No Russian grandmother would tolerate traditional Dutch cuisine in her house. Hot food here is eaten only at dinner, and then not always. And all the breakfasts and dinners at the local passes under the flag of sandwiches and "dry-fat". Neither you rich soups, nor any fancy pampushkas.
Fresh fish products - herring, eel, bondage, halibut, oysters - are considered daily dishes. They are cooked in every way, salted, processed into canned food and served on the table most often with boiled potatoes. The most popular fish is the herring.
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Dutch herring
Most often the Dutch eat it "on course: in the form of a sandwich or swallowing "alive". Namely: raise it above your head and, lifting your head up, bite off a piece - the traditional Dutch way. The cost of such a delicacy is small - from 2 to 3, 5 EUR
The traditional Amsterdam way is eating a herring cut on a paper plate with a small onion and chopped pickled cucumber. Eat all this fun with such a double toothpick.
Finally, the herring is also common in a soft white loaf - something like a fish hot dog. It is also sometimes served with onions, but more often - just bread and herring. When eating herring, do not be afraid to get your hands dirty. All tents painted in the traditional colors of the Dutch flag, where they sell herring - herring - equipped with a soap dispenser, or give each visitor wet wipes.
Snacks
Almost all the country at breakfast and lunch eats snacks - all sorts of sandwiches and sandwiches all sizes and suits . Another popular snack - uitsmijter (something like a sandwich) . Is prepared elementary - a slice of bread is covered with a slice of ham, then cheese, and on top - fried eggs . The price of sandwiches is usually small - from 2 to 5 EUR, depends on the filling . Find sandwiches on the street is not difficult: it will be more difficult to find hot food until 5 pm, when the kitchen opens in restaurants, rather than a piece or two of bread and bacon .
Despite that the proud title of lovers of potatoes is worn by Belarusians, it is felt that it is Holland that beats all records on eating this root vegetable per capita . Almost every city in the country can easily find a tent where they sell "French fries" - French fries in a paper bag filled with ketchup or mayonnaise m, and sometimes also sprinkled with onions . It is worth this pleasure in the area of 2-3 EUR depending on the size of the bag and enjoys simply incredible popularity with the local population . In addition, the French fries are likely to accompany you and when ordering a hot dish - this garnish here is found in 99% of 100 .
Holland is also famous for high-quality cheeses. Their range is so great that we will only talk about the world-famous and popular: Edam, Dutch and Leiden. It is necessary to try the sheep or goat cheese, and also to look at one of the country's cheese makers. Here you can taste a lot of cheeses (with pesto, pepper, milk, diet and so on) with traditional mustard. And, of course, to buy a head or two. The cost is not high - for a quality cheese weighing about 0, 5-1 km there will not be asked for more than 8-12 EUR
Hot dishes
The national dish of Dutch cuisine is hutspot (or "hot pot", "hot pot") - chopped boiled or stewed beef served on a platter with a garnish of vegetable puree, cooked from boiled carrots, onions and potatoes. This vegetable mashed potatoes - the second most popular traditional dish of the country. The most common version of the stamping out of cabbage with smoked sausage (boerenkool met rookworst) or meat balls (something like our cutlet)
Also popular is the dish gutzpot - Dutch meat stew, which includes stew, boiled potatoes, carrots and onions.
Drinks
Coffee and tea (traditional colonial goods from India) are very popular. "Coffee time" (koffietijd) - between 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning or 19 and 20 o'clock in the evening. In each cafe, one cup of coffee or a cupcake will necessarily be served to any cup of coffee. Coffee with milk is called "wrong coffee" (koffie verkeerd), but very popular. Also worth a try is hot chocolate, milk with anise and warm lemonade (quast)
In the Netherlands beer is very common, especially lager: Heineken, Amstel, Grolsch. Beer is usually served in very small glasses (~ 0, 2) to drink it before it warms up and loses its amazing taste. People are more serious, quickly overturning a glass of beer, immediately afterwards drink it with gin, calling this mixture "kopstoot."
"Enever" - the most popular strong drink in Holland - the ancestor of English gin, invented by one Dutch doctor . Jenever is "oud" (old and pleasant to taste) or "jong" (young and sharp), and sometimes even with lemon or blackberry flavor.
Also known is the local liquor Advocaat - a kind of liquid cream of whipped eggs and cognac . Which is no less delicious to eat with ice cream.