The Dutch love potatoes very much. The average Dutch family eats potatoes at least 4 times a week. They eat them in quite some variations: Baked, deep-fried, boiled, mashed, they will put them in tinfoil and put them in the oven... Many variations to one simple piece of food: the potato.
I do not eat potatoes that often, I am not a big fan. I prefer pasta or rice, but for this blogpost I cooked two typical dutch meals so I can show them to you. I think these two meals are by far the two most popular Dutch meals.
Here we go, the first one is:
Boiled potatoes, boiled veggies and a piece of meat.
I think a typical Dutch family will eat this meal about 4 times a week, really. There will be some variation in veggies and meat, but always: boiled potatoes.
Cooked way too much potatoes, whoops!
Would you like to prepare a Dutch meal? Here's how you do it:
Get a big pan and fill it with water, put some peeled potatoes in it and some salt and wait for it to cook... When you can easily prick a fork in the potatoes (after about 20 minutes), they are done and ready to serve.
Do the same thing with the veggies.
Finally: bake some meat, make a sauce to put on your veggies, and dinner can be served!
And here's Dutch meal number two: Stamppot!!
This will be the same as meal number one, but the difference is: you mash it all together. Wait, really? Yeah, really...
I am not a big fan of 'stamppot', but I came up with a variation I actually like very much.
Again, boiled potatoes:
But now: break some cashews into pieces and take a piece of French cheese and chop that into little pieces.
It will end up looking like this:
This may not seem very appetizing, but it really is.
I would say, give it a try! It's really simple, takes about 20 minutes and you can say you ate a typical Dutch meal. Enjoy!
De cordon-bleu lijkt mij wat krokant! :D
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