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 a splash of water the marrow. Return this to the pan 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 MiraPhoto Pangkey 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 5. Let it sit for 3 weeks, shaking the (untreated) 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 red food coloring. 75 grams light brown hard. sugar (or more) 7. A little bit of turmeric can help 3. Bruise the aniseed. Remove the turn the liquid in a nice yellow and ½ litre of water 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 elderberry juice or sure not to crush them so much 8. Then leave the drink for another syrup) that it becomes a powder. week. To get a very clear drink, 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 Mama Sunny Photo 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. 8. Add salt and black pepper to vegan versions are 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. rookworst..