How to pronounce Jansson's temptation

Jansson's temptation is written Janssons frestelse where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ˈjɑ̌ːnsɔns ˈfrɛ̂sːtɛlsɛ/. In plain English letters that is YAHN-sons FRES-tel-seh, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Jansson's temptation?

Jansson's temptation is a main dish of Sweden. People usually eat it on festive days and late at night. Its main ingredients are potato, fish and dairy & cheese. It tastes savory and rich.

Where Jansson's temptation comes from

Jansson's temptation is one of 22 signature dishes of Sweden on this map.

• Köttbullar · Main dish · Sweden

  Köttbullar are small meatballs of minced beef and pork with onion, breadcrumbs soaked in milk, and white pepper, fried in butter and served with cream sauce, boiled or mashed potatoes, lingonberry jam and pickled cucumber.

• Kanelbulle · Dessert · Sweden

  The kanelbulle, Swedish cinnamon bun, is a yeasted wheat dough spiced with cardamom, rolled with a filling of butter, sugar and cinnamon, twisted into a knot or spiral, and sprinkled with pearl sugar.

• Princess cake Prinsesstårta · Dessert · Sweden

  Princess cake is a traditional Swedish layer cake of airy sponge, vanilla custard and a thick dome of whipped cream, covered in a smooth sheet of marzipan.

• Gravlax gravad lax · Main dish · Scandinavia

  Gravlax means "buried salmon".

• Surströmming · Main dish · Ångermanland (High Coast)

  Surströmming means 'sour herring': small Baltic herring, called strömming in Swedish, lightly salted and left to ferment.

• Kroppkakor · Main dish · Öland, Småland, Blekinge and Gotland

  Kroppkakor are boiled potato dumplings about the size of a tennis ball, usually filled with salted pork and onion.

Food of Sweden

Dishes like Jansson's temptation in other countries

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• Lohikeitto · Soup & stew · Coast and lakes, Finland

  Lohikeitto is a salmon soup: pieces of salmon simmered with potatoes, leeks or onions and allspice, finished with cream or milk and a lot of chopped dill.

• Samogitian pancakes žemaičių blynai · Main dish · Samogitia, Lithuania

  Žemaičių blynai, Samogitian pancakes, are potato pancakes named after Samogitia (Žemaitija), the western region of Lithuania.

• Stegt flæsk med persillesovs · Main dish · Denmark

  Stegt flæsk med persillesovs is slices of pork belly fried in a pan or oven until crisp, served with boiled potatoes and parsley sauce, a béchamel with chopped parsley.

• Cullen skink · Soup & stew · Scotland, United Kingdom

  Cullen skink is a thick, milky soup of smoked haddock, potatoes and onions from the small fishing town of Cullen on the Moray coast of north-east Scotland.