Finnishbeefliverbake Recipes

FINNISH BEEF LIVER BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 175°C.
• Boil the rice in the water and milk until the rice is done - not all the liquid is vaporised, you should end up with a watery mixture. Cool.
• Chop the onions finely and fry until soft.
• In the cooled down rice-milk mixture, mix in the liver, onions, egg, raisins and the spices. The mixture should still be quite runny.
• Pour the mixture into a buttered shallow oven dish, put some knobs of butter on top.
• Bake for 1-1,5 h until brown.
• This would traditionally be served with lingonberry jam, but any red tart jam like cranberry should be good.

FINNISH MACARONI BAKE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200°C.
• Fry onion and ground beef until onion is soft and the beef is brown.
• Boil the macaroni al dente (it will still cook in the oven).
• Mix the pasta, beef and onion, season with salt and pepper and put in a shallow oven dish.
• Mix the milk and eggs together, pour on the pasta mixture. It should just cover everything.
• Bake in the oven for about an hour.

SAILOR'S BEEF CASSEROLE (MERIMIESPIHVI) - FINNISH

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cut the meat into slices across the grain. In a hot skillet, brown them quickly on both sides using only half the butter or oil. Remove to a plate.
• Lower the heat and cook the onions slowly in the rest of the butter until they are soft and golden. If they become browned, they'll be a completely different taste than when they're golden.
• Peel and slice the potatoes as thinly as possible.
• In a 1 quart casserole dish, layer the potatoes with the browned meat and onions, sprinkling each meat layer with a litle of the salt, pepper and allspice. I started with a layer of potatoes, meat, onions, spice. Repeated two more times for a total of three layers, but make the last layer one of potatoes.
• Rinse the skillet with the beer and the broth. Pour into the casserole. Add the bay leaf.
• Cover tightly, but no need for foil under the lid. Bake for 2 hours, or until the meat is tender and potatoes are soft.
• Sprinkle with parsley and serve. Traditionally served with pickled beets.