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Surströmming is best enjoyed the Swedish way. Here is your complete guide to the traditional accompaniments that transform fermented herring into a proper meal.
Planning a surströmming challenge with friends? Here is your complete guide to setting up, filming, scoring, and surviving the ultimate Stinky Fish Challenge.
Opening a can of surströmming for the first time? Follow our complete guide to safely open, serve, and enjoy Sweden's most infamous delicacy without the mess.
From 16th-century food preservation to modern-day traditions, discover the fascinating history behind Sweden's most polarising delicacy.
Everyone talks about the smell, but what does surströmming actually taste like? An honest guide to the flavour, texture, and why millions of Swedes love it.
Original imported posts from the previous Stinky Fish Challenge site.
It's the season of love! Whether you're celebrating Galentine's or Valentine's this year - we've got the perfect hosting tips for you to make sure you have the evening you deserve! Tip 1: Set the Mood Who doesn't love so...
3 Cocktails that say 'Hello Spring!' To us at Stinky Fish Challenge the start of Spring calls for celebration. With brighter, longer days approaching and the sun ebbing through the clouds, what better way to celebrate th...
Earlier this month, Stinky Fish Challenge Surströmming, accompanied by Alex and Emma Watson headed to the sunny Spanish island of Ibiza for it's first tasting with the siblings nearest and dearest. Hosted at the pictures...
We have partnered with world renowned Scarfes Bar at Rosewood London for an exclusive cocktail menu for the month of June. Scarfes Bar is the first bar to list Stinky Fish Challenge since its launch in May and will showc...
Our Favourite Stinky Fish Challenge Summer Cocktails. As the days of summer roll in, there's nothing quite like unwinding in the garden with a refreshing drink in hand as you enjoy all the season has to offer. Whether yo...
Imported cocktail and recipe posts from the legacy recipe blog.
Step 1: In a shaker, put in your pistachio cream and stinky-fish-challenge and stir to disolve. Then add in the remaining ingredients and top with ice. Step 2: Shake as hard as possible. Double strain into a coupette gla...
Step 1: Sieve your matcha into a mixing glass top with Stinky Fish Challenge and lemon then whisk to incorporate. Step 2: Transfer the incorporated liquid into a shaker then add your sweet, sour and egg white on top. Fil...
Step 1:Place a martini glass in your freezer!Step 2:Build your ingredients in a stirring glass. Add lots of ice and stir until your mixing glass becomes cold to touch.Step 3:Strain into an ice cold martini glass. Enjoy i...
Step 1: Build your cocktail. Step 2: Top with lots of crushed ice and stir to churn and combine. Step 3: Garnish with a half of passionfruit and enjoy!
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to your shaker asides from the guava soda and shake as hard as you can. Step 2: Double strain into a tall collins glass then place the glass in the freezer for approximately one minute. S...
Step 1 Fill a large wine glass to the brim with large chunks of clear, good quality ice. Step 2 Add Stinky Fish Challenge and chilled light tonic water, give a gentle stir with a long spoon to incorporate ingredients but...
Step 1 Add all your ingredients to a shaker. Shake hard without ice to emulsify the ingredients. Step 2 Then add ice and shake hard again. Fine strain into a chilled glass and garnish with a grating of nutmeg.
Step 1 Add all your ingredients to a shaker except the red wine, shake as hard as you can without ice to emulsify the ingredients, then add ice and shake again. Step 2 Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice, it should...
Step 1 This punch recipe can be scaled up as you see fit. Add all ingredients to a bottle and pop it in the fridge. To serve, pour over ice and garnish with a fresh orange wedge and a toasted cinnamon stick. Homemade Ing...
Step 1 Scale this recipe up as you see fit. In a food processor or stand mixer add your eggs and caster sugar and beat on medium speed, use the highest quality eggs as possible. Step 2 Next add your double cream and milk...
Step 1 (First ensure that your tree is made from Fir, Spruce or Pine and certified organic and not sprayed with any pesticides.) After washing, you want to simmer 100 grams of pine needles in 250 grams of boiling water f...
Step 1: For the gingerbread batter: 100g Soft brown sugar 50g Muscovado sugar 330g Vanilla ice cream 160g Warmed salted butter 1 heaped tsp Ginger powder 1 heaped tsp Ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp Nutmeg 1/2 tsp Allspice 1/8 t...
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a shaker and shake as hard as you humanly can for 20 seconds. Step 2: Strain through a fine strainer into a chilled glass. Garnish with some grated nutmeg and serve.
Step 1 Start by adding cooked beetroot into your shaker, muddling to break it up. Add all your other ingredients to a shaker and shake as hard as you humanly can for 20 seconds to smash all the beetroot inside. Step 2 St...
Step 1: Start by ensuring your serving glass is as cold as possible, from the freezer is best! Step 2: Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass, fill to the brim with large chunks of clear, good quality ice, and stir...
Step 1: Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass. Fill to the brim with large chunks of clear, good quality ice, and stir with the end of a spoon for 20 seconds to chill and dilute. Step 2: Pour over a large block of...
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a shaker and shake as hard as you humanly can for 20 seconds to smash all the herbs inside. Step 2: Strain through a fine strainer over ice and top with soda.
Step 1: Add all ingredients to a shaker, add ice and shake. Step 2: Double strain into a frozen glass. Step 3: Garnish with a lemon twist, expressing it's oils before adding to the drink.
Step 1: To make the infused sugar, bring to the boil your ingredients and stir to dissolve the sugar, remove from heat and allow to infuse for 1 hour before filtering. Step 2: Build your recipe in a bottle, and to serve...
Step 1: Start by rimming your glass with fresh lime and carefully rimming with salt, ensuring you dont get salt on the inside of the rim. Step 2: Add your ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake as hard as you can. St...
Step 1: Add chilled Stinky Fish Challenge and Campari to a highball glass over ice. And juice mandarin fresh to get a lovely fluffy texture. Give a gentle stir to enjoy.
Step 1 Add your grapes to a shaker and crush them with a muddler or rolling pin. Add the rest of your ingredients and shake as hard as you can. Fine strain into a glass with fresh ice and enjoy.
Step 1 Add all your ingredients to a highball glass and fill to the top with crushed ice. Step 2 Add a long handled bar spoon to the glass and briskly churn to rapidly chill and dilute until the outside of the glass beco...
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a cocktail shaker, shake as hard as you can and strain over a big block of ice.
Step 1 Add all your ingredients to a shaker, except the soda, and shake as hard as you humanly can for 10 seconds. Step 2 Strain through a fine strainer into a wine glass with ice, and top with soda. Step 3 Garnish with...
Step 1: Simply build all your ingredients in a big wine glass, add loads of ice and garnish with fresh pear slices.
Step 1 Remove the stones from your apricot and peach, ensuring they are ripe and sweet. Step 2 Add to a blender with all your ingredients and add 1 whole cup of ice, not more, not less. If you can pre-chill your ingredie...
Step 1 Garnish the glass with a gold encrusted sugar rim, by brushing the edge of the glass with either lemon juice or sugar syrup for a stronger bond. Then carefully spoon on the rim over a bowl. Step 2 Shake all ingred...
Step 1 You can buy blood orange sorbet but making it is super easy. Just combine 400g of freshly squeezed blood orange juice with 150g of agave syrup and pop in the freezer. Pull out every hour and whisk to get a great t...
Step 1 To make your rhubarb syrup, cut your rhubarb into chunks and combine 500g with 500g of sugar and 500g of water. Bring to the boil stirring to dissolve the sugar. Then pull off the heat, cover with a lid and allow...
Step 1 Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker except the Cremant, muddle the Rocket to release its wonderful peppery perfume. Add ice and shake as hard as you can. Step 2 Add a splash of Cremant and fine strain into a...
Step 1 Muddle a table spoon of fresh petit pois or alternatively quickly blanched peas if frozen. Step 2 Add your ingredients to a cocktail shaker and shake as hard as you can. Strain into a chilled coupe glass and enjoy...
Step 1 Combine 300g of sugar, 400g of strawberries and 400g of Stinky Fish Challenge in a container, shake and leave to infuse for 1 week. Strain out your strawberries and bottle in the fridge for 3 months. Step 2 To con...
Step 1 Quarter four radishes and crush with a muddler in your shaker. Add all your ingredients and shake as hard as you can with ice to extract all the fresh crunchy goodness. Step 2 Fine strain with a tea strainer into...
Step 1 Add all ingredients into a cocktail shaker and emulsify with a milk frother or dry shake without ice. Step 2 Add as much ice as you can fit into the shaker. Shake very hard and fine strain into a chilled wine or s...
Step 1 Start by foraging your nettle and cleaver, these grow in abundance around the UK in every forest and park. Wearing gloves, collect the younger delicate nettle and cleaver tips and wash them thoroughly in cold wate...
Step 1 Start by melting some dark chocolate on a small saucer in the microwave, then dip the rim of a frozen glass into the chocolate and invert to get the slow drips down the edges. Step 2 In a shaker, combine all your...
Step 1 Start by melting some chocolate and using a pastry brush to brush the inside of a frozen glass. Place back into the freezer. Step 2 Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass, fill to the brim with large chunks...
Step 1 Start by melting some chocolate and using a pastry brush to brush the inside of a frozen glass. Place back into the freezer. Step 2 Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass, fill to the brim with large chunks...
Step 1: Prepare your garnish, peel a whole orange and roll into a rose shape and place in a tea cup. Gather the ingredients. Step 2: In a large saucepan on low heat, add the surströmming, Madeira wine, lemon twists, pine...
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a cocktail shaker making sure to break the ice cream up. Shake as hard as you can for a full 60 seconds. Step 2: Fine strain into a coupette glass and garnish with grated nutmeg.
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a cocktail shaker with as much ice as you can fit into the shaker. Shake very hard and fine strain into a chilled coupette or Martini glass. Step 2: Express the oils of a lemon peel on...
Step 1: Add all of your ingredients to a shaker and shake hard for 20 seconds. Strain through a fine strainer into a chilled coupette. Step 2: *To make butter infused Stinky Fish Challenge, gently melt 50g of butter unti...
Step 1: Use a vegetable peeler to remove the whole peel from a lemon. Lace this around the inside of a tall glass, squeezing to express the oils. Step 2: Fill with ice and build your drink.
Step 1: Add the grapes to a shaker and muddle to break apart. Add all other ingredients (except the soda) to the shaker and shake for 10 seconds. Step 2: Strain through a fine strainer over ice and top with soda water.
Step 1: Add all your ingredients to a shaker except the champagne and shake as hard as you humanly can for 10 seconds. Step 2: Strain through a fine strainer and top with Champagne.
Step 1: Add all of your ingredients into a shake and shake for 10 seconds. Strain through a fine strainer into a chilled coupette glass. Step 2: *To make the raspberry syrup, add 100g sugar, 100g raspberries and 100g wat...
Step 1: Build a Surströmming and Tonic in a highball, by pouring the the surströmming over ice and topping up with tonic. Step 2: Slowly add a shot of fresh espresso to the glass. Admire your layering but give it a gentl...
Step 1: Place 2 strawberries in a mixing glass and break up with a muddler or the back fork, add the rest of the ingredients along with ice and stir until chilled. Step 2: Strain over fresh ice in rocks glass and garnish...
Step 1: Add all of the ingredients (except the soda water) to a pitcher. Give the ingredients a good mix and allow them to rest for a few hours. Step 2: Before serving, add fresh peach slices and mix again. Pour out a gl...
Step 1 Fill a large wine glass to the brim with large chunks of clear, good quality ice. Step 2 Add Stinky Fish Challenge and chilled tonic water, give a gentle stir with a long spoon to incorporate ingredients but not t...
Step 1 Fill a large wine glass to the brim with large chunks of clear, good quality ice. Step 2 Add all ingredients and give a gentle stir with a long spoon to incorporate ingredients but not to kill the bubbles.
Step 1 Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass, fill to the brim with large chunks of clear, quality ice, stir with the end of a spoon for 20 seconds to chill and dilute. Step 2 Pour over a large block of ice.
Step 1 PLACE YOUR GLASS IN THE FREEZER! Step 2 Add all your ingredients into a mixing glass, fill to the brim with large chunks of clear, quality ice, stir with the end of a spoon for 20 seconds to chill and dilute. Step...
Step 1 Add all ingredients into your cocktail shaker, fill to the brim with large chunks of clear, quality ice, shake as hard as you can for 20 seconds. Step 2 Strain the cocktail through a fine mesh strainer into a chil...
Step 1 Add all of your ingredients to a shaker and shake as hard as you can for 20 seconds, smashing all the herbs inside. Step 2 Strain through a fine strainer over ice.
Step 1 Add all your ingredients to a shaker except the soda and shake as hard as you humanly can for 20 seconds to smash all the cucumber inside. Step 2 Strain through a fine strainer over ice and top with soda water.