A bowl of crumbed bitterballen with cocktail sticks in the middle and mustard and mayonnaise beside
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Bitterballen

A very thick beef ragout chilled until sliceable, rolled into balls, crumbed and fried — crisp outside, molten inside, and always served with mustard.

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Resep oleh Dutch snack counters · 🏺 Tradisional · The café tray and the seaside stall — bitterballen with mustard, a paper cone of fried fish, and a herring held by the tail.

Dutch · café snackAn ownerless traditional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms the very thick meat ragout thickened with a roux, the chilling, the crumbed ball shape, the deep frying and the mustard served with it. Quantities, the double-crumb instruction and the timings are this book's own.

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180 mnt🍽 6 porsi🔥 380 kkal🇳🇱 Belanda
HalalBebas kacang

Langkah

  1. Simmer the beef in the stock with the onion for 2 hours until it falls apart. Lift the meat out, shred it very finely and keep 600 ml of the stock.

  2. Melt the butter, stir in the roux flour and cook 2 minutes. Add the hot stock a ladle at a time, whisking until it is thicker than any sauce you have made before.

    💡 It must be THICK — the spoon should leave a track that does not close. This is a ragout you can cut, not pour.

  3. Stir in the shredded beef, parsley, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Spread it in a tray, cover and chill at least 4 hours or overnight.

  4. Cut the cold ragout into 24 squares and roll each into a ball with cold, wet hands.

  5. Roll each ball in flour, then egg, then breadcrumbs. Then egg and breadcrumbs a SECOND time. Chill 30 minutes.

    💡 The double crumb is not optional. One coat splits in the oil and the whole thing empties into the fryer.

  6. Fry at 180°C for 3 minutes until deep gold. Drain, rest 1 minute, and serve with mustard — warn people about the middle.

💡 Tips

  • Fry one first as a test. If it bursts, the ragout was not cold enough or the crumb was single — fix it before the other 23.
  • The same ragout, shaped into a cylinder instead of a ball, is a kroket — the version that goes in a bread roll for lunch.
  • Bitterballen freeze raw after crumbing. Fry them straight from frozen, adding a minute.

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