{"id":6884,"date":"2020-02-04T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wobben.org\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2020-02-13T17:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T23:38:39","slug":"how-to-make-frikandellen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wobben.org\/blog\/our-home-life\/at-home\/how-to-make-frikandellen\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make frikandellen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The most beloved fast food in the Netherlands is french fries with various toppings and accompanied by a large variety of mostly meat-based, deep fried snacks. The most popular snack is the frikandel. This sausage-like snack (no casing) is made of spiced, finely ground meat. It is cooked in simmering water and then deep fried.<\/em> And today, February 4th, is National Frikandellen Day!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The frikandel is older than us! <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

There have been similar meatballs for ages, but it seems that the actual frikandel as we know it, was first made by Jan Bekkers in 1958. He founded the famous Beckers factory a year later. Different spelling on purpose, likely to distinguish himself from other companies in the family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why we make our own<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Since we can’t import meat, you can’t find these frikandellen here in Canada, unless some company has tried to make some here. We’ve tried a few from Dutch stores in other parts of the country with varying success. But since we don’t have one here in Regina, we started to make our own. They have become the main attraction on our New Year’s Eve parties<\/a>! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our favourite recipe<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

We’ve tried a few different recipes that we found online and like this one on veelkantie.nl <\/a>the best. It comes close to the factory-made ones, but I think I need to use meat that is a bit greasier than the usual minced chicken and pork that we buy. Maybe we’ll add some pork belly next time. It’s just that we only have a very basic food processor and it helps to buy meat that’s already ground up. For the frikandellen it needs to be ground to a pat\u00e9-like paste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"mixing<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n