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For this rich and creamy potato gratin, the potatoes are par-boiled in the cream mixture, which allows their starch to help thicken the sauce. Adding bacon makes this a great main meal – serve with a sharply dressed leafy salad.

Potato gratin

600 milliliters/20fl oz semi-skimmed milk

garlic cloves, bashed

bay leaves,

thyme sprigs,

leek, thinly sliced

400 milliliters/14fl oz double cream

900 grams/2lb waxy potatoes, scrubbed

6–8 rashers dry-cured, smoked streaky bacon, snipped into small pieces with scissors (optional)

butter,

Parmesan,

grams/1¾oz Gruyère, grated

salt and black pepper

This rich gratin is perfect for an autumn night. Serve with toast or crusty bread.

Each serving provides 600 kcal, 10g protein, 13g carbohydrates (of which 9g sugars), 55g fat (of which 26g saturates), 7.5g fibre and 0.6g salt.

Fennel, leek and squash gratin with tarragon and hazelnuts

leeks,

fennel bulbs,

olive oil

tsp sea salt flakes

½–1 tsp chilli flakes,

grams/¾oz tarragon, leaves only

400 milliliters/14fl oz double cream or crème fraîche

100 grams/3½oz hazelnuts, roughly chopped

75 grams/2¾oz mature cheddar, grated

This hearty split pea soup gets its flavour from ham hock. In Finland it's traditionally eaten on Thursdays, with pancakes for dessert! 

Finnish split pea soup

300 grams/10½oz split peas

bicarbonate of soda

ham hock

onions,

blade of mace

bay leaves

carrot, finely chopped

mustard

100 milliliters/3½fl oz double cream (optional)

This hearty soup gets its flavour from ham hock. It’s traditionally eaten on Thursdays, with Finnish pancakes for dessert!

Finnish Pea Soup

A cross between a Yorkshire pudding and a pancake, served with a sweet topping of your choice – what’s not to like? 

Finnish pancakes

150 grams/5½oz plain flour

tsp baking powder

tbsp caster sugar

salt

eggs

600 milliliters/20fl oz milk

grams/1 ounces butter, melted

icing sugar,

fruit compôte

fraîche

A cross between a Yorkshire pudding and a pancake, served with a sweet topping of your choice – what’s not to like?

Forget queuing for your Swedish feast, now you can make your own traditional Swedish meatballs at home, complete with creamy gravy. 

Swedish meatballs with cream sauce

onion, finely chopped

garlic clove, finely chopped

anchovy fillets, finely chopped

breadcrumbs

free-range egg

milliliters/2fl oz milk

allspice

nutmeg

salt and pepper

butter

flour

milliliters/3½fl oz white wine

500 milliliters/18fl oz beef stock

tbsp single cream

tbsp lingonberry jam jelly

few sprigs of dill, finely chopped

Forget queuing for your Swedish feast, now you can make your own traditional Swedish meatballs at home, complete with creamy gravy.

Jansson’s temptation is very much the taste of Christmas for Swedes, and I have enthusiastically incorporated it into my own festive eating schedule. And while I do, indeed, serve it with the Norwegian pork ribs, it is so addictively good that I am happy to make a main meal out of it, with a salad or two on the side. 

Jansson’s temptation

onions, approx. 400 grams/14 ounces, thinly sliced

flakes,

black pepper

300 milliliters/½ pint full-fat milk

300 milliliters/½ pint double cream

breadcrumbs (optional)

This easy vegetarian lentil stew is served with cherry tomatoes and cinnamon-flavoured almonds.

This meal is <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/low-calorie_recipes">low calorie</a>  and if served as four portions provides 351 kcal, 20g protein, 37g carbohydrate (of which 7.5g sugars), 14g fat (of which 1.5g saturates), 11.5g fibre and 1.9g salt per portion.

Almond lentil stew

tbsp olive oil, plus extra for frying the almonds

carrot, chopped

celery,

onion, chopped

turnip, chopped

garlic cloves, chopped

150 grams/5½oz baby button mushrooms, halved

green lentils

vegetable stock

bay leaf

rosemary

thyme

almonds

cinnamon

cherry tomatoes, quartered

This easy vegetarian lentil stew is served with cherry tomatoes and cinnamon-flavoured almonds.

This lentil and pumpkin stew is all about how to make a straightforward recipe a lot more exciting - with very little effort.  Perfect for when it’s cooling down outside and you want something really warming.

Each serving provides 273kcal, 8g protein, 28g carbohydrate (of which 14g sugars), 12g fat (of which 7g saturates), 9g fibre and 2g salt.

Pumpkin stew with sour cream

grams/1½oz butter

onions, chopped

garlic, chopped

lentils

1.2litres/2pints 2fl oz vegetable stock

pumpkin

parsley,

tbsp red wine vinegar

sour cream

This lentil and pumpkin stew is all about how to make a straightforward recipe a lot more exciting - with very little effort.  Perfect for when it’s cooling down outside and you want something really warming. 

Sometimes I can get so fixated on a recipe that I find it hard to step away when, even after repeated testing and retesting, what I’m looking for continues to elude me. I’m glad that I persisted here, where more reasonable people would long since have given up, as I have finally created the dark, treacly bread I had hitherto only imagined and obsessed over.

I love this bread with smoked salmon, smoked trout, any smoked fish. And this is indeed how I suggest you serve it as a first course, if one is wanted.

No-knead black bread 

500 milliliters/18fl oz Irish stout,

large free-range egg, at room temperature, separated

dark muscovado sugar

tbsp extra virgin olive oil

tbsp black treacle

300 grams/10½oz dark rye flour

300 grams/10½oz strong white bread flour

cocoa

tsp activated charcoal (optional)

tsp nigella seeds, plus 1 tsp for sprinkling

tsp caraway seeds

fennel seeds

yeast

1¼ tsp fine sea salt

vegetable oil, for greasing

salmon

dill fronds

These saffron-infused, raisin-studded buns actually hail from Sweden and make a delicious festive snack at Christmas.

St Lucia buns

250 milliliters/9fl oz milk

saffron

unsalted butter

bread

sachet instant yeast

grams/1¾oz caster sugar

grams/3½oz quark cheese

vegetable oil, for greasing (optional)

raisins

Orange and spice make this chocolate fondue so nice. Serve with cubes of madeira cake, leftover Christmas pudding and fruit. 


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