Getting Prepared For Xmas, Part 3

Can’t believe how fast this December has gone. Next week is long waited big Holiday at least for me. I love Christmas time — all the beautiful Christmas lights, snow ☃️ Candle lights, candies, yummy foods and decorations.

My Christmas foods are very traditional Scandinavian foods. In Christmas morning I always make rise porridge in the oven 🥣  I find it very easy to make in oven since it rarely burn. I also love to

make different casseroles like rutabaga casserole, sweet chili potato casserole and carrot casserole.

Quorn is a perfect choice if you’re vegetarian  and still eat 

milk products and eggs

Many years I made with my roommate mashed potato casserole but it wasn’t our favorite so we made only for tradition until I decided to replace it with sweet potato casserole with some chili 🌶 it’s very yummy with ham. My roommate have been vegetarian past five years now and she had to replace the ham with Quorn roast which taste pretty good actually.

In this post I liked to share recipes of my Christmas foods and hopefully it will inspire you to make and try something new this year 😉

Oven Rice Porridge 

1. Heat oven up to 200 Celsius (325 Fahrenheit)
2. Take bowl that tolerate the heat of oven
3. Spread lightly margarine or butter in bottom of the bowl and edges too
4. Measure 2 deciliter (0.85 US cup) porridge rice in the strainer and rinse the rices under hot water until the water is clear
5. Pour the rinsed porridge rices in the bowl
6. Add 1 teaspoon salt
7. 1 liter (4.5 cup) of any kind milk and pour it until the milk is cover the rices (you can also replace few deciliter/cups with water too if you need to save milk)
8. Stir the rice, salt and milk with spoon and put bowl in the oven

Stir the porridge about every 20 minutes. Be careful so you won’t burn your fingers!

Rice porridge is ready when it’s have been in the oven about one hour and milk is completely absorbed.

Serve the rice porridge with some cinnamon and sugar. You can also pour some milk too in the porridge if you want.

Rice porridge in the oven saves time when you don’t need to be in the kitchen all the time and stir the porridge since all milk based foods usually burn easily if you don’t stir them constantly. The rice porridge is good for breakfast and dinner too. Many eats this near in Christmas time but it can be eaten around the year too.

Sweet potato-chili casserole 

This casserole has become our favorite Christmas food. It’s new food our Christmas table but I love

how it taste first bit sweet and then chili kicks in and aftertaste is nicely chili but not too much. I want to share this recipe with you and I hope you enjoy this casserole 😛

1-2 sweet potato that weight about half kilograms (it’s okay if they weight little more than that)
Water
Salt
1/2 deciliter light syrup
3 deciliter cream, any type that suit for food making. I usually use one whole package
2.5 tblsp breadcrumbs
1-2 tblsp Margarine
1/2 tsp white pepper
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp ginger
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/2 tsp chili
1 egg

🍠 Peel sweet potatoes and cut them in large pieces so they will cook faster
🍠 Boil sweet potatoes in salty water
🍠 Combine cream & breadcrumbs
🍠  Pour carefully water out from sweet potatoes & mash them
🍠 Add margarine, egg, breadcrumb-cream mix and seasonings
🍠 Mix all together & check the taste

🌶 Take oven dish and spread margarine all over it lightly including the edges too. Pour small amount breadcrumbs in the oven dish and spread it all over the dish

🌶 Pour the sweet potato-chili in the oven dish and sprinkle breadcrumbs in the surface. Take tablespoon and press lightly some patterns in the surface

🌶 Heat oven in 175 Celsius degree (350 Fahrenheit degree)

🌶 Casserole is ready after about 1 - 1.5 hour

I hope you enjoy these Christmas foods and feel free to leave your comment or questions about recipes. I’m happy to help you anyway I can.

~ Minna