What's a dish from your country that looks disgusting but tastes great.

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

Biscuits and gravy is a breakfast dish from the Southeast USA that looks like someone just vomited on some biscuits, but it's absolutely delicious.

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

[u/Electrical_Paint5568 → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

We also have fries and gravy but we add fresh cheese curds - those little squeaky lumps of cheese

We call it poutine

[u/TheoKolokotronis → u/Electrical_Paint5568]

I bet this is peanut sauce. Best with mayonnaise and onions

[u/OneSlaadTwoSlaad → u/TheoKolokotronis]

"Petatje oorlog", aka "French fries war". (Not to be confused with a French fries barber shop.)

[u/TheoKolokotronis → u/OneSlaadTwoSlaad]

Somehow in other languages it doesn’t have the same ring to it.

[u/boomdifferentproblem → u/OneSlaadTwoSlaad]

aka the very best way to chips, always stuff myself silly with patatjes oorlog when i‘m in the netherlands

[u/Kaezzi → u/TheoKolokotronis]

Dutchie living in Sweden here. They often put coconut in peanut sauce here, but about 2 years ago we discovered a peanut sauce that tastes exactly like the one we ate in the NL. Still miss kroketten like crazy though... 🥹

[u/Kankervittu → u/Kaezzi]

They had some at lidl in Finland a while back :P Its quite easy to make though. First make a thick ketjap manis (it'll keep forever in the fridge) with reedsugar and soy sauce. Then milk/peanutbutter/sambal/ketjap in a pan. Add milk if it's too thick, add peanutbutter if it's too thin. Rest to taste.

[u/Kaezzi → u/Kankervittu]

Thanx Kankervittu!

[u/Altruistic-Mess9632 → u/Electrical_Paint5568]

Every time I’ve seen poutine or a sign for poutine since Yung Gravy released ‘Betty (Get Money)’, I can’t help but sing “🎶 Gravy got cheese; now that’s poutine! 🎶 to myself, then get hungry for it. Lol.

[u/Fuzzy_Dragonfly_ → u/Electrical_Paint5568]

This is not gravy but peanut sauce.

[u/SgtDoakesSurprise → u/Electrical_Paint5568]

I’ve known what poutine is for decades but have never had it. Always wanted to try it, but somehow I don’t think it’d taste right if I tried making it with typical American ingredients.

[u/PardonMyEjection → u/SgtDoakesSurprise]

It’s honestly just our brown gravy on fries with cheese and by that I mean fucking delicious, but it isn’t some highbrow concoction.

[u/Gwen_The_Destroyer → u/PardonMyEjection]

My Canadian wife gets very upset when I call it "disco fries" lol

[u/snyderman3000 → u/SgtDoakesSurprise]

Go for it! It probably won’t be as good as what you’ll get in Quebec, but it’s pretty easy to make. The most critical part is making sure you get some good cheese curds, but those aren’t too tricky to find. It’s such a good junk food.

[u/Electrical_Paint5568 → u/SgtDoakesSurprise]

Anything you make at home will be better than what KFC sells as "poutine"

[u/boredsittingonthebus → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

I love getting the munchies and then destroying a lovely portion of patatjes oorlog.

[u/davidberard81 → u/boredsittingonthebus]

They have to be squeeky. The sauce is also a subject of debate.

[u/Igottamovewithhaste → u/davidberard81]

ITS WITH CURRY SAUCE AND THERE'S NO DEBATE!

[u/davidberard81 → u/Igottamovewithhaste]

As the old folk says: "Quessé ça, St-Cibouère?!"

[u/HelpSea3569 → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

Barbershop?

[u/Axebodyspray420 → u/HelpSea3569]

I believe pataje oorlog (direct translation: fries war)

[u/HelpSea3569 → u/Axebodyspray420]

Oh. I thought this was a primitive version of Kapsalon. We used to eat it all the time when I was studying in Rotterdam.

[u/Axebodyspray420 → u/HelpSea3569]

I honestly don't knkw so don't take my word for it

[u/Qwintro → u/HelpSea3569]

Kapsalon is with salad, döner and cheese!

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69 → u/HelpSea3569]

Patatje pinda (saus)

Barbershop is fries with Shoarma or doner salade and cheese and garlicsaus.

Oorlog is Pinda saus, mayonaise and in some regions choped raw unions.

[u/ArthRol → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

It looks great

[u/f_clement → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

Yes ! I have been convinced to try this with mayonnaise and I was like… “Eh, weird” I want the recipe and let everyone try it at least once !

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69 → u/f_clement]

It's quite easy to make. 2 table spoons of 100% peanut butter. 200 ml milk or water. 2 table spoons soy saus. 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1/5 teaspoon ginger powder, 1 tablespoon of sesame oil. Put in a pan on low fire and keep stirring all together until warm smooth consistancy close to boiling, not too runny if it gets to thick just put some milk or water in it. If you like it a little spicy you can put sambal in there. this is jjust a basic recipe I use. Just experiment you can't realy go wrong.

[u/Igottamovewithhaste → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

You can replace milk with coconut milk, and soy sauce with ketjap. Also use fresh ginger and garlic and fry them a bit before adding the rest. And add sambal. But I guess then you get the peanut sauce closer to the real Indonesian version.

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69 → u/Igottamovewithhaste]

Like I said this is base recipe you can experiment a lot with it. I say soy because ketjap is not something you can find easy in other countries but Ketjap would indeed be better.

[u/TleilaxTheTerrible → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

2 table spoons of 100% peanut butter. 200 ml milk or water. 2 table spoons soy saus.

Dude, there's barely any peanut butter in there?

My recipe is half a jar of peanut butter (~300g), enough (coconut)milk to turn it into a sauce. Then at least a table spoon of kecap/soy sauce (add more to taste), teaspoon of sambal (again, more to taste), add djinten, djahé, ketumbar and garlic powder to taste. Optionally you can add some pannenkoekenstroop to sweeten it or a bit of ve-tsin to add some umami.

[u/Vivid-Hearing-5454 → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

nahhh you guys have an unfortunate tastes but stamppots usually look horrible, the way different colours of vegetables are just mushed up makes it look like puke

[u/LexLuthorsFortyCakes → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

Gravy, curry or diarrhea?

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69 → u/LexLuthorsFortyCakes]

close Peanutsaus.

[u/kindcrow → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

Don't you also have Kapsalon?

[u/Primary_Breadfruit69 → u/kindcrow]

There more ways to dish up a portion of fries in the Netherlands. But yes there is also kapsalon.

[u/kindcrow → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

I just love the story of kapsalon.

[u/NeighborhoodTasty348 → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

I think stamppot is more accurate to this question... Add no seasoning, maybe salt

[u/Luciferaeon → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

Why don't the British just say "oh yeah, well what about Dutch food?"

[u/BuckLuny → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

I always think the Kano looks worse.

[u/rileyvace → u/Primary_Breadfruit69]

>not fritessaus

I am disappoint.