Student Recipe

The last and also my favourite dish to introduce in a Swedish Christmas dinner: Janssons frestelse (meaning Jansson’s temptation) which is made of potatoes, onions, anchovies (or sprats) and cream. I had a search on Wikipedia, and it says there is a mistranslation into English where the original recipe uses sprats instead of anchovies, because sprats in Swedish are known as "ansjovis". Anyway, what I used was sprats and I don’t think it matters.

Budget: £
Cookery level:
Preparation Time: 15 min
Cooking Time: 50 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients:
4 medium boiling potatoes, peeled and cut into strips
2 tbp butter
2 onions, thinly sliced
1 can of anchovy or sprats, drained
2 tbp breadcrumbs
1 cup of heavy cream
½ cup of milk
White pepper

Methods:
1. Preheat oven to 220^oC.
2. Heat the butter in a saucepan then add onions and cook until they are soft but not brown.
3. Spread some butter on the container or baking tray, arrange a layer of potato strips on it, then alternate layers of onions and anchovies ending with another potatoes layer. Sprinkle each layer with a little white pepper.
4. Scatter bread crumbs over the top layer of potatoes
5. In a small saucepan, heat the milk and cream until it barely simmers, then pour 2/3 of it over the potatoes.
6. Bake in the oven for 30 min and pour over the read of the cream and bake for another 15 min.