Hutspot
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Place of origin | The Netherlands |
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Main ingredients | Potatoes, carrots, onions |
Hutspot (Dutch), hochepot (French), or hotchpotch (English), is a dish of boiled and mashed potatoes, carrots, and onions with a long history in traditional Dutch cuisine. Hutspot is also found in the Indonesian cuisine due to their colonial ties.[1]
History of the dish
According to legend, the
The anniversary of this event, known as Leidens Ontzet,[2] is still celebrated every October 3 in Leiden and by Dutch expatriates the world over. Traditionally, the celebration includes consumption of a lot of hutspot.
Hutspot is normally cooked with klapstuk in the same vessel. Klapstuk is a cut of beef from the rib section. It is marbled with fat and responds well to slow cooking in hutspot. If klapstuk is not available, then smoked bacon is commonly substituted. The carrots used are generally of the type known as winterpeen (winter carrots), which give the dish its distinctive flavour ordinary carrots cannot match.
The first European record of the potato is as late as 1537, by the Spanish conquistador Juan de Castellanos, and it spread quite slowly throughout Europe from thereon. So the original legend likely refers to what the Dutch call a 'sweet potato' or pastinaak which is a parsnip; this vegetable played a similar role in Dutch cuisine prior to the use of the potato as a staple food.
The term hutspot (which can be roughly translated as "shaken pot") is similar to the English term hotchpot and Middle French hochepot, both of which used to identify a type of meat-and-
Similar foods
More a hearty meal than a side dish, hutspot is very popular during
The Swedish dish rotmos – "root mash" – is similar, save for the onions which are substituted with swede (kålrot). Potch, a traditional Welsh accompaniment to meat dishes, is likewise made with mashed potato, carrot, swede, parsnip and sometimes other root vegetables. In the UK and other countries, a similar dish of chopped potato, onions and more is referred to as a hash.
Despite the similar name, hutspot is a distinct dish from the Flemish
References
- ^ Indonesisch Kookboek Selamat Makan (PDF). Koninklijke Marine. 1999.
- ^ "Events - Netherlands American Society". Nassocal.org. Archived from the original on 2012-05-30. Retrieved 2012-05-21.
- ^ a b "hotchpot". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ "The Harleian ms. 7334 of Chaucer's Canterbury tales. Ed. by Frederick J. Furnivall". University of Michigan.