Traditional food of North Holland: 5 dishes

• Stamppot · Main dish · Holland

  Stamppot means "mash pot": potatoes boiled and mashed together with one or more vegetables, such as kale (boerenkool), sauerkraut (zuurkool), endive or carrots and onions (hutspot).

• Edam cheese Edammer kaas · Snack · North Holland

  Edam is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese named after the small town of Edam in North Holland, from where it was traded.

• Ossenworst · Snack · North Holland

  Ossenworst, "ox sausage", is a raw beef sausage from Amsterdam.

• Bitterballen · Snack · North Holland

  Bitterballen are small, round, deep-fried balls about three to five centimetres across, with a crisp breadcrumb crust around a soft, hot ragout of beef stock thickened with roux and filled with meat, seasoned with onion, parsley and nutmeg.

• Tompouce tompoes · Dessert · North Holland

  The tompouce, or tompoes, is a rectangular pastry of two layers of puff pastry with sweet yellow pastry cream between them and smooth pink icing on top.

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