Hi guys!
This video is all about Dutch food.
Really delicious Dutch food.
So if you’re already hungry watching this video I apologize for what I’m about to show.
First up are poffertjes.
These are teeny tiny little pancakes that are fluffy and spongy.
Another name for them could be heaven because, honestly, that’s how good these things are.
They’re usually made with a mixture of buckwheat and other flours with yeast,
which makes them really fluffy, and because of their small, unique little shape
they’re made in a pan called - what else? - a poffertjespan.
It has teeny tiny little indentations that makes the world’s cutest pancakes.
They’re usually made fresh-to-order and watching them being flipped over super, super fast
I personally found kind of hypnotic.
I couldn’t look away.
And you can get them with all sorts of toppings.
We went in for chocolate sauce with powdered sugar because I figured you can’t go wrong with that.
Generally you buy these a dozen at a time but I feel like the sky’s the limit on these things.
They go down so easily that you could put away a dozen and barely even notice.
Even talking about these things, you guys, I am really starting to salivate.
They’re insanely good and you have to try them if you’re in The Netherlands.
Now we’ve arrived at the part of the video where I talk about a bunch of things that are deep fried.
Dutch people love snacks that are deep fried, especially frikandels.
This is one of the most popular snacks you’ll find in The Netherlands
and it’s basically a skinless sausage that’s deep fried.
What that means is that it’s basically a minced meat hot dog
and it’s popular to eat it with a mix of mayonnaise, curry ketchup, and chopped onion.
For me personally, the sauces were the best part because I’m a sauce person
and sometimes food is just a vehicle for sauce.
Who else is a sauce person?
Leave a comment down below if you know what I’m talking about.
Next up in the deep fried parade is a snack called a kaassouffle.
This is melted cheese inside a doughy thin wrap that’s breaded and then deep fried.
Cheese is very important in The Netherlands and this snack is a good example.
It’s usually made with Gouda cheese.
You can eat it with sauces or on its own and, other than the poffertjes,
I have to say this was my favourite Dutch snack food.
I mean what we’re basically talking about here is deep fried cheese so this thing sells itself
and does what it says on the box: warm, cheesy carbs.
Ten out of ten.
Next up is the kroket.
This is typically a cylindrical shape with a meat filling.
It’s also sometimes filled with potatoes, cheese, fish, or vegetables
and, as you may have guessed, it is also deep fried.
Krokets have long been an economical way of using leftover meat stew and roasts,
which are then mixed with gravy, rolled into logs, breaded, and fried.
But the snack really took off during World War II when they became mass produced as a cheap food.
It’s crispy and crunchy on the outside and super soft and smooth on the inside.
The joke with krokets is that part of the fun is in trying to decide what they’re filled with -
and I’m gonna say on this one: you might not want to overthink it.
One of the foods that you’ll notice all over The Netherlands is stroopwaffel
and literally translated this means syrup waffle and that’s exactly what it is.
It consists of two thin layers of dough with a caramel-like syrup in the middle.
They’re made by putting balls of dough into a heated waffle iron
and pressing them to get that uniform, round, lovely shape
and then after that waffle’s been baked, and while it’s still warm,
it’s split into thin layered halves.
Then they add the warm filling which is made from syrup, brown sugar, butter, and cinnamon
and it’s spread between the two waffles halves which glues them together.
Stroopwaffel originated in the city of Gouda, which of course we also have to thank for the cheese.
Next up is not so much a specific food as a type of food: Surinamese and Javanese.
Suriname and Indonesia were colonized by the Dutch
and it’s widely offered throughout The Netherlands
and I was really excited to try it because I’ve never had this food before.
I wanted to try a bunch of different things so my dish had a sample of chicken, potato,
hard boiled egg, noodles with peanut sauce, rice, vegetables,
and a folded crêpe or naan-like piece of bread.
For dessert, we ordered a deep fried banana that came with peanut butter sauce.
I also tried a Surinamese soda called Cherry Bouquet and it said on the can it was a sparkling lemonade.
It was extremely sweet and that means a lot coming from me
because I honestly have a huge sweet tooth.
But, to me, the soda tasted more like melted bubblegum ice cream that I used to love as a kid.
I don’t feel like I can make a video about Dutch foods without mentioning fries
even though they are not Dutch, they are Belgian.
I actually did a whole video about Belgian foods which I will link up here if you haven’t seen it yet.
They’re from Belgium but they’re also very, very popular in The Netherlands
so I feel like I have to mention them here.
And also somehow fries just taste better when they’re served in a cone.
I don’t know what it is but they just do.
And my new favourite way to eat fries is with truffle mayonnaise.
I cannot get enough of that stuff.
I hope that you guys enjoyed seeing all of these delicious Dutch foods.
Let’s do a little poll: leave a comment down below and tell me what,
if you could only eat one of the things in this video, what would it be?
I am very hungry after talking about all this food so I need to go and get something to eat.
But I hope that you enjoyed it.
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Bye!