Jansson's temptation

I know Christmas time has gone already but here is the recipe for a typical Swedish dish called Janssons frestelse (Jansson’s temptation). The recipe is pretty simple and includes potatoes and anchovies in cream.

You can serve Jansson's temptation with small
sausages :)

1 kg potatoes

2 onions

2-3 dl cream

200 g anchovies

Bread crumbs

Butter

Slice the potatoes into thin long slices (kind of like French fries). After slicing, do not was the potatoes because the starch coming out from the potatoes is needed in this dish giving it its creamy texture. Slice the onion into small pieces. Oil the oven pan with small amount of oil so that the potatoes don’t burn to the vessel. Add the sliced potatoes and onions to the oven pan and mix well together.

Slice the anchovies in small pieces and mix together with potatoes and onion. Make sure all the anchovies are covered with potatoes and that they are not showing on the surface. Pour the liquid from the anchovies all over the potatoes and after that pour the cream on top of it.

Cover with bread crumbs and add 3-4 slices of butter on top.

Cook it in the oven for about an hour in 200 ˚C.

Add the butter on top of bread crumps and cook for 1 hour.