🇳🇱 How to Make Hutspot

Craving Hutspot? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Hutspot at home, in about 50 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1kg floury potatoes, peeled and chunked
• 750g carrots, sliced
• 3 onions, roughly chopped
• 100ml milk, warmed
• 60g butter
• 500g klapstuk (beef brisket) or smoked sausage
• salt, black pepper
• vinegar, a splash

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Put the carrots and onions in the pan first with salted water and the potatoes on top. The carrots take longer and this stops the potatoes disintegrating.
2. Boil 25 min until everything is very soft.
3. If using brisket, simmer it separately for 2 hours beforehand and keep the broth.
4. Drain well and steam dry, then mash roughly with the warm milk and butter. Hutspot should stay a little coarse — you want to see the carrot.
5. Season, and add a small splash of vinegar. It lifts the sweetness of the carrot and most recipes leave it out.
6. Serve with the sliced beef and a ladle of its broth. Legend ties it to the relief of Leiden in 1574, when the Spanish supposedly left a pot of it behind.