Flygande Jakob (Flying Jakob)

It's a traditional recipe specific to the Swedish cuisine. First time I tried it, I was in a restaurant, and I became very impressed with the combination of sweet, salty and spicy. It's basically chicken with bananas, nuts and bacon. It sounds strange and Chinese (it is not!) but all these ingredients just complement each other.
The recipe was first published in 1976 and was invented, apparently, by Ove Jacobsson, who used to work in the air freight industry, hence the name.
There are lots of varieties of Flying Jakob in Sweden... lots. I prepared the dish after the original recipe as it was written in Rutiga Kokboken, with a few modifications on the used quantities.

I used:

- 1 chicken
- 140g bacon (1 package)
- 2 bananas
- 100-150g peanuts
- 250-300g cream
- 50-100g chili sauce
- curry



I bought the chicken ready grilled/roasted, it's easier this way. If you don't have the possibility, just cut the chicken in pieces and fry them in a pan with some butter and the bacon.

For the sauce, you have to beat the cream and mix it with the chili sauce and add curry. It will become pinkish. If you don't have chili or you don't like the hotness of it, you can use ketchup.

Now, I gave variable quantities because every person likes it different, but the base recipe indicates minimum 250g cream and 50g chili sauce.



I buttered a baking pan and layed the chicken bits in it.



For the second layer, I peeled the bananas and cut them in small pieces. Then I layed them on top of the chicken.



I put the bacon as well.



Then the peanuts. Again, the quantity depends on everyone's taste.



In the end I poured the sauce.



I baked it in the oven, 225 Celsius degrees for around 15-20 minutes.



Traditionally it's being served with rice and salad. I really recommend this dish, because in some strange way all these ingredients work so well with each other and it's delicious! Some people will not find it that tasty,but I've been told it's not many :)



Smaklig måltid! Enjoy!