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- Chicken1
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- Main dish10
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How to pronounce Shrimp croquettes
Shrimp croquettes is written garnaalkroketten where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ɣɑrˈnaːlkroˌkɛtə(n)/. In plain English letters that is khar-NAHL-kro-ket-un, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.
What is Shrimp croquettes?
Shrimp croquettes is a snack of Belgium. Where it comes from: West Flanders. People usually eat it as a snack and at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are seafood, wheat & flour and dairy & cheese. It tastes savory and rich.
Where Shrimp croquettes comes from
Shrimp croquettes is one of 32 signature dishes of Belgium on this map.
- Tomato with grey shrimp tomaat-garnaal
Tomaat-garnaal, often called by its French name tomate-crevettes, is a Belgian classic: a ripe tomato, peeled or not, hollowed out and filled with grey North Sea shrimp bound with mayonnaise or cocktail sauce, usually served as a starter and popular on holidays.
- Moules-frites mosselen-friet
Mussels cooked in a covered pot with celery, onion and sometimes white wine or beer, served with a side of fries, are Belgium's best-known meal and are eaten in neighbouring northern France too.
- Liège waffle gaufre de Liège
Belgium has two main waffles.
- Carbonade flamande stoofvlees
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
Waterzooi is a creamy stew-soup from Ghent, often called Gentse waterzooi.
- Cuberdon
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.
Dishes like Shrimp croquettes in other countries
Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Shrimp croquettes:
- Croque-monsieur
The croque-monsieur is a hot ham and cheese sandwich from the cooking of Paris.
- Welsh rarebit caws pobi
Welsh rarebit is seasoned melted cheese, often mixed with ale, mustard or Worcestershire sauce, poured over toast and browned under the grill.
- Halve Hahn
Halve Hahn means "half a chicken" in the Rhineland dialect, but there is no chicken in it.
- Toast Skagen
Toast Skagen is one of Sweden's most common starters: a slice of bread fried in butter or toasted, topped with skagenröra, a salad of shrimp in mayonnaise or sour cream with dill, and finished with fish roe, a sprig of dill and perhaps lemon.