Oven-baked ham - Ugnsstekt skinka

OVEN-BAKED HAM
Ugnsstekt skinka

A fresh large slice of ham becomes a delicious, juicy roast.

4 servings

2 lbs fresh bone-in ham,

approx 2 inches thick
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
1/3 to 2/3 cup white wine
½ red bell pepper
½ yellow bell pepper

Chutney butter:

1 ¾ oz butter or margarine
3 tablespoons mango chutney
3 tablespoons chopped parsley
grated zest from ½ orange
salt, pepper

You can substitute the mango chutney with

some other nice chutney, e.g. Pineapple
Sweet & Sour Chutney.

Rub the meat with salt and pepper. Melt the fat and brown on both sides until coloured.

Stir the fat until smooth and mix with chutney, parsley and orange zest. Flavour to taste with salt and pepper. Put the meat in an oven-proof dish and spread with about half of the chutney butter. Pour on good 1/3 cup white wine and put in the middle of the oven at 350F for 30 minutes.

Chop the bell peppers, put them around the meat in the dish and dab remaining butter on top. Continue cooking in the oven for another 30 minutes or so, or until the meat is done. Dilute with some more wine towards the end, if necessary.

Let the meat rest for 10 minutes. Flavour the gravy to taste with salt and pepper, slice the meat and serve with the sweet pepper gravy.

Enjoy!

Bella

Oven chicken with bacon rice - Ugnskyckling med baconris

OVEN CHICKEN WITH BACON RICE
Ugnskyckling med baconris

Chicken can easily be made into festive food. Here you bake the chicken breasts in the oven on a bed of unpolished rice mixed with bacon and vegetables. Delicious and easy to make!

4 servings

4 chicken breasts

2 tablespoons sherry or orange juice
2 tablespoons melted butter or margarine
paprika

Rice bed:

¾ cups unpolished rice
water, salt
2 slices bacon
1 celery stem
4 spring onions
6 oz frozen chopped spinach, thawed
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 crushed garlic clove
½ teaspoon salt
black pepper
ground nutmeg

Boil the rice according to package instructions. Cut bacon and celery in pieces. Chop the onions and drain the spinach well.

Melt the fat in a frying pan and sizzle bacon, onions, celery and garlic on medium heat for 5 minutes. Blend in the spinach and simmer slowly for about 5 minutes. Flavour with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

Stir together spinach mix and rice and put it in a greased, oven-proof pan. Put the chicken breasts on top. Mix sherry, melted fat and paprika. Brush the chicken and pour remaining mixture on top. Bake in the middle of the oven at 390F for 30 to 40 minutes until the chicken is done.

Serve and enjoy!

Bella

Large meat loaf - Stora köttfärslimpan

LARGE MEAT LOAF
Stora köttfärslimpan

A large, juicy meat loaf filled with vegetables and with a cover of bacon. If you’re many hungry people around the table, this is what you should make.

6 to 8 servings

1½ lbs ground meat (50% beef,

50% pork)
1 large onion
1 green bell pepper
1 celery stem
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1½ teaspoons salt
½ to 1 teaspoon powdered chili
2 eggs
1/3 cup oatmeal
1 can whole tomatoes, 14 oz
4 slices bacon

Peel and chop the onion. Trim the sweet pepper and chop it and the celery. Melt the fat in a frying pan and sizzle onion, sweet pepper and celery until tender, 5 to 10 minutes. Mix the minced meat with salt, powdered chili and eggs in a bowl and add oatmeal, tomatoes and veggies.

Put the meat in a breadbaking pan and top with the bacon slices. Bake in the middle of the oven at 350F for 1 to 1½ hours or until the meat loaf is done. Take it out and let it rest for about 10 minutes before serving.

Enjoy!

Bella

PS. Any leftovers is great for sandwiches!