Belgium Traditional cuisine

Belgian cuisine has many components, standards-based French and German cooking traditions - is actively used by the meat, seafood, vegetables, potatoes, butter, cheese, cream, beer and wine at the same time and still shows the influence of medieval cookery - widely used mustard, herbs, spices and mix sweet with sour or sweet with salty.

Traditional appetizers are shrimp with tomatoes and mayonnaise, tomato-la krevett, croquettes of raw shrimp and parmesan cheese, served with fried parsley leaves "Crockett-o-Parmesan cheese, asparagus Flemish with a sauce of butter and whipped raw egg and minced Parsley "asperzh a la Flemish", the different sandwiches with slices of white cheese, decorated with radishes and onions, salads and snacks from potato and pickled vegetables, and savory cheeses erv le "," Le Fromager de Bruxelles "and" Mara " etc.

The first dish is most often represented by a soup of fish, and oysters in a broth of celery. Everywhere will be offered fried steak in various sauces, which you can order the "Frito" - golden slices of potato. Very popular "Flemish chop" - fried in beer baked ham or tenderloin with prunes, Ardennes ham, Jambon d'ardenn "rabbit in beer" le lapen a la Biere, salty pies with cheese "La Tarte al-Jyoti" and flamish - braised chicken with grapes, meat, honey and mustard in a spicy fruit sauce, eel with vegetables and herbs "LES angy about faith, roasted mussels," le-Frith multiplets superstar "and raw mussels" le multiplets Park "Battle of the Bulge trout" la truit ardennez, stuffed with ham and slices of bacon, as well as mehelenskaya cuckoo "la cookie de raspberries or Brussels poulard" la pulyard de Bruxelles ", etc.

At dessert in each city offered its dishes such as cream meringue in Malmédy, sweet biscuits "cookies" in DINAN, almond cakes and caramel biscuits in Bruges, waffles, bumps, small dry cakes of Ghent - gentse-mocha "and Of course, the famous Brussels "pralines. Belgian Chocolate is truly a product of his most famous brand - "Korn la Tucson d'Or", "Godiva", "Neuhaus" and "white" chocolate "Leonidas."

Belgian national drink - beer. Today there are over 1000 marks, and new beers are created almost every day. The most famous are Gueuse, Jupiler, Maes, Stella Artois, Leffe, Hoegaarden, Lambic and Trappist. You can even find a beer with the addition of cherry ( "Creek") and raspberry juice (Framboise), as well as the sour-sweet beer "Gooden-gangs. Grapes are grown on the slopes of the Sambre, in Thorne, Eno and around Brussels, so there a lot of its own high quality wine, but a lot of it is imported from abroad.