One of the best Finnish home foods – “If the rest of your life had to eat only one food, this would be this”

The cabbage box is soft in the oven. Roni

If chef Risto Mikkola One of the finest Finnish home foods should be named, this would be high at the top.

– It’s a cabbage box. There is nothing about it, says Mikkola.

Mikkola friend Mika Pikkis Tuomola Even more values ​​the cabbage box. His mother’s cabbage box recipe comes the best box of all.

It requires good rice porridge, carefully fried minced meat and onion, freezing cabbage and plenty of dark syrup.

When all of these are done, mix the ingredients together and pour the egg-milk mixture over it. Less often, cabbage box recipes contain egg milk, but this is the case.

– If the rest of your life had to be eaten only one food, it would be this, Tuomola says.

Cabbage box

Rice porridge:

1 dl of a wooden rice

1 dl of water

4 dl of full milk

1 teaspoon of salt

1. Boil the rice in salted water until the liquid is absorbed into the rice.

2. Add the milk and simmer, stirring occasionally, until the milk is absorbed into the rice.

3. Finally add the salt and mix in the porridge.

Minced meat:

600 g of cattle meat

2 onions

2 teaspoons of salt

0.5 teaspoon black pepper

0.5 dl of ketchup

2 tbsp rapeseed oil

1. Brown minced meat in a frying pan in rapeseed oil.

2. Add all the remaining ingredients and simmer for 20 minutes.

Freezing cabbage:

1 kg of cabbage in strips

0.5 dl rapeseed oil

2 teaspoons of salt

0.5 teaspoon black pepper

2.5 dl of maple syrup

1. Heat the oil in the saucepan and add the cabbage strips.

2. Bake the cabbage under the lid for 10 minutes until slightly softened.

3. Season with maple syrup, salt and pepper. Bake for 20 minutes.

4. Mix rice porridge, minced meat and cabbage. Spread the cabbage box in the baking dish.

Egg milk:

1 egg

3 dl full milk

1. Pour the egg milk and stir. Bake in a 160 degree oven for 2 hours. If the cabbage box surface darkens too much during baking, cover the cabbage box with aluminum foil.

Lingonberry yogurt

2 dl food yogurt

1 dl of frozen lingonberries

1 tbsp sugar

a touch of salt

1. Mix all ingredients.