A Norwegian teenager has received death threats after revealing she ate her own horse when it had to be put down, claiming it was some of the best meat she had ever tasted.

Pia Olden, 18, took to Facebook on Friday to describe how her family had kept fillets of her stallion, Drifting Speed, in their freezer after he had to be put down due to illness in 2018.

Ms Olden, who is an apprentice chef as well as an equestrian, prepared some of the meat with chilli and mango, writing: 'If I'm going to eat horse meat, it's going to be my own.'

But Ms Olden, whose family are farmers in Trøndelag, central Norway, received a furious backlash and was sent death threats.

Pia Olden, 18, posted in a Facebook group on Friday about how she had been cooking her horse, she wrote: 'A bit strange to eat my own horse, but my chef heart said I had to'. Pictured, Pia's post, featuring Drifting Speed on the right, and how it looked as she prepared it for the dinner plate on the left.

Pia Olden, 18, with Drifting Speed, the horse had to be put down in the summer of 2018 after he became ill

She told Dagbladet: 'Many wrote that I too deserve to be killed for eating my own horse ... One wrote that I should lose the right to have animals.'

Ms Olden told the paper her strongest critics were other female horse riders, but she says it was the best way to honour Drifting Speed.

The girl said: 'It's not better for the meat to be buried and eaten by the worms.'

She also believes because she has grown up on a farm she has a more realistic relationship with animals and understands meat differently from those who criticise her.

Her Facebook post was shared to a humour page where it received thousands of responses, prompting Ms Olden to delete her original post.

Ms Olden prepared the horse meat with chilli and mango

In addition she attempted to have the humour page remove their post for the vitriol she received.

Ms Olden stood by her decision, saying that horse meat is a delicacy and that it had to be killed in any case.

She told Dagbladet: 'It was some of the best meat we have eaten.'