Janssons Frestelse is a signature dish of Sweden; we have verified places to eat it in Stockholm. Layered potato gratin with sweet pickled Swedish anchovies (sprats), onions and cream, baked until the top crusts golden and the centre stays silky. Start with where to eat Janssons Frestelse in Stockholm.
Janssons Frestelse · Stockholm
Layered potato gratin with sweet pickled Swedish anchovies (sprats), onions and cream, baked until the top crusts golden and the centre stays silky. The Swedish Christmas julbord (smorgasbord) staple.
Janssons Frestelse (Jansson's Temptation) appears in Swedish recipe collections from the late 1920s. The name was popularised when Elvira Stigmark, an Östermalm Stockholm hostess, served anchovy gratin under the name after seeing the 1928 Swedish film 'Janssons frestelse'; an earlier association with the 19th-century opera singer Per Adolf 'Pelle' Janzon is improbable since the dish was not called that during his lifetime. The recipe defines the modern Swedish julbord. Pelikan and Den Gyldene Freden run defensible Stockholm renditions through December.
Where to eat in Stockholm:
- Den Gyldene Freden
- Pelikan
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