Traditional food of Brussels: 5 dishes

• Mitraillette · Street food · Brussels

  A mitraillette, French for "submachine gun", is a Belgian sandwich made from half a baguette filled with fried meat, such as a sausage, burger or steak, then piled with chips and covered with sauce, mayonnaise, andalouse, garlic, béarnaise or others, sometimes with lettuce, tomato, grated carrot or cheese.

• Filet américain filet americain · Main dish · Brussels

  Filet américain, often just américain, is very finely minced raw lean beef, a close relative of steak tartare, and a fixture of Belgian brasseries and butchers.

• Brussels waffle Brusselse wafel · Dessert · Brussels

  The Brussels waffle is a large, rectangular, very light waffle with deep square pockets, fifteen, twenty or twenty-four of them, made from a soft batter of flour, yeast, milk, water, butter, salt and egg whites beaten stiff, and baked in an iron with very wide grids.

• Pain à la grecque · Dessert · Brussels

  Pain à la grecque is a Brussels speciality: a long rectangle of milk bread baked with brown sugar and cinnamon and covered with coarse crystal sugar.

• Stoemp · Main dish · Brussels

  Stoemp is a Brussels dish of mashed potatoes mixed with one or more vegetables, such as onions and carrots, leeks, spinach, peas, cabbage or endive, seasoned with thyme, bay or nutmeg.

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