Pick up this airline’s menu and you might be forgiven for thinking you’ve stepped into the hottest new restaurant in town. Alas, this is in-flight cuisine – and it’s not what you’d expect.

Airline New Nordic by SAS has become known for its innovative and planet-friendly approach to feeding passengers – with its use of fresh, seasonal ingredients and limited use of packaging. Now, additional vegetarian and vegan dishes have been introduced – so customers can select from delicious plant-based dishes on board.

What’s on the menu?

Forget the ‘chicken or lamb’ offering. Now, passengers can enjoy roasted cauliflower with lentils, black beans and salads; or perhaps the dill- and horseradish-cured Hällestads mushrooms; or, how about the Slätte Gård field pea, radish, and Persula Gårds roasted turnip-rapeseed salad? There’s also golden beets, vreta yellow pea and nigella-seed-pickled onions and Fagra slätt quinoa.

In addition to its plant-based selections, SAS serves meals made with sustainable seafood, humanely raised chicken, wholesome, nutritious snacks and locally sourced ingredients.