Piparsósa, Icelandic pepper cheese and mushroom sauce

Piparsósa, Icelandic pepper cheese and mushroom sauce

Sauces

A traditional Icelandic meat sauce: a blend of melted pepper cheese in cream, combined with a red wine-based sauce, enhanced with currant jelly, buttered …

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In Iceland, a pepper-flavored cheese (piparostur) is melted into cream to create a quick and rich sauce. It is best prepared in advance and reheated.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time10 min
  • Cook time15 min
  • Resting10 min
  • Total35 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • Cooking methodsaucepan
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

4 people
  • $3.19
  • $1.01

Directions

  1. Gently melt the cheese in the cream.
  2. Add the red wine sauce, currant jelly, mushrooms, and peppercorns to the dish. ≈ 3 min
  3. Bring to a boil.
  4. Let it rest so that the flavors can meld, then reheat before serving.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1 pepper cheese (pepperostur, approximately 150g)
  • 1 brick of cream (250 ml)
  • 1 red wine sauce (prepared according to the package instructions or homemade)
  • Cranberry jelly, to your liking
  • Mushrooms, sautéed in butter
  • Red peppercorns, to your liking

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