Where Rømmegrøt comes from

Rømmegrøt is one of 20 signature dishes of Norway on this map.

• Fenalår · Snack · Norway

  Fenalår is salted and dried leg of lamb or mutton, a cured meat Norwegian sources call typically Norwegian: many countries cure ham, but curing sheep's leg is distinctively Norwegian, and the name has European protection.

• Lefse · Bread & pastry · Norway

  Lefse is a traditional soft Norwegian flatbread, also found in parts of Sweden.

• Krumkake · Dessert · Norway

  Krumkake, 'curved cake', is a thin Norwegian biscuit of flour, butter, eggs and sugar, baked on a decorative two-sided iron that resembles a waffle iron but makes cakes only about 1.5 millimetres thick.

• Fårikål · Main dish · Eastern Norway

  Fårikål means "sheep in cabbage": pieces of mutton or lamb on the bone, layered in a pot with wedges of cabbage and whole black peppercorns, then simmered for hours.

• Lutefisk · Main dish · Western coast

  Lutefisk is dried cod, or sometimes ling, soaked for days in water, then in a lye solution, and then in clean water again.

• Brunost · Snack · Gudbrandsdalen

  Brunost, "brown cheese", is not quite a cheese: it is made by boiling whey, the liquid left from cheesemaking, with milk or cream until the sugars caramelise into a brown, firm paste with a sweet, fudge-like taste.

Food of Norway

Dishes like Rømmegrøt in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Rømmegrøt:

• Princess cake Prinsesstårta · Dessert · Sweden

  Princess cake is a traditional Swedish layer cake of airy sponge, vanilla custard and a thick dome of whipped cream, covered in a smooth sheet of marzipan.

• Brunsviger · Dessert · Funen, Denmark

  Brunsviger is a Danish tray-baked yeast cake covered with a topping called snav or snask, made from brown sugar, syrup and butter or margarine.

• Shortbread · Dessert · Scotland, United Kingdom

  Shortbread is the classic Scottish biscuit: one part sugar, two parts butter and three or four parts flour, with no raising agent, baked pale and crumbly.

• Bossche bol · Dessert · North Brabant, Netherlands

  A Bossche bol is a choux pastry ball about twelve centimetres across, filled with whipped cream and dipped in dark chocolate, from the city of 's-Hertogenbosch, or Den Bosch, in North Brabant, where it is simply called a chocoladebol.