✨ Newstarter
Toast Skagen
Sweden's most elegant starter: toasted bread topped with a creamy blend of small shrimps, dill, crème fraîche and lemon, finished with bleak roe.
⏱ 20 min🔥 380 kcalEasy
★4.8(1,654)
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Swedish Shrimp Recipes
6 recipes using shrimp — Swedish meatballs, gravlax, smörgåsbord — clean Nordic flavours.
These 6 swedish shrimp recipes are ready in about 34 minutes on average, with 280–480 kcal per serving, and 67% are rated easy enough for a weeknight. Every recipe includes exact ingredient quantities, step-by-step instructions and full nutrition per serving.
6
recipes
34 min
average time
367 kcal
avg per serving
67%
easy recipes
How Swedish cuisine cooks with shrimp
Swedish cuisine — Swedish meatballs, gravlax, smörgåsbord — clean Nordic flavours — brings its own distinctive techniques and seasonings to every ingredient it touches. When Swedish cooks work with shrimp, they reach for its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are frying, simmering, poaching and boiling.
Sweet, quick-cooking shellfish that go from raw to ready in two or three minutes — perfect for fast, high-heat dishes. In this collection it's most often cooked with lemon, butter, mayonnaise, fresh dill, sour cream and chopped fresh dill. The dishes here span swedish classics ready in as little as 20 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.
Reader favourite: Toast Skagen is the highest-rated dish in this collection at 4.8★ from 1,654 ratings.
6 Swedish Shrimp Recipes
✨ Newstarter
Toast Skagen (Swedish Shrimp Toast)
Buttery fried toast piled with cold-water shrimp in a dill-mayonnaise dressing, topped with roe and lemon.
⏱ 28 min🔥 310 kcalEasy
★4.4(75)
✨ Newstarter
Smörgåstårta (Swedish Sandwich Cake)
A savory layered 'cake' of bread, seafood, egg and vegetable fillings, frosted with cream cheese for buffet tables.
⏱ 45 min🔥 280 kcalHard
★4.5(82)
✨ Newlunch
Räksmörgås (Swedish Open Shrimp Sandwich)
An open-faced rye bread sandwich piled high with cold-water shrimp, egg, mayonnaise, cucumber and dill.
⏱ 25 min🔥 340 kcalEasy
★4.6(71)
✨ Newbreakfast
Swedish Raggmunk-Style Potato Pancakes with Shrimp and Dill
Crisp Swedish grated-potato pancakes (raggmunk) topped with dill-cured shrimp, sour cream and lots of fresh dill.
⏱ 45 min🔥 410 kcalMedium
★4.4(57)
✨ Newdinner
Swedish Creamy Dill Shrimp and Rice
A creamy Swedish-style shrimp and dill rice, built on the same butter-cream-dill base used in Swedish fish stews and sauces.
⏱ 40 min🔥 480 kcalEasy
★4.4(41)
Choosing & preparing shrimp
How to choose
Look for firm, translucent flesh with a clean sea smell — never ammonia. Shell-on shrimp keep more flavour; larger counts (fewer per kilo) mean bigger shrimp.
Prep & storage
Peel and devein, leaving the tail on for presentation if you like. A quick brine firms the texture; pat dry before searing so they brown rather than steam.
When is it done?
Cook just until they curl into a loose C and turn opaque pink — a tight O means they're overdone and rubbery.
Nutrition
Very lean and high in protein, with selenium, vitamin B12 and iodine for few calories.
Classic flavour partners: garlic, lemon, chilli, butter, ginger, parsley
Swedish Shrimp Recipes — FAQ
How long do Swedish shrimp recipes take to make?
Most of these 6 Swedish shrimp recipes are ready in around 34 minutes from start to finish. The quickest, Toast Skagen, takes about 20 minutes, while the slower-cooked dishes run up to 45 minutes.
How many calories are in Swedish shrimp dishes?
Across this collection they range from about 280 to 480 kcal per serving, averaging 367 kcal — Smörgåstårta (Swedish Sandwich Cake) is the lightest option at 280 kcal.
What is the easiest Swedish shrimp recipe for beginners?
Toast Skagen is a great place to start — it's rated easy and comes together in about 20 minutes. 67% of the recipes here are beginner-friendly.
What goes well with shrimp in Swedish cooking?
In these recipes, shrimp is most often paired with lemon, butter, mayonnaise, fresh dill, sour cream and chopped fresh dill. Swedish kitchens also lean on its own regional aromatics, fats and signature spice blends.
How do I know when shrimp is properly cooked?
Cook just until they curl into a loose C and turn opaque pink — a tight O means they're overdone and rubbery.
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