RATING YOUR FAVORITE FINNISH CHRISTMAS FOOD | Taste Test Tuesday
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- Опубліковано 14 чер 2024
- You guys suggested your favourite Finnish Christmas foods, snacks and treats - it's time to judge!
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The ham had mustard and breadcrumbs on it... before you comment :D
Oh. My bad.
And that's how it suppose to be:D try to put some slices on rye bread with butter and mustard. Heaven!!!
try mixing in some honey or some dark sugar ( sugar cane sugar) with the mustard and breadcrumbs.
@@virvak4044 Auran sinappia
For me, ham is at it's best when overcooked. Kuiva kinkku, paras kinkku ^^
"I guess any blue cheese would do"
No.
Aura even acts differently than most blue cheeses in cooking, it stays a bit sturdier, more solid. Doesn't melt into a puddle.
For eating like that I actually prefer other blue cheeses. For cooking it's Aura all the way.
There was one Christmas when I was a kid that our family got some other blue cheese instead of Aura, and as I hadn't ever tasted any other kind, and found the blue cheese we had absolutely disgusting, I was distraught and thought I had started to hate my favourite cheese. For a year I avoided it and then the following Christmas we got blue cheese again, Aura this time, and I tentatively tasted it... and it was so. good. And I was so ridiculously relieved. XD I'm never eating any other blue cheese again.
@@YuliaLeafhill I definitely agree; I do like pretty much every blue cheese I've tasted, but Aura has this weird way of really complementing other flavors.
Like, with the pepparkakor the combination of flavors changes so entirely it's crazy, at least as long as the ratio is on point. Most other blue cheeses still just taste like blue cheese on a gingerbread cookie.
Yea, Aura is kinda synonymous with blue cheese in Finland so you don't really think about how different other brands taste until you... well... taste them. Kinda like Kleenex is used for other brands as well in USA.
Peltolan blue cheese is the best!
My favorite thing to eat on Christmas has to be rye bread topped with salmon roe.
Roope Lötjönen nyt pistit herkun pöytää ai saatana🤤🤤
maistuis varmaa sullekki
@@user-ob1gy8cz1d Ite en koske mätitahnaan, tuoretta sen mädin pitää olla
Jälkiuuni
Roope Lötjönen Meijän perheessä vaan kaviaaria
There's two types of people: Those who prefer the overcooked "crumblier" ham and those who prefer it on the juicier side. I'm definitely one of the latter. Also you should definitely make a gravy out of the ham drippings! My perfect plate consists of ham smothered in gravy, dill potatoes and a few spoonfuls of porkkanalaatikko on the side!
Christmas ham isn't christmas ham without the gravy!
id say a big thing missing is graavilohi, no clue what its in english, but its salmon cured in salt if im not mistaken
Gravlax or just salt-cured salmon
Salted fish. Is graavilohi
you should put some mustard on top of ham. that is even better. :)
mostly finnish christmas food is deserved in buffet style. you eat what you want. :) (rosolli, fish, salads etc)
I did :) And breadcumbs. Maybe kinda hard to see in the video.
@@davecad Many people put mustard to the ham even If it allready has the mustard "veil". Also many times people make the mustard themselves or buy home made mustard from christmas fairs. It's kind of a thing in finnish christmas tables. 😄
Yes, there needs to me more mustard! Fresh mustard! And also, I sometimes add some butter on the casseroles.... But that's maybe a bit much. But yeah... yum.
@@Napukettu Gognac mustard is from heaven.
Definitely put mustard on each slice as you eat the ham!
the rule of the xmas dinner plate is, you just put a little bit of everything on it, and a bit more of the things you like most if there is space. At a proper xmas meal there are well over ten different food items available so not much room for customization.
I must admit I would've brought out the pitchforks if you HADN'T eaten the green balls that way. That is the only true way.
10:50 When you have enjoyed a little too much of glögi with Koskenkorva
Just have to say you roasted the ham just like any Finnish dad would. Alone and late at night when everyone else is asleep so you could have the best bites yourself when the ham is still warm. That's the way to do it! Merry Christmas Dave and family ❤
My mother is from Soumi but I live in Sweden. Those turnip-casserolls and carrot-casserolls are soooo good. There is a potato-casseroll aswell that is SO good.
Thinner slices of the ham and finnish mustard on that bad boy
*Suomi
@@noora_aurora I might add that I never learnt any finnish. :(
@@10kilobytes Hejsan. It's never too late 😎 I'm pretty sure can learn it through Duolingo too.
@@thecinnamonify you can't study it with duolingo. :(
@@niilo8079 aw :/ but the language app "Mondly" has finnish lessons in it
For me the gravy is the centerpiece that ties the whole dinner together.
Ok, this is scary: when you were cutting the aura cheese my youtube started to show me an ad of another blue cheese brand. And I was eating the same castello cheese as in the ad with gingerbread 😄
Along with the "green balls" there is also a traditional marmalade box that has five different flavored ones, called Finlandia. It is also high quality marmalade which means it melts well in the mouth (does not stick to your mouth very long) and the flavors are great. There is a little downside to Finlandia today, which is that a few years back they changed them to all be like the green balls, i.e. ball shaped and covered with sugar. Previously it was (in my opinion) way better in that all the different flavors were different shapes and not covered in sugar. Oh the good old days.
Finns generally (for all I know) just buy the gingerbread dough and bake em. You get the fun part of making them without the messy part of making the dough and you get your cookies fresh. Way superior to storebought.
Even better when you make the dough, it's not that messy- (says the man who has not made his own gingerbread cookies in almost 30 years :)=
@@TheAzynder You are right. I made two batches this year 😅
Though most I know make dough themselves. Our family even have own legacy gingerbread recipe 😄
@@Aurinkohelmi yup, my recipe is old and in my opinion, obviously, the best.
The dough itself is sooo yummy
Yes and you don't have to eat those cookies with blue cheese
"Wiener Nougat: 2,5 stars." Excuse me, what?!
the recipe had been changed couple years ago, so it's not good as it was.
@@gamer_dodo2327 Really? I haven't had it in a while. I think I'll still prefer the Wiener over the balls.
@@Saturinus same.
@@gamer_dodo2327 Really?! God damn it... what is it with Fazer constantly changing the recipes... A huge downfall was Domino-cookies. They changed the oil used in making them several years ago, and now they taste disgusting and your fingers get all oily when you eat them. Used to be my favorite cookies 😐
I had a box of Wiener nougat the other day, it was years between that and previous one and I was seriously disappointed. Thought my taste was off somehow but changing recipe explains a lot.
In our family we eat ham, potatoes, salmon, Carelian pie and some caseroles
We have these + homemade meatballs and italiansalaatti (italian salad)! And as a desert some chocolate and other christmas treats.
ENTÄ MUNAVOI
Started things off with "taskulämmin kossu" 😄👍
Giggling when saying balls or wiener is true sign of us being grown men.
That Kossu was chilled tho ;D
Dave, you missed the opportunity to give us a cooking-video how to make the christmas-ham!!
When I was a kid (like 10 years ago) I remember not liking any of the boxes except maksalaatikko. Eventually when we had the Christmas "dinner" in school I noticed they didn't serve the maksalaatikko there so I had to taste the others and immediately fell in love.
Thinner the ham slice is the better it will taste! try it.
Exactly, you're not cutting a steak out of it, it should almost melt in your mouth.
Eating ham at 11PM is exactly what you're supposed to do on Christmas. 5/5. And everyone likes a different kind of ham, you'll learn your favorite through experience. My favorite is to cook it according to a recipe, then leave it in the oven to overcook for an extremely long time (overnight) on LTC, Low Temperature Cooking setting, or just otherwise low temperature. For carrot and rutabaga casseroles, and especially liver if you like to have that too, the brand matters A LOT. Things I make myself include meats, gravlax, and sweet potato casserole which has vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar and ground pecan nuts so it's a flavor bomb, and also potato mash. And that's just because this kind of sweet potato casserole isn't available in shops, and I also haven't found a potato casserole I'd like, so fluffy airy mash, with milk, butter and all it is. Honestly, Christmas needs to be about eating what YOU like. That's how it's been in my family for as long as I remember, and my nieces and nephews are always happy to come visit sometime after Christmas eve to try the things we have to offer. It's just me and GF, but we cook A LOT so there's a lot for guests to eat. We still have some sweet potato casserole in the freezer, it will be eaten on Monday after we've done some shopping. Which is today! Yay!
Nah, the ham is made late at evening/night at previous day, then you nibble a little (Read: Much) during midnight when it's ready. Then you let it cool for rest of the night, and eat next day
And you got to have rosolli
We always make it in the morning.
Joululimppu and on top forest mushroom salad (metsäsienisalaatti) + christmas ham + cognac mustard = heaven
Sweetened potato casserole is one part of the casserole trio. And remember the gravy! Adding gravy on top of everything on your plate is must! And add mustard on your (thin) slice of ham.
Ohhh. The first slices of ham when it comes out of the oven are just heavenly. If you wait for it to cool down you're definitely missing out.
Have a merry one and cheers!
You need to try the Fazer Julia candies. They are so good!
I once ate an entire box of Wiener nougat at one sitting when I was child. I felt so sick. Haven't been able to eat them since. So good advice on not eating too many 😅
The whole box! You must have been really sick after. I once ate five, and felt so bad. Still enjoy them once in a while - one at a time.
Traditional way of making your plate Suomi style: 1. Stack as much of everything on 1 plate even beyond the limitations of a plate, just so it stays together barely. 2. Finish it FAST. 3. Start going to town on that ham and make your stomach surrender to your will. 4. Food coma hits hard. barely manage to claw your self to the couch and take a solid 30 min nap
3:52 The moment when Dave forget he is British
I also eat the Gröna kulor the way you do! There is no better way!!
1:05 proof of that Dave has become an true finn
1) Turun Sinappi is best for the ham 2) Green balls (as well as the other colors) are grandmothers' favourite 3) Wiener nougat means Vienna's nougat
blue cheese is one of the greatest mysteries. I mean mix it with something you'd never think could work brings some taste from other universe.
blue cheese must be aura. most of rest are bad :D.
The "laatikko" food is also known as "loora". It our Christmas table the laatikko and joulukinkku is always there, but besides it we also eat potatoes, gravy and rosolli (beetroot salad with a whipped cream dressing). As appetizers we have deviled eggs and various fish, including lutefisk (lipeäkala), salmon, salmon caviar and pickled herring. It's all eaten with a fair bit of kotikalja (home brewn beer).
Man is not a man if he hasn't drank body temperature Koskenkorva!
Yep👌
pocket warmers
At Christmas dinner most people put a little bit of everything (that they like) on their plates. Ham with mustard, all the three different casseroles, rosolli with pink whipped cream (coloured / flavoured with beetroot), sammon, herring, potatoes, mushroom salad.
We always "overcook" our 10-12 kg ham to 85-86°C.
I like tender ham with a good layer of mustard on top.
I wish your parents-in-law would give you a real finnish christmas dinner with EVERYTHING!
I think you could call Vihreät Kuulat "Green Marbles". Sounds a bit better than green balls =P And yea, I eat them like that too xD
You need to eat the ham with Turun sinappi!!!
No no no u needed Kipu Sinappi on that.
Massive props for you for cooking your own ham! Glad it turned out great. Christmas ham is truly the best. :) You might also wanna try some graavilohi / gravlax, smoked rainbow trout or a salad with beets, carrots, pickles, onion, egg, baltic herring (silli) and smetana.
The blue cheese works best when you mix one block of it with plain cream cheese. Mash it together well and then it becomes soft and you can spread it thin or thick on your pipari. So bloody good! Hyvää joulua to you and your family!! 🎄
Gingerbreadcookies, Aura.cheese and FIG JAM!
The best thing about a christmas meal is that all of the different dishes work together no matter how you mix them.
Don't forget Dave that besides the ones you tasted maksalaatikko is also one of the Christmas casseroles along with Potato casserole. I usually eat smoked salmon, grey salted ham (Finnish style Christmas Ham), potato casserole and karelian pies with munavoi (Spread made from hard boiled eggs and butter). Also best Hams are the ones that still have the bone in them. Near the bone the meat is just incredibly tasty (But also more salty as the salt gets there more easily).
For more mind exploding aurajuusto recepies, try this pasta sauce, 400gr sikanauta, 1 onion, fry brown, add two tbl spoons of poppamies one for all rub and seasoning, black pepper and oregano, 0.5l of crushed tomatoes, 2dl kuohukerma 1/3 of aurajuusto, boil slowly 1/2hour (or less?!!)
My chirstmas plate usually have : " Ham, PotatoBox, Carrotbox, TurnipBox, LiverBox, green peas, different cheeses like blackpepper cheese called "mustapekka", some fish and maybe some salad if there is any space left. Then the eating commence and lasts until you have eaten everything at the same time. If there is some ham left, you need to get more of everything else and if you take too much of everything and you run out of ham, you need to get little bit more ham to finish it all at the same time.
I eat the vihreät kuulat the same way you do and I think it's the exquisite and only way to eat them
You are also supposed to have some brown sauce made of the ham drippings with the ham and casseroles!
If you are preparing a small ham like that, you can also boil it in a pot with water. It is much faster than in the oven, and there is no danger of making it too dry, or dripping fat on the oven floor making oven cleaning a necessity. I have boiled a 3 kg boneless ham in a 4 liter pot, and it turned out great. But whatever way you cook the ham, you should always use a cooking thermometer (that you stick in the middle of the thickest part of the ham) to ensure correct "done-ness" :)
As a gingerbread brand I prefer Töysäläinen. Those are 3-4 times thicker than Annas and are sold in 400g package for example in Prisma.
”Oh, my balls are falling!” 😆😆😆 I hope not! Those Vhreät kuulat are the best thing ever. Ones when I was in my twenties they ran out in the stores before christmas and I had to drive around to find them, managed to get them from one gas station on the morning of christmas eve 😄
And by the way, I eat them same way you do 😊
You got me drooling with the joulukinkku.
As my wife has told me: I'm at my happiest when I'm eating joulukinkku.
My personal christmas plate consists of ham, mashed potato casserole and melted frozen peas. And the starter plate consists of reindeer, shrimps and sweet bread (I don't eat the fish which are also available for starters)
you forgot to use mustard in the ham
If the meat is good, no need to hide the taste with mustard
I did the mustard/breadcrumb topping while cooking it.
@@davecad Indeed, the ham should have a coating but some people add additional mustard for ... no reason what so ever
yes, more sinappi then when you eat it !
Did you know that Valio Fabriikki ice cream has one flavor that is gingerbread and Aura cheese? 😁 And also only aurajuusto flavor - think about oven fresh gingerbread with aurajuusto ice cream 😍🤯
The very first seconds already cracked me up 😂 Loved that face 💖
Kinkku is too good!
Slice of ham on top of ryebread with some mustard. Thats the real treat at night after christmas
I saw you guys in a cafe in the pathway between forum and kamppi on 15th of December, almost had the guts to ask for an autograph but didn't want to interrupt your private family time :P
Merry Christmas for your whole family!
You should try the Fazer Finlandia Fruit Balls Jellies. It has five flavours, including the Green Balls. 🟠🟡🟢🔵🔴
a christmas ham has a simple flavor but at the same time it's indescribable, if there was no one to stop me i'd eat the whole thing
You should try christmas ham with mustartd or apple jam
Also try gravlax on rye bread or roe with onion and sour cream
the christmas food/dinner plate for me is just stack everything there. potatoes, the ham grease as gravy, ham, salmon, rosolli, liver/swede/carrot boxes, salad, etc.
It's random to comment this in the middle of the summer but... The fishes are the most important for me in the christmas table. Cured salmon, smoked salmon, cold smoked salmon, all the different herrings, cured and smoked whitefish, salmon and whitefish roes, cold smoked pike topped with malt or rye bread with chopped red onion and smetana... That's the real deal for me.
Honestly the real deal is the ham. The best part of christmas. It's so damn good that I actually see dreams of ham in December as I wait for Christmas Eve dinner when I finally get to eat it again. It's making my mouth water just to think about it. I like to eat my ham with either mustard or blackcurrant jelly/jam.
For me it is the condiments that makes the ham, so mustard, cranberry or lingonberry, cucumber pickles and pickled red beets.
You should also make a gravy from juices that come out when youre cooking the ham.
Cured, or cold smoked salmon on top of the saaristolaisleipä (archipelagoan bread?), that is the winning combination!
We always over cook our Christmas ham over the night between 23.-24.12.
Eating it fresh out of owen for breakfast... You got it right, it is off the scale!
Finnish christmas food is in a class of its own😋👌
Another combination that might surprise you is the beetroot/blue cheese casserole. The beetroot casserole is great on it's own too.
this carrot box thing need to blend with cream and then its just fantastic!! try i you want to!!
i LOVE porkkana laatikko so much, it's soooo good
I prefer overcooked ham to perfectly cooked.
The way I eat vihreät kuulat. I take one falf of it and stick the shiny part into one piece of Fazerin sininen suklaa. Then put the whole thing into your mouth and start biting. So good together.
Potatoes and a sauce for the ham, and then your’e set! Oh, and make the gingerbread yourself😊
Love your videos!
Oh, you hit also another mixed tradition! At some regions, Joulukinkku had to be overcooked. So that it cracks in pieces. And at some regions, it had to be just .. not overcooked. Don't know what is wrong with them. ;)
And other regions make karjalanpaisti.
Serve your joulukinkku with potatoes, green peas and slices of apple.
You mentioned earlier the lack of fish. We used to have a thing called Kapakala. But it tastes awfully like tapestry clue so nobody really wants to eat it anymore. And graavilohi, yesss. It is quite common to have
Okay Dave, I'm going to teach you my family´s secret. You take the Porkkanalaatikko and mix that with the Kinkunkastike (the sauce for ham). That is going to make your Christmas
4:12 all 3 boxes, ham maybe also turkey, different kinds of fish, dark bread, beet- and celerysalad and vihreät kuulat
Did you know that maksalaatikko is traditional christmas food in some parts of Finland! You should also try sweetened potato casseroll.
To me the way you ate those lovely green balls is like the only way to eat them, Ive never done it any other way :D
My fav christmasfoods are rosolli and marianne parfait. I tested the parfait couple years ago and it got instantly to "must have"-list. :)
You could try to make your own gingerbread cookies 😊
A great Finnish store-bought gingerbread cookies are Töysäläinen voi piparkakut.
My favorite is saaristolaisleipä with real butter, cold smoked salmon, smetana , red onion and whitefish/salmon roe
Damn now I want ham. Already ate one for this autumn. We usually make 5-7kg ham for our small family because I alone will eat at least 5kg of it :D Best food of all time, hands down. Pro tip! Buy one after Christmas, they get really really cheap. Freeze it and have another one sometime during the year!
You should try Talvi-konvehdit, they are the best!
And potato version of casseroles is my favorite (I don't really like others), especially when eaten with gravlax.
Clearly learning more and more about being a true finn, having the hidden bottles that will soon evolve to flasks to spike some boring drinks I presume? :D
Dave, about Wiener Nougat: you probably don't want to chow down too many of these in one go
Me: *looks at wife*
There's no such thing as 'too many' when it comes to Wiener Nougat!
Dave, the best combo for Christmass dinner main course is ham (duh...), maksalaatikko (Saarioinen) and baked potatoes. THAT is the official winning combo in my universe.
Also, nice job on the ham, mate. The final temp of the ham is very personal preference kind of thing. I prefer 'over cooked' over the 'barely cooked' pinkish gleeming texture that seems to be all the rage nowadays. Get a temp probe and find a temp you prefer.
My favourite christmas snack is peanut raisin mix. It reminds me my grandmother who died in july 2018 at age 90. Annas is swedish brand.
That Aura blue cheese goes super well with the joulukinkku too! :)
Also add some mustard!
Aura goes with everything really
Wow awesome! Good luck! :)
You should try traditional finnish christmas drink for students. It consists of cheap estonian vodka called Vergi and finnish glögi. The name of the drink is Glörgi. And its great.
We have a tradition that we make the ham 23.12, in the evening its done and we eat a few slices😋
Well done with the Christmas ham! It's an art form to get it just right. Some like it barely cooked, some like it overcooked. If you didn't have thermometer yet, get one for next time. With that you can check the core temperature and make sure it's cooked, but not too dry. Oh and I suggest putting some cloves on it too, stick them on the mustard/breadcrumb topping before putting ham back to oven. It smells divine and gives this slight, spicy flavor. And other suggestion if you want to improve your Christmas ham cooking skills next year: get a ham that has it's "kamara", the pig skin still intact. It will keep the ham even more moist and juicier. Keep a baking tray under the ham as you cook it, the fat and juices from ham will drip into it and you can make the bestest gravy out of it!
Careful with the Green Balls, I used to eat them exactly like you do and once almost choked on a half that got stuck in my windpipe. Luckily I wasn't alone and my friend slammed on the back so it came out. Also, you might like Valio's Hehku -glögi and Finlandia Balls!
Missing the Turun sinappi layer on top of ham (now that you eat it) and if you want to get freaky, mix the boxes and some ketchup on the top :) But I'm sure it was fine like that too and bonus points for splitting Vihreät kuulat. I do that too, but the biting part comes sooner :P
And interesting fact is that sister product to green balls Finlandia Marmelade was originally made as present for British king's coronation 😁
Some ryebread with the ham is a good midnight snack during christmas 😁 herkkupipari from leivon leipomo is finnish gingerbread 🙂