Tag: spices

CopyCat Recipe: Hela Curry-sauce

CopyCat Recipe: Hela Curry-sauce

This recipe is for both Fry-day and Copy Caturday! The Hela curry sauce is the most popular brand of “currysauce” in the Netherlands. It is a spicy kind of ketchup that is mostly eaten with fries and fried goods. The most well-known use of currysauce is 

Beef Croquette and croquette balls

Beef Croquette and croquette balls

The Dutch love their snacks, like bitterballen, kroketten and frikandellen. They even have special snack vending machines, maybe you know them as Automats. In Dutch these were named Automatiek, but are now known as FEBO, named after the first, and now biggest, company to have introduced 

Ketchup

Ketchup

Ketchup is so much more than just a sauce made of pureed tomatoes. It’s spicy, sweet and a tad bit sour and tastes great with most deep-fried snacks. This is why this recipe is one of the first in my new category: Fry-day! With these 

Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie

Aardbeien en rabarber gaan hand in hand, net als appels en rozijnen, banaan en cocos, karamel en zout.. Het is een van die dingen waar je van houdt of niet en ik ben een groot fan. Een oud gezegde luid: April doet wat ‘ie wil en 

Lapis Legit

Lapis Legit

If you are on a diet turn around now! Take a look at the ingredients, this cake is not for the faint hearted. But it’s so, so delicious.. Spekkoek is a type of Indonesian layer cake. It was developed during colonial times in the Dutch East 

Dutch Meat Croquettes

Dutch Meat Croquettes

The Dutch love their snacks, like bitterballen, kroketten and frikandellen. They even have special snack vending machines, maybe you know them as Automats. In Dutch these were named Automatiek, but are now known as FEBO, named after the first, and now biggest, company to have introduced 

South Dutch pickled meat

South Dutch pickled meat

Zuurvlees, or zoervleisj as it is called here down south, is a dish traditionally made of pickled horse meat. Nowadays the horse meat is usually substituted by beef, which only slightly alters the taste. Some of you might know this dish as “Sauerbraten”, a German 

Breakfast Cake

Breakfast Cake

  Originally called ‘peperkoek’, because most spices were called “pepper” back when they were first introduced in Europe. It is a kind of sweet bread that is used to sweeten and bind stews or to eat for breakfast, as the name implies. This recipe is part 

Gingerbread-like Dutch biscuits, Pepernoten or Kruidnoten

Gingerbread-like Dutch biscuits, Pepernoten or Kruidnoten

Officially these would be “kruidnoten”, but pepernoten are also proper Dutch. Pepernoten used to be made with taai-taai dough, but have lost their popularity over the years. While kruidnoten are crunchy like speculaas, pepernoten are soft and chewy, like taai-taai. However, if a Dutch person speaks 

Apple Turnovers

Apple Turnovers

Apple turnovers are made with puff pastry. It’s like a little pouch of dough filled with apples, raisins and cinnamon. Today I give you the recipe for apple turnovers! Delicious, quick and easy to make, success guaranteed! Ingredients 8-10 sheets of puff pastry, 12x12cm 100