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+ | ====Mock Stoemp-Saucisse==== | ||
+ | This dish is inspired by the experience of Maja Kuzmanovic, who moved to the Netherlands in the early 1990s. This is an account of one of her early encounters with Dutch cuisine: | ||
- | (an [[:open sauces/]] recipe) | + | “When I got invited to dinner by a family living in the Dutch countryside for the first time, I experienced a slight culture shock. The father of the family plopped a large pile of mashed potatoes on his plate. He explained that this was very healthy because it had carrots and onions in it, although I couldn’t quite discern either of those vegetables. He proceeded to cut a large sausage into small pieces and mix it into the potatoes. Then came the apple sauce, which also disappeared into the potato pile. After a couple of minutes of mixing and mashing, he finally used a spoon to make a valley (or a “kuiltje”) in the centre of the potato-vegetable-sausage-apple sauce mixture and poured meat gravy into it. “Here, this is our good Dutch ‘stamppot, |
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+ | For Open Sauces we wanted to enjoy the process of raw chopping and stamping for as long as possible, so we made three different “stoemps”: | ||
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+ | ====Mock Saucisse==== | ||
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+ | 1 “sausage” (slice of smoked tofu) per person | ||
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+ | Note: we used smoked tofu with sunflower seeds from Taifun – http:// | ||
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+ | Grill dry in a grilling pan, on the barbecue, or under the grill in the oven. | ||
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+ | ====Chocolate Jus==== | ||
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+ | * 80 g New Tree ‘Pleasure’ chocolate (or another ~75% Cocoa or Extra Bitter Dark Chocolate) | ||
+ | * 1 Handful Powdered “Trumpets of the dead” | ||
+ | * 1 teaspoon butter | ||
+ | * Salt and pepper to taste | ||
+ | * Water (to dilute to a desired consistency) | ||
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+ | Break the chocolate into small blocks and melt au bain-marie. Add butter. Slowly add the mushroom powder, salt and pepper to taste. Dilute with water if you want a thin jus and a less intense taste. | ||
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+ | ====Stoemp 1 – Purple potatoes and carrots==== | ||
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+ | * 1 kg potatoes | ||
+ | * 500 g carrots | ||
+ | * 1 onion | ||
+ | * Salt and pepper to taste | ||
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+ | Sweat the onion in a bit of butter. Add potatoes and carrots and a little water (just covering the vegetables). When soft, strain and mix in the other ingredients. Mash with a potato-masher, | ||
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+ | ====Stoemp 2 – Sauerkraut==== | ||
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+ | * 1 kg potatoes | ||
+ | * 500 g sauerkraut | ||
+ | * ~1 tablespoon paprika powder (to taste) | ||
+ | * A few tablespoons of cream | ||
+ | * Salt and pepper to taste | ||
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+ | Boil potatoes. Shred sauerkraut fine and fry it for a few minutes in sunflower oil with paprika powder. Mix the potatoes and sauerkraut with cream and spices. Mash. | ||
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+ | ====Stoemp 3 – Potatoes and olives==== | ||
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+ | * 1 kg potatoes | ||
+ | * 2 tablespoons olive oil | ||
+ | * 2 cloves garlic | ||
+ | * Yoghurt to taste | ||
+ | * 1–2 handfuls black olives | ||
+ | * 1 handful tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) | ||
+ | * Salt and pepper to taste | ||
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+ | Boil potatoes. Chop and mix in the other ingredients. Mash. | ||
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+ | ====Sourcing==== | ||
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+ | We bought purple potatoes, tarragon and New Tree Pleasure chocolate at a Brussels supermarket (Delhaize). Any dark chocolate would work. Potatoes (there was only one, nameless sort), tofu, carrots and onions were sourced from Den Theepot (http:// | ||
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+ | (an [[sidebar]] recipe) |