Traditional food of East Flanders: 5 dishes

• Carbonade flamande stoofvlees · Main dish · Flanders

  Carbonnade flamande, in Dutch stoofvlees or stoverij, is beef stewed slowly in Belgian beer with onions, a little brown sugar or syrup, mustard and often a slice of bread spread with mustard that melts into the sauce.

• Waterzooi Gentse waterzooi · Soup & stew · East Flanders

  Waterzooi is a creamy stew-soup from Ghent, often called Gentse waterzooi.

• Cuberdon · Snack · East Flanders

  A cuberdon is a cone-shaped purple sweet, about two and a half centimetres wide, with a hard crust of gum arabic around a soft, jelly-like raspberry-flavoured centre.

• Mattentaart Geraardsbergse mattentaart · Dessert · East Flanders

  Mattentaart is a tart from Geraardsbergen in East Flanders: puff pastry above and below a filling of matten, curds made from whole milk and buttermilk, mixed with eggs, sugar and almonds.

• Aalst flan Aalsterse vlaai · Dessert · East Flanders

  Aalsterse vlaai is a centuries-old regional pie from the city of Aalst and its surroundings in East Flanders.

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