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Confuse????
About what?
Of course about the difference of bitterballen and croquette/kroket.

Please don't make it difficult or problem, just easy, make and eat. About name is later. Yup, innitially this food (bitterballen or kroket/croquette) is same. Smooth inside and crunchy outside. At least that's my first opinion.

This week is my beef table. It's mean that I have to create some dish that have raw ingredients from beef. We bought 2 kg of beef, so that should be make various food for us. Seems to be weird hah with the word 'various' ? Only 2 kg but should be various ;)

Yup, that's because we just a small happy family.

Through my invention about beef recipe, I found this one, bitterballen. Actually I like some dutch food, especially cause of the spices. How nice that I have a 'Dutch cooking today' book, so I can try all of recipes there. I got this book from 'Almost Forgotten Indonesian Culinary Heritage' event. As housewife who like cooking, and baking, I want to try the hole recipes.

As I know about bitterballen is one of snack box that I always got when my mother came from her meeting. I still remember that I didn't like much bitterballen, but I was wrong with my first. For second time, I really like this because I ate bitterballen with spicy sauce. Wooooow... I couldn't stop, one was not enough. When I like to eat this snack, I couldn't ask my mother to make it. She's too busy with her work. Oooh my.... Always pation to wait her meeting again and again, or just wait until we went to snack store. That's too long sometimes.

I don't want that happen again. My Mom is too far. And I can try to make it by myself now. How wonderful if I can make it and give it to My Mom ;) someday if I am there.

So everyone... it's time to make bitterballen, right?!
Bitterballen, litterally bitter ball, does not indicate that its taste is bitter, but that they were originally meant to be served with a bittertje (a small glass of Dutch jenever, not quite the same as gin). This just as I read. I don't know exactly how to serve in Holland, cause I never been there. Someday maybe ...

This is the information about bitteballen from wikipedia, (plural of 'bitterbal') are a savoury Dutch meat-based snack, typically containing a mixture of beef (minced or chopped), beef broth, flour and butter for thickening, parsley, salt and pepper. This is also called ragout. Some recipes also include nutmeg and/or curry powder. The ingredients are combined and cooked, then refrigerated so the mixture can firm up. Once firm, the filling is then rolled into balls roughly 3 cm in diameter, and battered in a breadcrumb, milk and egg mixture and deep-fried. They are typically served with a ramekin or small bowl of mustard for dipping. They are eaten in the Netherlands and Belgium, and hardly anywhere else. Popular on Dutch pub menus, bitterballen are very similar to kroketten (plural of 'kroket') in their ingredients and preparation/cooking methods, as well as flavour, though kroketten have a distinct oblong sausage shape, with a similar diameter, so kroketten are larger.

Hope you enjoy with this food. I am really grateful to my friend for the event that make me have the 'Dutch cooking today' book. Thank you friend ;)

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