WHAT ARE TYPICAL MEALS IN THE NETHERLANDS? (24 hour dutch food tour) 

did anyone notice that we got one more use of the "DUTCH" bucket from the "are we learning dutch" video?! 😅

Put some good butter on your bread or bun. Without butter it is very dry. ❤❤❤

The borrel snacks are not a regular part of our daily meals. They are usually only done for special occasions and/or when you are with a group of people. Certainly not on a daily basis!

Dutch peanut butter actually doesn't contain *any* sugar, and is traditionally indeed considered a savoury spread (which means kids can have it on their first sandwich, because many parents have the rule that the first sandwich has to be savoury).

Crucial to put some 'Roomboter' on your bread, especially on the raisin bun with cheese

Loved the video! One little remark, hutspot = stampot. Stampot is a collective name for potatoes mashed with any kind of vegetable. So potatoes mashed with kale, sauerkraut, spinach, broccoli, endive or carrots is all called stamppot (stomped meal).

A small detail overlooked with Dinner is "jus" (gravy) , which is traditionally made of the baking/cooking juice of the meat with some additional baking fat and water if quantities are not sufficient. When adding extra fat and water make sure the "jus"has to cook again. The "jus" is usually afterwards added to the potatoes. Depending on the "jus" that can be a yummie experience too.. BTW cheese on bread (preferably with 'echte boter') can be enriched by adding sliced meat (e.g. ham) or mosterd...

For breakfast bread is usually eaten with sweet toppings (jam, hagelslag and peanutbutter) and yes also cheese. For lunch bread is eaten with cheese or some kind of meat. Most people eat bread with some butter on it and then the topping. Most people drink milk or buttermilk with breakfast and/or lunch and/or tea or coffee.

For Dutch pudding (not vla!), look for the ‘Mona toetjes’ in the supermarket. You can eat or scoop them directly from the bakje (about 450 ml), but it is more fun to open rhe bakje, put it upside down on a plate, and have a proper pudding! (Some variants also have an extra sauce at the bottom of the bakje, which functions as a topping when you put it upside down like that)

Very Dutch breakfast is also 'beschuit' with butter and either sweet or savoury toppings, or mashed strawberry instead of strawberry jam. Beschuit is round and very like toast, but toasted through and through. A lot of Dutch people eat something around 4 o'clock and that would often be the soup you prefer next to your sandwich at lunch :)

2:27 haha yes, that is how I take my lunch to work, some brown bread with cheese in the bag of a while ago

You can put the sambal also over the cheese on your bread

Put butter on the bread and bun 😅😅😅

I had fun watching you both trying the different foods, I hope you guys try ‘kibbeling’ soon, it’s delicious

Typical dutch lunch might be soup with a salad of a big broodje gezond. We always use butter on a sandwich and you should try a "12-uurtje".That s a combination of a small cup of soup, a snack with bread like a kroket, a slice of bread with for example tunasalad and a sandwich with egg but other combinations are possible.

Try a volkorenboterham ( instead of the coloured bread you ate ) wih mayo, sliced tomato, boiled egg and salt and pepper with a glass of buttermilk for lunch. And an apple or an orange for a snack. And never forget roomboter on your sandwich🙋🏼‍♀️🌷🇱🇺

We also have sliced meat on the sandwich,like corned beef boterham worst bacon

Great to see you eating vla and vanille kwark for the first time 😂👍 If you would like to taste a more challenging tradionall dutch desert, I would recommend Rijstepap, Gortepap, Griesmeelpap and Havermoutpap 😱😉

Other tip for dessert is a old and classic one,,Bessola . Its an old and very Dutch dessert. it is an old dish from Groningen originally. It was very popular when i was young but today not so much i think. Hard time to find it in Albert Heijn usually you will find it between the long-life milk and chocolate milk racks if they have it

Going the first week of Oct and again First Week of April with my Wife. Enjoying your content! Thank you so much! I have been a few times but you both cover great topics. I want to Sauna with my wife and that was fun soo many options. Food looks good!

I see a lot of comments about putting butter on your bread. I'm probably the weird one, but I don't put butter on my bread unless it's necessary, like with "hagelslag". Kwark wouldn't be in my meals, probably yoghurt instead, and I would eat some fruit during the day, but otherwise this looked like a "normal" day to me (well, not "taart" every day).

for the vla you need a flessentrekker, bottle scraper. To clear out the last drops. Then you are completely Dutch😅

You should put salted 'real' butter on your raisin bun with cheese. It will taste so much better. Don't use margerine because that doesn't enhance the taste of the bun and the cheese.

Don’t forget about the fruit. Most lunch pakketjes will have an apple or banana

You can spice up your broodje kaas (any rly) with with a little dab of mustard, usually smeared lightly across the cheese with the point of a butter knife. Also, you can flake up your (chocolate) vla by sprinkling some hagelslag on top of it or add a thick dot of whipped cream on top. Some say, sambal goes will with tosties too.. :-)

Don’t forget to put salt, nootmuskaat en butter on your beans! And you can add baked spekjes to the beans!

You pretty much nailed it. That's exactly how we eat. I'd only say most of us don't eat desert. And apple pie only for occasions.

Everything looked pretty Dutch to me, and so is a simple sandwich with a bowl of soup! A tosti is always ham & cheese, if you want something different, ya gots to specify it. Usually, I'll have some eggs for breakfast, but it could also be some kwark with fruit and muesli. Lunch could be a salad with a vinaigrette (mustard, pepper, salt, balsamic vinegar and olive oil) and a boiled egg. Dinner is like you said: AVG (but sometimes without the A). If it's really hot, I'll swap lunch and dinner.

Wederom een zeer vermakelijke video! 😍 I noticed something funny! When you guys are talking abourt "taart" you pronounced it like "tart", but when you say "tosti" it comes out as "toosti". 😂 Practice makes perfect! 😊 Ga zo door! 👏

Growing up with dutch parents living in Canada it was very common for my Mom to make homemade puddings and she would put Ribena sauce over it. When i was very young in the 60's Ribena was not in store so it was pudding and she also made alot of rice pudding. We grew up with homemade soup everyday before every meal, tiny meatball soup and beef soup, mushroom soap and pea soup. Do dutch people still make alot of homemade soup? My father had to eat it everyday so mom always had a big pot every week. We also ate alot of speculas cookies, they are my favourite to this day. Another thing she often bought at the dutch butcher was Peperkoek. We called it Candy cake and she would put butter on it. We also often got raisin buns with butter and sugar on top. Ah the memories, i miss my Mom. I am enjoying your videos so much, thank you.

Wintertime is coming and it's time to start making boerenkool, zuurkool, erwtensoep, hutspot. Bread is from lots of countries. When I'm in Colombia I eat bread as well. Nothing Dutch about bread.

All looks yummy. Thanks for sharing these foods

A good hutspot is also great. Or Hete bliksem (contrary to the name, it is not hot, but quite sweet, due to the apple sauce)

For me the Tosti has always been the best for lunch or breakfast. It tastes good, fast to prepare and fairly cheap and its basically something in between a cold and heated meal. Also you can vary between the optional sauces you serve with it. Ketchup is the classical choice but why not chilisauce or sambal. Ive always been a tosti eater lol, grew up with it. Soup is also great for lunch together with some baguette

For breakfast I have 250 grams of "kwark" with a cup of blueberries and some fruit lemonade to sweeten it.

6:15 Yeah, that's traditional with a Bitterbal... they are piping hot. When I was in highschool a bunch of us did catering for school dances and at one point the teachers asked us to cater the after-parent/teacher-meeting "borrel". They wanted to pay as little as possible so we were in mean mood. We sent out the first round of Bitterballen we let cool to a nice easy-bite temperature, and watch them bite them very carefully, surprised as they actually weren't burned by the lava-like temperature. We sent out the second round of bitterballen straight from the fryer... and we watched the carnage... 😁

Kwark met musli als ontbijt, broodje rosbief als lunch, gehaktbal met misterd gekookte aardappelen en bloemkool met kaassaus avondeten

There is pindasaus and satésause, they are similar, but the saté is "spicey"-er. There are multiple ways to make it yourself, and peanutbutter is a main ingredient, add some milk or water fo make it more liquid, some ketjap, if you want saté some sambal, make a sause out of it while it's on a low fire heating up. You can add multiple things to it, depending on the recipe you like, like honey. But that is the basics of pindasaus & saté saus.

Nothing beats a few slices of fresh bakery brown bread with some butter or margarine, jonge kaas and a tiny bit of Limburgse mosterd 😜. If you like the "vla", just like myself, mix the vanilla and chocolate flavors in a bowl. I prefer that over the "dubbel-vla" which has both in one carton but becomes a bit messy after a day or so. Ohw and ehhh.... I never eat a hot meal with fish/meat, veggies and potato without gravy !!! 😊

Also nice. Current bun with hagelslag, or pindakaas, or sugar. But cheese is very good as well!! Always with butter

You guys are getting officially Dutchafied! Try the Vanille Vla, it is great. Another thing that will be a suprise is ' Hete Bliksem ' with a dutch gehaktbal and gravy. And yes agree with below...just say the word Toss (like throwing something) and add a thee at the end. Toss-thee ;)

I don't think there is a thing in the Dutch diet that hasn't elements from other countries. Ever since trade became possible by ship, the Dutch were merchants. From that point diets became more varied, be that from Hungary, Poland, Germany or any of the European neighbours. And as for Asian influences: There is a nice Holland in Japan... When the Portuguese 'found' Japan they also invited a priest, that didn't bode well for the Portuguese. Basically the Dutch took over the trade the Portuguese had, without the ties to any other god than the Emperor. And of course Indonesia and Surinam.

We have coffee time in the morning (11am), tea time (4pm) both are a good excuse to eat cake 😂

A bit of mustard on your bread with cheese. Or augurken👍

If you go outside the city to the countryside, you'll likely still find people who eat their dinner as lunch, and vice versa. It was more widespread in agrarian areas until well into the 20th century. Farmers needed the energy boost of a hot meal to do their work in the afternoon. When I was growing up, I knew some people in our street who still ate their "dinner" at lunch time, even though they weren't even farmers. They were very devout church-goers, though, so this custom may have seeped into that community as well.

Try adding salted roomboter to your bread before adding cheese, peanutbutter or any other spreads or toppings. The krentenbol will also taste much better. Have you tried dubbelvla?

Nice video, you can look for De Schijf van Vijf. This is what they teach us at a very early age. You have to have 1 of all to live healthy. 👍

You definately need to try a sambal/peanutbutter tosti! The krentenbol is for us a great after school and in between snack. I also bring them along on road trips and on days like going to the Efteling. When we have a catered lunch at work they also add a couple of krentenbollen on the side (and ontbijtkoek). Usualy we eat them as is.

If you like the sambal and peanut butter combo, you should add some shredded cucumber and carrot and tofu of chicken its really good!

I always put hagelslag on my peanutbutter and I prefer Calve Pindakaas "de enige echte" :). Also yeah use butter with on your bread it makes it better or more complete.

Your peanutbutter sandwich with sambal can be greatly enriched if you add thin slices of cucumber (nice and cold form the fridge) Peanutbutter cucumber and sambal are a great combination anyways also without bread. For a great "borrelhap" you take 1cm thick cucumber slices add a slab of peanutbutter and top it off with sambal manis (the sweet and not so very spicy variant)

in my childhood we'd use becel or blueband margerine spread for the sandwhiches. it's very refreshing. maybe bland, you could say. it's basically just to moisten the bread. also highly reccomend a good tall glass of cold halfvolle melk from the melkunie brand so you become groot and sterk.

A little late with my response. When I was a child, let's say 4 to 8 years old. My mother made Brinta pap with cooked milk and sugar, that was about seven in the morning. You had to eat fast as when the porridge cooled down you needed a knife to cut it, so thick it went. Then up to school. I liked Brinta porridge a lot.

A pindakaas/hagelslag combi on a boterham is also a Dutch classic.

Pindakaas & sambal is the best 👌Cheese as a topping goes really well with cucumber and/or tomato by the way :) By the way, did you know we call a sandwich a "boterham"? (butter ham)

The bread bag!! 😂 sustainable, right? Don’t need to wash an extra lunch box either.

My breakfast is a very Traditional Oatmeal porridge.. I want a good breakfast.. and "Havermout" is my to-go breakfast.. it keeps you going till lunch..

Gouda with caraway seed! As a girl with Dutch heritage. And a Dutch grandmother. Put that between two slices of bread and a little butter. Melts my heart! ♥️

We usually put butter on the sandwiches and have a glass of milk with it (especially lunch). Breakfast it may be coffee or tea.

10:59 try the raisinbuns, krentenbol and add some roomboter 100% butter, no Enumbers or additives like poisonous margarine has

Personally I wouldn't have combined vla with kwark, but whipped cream (slagroom) instead... :)

You should try the 'Faja Lobi" Surinamese peanut butter. The sambal is already in there, AH should have it...

You have to try "Wentelteefjes" some time. Great lunch for kids (and adults😉). Wisk some eggs and let some (old) bread soke in it for a while. Than bake the egg covered bread and put sugar on it. Not healty but verry tasty😁

In the Netherlands, in every supermarket, you can buy cheese that has been matured for a different amount of time. Krentenbollen (currant rolls) with oude kaas (mature cheese) are very good.

Great edutainment video! I missed a glass of (half)volle melk with the boterham met kaas. Tipical dutch.

I love how enthusiastic you are about really basic Dutch dishes haha :)

They added vitamin D to butter because you don't get much of it naturlly, in England they didn't get enough sunlight and develped deformities. So a bit butter is quite healthy.

Nice video :-) Your day of Dutch food did not contain any fruits or uncooked vegetables like a salad or small tomatoes and slices of cucumber as a snack. We Dutch people do eat that. For example as a snack or some fruit with the krentenbol for breakfast and a salad or other veggies with the cheese sandwich.

Next time you go to the Hema, you must order a half hot rookworst in a little paper bag! It is nostalgic for me, and so delicious

I love to put a thin layer of mayo or butter (margarine/halvarine specially made for bread). And put cheese and slice of ham on it. Its such a great combo! Or cheese woth tomato slices.

A tip with kwark (and with a lot of calories): take a fruit kwark like the variant with strawberries, mix it with whipped cream and put some fresh strawberries on top. Also works with some Cruesli added! (We made that in our student time).

Kwark is very young cheese traditionally, but that is not how the ones in the supermarket are made. Those are just yoghurt that they took more moisture out of, I think by spinning it. So it is not surprising it tasted like yoghurt to you.

Interesting video, thanks! Kwark can be used also to mix for example with mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard etc. to make lean (dip)sauces (with less fat, ideal!). You can add garlic and other ingredients/spices/herbs. My friends and I do it all the time.

Oh man, I'm as Dutch as can be. Two slices of bread in the morning. Always one with North Holland "belegen" cheese (really North Holland otherwise I don't like it) and one with peanut butter and chocolate sprinkles and thick butter. For lunch I eat three slices of bread. Usually with cheese and some meat and sometimes I add some fish sticks or something like that. And in the evening I work more on it. Then it varies depending on what I feel like that day. Homemade pizza (I also make the dough myself and the sauce from only fresh ingredients and fresh herbs from our garden), sometimes just AGV, but also often a pasta (preferably with homemade pasta). It also makes a difference that I no longer work and therefore have all the time to put something tasty on the table every day. My wife never has to cook :-) I get on my bike every day to get the groceries I need for cooking. I never eat desserts.

I’m half Dutch/Hungarian so I may have a different taste; I eat these breakfasts and lunches every day, but with a couple of additions. As said in a previous comment; first put some good butter on your bread, it makes it so much tastier! On a cheese sandwich I like to put a swirl of strong French or Zaanse grove mustard on it. Or sambal, Hungarian Erős Pista (a very spicy paprika paste) or Hungarian Torma (a mild spicy horse radish paste). Or for a sweet variation fruit jam or honey. And always accompanied with boiled eggs and pickled basil tomatoes, cumin seasoned white cabbage and spicy cucumber. They all combine very well with all the cheeses, from young to old, Dutch, Belgian, French, Italian or wherever from. And the combination of walnuts, honey, cheese and thyme or rosemary, also goes really well, especially with a Camembert or Brie baked in bread … You break off a piece of bread and scoop a bit of the melted cheese with with the honey and walnuts, so delicious! Peanut butter sandwiches I usually eat with the spicy pastes or topped with sugar not ever with jam or jelly. For dinner, I don’t eat AVG al lot, although some combinations are very good. Most of the time I make stamppot, Hungarian, French, Italian, Spanish, Indonesian or other Asian dishes (Thai, Vietnam and Chinese predominantly), I’m a food addict 🤣 About deserts, you’re missing out if you do not try the Middle European countries; Kaiserschmarren from Austria, Somlói galuska, Gubacsi palacsinta, Szilvás gombóc, Kürtőskalács and madár tej from Hungary and many, many more. I could go on forever, … I know I’m a little biased, focusing on the Netherlands and Hungary because I know these cuisines the best

Raisinbun is krentebol. Very nice. I love yer channel

Pretty funny seeing u eat just bread with cheese. I know it's very typical! I personally like to lean towards "broodje gezond" or a variant of that with turkey 😋 Also if you want to make it really really old dutch, you should check if u can eat "poffert" or "dikke rijst" somewhere sometime 😜

Ok my typical dutch lunch is either a tin of herring in tomatosauce with a few slices of bread or a worstenbroodje. For worstenbroodjes come to brabant. Same place you got the boschebol

Well, the lunch sandwich had a bit more variety than just cheese, back in the days when we opened our lunchbox during lunch break at school... (50 years ago) What was on our bread? well, next to jong belegen of belegen kaas: Bebogeen Heinz Sandwich Spread Smeltkaas (komijn) Unox Leverpastei Now I live in Portugal (17 years) and all meals are warm/hot. Breakfast is pretty simple with just toast and butter, lunch break takes 2 hours (between 1 and 3 PM) mostly a 3 course meal and is always a accompanied by a good wine (even though work goes on after that until 7PM), and diner, well more or less the same as lunch! I actually can't remember specific how the examples mentioned above taste like anymore.....

You can combine pindakaas, with hagelslag, or aardbeien jam, also banana 😊

For those that don't know "Jong Belegen" cheese refers to the riping time it had laid on the shelf. They are laying... in Dutch is "zij legen", so belegen means more like it has laid. As a result jong belegen means young laid (and it is not perverted in this tense, get your mind out of the gutter). Here are the various riping times for Dutch cheese on average (also overjarig is overage): Jonge kaas: 4 weeks Jong belegen: 8 tot 10 weeks Belegen: 16 tot 18 weeks Extra belegen: 7 tot 8 months Oude kaas: 10 tot 12 months Overjarige kaas: 18 months or more

You could put pate (liver) on the raisin or muesli bun.

If i eat bread (Lunch) , i only use one slice , butter and cover it with what i have. Cheese (maybe thin sambal on it), ham, bacon (different kinds (katenspek, zeeuwsspek) maybe cheese and some slices of a hard boiled egg and tomatoe. But butter (halverine) is a must for me. Or a baked egg (Uitsmijter). Sometimes it is home made soup, and dip the bread in it. It can be a tosti or some to be baked off pistolets, slide them in half. Put a red sauce (BBQ) on it, some onions and peppers top it with cheese. Or ananas, ham and also cheese on top. So many options for lunch if you have the time, money for it. ( i now know what i want tomorrow, sunday, for lunch) Cooking tomatoes for 10 seconds to remove the skill easy. Bake them, season it well and throw in an egg or 2 if the tomatoes are baked, nd put it on a slice of bread.

To properly experience Dutch bread, buy it fresh at the bakery (every Saturday morning I go to the bakery for breakfast, or a supermarket with freshly baked products). Most supermarkets also have 2 types of bread, the cheap one, and one connected to a local bakery. Good butter must be used on fresh bread, because of European rules our bread cannot be too sweet or too fatty, so try real butter, or if you want to be healthy, magarine or omega3 butter. The experience of a slice of cheese on a sandwich becomes completely different, not to mention special cheeses in combination with arugula, or ham, or other types of toppings.

Peanut butter actually really needs sambal and cucumber. (the Surinamese way) I would highly recommend that.

Have you ever had a tompouce/tompoes? It’s a Dutch pastry made out of puff pastry and cream in the middle, with glaze on top. It’s really good :)

I see you're well introduced in the culinary desert called The Netherlands. The fact that's so much better than you're used to says a lot about American food. Good luck!

Peanutbutter with cucumber and a bit of sambal, very nice!

Next time when you're hunting for lunch. Go for a 'twaalf uurtje' or '12 uurtje'. It is the lunch special, and you will get a warm dutch lunch.

A variation on the rosin bun with cheese would be the rosin bun with cheese spread (smeerkaas). I use this a lot for lunch when I i'm going out of the office to visit clients and not being able to keep my cheese slices chilled and fresh. Just bring a bag of rozijnen bollen, a cup of smeerkaas and a knive and you are ready to go.

Personally I would put butter on my bread before adding anything else to it. Just bread with cheese is quite dry. The butter makes it much better. Most people use butter. This can be either margarine or roomboter (cream butter). The latter tastes better but does contain more fat than margarine.

Put the raisin bun with the cheese in de microwave for 10 seconds. that makes it even better..

Go to a cheese farm and you can see how they make it! And I miss the fruit at 10.00u and around 15.00u! You did the snacks we do that on special occasions, not everyday.

It was nice to see you eat Dutch food and see you like it as well! Don't forget to use butter on your bread otherwise it might taste somewhat dry. Plus: butter holds stuff like hagelslag in place. Whilst eating out did you notice that europeans use both firk and knife? That is different from the States. Where in the States it can be considered rude to wave your knife around all the time, the opposite is true in Europe 😊. Love to watch your videos!

Try a tosti with jong belegen kaas and salami. It’s heaven.❤

Raisin bun with cheese, yes. Raisin bun with peanutbutter, even better. 😁😁

trust me try add a slice of cheese on top of your peanut butter it is so good

For lunch i eat often a sandwich with cheese just like u did, but then always add on some tomato, cucumber or egg, or all of that 😊

Albert Heijn has pretty decent cottage cheese. You can mix it with diced tomatoes, & onion and greek yogurt. that is AWESOME salad :)

Don't forget the "jus" on your potatoes (gravy)