A time to tuck into hearty soups, stews and root vegetable purees, January is traditionally all about comfort foods in the Netherlands.
The focus of this overview is on Dutch-grown fruits and vegetables, venison and locally caught sustainable seafood varieties. We've also provided a list of recipes featuring seasonal ingredients for each section.
Dutch-Grown Vegetables
Beet (biet)
Belgian endive
(witlof)
Black radish (rammenas)
Black salsify (schorseneren)
Brussels sprouts (spruiten)
Carrots (bospeen, waspeen, winterpeen)
Cauliflower (bloemkool)
Celeriac (also known as knolselderij or turnip-rooted celery)
Celery cabbage (also known as Chinese kool, Napa cabbage or Chinese cabbage)
Curly Kale (boerenkool)
Daikon (rettich)
Jerusalem artichoke (also known as aardpeer, sunroot, sunchoke, earth apple or topinambur)
Lamb's lettuce (also known as veldsla, corn salad or mâche)
Leek (prei)
Mushrooms (champignons)
Onion (ui)
Parsnip (pastinaak)
Pointed cabbage (spitskool)
Potato (aardappel)
Pumpkin (pompoen)
Purslane (winter) (postelein)
Red cabbage (rode kool)
Radish (radijs)
Rutabaga (also known as koolraap, swede or turnip)
Savoy cabbage (savooiekool)
White cabbage (witte kool)
Recipes featuring January's seasonal vegetables:
Roast Beet Salad with Chèvre Recipe
Witlof, Goat's Cheese & Bacon Bites
Celeriac & Potato Stamppot Recipe
Sauteed Curly Kale Recipe
Jerusalem Artichoke Soup with Chanterelles
White Winter Vegetable Mash
Cinnamon Glazed Carrots Recipe
Pumpkin, Butternut, Carrot & Saffron Soup Recipe
Tart with Belgian Endive & Chevre
Roasted Root Vegetables Recipe
Puff Pastry Tarts with Leeks & Mushrooms
Potato & Celeriac Soup with Gouda Cheese Recipe
Cauliflower Mash Recipe
Roasted Hutspot Recipe
Pickled Beet Salad with Ash-Coated Goat's Cheese Recipe
Creamy Belgian Endive Soup with White Beer
Foamy Cream of Parsnip Soup with Prawns & Herb Oil
Steamed Cauliflower with Pastrami, Goat's Cheese & Arugula
Old Amsterdam Parsnip Bake
Pink Beet & Orange Soup Recipe
Crispy Cauliflower Salad Recipe
Pan-Fried Pointed Cabbage with Leeks & Bacon
Chicken with Purslane & Crispy Bread Salsa
Crunchy Coleslaw Recipe
Locally-Harvested Fruits
Apples (appel)
Pears; regular pears (handperen)and stewing pears (stoofperen)
Recipes with January's best fruits:
20 Dutch Apple Recipes
Beet & Pear Smoothie Recipe
Pear & Ginger Crumble Recipe
Apple Pie Muffins Recipe
Red Cabbage & Apples Recipe
Poached Pears in Red Wine Recipe
Kohlrabi, Celeriac, Carrot, Crunchy Apple & Currant Slaw Recipe
Tarte Tatin with Stoofpeertjes Recipe
Traditional Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
Dutch Apple Sauce Recipe
Port Poached Pears Recipe
Apple Beignet Recipe
Pickled Herring Salad with Sour Apples & Potatoes
Apple Syrup Recipe
Apple & Bacon Pancakes Recipe
Advocaat & Pear Muffins Recipe
Apple & Pear Chutney with Speculaas Spices Recipe
Seasonal Venison from the Netherlands
Red deer (edelhert)
Roe deer (female); (reegeit)
Wild duck (wilde eend)
Wild pheasant (male); (fazant haan)
Wild pigeon (wilde duif)
Wild rabbit (wilde konijn)
Recipes featuring January's in-season venison:
Roast Pigeon with Grapes & Celeriac Puree
Jenever Poached Deer Steaks
Roast Pigeon with Limburgian Apple Syrup Gravy
Sustainable seafood from the Dutch coast and rivers
Common Periwinkle (alikreuken)
Brown shrimp (Hollandse garnalen)
Cockles (kokkels)
Common Bream (brasem)
European smelt (spiering)
Flounder (bot)
Mussels (mosselen)
Oysters (Creuse oyster; European flat oyster or platte oesters)
Squid (pijlinktvis)
Zander (pike-perch or snoekbaars)
Recipes with January's seasonal seafood:
Scrambled Eggs with Shrimp Recipe
Mussel Pot with Trappist Beer Recipe
Mussel & Dill Tompoes Recipe
Mussels with White Wine & Samphire
Dutch Shrimp Croquettes
Shrimp & Cucumber Sandwiches
Mussel Soup with Sherry & Saffron Recipe
Mussels with Saffron & Ginger Recipe
Source: Het Nederlands Viskookboek; Milieucentraal Groente- en Fruitkalender; Wildplaza.com
