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Lanttulaatikko or kålrotslåda (''swede casserole'') is a swede (rutabaga) casserole that is a traditional
Lanttulaatikko or kålrotslåda (''swede casserole'') is a swede (rutabaga) casserole that is a traditional Christmas dish
This is a list of Christmas dishes by country.
Albania and Kosovo
* Baklava
* Gjel deti me përshesh
Andorra
* Sopa de Galets
* Trinxat
American Samoa (U.S.), Samoa, Tonga and Tuvalu
* Roast pig, Puaa umu
Argentina and Uruguay
Panet ...
in Finland
Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
. It is usually served with other casseroles at the Christmas table as a side dish to ham, fish or other meats.
Traditional ''lanttulaatikko'' is made of boiled and mashed swede, sweetened and enriched with a mixture of bread crumbs, egg, cream, treacle
Treacle () is any uncrystallised syrup made during the refining of sugar.Oxford Dictionary The most common forms of treacle are golden syrup, a pale variety, and black treacle, a darker variety similar to molasses. Black treacle has a distinctiv ...
, butter, and seasoned with salt and various spices (such as ginger
Ginger (''Zingiber officinale'') is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems (false stems made of the rolled bases of l ...
, cinnamon
Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, biscuits, b ...
and nutmeg
Nutmeg is the seed, or the ground spice derived from the seed, of several tree species of the genus '' Myristica''; fragrant nutmeg or true nutmeg ('' M. fragrans'') is a dark-leaved evergreen tree cultivated for two spices derived from its fru ...
). This mixture is placed in a casserole dish, often with a decorative pattern forked over it (or topped with more bread crumbs). It is then baked in a low oven at for an hour and a half.
See also
*List of casserole dishes
This is a list of notable casserole dishes. A casserole, probably from the archaic French word ''casse'' meaning a small saucepan, is a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word is also used for the food cooked and ...
* Porkkanalaatikko
Porkkanalaatikko (or, in Swedish, morotslåda, both meaning 'carrot casserole') is a traditional Finnish dish mostly eaten during Christmas.
The main ingredients are mashed carrots, mixed with boiled rice or barley, and liquid (usually milk or ...
* Maksalaatikko
Liver casserole (, ) is a Finnish food that is made of rice, ground liver, butter, syrup, egg, onion, and raisin. It is traditionally served with lingonberry jam.
It is also sold ready-to-eat and eaten as an everyday food, and appears commonly i ...
References
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