Hangikjot is smoked and boiled lamb or mutton, smoked over Icelandic birch or dried sheep dung and sliced hot or cold; in Iceland we have verified places to eat it in Reykjavik. Start with where to eat Hangikjot (Smoked Icelandic Lamb) in Reykjavik.
Hangikjot (Smoked Icelandic Lamb) · Reykjavik
Hangikjot is smoked and boiled lamb or mutton, smoked over Icelandic birch or dried sheep dung and sliced hot or cold. It is a festive food served at Christmas with potatoes in bechamel and green peas.
Hangikjot takes its name from the old practice of smoking food to preserve it, and twice-smoked versions are closer to the old style, hung above the kitchen fire for many months. A survey found that around 90 percent of Icelanders eat it at least once over the holidays. Cold, it is cut thin onto flatkaka, rugbraud or laufabraud. Cafe Loki lists hangikjot on homemade rye bread and on flatbread, each at ISK 2,800.
Where to eat in Reykjavik:
- Cafe Loki
Where to eat Hangikjot (Smoked Icelandic Lamb) in Reykjavik: the editor picks
