Karelian hot pot recipe on The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure

Si and Dave served up a tasty Karelian hotpot dish in Finland on The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure.

The Bikers says: “This dish from Finland is similar to the beloved Lancashire hotpot, the perfect comfort food to warm you up on a cold night.”

The ingredients are: 1 tbsp vegetable oil or lard, 300g pork, preferably pork shoulder, diced, 300g stewing beef, diced, 300g lamb or mutton, preferably shoulder or neck fillet, diced, 2 onions, sliced, 2 carrots, cut into chunks (optional), 2 tsp black peppercorns, 1 tsp allspice berries (optional), 3 bay leaves (optional) and salt and freshly ground pepper.

To serve: mashed potato and lingonberry jam.