Jansson’s Temptation

Name: Jansson’s Temptation
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Swedish
Ingredients: 300 ml/½ pint milk; 300 ml/½ pint double cream; 2 onions, sliced; 2 garlic cloves, thinly sliced; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 75 g/3 oz anchovies in oil, drained; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 50 g/2 oz butter; 8 large waxy potatoes, peeled

Preparation info

Serves
10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Eagle Cookbook

By David Eyre

Published 2009

About

This traditional Swedish dish goes very well with roast lamb.

Ingredients

8 large waxy potatoes, peeled
50 g/2 oz butter

Europe
Sweden
Side dish
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Nordic

Method

Slice the potatoes fairly thinly, to about 5mm/¼ inch. Grease a baking dish with 20 g/¾ oz of the butter. Melt the remaining butter in a large pan and sweat the onions in it until soft. Stir in the g