Netherlands Traditional cuisine

Traditional Dutch cuisine clavitsya its "village" thoroughness, extensive use malosochetaemyh at first glance, products, and excellent traditions in cooking seafood. Favorite food - "Haring", ie a special way of cooking, lightly salted herring with a slice of salted cucumber or onion. Also popular fried fillet of fresh herring with onions, braised in the oven for perch with vegetables, smoked eel garnished with egg and lemon, fresh herring fillets - maches, fried fish or meat balls "Crockett", as well as many dishes from the river fish, shrimp and clams (in their consumption of country ranks first in the world). By baked fish dishes are usually served lettuce or potato wedges, fried "potata." The menu is usually lots of vegetables and dairy products. Moreover, to truly Dutch dishes rank as pancakes.

Meat consume relatively little, but try to use every bit - in the course are even offal and meat trimmings, however, with a great imagination cooked. The most typical dish - "hotpot" (hutspot "or" hot pot ") - tender boiled or stewed meat with vegetables, mashed potatoes, well worth a try" stampot "- mashed potatoes with cabbage, bacon or smoked sausage, stewed pork leg, beans with bacon "kantes" sausages "vorstes" and the national dish of rice, meat and vegetables - "riystafel.
It is loved by the Dutch excellent soups - pea soup with crushed with smoked sausage, erten soup, celery soup, chicken broth with chunks of ham and carrots "consomme sweat-and-fe", etc.

It is impossible to Dutch kitchen without hot sandwiches of all kinds. The most "famous" hot club sandwich with fried egg, bacon and ham - rausshmeyser, canape with cheese, ham and butter, the balls "bruudzhes" with all kinds of stuffing, apeldornskie sandwiches with apples or the Rotterdam sandwiches with bacon and tomatoes. The main ingredient in them - first-class Dutch cheese - of particular pride for the country. As a separate snack often served in cubes of cheese with fruit, vegetables or meat products. Dutch salads also imply that the presence of cheese.

Of alcohol Dutch prefer all kinds of beer and vodka, preferring juniper, more like a genie, "Enever." Also in the country are doing first-class liquors, the most popular is the famous "Bitter Orange".