King's Day 2021 Traditional Dutch Recipes
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King’s Day 2021 Traditional Dutch Recipes
Tompouce is the number one King’s
Day delicacy: around this day, its
sales increase by 600%! You can of
course get them from the bakery or
your local supermarket, but it is way
more fun to make them yourself.
Tompouce
Ingredients
for 4 people
250 ml milk
Instructions 3 egg yolks
1. Preheat the oven to 220 °C. baking tray lined with a baking 25 grams flour
sheet. Prick holes into the pastry
2. Warm the milk and add a vanilla 40 grams sugar
with a fork. Bake for about twelve
bean.
minutes or until the dough is half a vanilla bean
3. Mix the egg yolks with the sugar golden. Remove them from the 4 slices of puff pastry
and flour in a bowl. Stir until oven and let them cool. (frozen)
smooth.
7. Now it is time to make the icing. 100 grams powdered
4. Take the vanilla bean out of the Stir the powdered sugar with sugar
milk, open it up and scrape out a little bit of water. Start with
the marrow. Return this to the pan a splash of water
adding one tablespoon of water
and stir. Take two tablespoons of and add more if necessary. Then orange food colouring
the warm milk and stir it into the add the orange food coloring.
egg yolk mix. Carefully stir all this
8. Cut the puff pastry slices in half
back into the warm milk into the
so that you get 8 equally sized
pan, put it back on a low heat and
rectangular pieces.
stir until it becomes a thick mass.
9. Take the bottom part of one of the
5. Take the pan off the stove and
baked puff pastries and spread
cover the cream with a piece of
the cooled down vanilla cream
plastic, to avoid forming a skin
on it. Add the glazing to another
when it cools down. Make sure
piece of baked puff pastry and put
that the foil touches the mixture.
it on top of the cream. Finish the
6. Place the puff pastry slices on a rest the same way. Enjoy!
Are you celebrating King’s Day with
children? Have a try at poffertjes.
Basically they are mini pancakes and
the Dutch either buy them on the
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street or have a special pan to make
them at home, a poffertjespan.
Poffertjes
Ingredients
for 4 people
7 grams active dry
Instructions yeast
1. Combine and stir the yeast and 4. Transfer the risen batter to a 350 ml whole milk
milk in a small bowl. Allow to sit piping bag or large ziplock bag 250 grams all-purpose
until the yeast is frothy, about with a small edge of the corner flour
5-10 minutes. snipped off. Pipe a small amount
2 tbsp granulated
of batter into the cavities of the
2. Whisk together the flour, sugar, sugar
heated pan.
and salt in a large bowl. Mix in the
a pinch of salt
frothy yeast with milk and egg 5. Cook until the bottom is golden
until smooth. Cover with plastic and bubbles form on the top. Flip 1 egg
or a towel and allow to rest until to cook the other side. butter for greasing pan
bubbly and risen for about 60
6. Remove to serving dish and for serving: butter and
minutes.
repeat with remaining batter, powdered sugar
3. Place a poffertjespan over greasing the cavities as needed.
medium heat and brush each of
7. Serve with butter and powdered
the cavities with melted butter.
sugar or syrup.
Oranjebitter is a typical Dutch
alcoholic drink with an orange flavor
which was drunk at the coronation
of our first king in 1814. Please note:
making great oranjebitter takes a
couple of weeks!
Oranjebitter
Ingredients
1 tsp aniseed
8 cardamom pods
Instructions the peel of 1 orange
1. Wash the orange and lemon. Dry lemon juice and dried citrus. Pour (untreated)
them off and peel off the skin with the alcohol on it. the zest of 1 lemon
a peeler. Make sure to only peel (untreated)
5. Let it sit for 3 weeks, shaking the
the coloured skin, not the white
jar every day. Do not put the jar in the seeds of 1 lemon
inside.
a cold place: it needs to subtract
3 tbsp lemon juice
2. Place the peels and the saved in a warm place.
lemon seeds on a piece of kitchen ½ litre of brandy or
6. After 3 weeks, strain the drink
paper or on a tea towel and place gin (possibly another
with a tea or nettle cloth and mix
them on the heating or in the neutral alcohol such
the liquid with just as much water.
electric oven at a maximum of 50 as vodka)
If you want to, you can add some
degrees. Dry them until they are 75 grams light brown
red food coloring.
hard. sugar (or more)
7. A little bit of turmeric can help
3. Bruise the aniseed. Remove the ½ litre of water
turn the liquid in a nice yellow and
cardamom seeds from the pods
some drops of coloring turn the red food colouring
and crush them with the dried
drink orange. Dose very carefully! (or turmeric and
lemon seeds in a mortar. Make
8. Then leave the drink for another elderberry juice or
sure not to crush them so much
week. To get a very clear drink, syrup)
that it becomes a powder.
you can strain the drink again with
4. Get a large jar with a lid and add
a coffee filter.
the crushed seeds and dried
lemon together with the sugar, 9. Enjoy, but drink responsibly.
Hutspot consists of mashed potatoes,
carrots and onions. Your perfect
orange King’s Day meal! Did you know
that carrots used to come in a range
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of colors until the Dutch started
mass-growing the orange variety?
Hutspot
Ingredients
for 4 people
1 kg potatoes
Instructions 1 kg large carrots
1. Peel the potatoes, carrots and 5. Place the rookworst in its plastic 2 medium size onions
onions and and cut them in large wrapper in the pan for the last 10
1 tsp salt
chunks. minutes or follow the instructions
on the package. 3 tbsp unsalted butter
2. Put everything together in a large
pan and add enough water to boil 6. Drain the ingredients and add the 120 ml milk
the ingredients. Add some salt. butter and milk. salt and black pepper
3. Cover the pan, but allow the 7. Mash the carrot-potato mixture Dutch rookworst
steam to escape and bring to a with a potato masher. (smoked pork sausage;
boil over high heat. vegan versions are
8. Add salt and black pepper to
4. Reduce to medium heat and taste. also available)
continue boiling for 20 minutes
9. Serve the hutspot with the heated
until the potatoes are soft.
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