I often wonder if Crown Princess Mary ever have tasted the Danish dish (Brændende Kærlighed) Burning Love. It sounds very romantic and is in some places served on Valentine’s Day. It is a traditional Danish comfort food and made with a mound of mashed potatoes to form a well topped with fried bacon cubes. Burning Love is easy to make and I haven’t made this dish for years, therefore I decided to cook it again and have some creative enjoyment with it in the process. Here is my contemporary version of this classic Danish dish.
Ingredients serve 4
10 diced bacon rashes (600 g)
1 kg peeled floury potatoes
50 g butter
150 ml cream
2 finely diced onions (300 g)
Salt
Pepper
½ tsp ground nutmeg
Bunch chives
Parsley
2 tbls grated carrot
Method
Bring potatoes to the boil and cook for approx 20 min.
Place onions and bacon in a non stick frying pan and cook until crisp and brown.
Drain and mash the potatoes, gradually whip in butter, add cream and whisk until mashed potato is light and airy.
Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.
Scoop the potato onto a plate forming a volcano shape, in the middle of the mashed potato make a hole all the way down to the plate.
Fill the hole with crispy bacon mix.
Sprinkle chopped chives around the base of the plate to create an illusion of grass, place a few short sprigs of parsley to resemble trees.
Place ½ tbls of grated carrot on top to look like fire.
Sprinkle nutmeg on the mashed potato, to complete the “Burning Love”.
Note: For a variation try sweet mashed potatoes or mashed pumpkin.
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