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Stamppot (Hotch Potch)
A quick, down to earth meal. Usually stamppot consists of mashed potatoes mixed with varying ingredients like carrots and onions (hutspot), raw endive or curly kail. Hotch Potch is served with fried bacon (cubes) and smoked sausage. That the Dutch are obsessed with delta works and 'stealing land from the sea', is illustrated by the habit that they like to dig a hole in the middle of the blob of hotch potch on their plates, and fill it with gravy. Usually this type of meal is eaten during the Winter months. As an example I'll give the recipe for Hutspot: Ingredients :
1 or 2 slices of lean bacon, 4 large onions, 800 grams potatoes, 800 grams carrots, milk, 4 table spoons fat, butter or margarine, pepper.
Preparation:
Wash the meat, boil in 2 cups of water and salt for about 2 hours. Scrub and mince the carrots. Peel, wash and slice onions and add them to the meat together with peeled and cut potatoes and carrots. Boil until done (about 30 minutes). Remove meat from pan. Mash all the vegetables and add fat, butter or margarine and pepper. If too thick add some milk (but a spoon must stand up in it). Serve with the sliced meat. The lot should be covered with rich, fat gravy. The dish is eaten as a main meal dish.
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