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Made by the agricultural produce and history of Netherlands, the Dutch cuisine is described as limited diversity in dishes, high consumption of vegetables and wholesome dishes.

The country’s agriculture is made up of five sectors namely, fishery, animal husbandry, tillage-based, fruit-based and greenhouse-based agriculture. It is therefore expected that most of their dishes are based on these variety of products. The country is also well known for their good dairy products especially their cheeses.

Every New Year, Dutch people are fond of cooking oliebollen, appelflappen and appelbeignets. These are yeast dough balls which are filled with glace fruits, apples, raisins, sultanas and are usually served with powdered sugar.

The country’s meat products include gehaktballen meatballs, blinde vink, balkenbrij and meatloaf. For desserts, the Dutch people often serve vla, pudding or yoghurt and broodpap which is made of old bread, griesmeelpudding, grutjespap, Haagse bluff, Hangop, Karnemelksepap, Jan in dezak and many more.

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