🇳🇱 How to Make Kapsalon

Craving Kapsalon? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Kapsalon at home, in about 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 600g thick-cut chips (fries)
• 300g doner or shawarma meat
• 150g grated young gouda
• garlic sauce (knoflooksaus)
• sambal or hot sauce
• shredded iceberg lettuce, cucumber, tomato
• an aluminium takeaway tray

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Fry the chips twice: once at 160°C for 6 min to cook through, rest them, then again at 190°C for 3 min to crisp. Single-fried chips go limp under the cheese, which defeats the dish.
2. Pack the hot chips into a foil takeaway tray. The tray is not optional — it is where the name comes from and it is how the heat is held.
3. Fry the doner meat hard in a dry pan until the edges are crisp.
4. Layer the meat over the chips, then blanket the whole surface with grated gouda.
5. Grill or oven at 220°C for 5 min, just until the cheese melts and blisters. Any longer and it turns to oil.
6. Pile cold lettuce, cucumber and tomato on top and zigzag garlic sauce and sambal over everything. Invented in Rotterdam in 2003 by a hairdresser — kapsalon means hair salon — which is a well-documented and slightly improbable fact.