🇳🇱 How to Make Stamppot

Craving Stamppot? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Stamppot at home, in about 45 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 1.5kg floury potatoes, peeled and chunked
• 500g curly kale, stalks stripped, shredded very fine
• 200ml whole milk, warmed
• 75g butter
• 1 rookworst (smoked sausage)
• salt, black pepper, nutmeg
• mustard, to serve

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Boil the potatoes in salted water for 20 min. Put the kale on top of them for the last 10 min so it steams rather than boils — boiled kale goes grey and sulphurous.
2. Warm the rookworst gently in a separate pan of water. Never boil it; the skin splits and the fat runs out.
3. Drain the potatoes and kale thoroughly and let them steam dry in the pan for 2 min. Wet stamppot is a sad stamppot.
4. Mash with the warm milk and butter. Warm milk, always — cold milk makes it gluey.
5. Season hard with salt, pepper and a lot of nutmeg. Stamppot is bland without nutmeg and nobody tells you that.
6. Serve in a mound with a well pressed into the top, the sliced sausage laid over and mustard on the side. This is boerenkoolstamppot; swap the kale for endive or sauerkraut and it becomes a different Dutch winter.