Janssonin kiusaus, Janssons fristelse, The Temptation of Jansson

As it happened that there were too many anchovy in a jar to be marinated, I made this as well. It is a traditional Swedish and Finnish dish, the typical type of "not exactly light food".

1 kg potatoes
2 onions
anchovy filee, more or less like 250g
few dl of cream (in this one, I used around 4)
salt, pepper

Peel potatoes, and chop the into sticks, resembling french fries. Soak them in cold water to get rid of the starch. While the potatoes soak, peel, chop and fry the onions. Then dry the potatoes. Oil an oven-form, and fill it in some kind of mixed order (not exactly layered) potatoes, anchovies and onions. Add pepper (and salt, if you want) on top, pour cream on the mixture. The cream should almost reach the top of the mixture, so neither just a drop at the bottom, nor cover everything, but something in between. Cook in the oven for about an hour in 200C. If the top starts to bee too brown, you can cover it with aluminum foil for the rest of the cooking.

Batatinha calabresa

Before mixing... the oil and vinegar need to be mixed manually every now and then. And the potatoes could be smaller as well.












Yet another Italian recipe which this time comes from Finland :)

1kg small potatoes
2rkl soy sauce
2dl vinegar (white wine, red wine or apple...)
2dl oil (Ive used either rape or olive)
1teasp Tabasco
1tbsp oregano
salt
5 garlic feds
parsley
crushed big onion


Boil potatoes with peels on, make then small holes with a fork. Mix everything else but potatoes, and pour this spicy marinade on them. Leave for a few days to gather taste, turn the jar every now and then or mix, to get evenly spiced result. I used a whole little chili instead of tabasco, but depending on the chili and your taste it might get very strong...