Traditional food of South Holland: 9 dishes

• Stroopwafel · Dessert · Gouda

  A stroopwafel is two thin, crisp waffles pressed together with a layer of warm caramel syrup, the stroop.

• Hollandse Nieuwe Hollandse nieuwe haring · Street food · North Sea coast

  Hollandse Nieuwe is the first herring of the season, caught in the North Sea in late spring when the fish are fat before spawning.

• Gouda cheese Goudse kaas · Snack · South Holland

  Gouda is a family of yellow cow's milk cheeses named after the city of Gouda in South Holland, where farmers brought their cheeses to be sold on the market square.

• Leyden cheese Leidse kaas · Snack · South Holland

  Leidse kaas, Leyden cheese, is a semi-hard cow's milk cheese flavoured with cumin seeds, made in factories and on farms, historically in the area around the city of Leiden.

• Hutspot · Main dish · South Holland

  Hutspot is a winter dish of potatoes, carrots and onions boiled together and mashed, traditionally cooked in the same pot as klapstuk, a fatty rib cut of beef, or with bacon.

• Kapsalon · Street food · South Holland

  Kapsalon is a fast food dish created in Rotterdam in 2003: a disposable aluminium tray filled with chips, topped with döner or shawarma meat and slices of Gouda cheese, put under the grill until the cheese melts, then covered with shredded iceberg lettuce and dressed with garlic sauce and hot sambal.

• Haagse hopjes · Snack · South Holland

  Haagse hopjes are small hard sweets with a gentle coffee and caramel flavour from The Hague.

• Jenever · Drink · South Holland

  Jenever is the juniper-flavoured spirit of the Netherlands and Belgium and the ancestor of English gin, which took its name.

• Kibbeling · Street food · Coast

  Kibbeling is a Dutch snack of chunks of white fish dipped in a seasoned batter and deep-fried, served hot with a remoulade or ravigote sauce.

Other regions in the Netherlands

• Traditional food of North Holland: 5 dishes
• Traditional food of Friesland: 3 dishes
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