Christmas Eve Dinner

This year I wanted to cook dinner for my host family on Christmas Eve, and they loved the traditional Danish dinner i made, even though some of the ingredients were kind of hard to get!

Pork Roast / Flæskesteg

Ingredients:
Pork roast w/ the skin (we had to buy the skin separate) 
Salt and pepper
beyleafs

Directions:
Place roast on a baking tray and cut the skin. Rub with salt and pepper and put bay leafs in between the cracklings. Bake in oven at 350 degrees F for about 3 hours. Make sure the cracklings are completely crispy. You may need to remove them and bake then at 450 degrees F until they are completely crisp.

Browned Potatoes / Brunede Kartofler

Ingredients:
1 can small potatoes
1/2 cup sugar
1 tbsp butter

Directions:
Melt sugar and butter on a pan, and broil potatoes in the caramel mixture until golden brown.

Red Cabbage / Rødkål

Ingredients: 
1 red cabbage head
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp honey

Directions:
Cut the cabbage in strips and boil in a pot with apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and honey for about 45 minutes. 

Baked Apples w/ Lingonberry Jam

Ingredients:
4 apples
Lingonberry Jam (from IKEA)

Directions:
Peel the apples and remove the core and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees F. Fill up the hole from the core with jam. 

 Serve the roast, browned potatoes, cabbage, and apples with boiled potatoes and gravy.