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Gastronomic specialities in Amsterdam
The Dutch cuisine is not always very complicated and includes many typical dishes, such as a pea soup called "erwtensoep". Many times you eat this soup together with smoked sausages ("rookworst") and this is a single course, because besides peas and spicy sausages this dish consists of potatoes, pork trotter, lard, leeks, celery and white or wholemeal bread.
Some other typical Dutch dishes are vegetables, like sauerkraut, cooked with lard ("zuurkool met spek"), the "stamppot " (a Dutch stew composed by potatoes, different vegetables and meat), the "boerenkool met worst" (savoy and sausages) and the "l'hutspor met klapstuk" (meat stew and turnrips).
The Dutch cuisine is also made up by fish and seafood, such as trouts, salmons, crabs, shrimps, smoked conger eels (the so called "gerookte paling") and the world famous Zeeland’s mussels and oysters.
Another delicious dish is the herring: raw herring, grilled herring, smoked harring, marinated herring or harring with sauce served with hot potatoes.
You don't have to forget the different types of cheese often wrapped in wax in order to preserve their taste.