Porkkanalaatikko
Porkkanalaatikko is a traditional Finnish dish mostly eaten during Christmas.
The main ingredients are carrots, mixed with boiled rice or barley, and liquid. Butter and eggs may be mixed into the mash, which may also be flavoured with sugar, salt, white pepper and grated nutmeg. The mash is put in a mold and baked in the oven. The carrots need not necessarily be boiled before baking: they can be grated and mixed raw with the other ingredients. Pre-prepared porkkanalaatikot are also sold in Finnish food stores, as well as in parts of Sweden with a large ethnically Finnish population.
The dish seems to have originated in the nineteenth century.
