This document summarizes traditional Dutch foods, including how and when they are typically eaten. It describes snacks like hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles), kroketten (fried meat snacks), and bitterballen (fried meat balls). Main dishes featured are raw herring, potatoes and vegetables with gravy, kale with smoked sausage, pea soup, and syrup waffles. It also mentions special occasion foods like poffertjes (mini pancakes), oliebollen (fried dough balls eaten on New Year's Eve). The presentation provides an overview of iconic elements of Dutch cuisine.
2. Intro
This presentation is about traditional Dutch
food
And the traditional ways of when and how
to eat it
3. Hagelslag
Chocolate sprinkles is typical Dutch.
Dutch people eat about 14 million kilo
‘hagelslag’ per year on about 850 million slices
of bread. This is eaten as breakfast or lunch
Funny translations
Hail
Hail storm
Hail whip
4. Kroketten & Bitterballen
kroketten and Bitterballen are both warm fried
snacks. A bitterbal is a small round ball filled
with ragout. A kroket is 10 cm long and 3 cm in
diameter and is also filled with ragout.
Ragout: a strongly flavoured stew of meat or vegetables or both.
5. Rauwe haring = raw herring
Salted Herring which can be eaten with onions
Haringhappen: eating a herring holding it by its tail
Vlaggetjesdag: the first day of the new season
Traditionally people eat herring on Ash Wednesday to
finish the celebrations of Carnaval
6. Potatoes, meat and vegetables
Traditionally the Dutch people eat cooked
potatoes, meat and cooked vegetables for
supper.
This is complemented by gravy
Traditionally the vegetables of the season
are eaten: leeks, endives, runner beans, kale
7. Kale with smoked sausage
Kale with smoked sausage. Almost everyone
in The Netherlands eats it in the winter.
It tastes best when there is frost during the
night
Translation Dutch
Boerenkool met worst
8. Pea Soup
Pea Soup is a thick soup made of peas. It
contains meat and smoked sausage. It’s a
traditional Dutch dinner usually eaten in the
winter. The soup tastes best when made in a
large quantity.
Translation Dutch
Erwtensoep -
Snert
9. Poffertjes = mini pancakes
Very small pancakes, mostly eaten with icing sugar.
A special pan called a poffertjes griddle is needed to make them
'poffertjes' griddle
10. Syrup Waffle
A syrup waffle is a waffle made from two
thin layers of baked batter with caramel-like
syrup filling in the middle. You can eat it
when you have got a cup of coffee. You can
also get Syrup Waffle ice cream.
Translation Dutch
Stroopwafel
11. Oliebollen
Oliebollen are a variety of dumpling made
by using two spoons to scoop a certain
amount of dough and dropping the dough
into a deep fryer filled with hot oil. In this
way, a sphere-shaped oliebol emerges.
Oliebollen are eaten on New Year’s Eve
12. The End
We’ve just highlighted some of the
traditionally Dutch favourites, the recipes
will be in the cook book
We will also include some other recipes,
which they will be?
You just have to wait and see….