Donal Skehan is back for a Christmas episode of his popular Kitchen Hero, with recipes that give traditional Christmas dishes a bit of a twist. Donal’s first (and only) job in a professional kitchen was in a Swedish ‘julbord’, a unique type of restaurant which exists only at Christmas time and Donal returns to Sweden for this programme. During the programme he visits a Christmas market in Stockholm to make ‘glugg’ – a Swedish gluwein – and a friend’s house to make gingerbread. Then he travels to the far north, above the Arctic Circle, to the world’s original Ice Hotel in Kiruna to make baked ham, gravadlax and a special Christmas rice pudding. And as well as all the cooking, he tries his hand at some ice sculpture and camps out to see the Northern Lights.