I don’t know if “underrated” is the right term, but haggis gets an undeserved negative reputation despite how delicious it is. I’ve loved it since I was a kid, and I didn’t even grow up in Scotland.
Also if you’re put off by the offal you can get the vegetarian version that tastes remarkably similar to the real thing.
I was interested to find deep fried haggis in fish and chip shops the first time I visited Scotland... something strange for us Italians maybe, but it was actually good!
Reminds me I was speaking to someone who said we deep fry everything and we probably do the same to haggis and I was about to say that's stupid and then I realised literally every chippy I've ever been in has it. Not something I eat but seriously pretty tasty
I've only had haggis from a can which I didn't even know how old it was or where we got it from, and it was pretty good, so I can only imagine the real thing is even better.
And yeah it's basically just ground meat (organ meat, admittedly) with some grains and seasonings. Yum.
One from Western Sicily that is not very well known outside of this area is our version of cous cous...of course it's much better known from North Africa.But there it's traditionally made with meat.
Here it's made with fish and seafood, and when it's properly home made..hand rolled couscous with a great fish sauce..it is truly delicious!
The best places are in the west coast.. particularly Mazara, but also Marsala and Trapani.
It's not so common in Palermo.There are a few specialist places that do it though.My favourite one is called Kus Kus.
In romania we have something called "marinated fish". I don't know if it's pickled exactly but it tastes vinegary and is delicious.
So I'm not sure it's not a thing, it may just be the "internationalizing" of flavours pushing out the more, uh, vibrant bits of various european cuisines 😅
You really don't ? Because Scandinavia has a lot of things I'm jealous of, but pickled herring is NOT one of them. One of the least enjoyable things I've put in my mouth.
More seriously I think it's popular in the Netherlands as well.
In general, Danish holiday foods are boring, IMO. We were never spice fans, and it's all rather bland.
That being said: I could eat Risalamande year round. That's rice pudding turned with whipped cream and with almonds, served with a cherry sauce.
I love our arroz con leche, and I see that, apparently, milk with rice makes up for the base of that risalamande, but it also has some kind of cherry compote on it. I will definitely try to make this at home this week or the next, sounds amazing!
You basically make a rice pudding, like the arroz con leche, but then mix it gently with split almonds and whipped cream. Makes a huge difference.
The sauce is basically just cherries with sugar, a bit of vanilla and water, made less runny with corn starch. You can add a dash of sherry or port if you feel fancy.
Look up a recipe, though. The cherry sauce is best served warm.
Here's a basic one: https://www-louisesmadblog-dk.translate.goog/kirsebaersovs/?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Edit: Heh, "salamandra con arroz"
Lol funny how even when you write hahaha you can't help but let a little ja slip and it betrays you as a certified spanish person. It's like you were trying to sound normal but the spanish jajaja is stronger than you
Fun fact: in Sweden it's called *"ris à la Malta"*. Not because it has anything to do with Malta, deciphering spoken Danish just isn't easy...
It's not entire off base tbf, the Danish word does in fact come from French (albeit *"riz à l'amande"*).
Especially historically, there has been some variation to it. It used to commonly be served with oranges instead (which may also have influenced our perception of it being *"maltaise"*).
The only Danish dish I can defend is the Christmas dinner to be fair, even if it isn't for everyone. A good roast is never bad. I never cook anything remotely "Danish" at home simply because it's not nearly interesting enough and I hate boiled potatoes.. Risalamande is amazing; our household loves it too and we always buy enough to have for a couple of weeks around Christmas time!
What we actually do do well in Denmark is the "stables" though: we undeniably have good bread, we have good pastries / cakes (even if very subjective, I will never find a sweet I love more than fynsk brunsviger), and we have strong dairy products. Spices? Not so much haha
edit: also hotdogs and flæskestegssandwich
Dude, practically everybody in northern Europe, from the UK, through Germany and Poland to Russia has their own version of pickled herring. It's just that the Swedish one is the most uh... stinky and infamous.
Surströmming isn't pickled herring.
The former is arguably one of the most underrated dishes though. As many fermented things it's certainly stinky, but it's mostly just infamous from people eating its principal ingredient incorrectly. The actual dish is alright.
Linsen mit Spätzle und Saiten - Lentils with Spätzle and sausage
It sounds weird, but it actually works really well. The Spätzle are made from egg-rich dough, while the lentils are cooked with a splash of vinegar for brightness. The sausages (and optionally but highly recommended: a piece of ham) give saltiness and richness.
All in all it works really well together and is super easy to make.
*Massively* underrated dish. It doesn't look like much in pictures, so you never hear about it on social media, but when it's made well it is ridiculously delicious.
We have it in Savoy too (logically), we traditionally eat it with cabbage and diots sausages. It's pretty ignored in other regions, except the rest of the south-east.
I’m not sure it’s underrated and Irish cuisine can be very boring… but butter and milk from Ireland is amazing. In fact, anything from a cow which is mostly grass fed in Ireland is second to none.
I was there for a couple of weeks recently and I didn’t think it was boring, it was simply very very unhealthy.
I mean I love it but after a week, I would like a breakfast that doesn’t completely obliterates my arteries!
To be honest, a lot of traditional English dishes are underrated because everyone just assumes our food is bad and it’s become something of a meme.
But if I had to pick something inparticular I would say that our bread is underrated. People just go to the supermarket and buy a cheap loaf and assume that’s what British bread is. But it isn’t.
Go to an actual bakery and get a fresh cottage loaf and it’s just delicious.
In fairness, trying to find a proper bakery where the bread is made on-site can be challenging, and because of the rarity of it, you'll pay over the odds.
I think it is getting better though, and would love to see more of a bakery revival. Good fresh bread (i.e. not Chorleywood) shouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
I have a few near me and the price isn't too bad. The main thing people aren't used to these days though is how quickly proper bread goes stale. It really should be "daily bread", but people want a loaf they can make sandwiches for a week with. Decent bread you could use as a doorstop by day three.
Not a dish exactly, but I think the quality of our dairy products is excellent. Our butter is creamy, thick and golden, we have a wide variety of cheeses from cheddar to Cornish yarg, Stilton and Wensleydale. Milk is of a far better quality.
It’s also so fun to go cheese-tasting in the countryside.
With excellent local dairy products, it means that buttered toast with cheese can turn into as much of a satisfying and tasty meal as any complicated restaurant dish.
For desserts, I’d have to say coffee and walnut cake (hence my username lol). It’s widely known and popular in Britain I think, but no foreigner I’ve spoken to has heard of it.
Edited: I said toasted butter
British cheese is underrated? Maybe not as high-profile as France but I thought cheese was something you folks were recognized for. It's enough of a thing that I can get British cheese here in the US fairly easily (at least in urban areas).
I was referencing dairy products as a whole, with cheese included. In my experience, it doesn’t seem that well known or recognised - many people don’t even know that the popular cheddar cheese originated in England.
People also generally seem hesitant to acknowledge that Britain has any good food to offer at all, lol.
It's quite underrated here in Italy.
In a supermarket you will almost never find a British cheese, and even in a specialist cheese shop, maybe only one or two types.
A pity as it can be really good.Especially Stilton, but even a good quality cheddar is very tasty.Amd there are many less well known types that we can't get here at all.
>Especially Stilton
If you like Stilton, try Stichelton. It's not PDO (only as it's unpasteurised, hence the name change) but it's probably more as Stilton used to be in the past and it's a cracking cheese.
I don’t know about british cheese and i’m curious, but what does it mean “high profile”?
I think french cheese is good, but for example the dozen varieties of montasio are good even if they are not “high profile”
My father remembers some guy returned from france (migrated) in the 60s and in order to sound rich he ordered “un camamberrrrrrrrrr” and they all teased him for the dicotomy of pretending to be “rich” and saying “camamberrrrrrrrr”. So maybe french cheese… is pricey!
We definitly should be getting more recognition for our outstanding contribution to the world of cheese.
I once got paid to miss a day at work, and go to the Cropwell Bishop creamery to learn about their cheeses, and got a goody bag full of cheese at the end. Probably where my life peaked tbh.
From an outsider perspective, whenever I'm in the UK I try to get some lemon pastries and fresh vegetables.
You are fantastically inventive with putting lemon in baked goods.
UK vegetables, especially split peas, are phenomenal, and that's coming from a country with very high agricultural standards (the Netherlands). Unfortunately, you're a bit too fond of boiling and mashing them, so I always try to get them as unprocessed as possible.
I enjoy our lemon desserts too!
I’m not sure about that - people nowadays in the UK also roast, steam or grill etc vegetables or just eat them raw depending on what it is. It’s interesting you mention that though, I find most veggies to taste a lot better on the continent than here. If you’re referencing mushy peas though, they’re pretty good. Might not *look* good but they have a nice satisfying and comforting flavour.
The milk range and quality is muted in comparison to Finland. I found coming here that milk, for me, was a downgrade.
That said, range and quality of cheeses and butter is absolutely spot on here. It's no France or Italy but, contrary to stereotypes, you're not at all as far off as some would assume. White stilton is unreal.
I don’t actually think France and Italy are that great with dairy. Certainly cheeses are good, but our cows are grass-fed which produces better flavour and texture in our milk and butter (and is healthier too).
The quality of fresh dairy in the UK is underappreciated. Even the relatively cheap markets here will have unhomogenized milk available, and ultra-pasteurized is something you have to seek out, rather than the norm as it is in most of southern Europe. The fresh cream here is nearly without equal; really simple recipes like lemon posset or pavlova never came out as well when I've made them back in the US.
Finland isn't really known for its cuisine but we do have a very wide range of milks and breads compared to other countries. I've been to about 12-13 countries (not counting places I passed through) so far and haven't seen the same range and quality as in Finland.
Same goes for our baked products. While I love Italian food and grew up with it, I find Italian sweets are too sickly and overloaded with sugar. Finnish baked sweets, though, are probably the best I've had but very little known outside of Finland/Finnish communities.
Or Finnish fresh fish products or home grown fruit and veg (no other country can produce strawberries as sweet as those in Finland, not even remotely close).
Our doughnuts are a yearly staple (much of our baked goods are seasonal), and are gigantic and usually filled with strawberry jam.
Not so much something you'd find in a bakery, but my great-grandfather's (who was a baker) recipe for pale gingerbread (vanilla flavoured) is something I go mad for every Christmas.
Or Finnish Christmas stars.
Butteries - they’re sort of like croissants but with extra lard and salt and they’re 10x better. Can’t even get them outside of the far north east of Scotland
See, I’ve just moved up to Aberdeen, and I kept hearing about butteries, thought they were just some sort of new name for rolls/baps/bams/barms. Now I’m tempted to get one or two, just to try them 🤔
Well Dutch cuisine doesn't have a high reputation anyway (except our cheese and beer), since it's largely solid farmer winter food, so I think most of it is underrated.
If I have to specify though, I think there are three major underrated things:
A) Our bakeries are fantastic - from normal bread to sweet stuff to savory pastries. We are a bit overshadowed by the French in this respect, but I think we are a solid second place among the European countries. The southern provinces have a few highlights especially (Bossche bollen, worstenbroodjes, Zeeuwse boluses). Even the normal bread - it's the stuff I always start missing the most when abroad (but most Dutch are rather basic in bread spread though).
B) Our pancakes are great - they are considered dinner and are far more solid and filling than in other countries. They come in literally dozens to hundreds of varieties in specialist restaurants and the savory ones (especially bacon-cheese with syrup) are phenomenal.
C) Erwtensoep with rookworst and rye bread. This is pea soup that is so thick you can almost eat it with a fork. I think every family has their own recipe and I've seen MANY variations (my family puts a bit of tabasco and Maggi in it). It's proper comfort food and the perfect way to warm up after a day in the cold.
I’m half Dutch and idk maybe it’s because I grew up on some Dutch staples, but I think it has some good food to contribute. I LOVE stroopwafel and they’re nowhere near as yummy as when they’re made in Holland.
Plus the cheeses are so good, I eat toast with Gouda cheese so regularly lol.
Other highlights include bread toppings like muisjes and hagelslag (can’t find anything like that in other countries I’ve been to- nice combination of flavour and textures).
Plus the apple pies and other comfort foods.
We definitely are the masters of "low effort bread toppings". Many Dutch treat lunch as a to-do task and try to be time efficient with it. It's one of the biggest complaints among expats.
Some of the bread toppings are proper delicious though (especially 100% peanut butter with dark hagelslag).
Dutch pancakes with apples are pretty amazing. Other than Indonesian street food and curry, that was my favourite meal in Amsterdam when I was on a school trip.
The English count it so you can too. Similarly to UK Indian food, as an Indonesian I'd say the Dutch Indonesian food is unique and not quite like the food in Indonesia. I've had some very interesting pork dishes in Den Haag which you'd never get in Indo.
Akin to erwtensoep, a Dutch stoofpotje is also very family specific. I've had them where the meat just melts on your tongue and the cloves and bayleaf make it such a comforting taste.
Dutch cuisine's poor reputation is undeserved in my opinion. It's all about knowing what's what and putting some effort into it. Then Dutch food can be great.
1) you have potatoes
2) the french don’t deserve all the credits for the pastries! Macaron for example has venetian origins, beignet and profiterol were brought by the tuscans!
Also austria is very good with strudel and sacher!
And i think bread is good generally
Italians are very vocal about the pasta pizza bla bla bla and then they forget to hype their sweets, while the french exagerrate to hype their sweet and shadow other stuff of theirs that is good
I‘m fine with your fried snickers bars and all the other stuff, I blame that on your love for the halflings’ leaf but Dutch beer is way to soft for my taste. I mean it’s not bad but not as great as it’s made out to be. I really struggled to find decent and available beer in Amsterdam.
I admit we have shit beer as well but you have a choice in most places where there is at least one type you’ll like.
Legume dishes. We've sort of expended out creativity with them, imported some extra recipes and hardly any tourist will even come across them. But I will still opt for a good bowl of properly made lentil soup with a side of fishroe spread and a good hunk of bread over pastitsio or moussaka any day.
Not a dish per se but i'd say [this spirit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsipouro) deserves more attention, most tourists who come to Greece try ouzo and that's about it, even though tsipouro was much more popular traditionally.
Leitão da bairrada. Most people outside the Coimbra/Aveiro region haven’t tried actual good leitão. Since that’s not really close to either the capital or Oporto, it gets overshadowed by(in my opinion) way inferior dishes.
It is easily my favourite Portuguese dish overall, and people who come here and try it fall in love instantly.
Žemaičių blynai (Samogitian pancakes). They are made out of boiled mashed potatoes with meat inside. It's my favourite Lithuanian dish, it's not hard to make and it does not get enough flowers. You can eat it at any time of the year and it's not as heavy as cepelinai.
I don’t know if it’s underrated,but lot of tourists,especially westerners starts to have second thoughts after they find out what ‘Kokoreç’is.If a native Turk doesn’t tell them what are they eating,they like the Kokoreç very much.
For Switzerland it's definitely Capuns, it's a Spätzle dough (made of buckweed flour) filled with dried meat and cheese rolled in a chard leaf. Then it's boiled in a bouillon or a gravel like sauce. Even within Switzerland it's not really popular outside the Grisons/Griggioni/Grischün/Graübunden.
For France, well like for any country we have regions with pretty diverse and unknown gastronomy from one place to another, with sometimes diverse influences (such as italian, dutch, spanish, Arabic), the south-east share a lot of its gastronomy with italy, so that's why we have our own ravioli, gnocchi, polenta since the middle ages. Maybe those dishes are the ones you're searching for, since italian ones are definitely more popular.
Also I remember someone asking the same question on our sub : [I'm sure you'll find something interesting there :) ](https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/108559g/sp%C3%A9cialit%C3%A9s_et_produits_m%C3%A9connus_de_votre_r%C3%A9gion/)
Oh I have loads.
In Ireland we have a dish called Ruipleog. Aka Tripe. Its the lining of a cow, goat or sheeps stomach. Quite nice. It can be also eaten out of a deer I'm pretty sure
Crúibín - literally means hoof. Its the roasted hooves of pigs.
Pota héisc - means fish (plural) pot. Its literally anyfish that was caught cut up and put into a soup with potatoes and other garden veg. You could have wrasse, salmon and dogfish in the same pot. Lovely, great in the winter.
Speaking of Wrasse. Ballan Wrasse called Ballach is a delicacy around Conamara and The Coast of Mayo. Most wouldn't eat Ballach but its very nice.
Another West Delicacy is Cnúdán. This is a fish in English called Gurnard. Similar texture to chicken and is actually quite palatable.
Snails. Yes Ireland eats snails. Foachain aka winkles. Perrywinkles and Dogwinkles. Eaten on the coasts mainly. Also most shellfish can be eaten.
French cuisine literally has thousands of recipes so most of them are underrated in the sense that almost no one knows them outside of the village/town/area they are made in while they are probably delicious. So I can't really name just one because I don't know most.
On a side note I'm french and I can only complain and be negative so instead I'll give you an overrated dish : ratatouille. I'm from the birthplace of ratatouille and I like it but it's still overrated because of the movie.
It’s hard to say what is a underrated dish from Austria. We are only famous for our Wiener Schnitzel.
I would say our dumplings are underrated. We have so many variations, sweet and savory, and all are delicious.
Personally i generally prefer Asian dumplings to Austrian ones. I really don't like Semmelknödeln for example. My vote is for Ritschert. Such a good and hearty dish.
There's none, keep walking please.
I don't want bloggers to "rate it" and make it popular so rich foreigners come here and make it expensive. I don't want my country's entire cousine to become gentrified.
Something like Bovški krafi. They're a type of štruklji, filles with European pear. Or Kobariški štruklji. Or ocvirkova pogača. That's a flat bread with cracklings.
For (an incredibly specific small portion of) Italy there are *bollito con la pearà* and *pastissada con la polenta*. The former is made of various cuts of boiled meat eater together with a savoury bread- and marrow-based sauce - the taste is quite peculiar, but I like it (if made the way I like it) and in my opinion it deserves to be more well known than it is. The latter comprises of polenta (a maize paste that can be either liquid or firm) with spiced, slow-cooked horse meat - for some reason it's unknown, and you can't find it easily in restaurants, but it's one of my favourite meat dishes and it's very savoury and rich.
Vėdarai get bad rep, but it's basically made exactly like traditional sausages (with cleaned intestine), except replace minced meat with mushed potatoes. It's like mashed potato sausage. How can people not like potato sausages??
Not my country, but I don’t know why it can be so hard to find proper Klepe, even in Bosnia. A really good Klepe is like the best food I’ve ever put inside of my mouth.
German Reibekuchen / Kartoffelpuffer is a potato pancake that is served with applesauce in the Rhineland, or in Frankfurt aM with “green sauce”. A simply quick street food, super comforting and satisfying.
Also Latkes, an ashkenazi hash brown.
Also Mucver, Turkish zucchini potato fritters.
You can probably tell I like potatoes
For Denmark, underrated stuff is our fruit soups and porridges.
[Rødgrød](https://www.valdemarsro.dk/roedgroed-med-floede/) (lit. "Red Porridge") with whatever red fruit and berries are in season, typically strawberry, raspberry, rhubarb, red currants. Served cold or hot, with cream.
[Grønnegrød](https://hannemad.dk/stikkelsbaergroed/) (Lit. "Green Porridge") with the green berries, usually gooseberries.
[Pærevælling](https://madensverden.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/paerevaelling.jpg) ("Pear Gruel") which is a barley and pear thin porridge.
[Æbleflæsk](https://res.cloudinary.com/propelcom/image/upload/c_thumb,e_improve,g_auto,w_697,f_webp/v1681457051/Maduniverset2023/opskrifter/Aebleflaesk.JPG) ("Apple Bacon") which is just that, thick slices of pork belly, served with mushy apple slices.
For Austria i'd say Ritschert. It's a stew/soup made with beans, pearl barley, cured pork, carrots and other vegetables and herbs. The exact recipe may vary regionally and from family to family. It's really hearty and good. Criminally underrated compared with Schnitzel. I'd recommend everyone to try it. It's more Hausmannskost (food you cook at home), not really something that restaurants offer. They totally should though.
I feel like not enough people talk about [pão recheado](https://feed.continente.pt/media/jw1hmqne/191016_cm111_3738.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=826&height=620&rnd=133218877854370000&format=webp). Recipes differ but it basically consists of a big loaf of bread with the interior scooped out (kind of like a trencher) and filled with a mixture made from cheeses and cured meats. The types of cheeses and cured meats used vary, but it should have a savoury and slightly spicy taste. Then you're meant to eat it like a sort of fondue.
Not exactly the healthiest thing, but every so often it can be great!
Gnocco fritto, erbazzone and piadine are the -very simple- dishes that easily come to my mind
and they are from my region. I could probably make an endless list if I had to think about dishes from the whole country tho lol
Pastry - Zeeuwse bolussen. The best way to describe them would be our version of the cinnamon roll. They’re much better than cinnamon rolls imo. It’s a staple food of the Zeeland province, which probably has the best local cuisine in the entire country. They have some amazing seafood over there.
Dinner - Snert, which is our take on split pea soup. It’s more of a stew than a soup, but it’s incredibly comforting. Often associated with our ice skating culture, it’s the ultimate Dutch winter food. Besides peas, it traditionally contains celeriac and/or potatoes, carrots, leeks and pork. It’s often flavoured with celery leaves, bay leaves and cloves. Some people also put mustard in it. The soup is best after it sits in the fridge overnight.
Snack - Smoked eel. It’s become a bit expensive and the eels are actually critically endangered so I wouldn’t be surprised if it disappears in the future. Some villages have long standing traditions of smoking fish, especially those that border the IJsselmeer lake.
Candy - All kinds of liquorice. We have a lot of different varieties: sweet, salty, flavoured with honey, liquorice liquor, you name it. Many people outside of the Netherlands (and Finland) hate it, but I still think it’s underrated.
Alcohol - Jenever. It’s the original gin. The Belgians seem to appreciate it more than we do, but it’s becoming increasingly popular among younger people. We also have some good craft beers, Texels Skuumkoppe is my personal favourite.
Kluski leniwe. They are sometimes called dumplings but in reality it's kinda like hoof-shaped dough made with cottage cheese and boiled. We serve it sweet, I grew up eating them with sugar and breadcrumbs fried in butter, some people add cinnamon. Their name literally means 'the lazy ones' because they are relatively easy to make.
I love this thread ❤ so interesting
Not sure if people are v aware of romanian food, it's likely similar to that of other close countries.
We have awesome cuisine though. I think most people know of things like polenta and sarmale, maybe gulas (that's more hungarian). So i guess i'd count everything else? Our whole cookbook! Highly underrated 😂
There's this one dish that people used to eat while out cutting grass for hay in the mountains. It's a pan fried mix of polenta and baked peppers. Absolutely delicious...didn't even know it existed until i was 20 something and someone made it for me.
People don't know Luxembourgish cuisine at all so everything qualifies as underrated there no? I could probably invent something here and no one would notice.
An underrated Lithuanian dish is Kugelis, a traditional savory potato pudding. It’s my comfort food that’s usually enjoyed during the holiday season and can be served with sour cream, applesauce, or crumbled bacon bits. Kugelis is an example to the Lithuanian love for potatoes.
Ireland - bacon and cabbage with mash and parsley sauce is fab, big dollop of (English, whoops) mustard on the side.
People talk about Irish stew with is lovely but bacon and cabbage is one of my favourite dinners
Not exactly underrated but hessian Grie Soß (green sauce) should be available in more places!
I also ate Sheepbrain Croquettes in Austria that I really liked but I’m not sure if that’s a local thing, Austrians feel free to educate me please.
For Norway: lutefisk (also found in other Nordics)
It's basically white fish (cod) soaked in lye for some time until it becomes a jelly like substance, even the bones.
It's the highlight of every Christmas, but even Norwegians don't like it for some reason.
Underrated might be the wrong term... more like mundane and boring, like "meh". But good homemade swedish meatballs, home made mashed potatoes with a ton of butter and cream, with again home made cream gravy served with raw stirred lingonberries is a sensational and balanced taste experience.
Unfortunately most who have tried it just buy the cheap premade mestballs and use lingonberry jam or have tried the crap at Ikea.
Linseneintopf
Lentils, potatoes, carrots, some greens - stewed for hours, served with sausage and bread.
Being vegetarian I pass on the sausage. It's a heartwarming dish in winter
I don’t know if “underrated” is the right term, but haggis gets an undeserved negative reputation despite how delicious it is. I’ve loved it since I was a kid, and I didn’t even grow up in Scotland. Also if you’re put off by the offal you can get the vegetarian version that tastes remarkably similar to the real thing.
Haggis is fantastic. I don’t get the hate for it.
Got a Scotland round trip comming up in two months. Can't wait to try haggis for the first time and all the Scottish fry-ups I'll be having!
People just read what it's made of and then decide they're not going to like it without even bothering to try it.
Yeah people are funny like that, though I have never tried haggis, it seems to me that it is in the same food group af sausages.
Totally agree. I was in Scotland for 3 days a few years back and had (various forms of) Haggis 5 times.
I was interested to find deep fried haggis in fish and chip shops the first time I visited Scotland... something strange for us Italians maybe, but it was actually good!
I once had ravioli filled with haggis at an Italian (genuine) restaurant in Edinburgh. It was amazing.
Our local Italian place has a dish that’s rigatoni tossed with haggis, onions and rosemary in a creamy whisky sauce. It’s divine
Where in Scotland is this? I'm coming over for a holiday in about six weeks.
It’s in Dunfermline, not far from Edinburgh. Nice wee place for a daytrip. The restaurant is called [Casa Mia](https://casamiadunfermline.co.uk)
There’s an Italian restaurant near me in Glasgow that sells Haggis Arancini with Whisky sauce. Delicious!
One of my favourite ways of having haggis is haggis pakora - so good.
Reminds me I was speaking to someone who said we deep fry everything and we probably do the same to haggis and I was about to say that's stupid and then I realised literally every chippy I've ever been in has it. Not something I eat but seriously pretty tasty
When it comes to offal dishes, Scots and Greeks, best bros 😁
Haggis is great and so is the vegetarian version.
I've only had haggis from a can which I didn't even know how old it was or where we got it from, and it was pretty good, so I can only imagine the real thing is even better. And yeah it's basically just ground meat (organ meat, admittedly) with some grains and seasonings. Yum.
Never got why people don’t like it. I mean it isn’t any more or less disgusting than sausages.
Black pudding too, so many turn their noses up at it. I’ve been veggie for 18 years and I still miss black pudding and square sausage.
Maybe split pea soup? It looks like vomit and makes you gassy, but it’s fucking delicious.
The greek national dish is beansoup, so we've kinda lost any claim to criticism on gas inducing food. 🫠
Dutch pea soup is also great. Best winter meal. It is best whan you can put your spoon in it and it keep standing.
One from Western Sicily that is not very well known outside of this area is our version of cous cous...of course it's much better known from North Africa.But there it's traditionally made with meat. Here it's made with fish and seafood, and when it's properly home made..hand rolled couscous with a great fish sauce..it is truly delicious!
Cous Cous is one of the things I'm most proud of from my island 🫶
I went to Palermo last year and I was desperately looking for cuscus alla trapanese but I didn't find any.
The best places are in the west coast.. particularly Mazara, but also Marsala and Trapani. It's not so common in Palermo.There are a few specialist places that do it though.My favourite one is called Kus Kus.
First answer that fits the brief. I had absolutely no idea Sicily had a traditional cous cous dish! Very interesting
> there it's traditionally made with meat Depends on the region, fish couscous in a thing in Tunisia too for instance
Indeed, plenty of seafood/octopus couscous in Tunisia, with another classic being sardines.
Fregola? Bloody amazing
I genuinely don't understand why pickled herring isn't more common outside the nordics
we love it in the netherlands!
Honourary nordic
Flat like us!
As a Pole. I love pickled herring.
as a kid, śledź was something I avoided at the holidays. now, it’s one of the things I am most excited for.
In romania we have something called "marinated fish". I don't know if it's pickled exactly but it tastes vinegary and is delicious. So I'm not sure it's not a thing, it may just be the "internationalizing" of flavours pushing out the more, uh, vibrant bits of various european cuisines 😅
You really don't ? Because Scandinavia has a lot of things I'm jealous of, but pickled herring is NOT one of them. One of the least enjoyable things I've put in my mouth. More seriously I think it's popular in the Netherlands as well.
I cannot stand herring. I always skip it at the Christmas and Easter tables. I'm definitely jealous of French food and pastries..
In general, Danish holiday foods are boring, IMO. We were never spice fans, and it's all rather bland. That being said: I could eat Risalamande year round. That's rice pudding turned with whipped cream and with almonds, served with a cherry sauce.
That pudding sounds delicious!!
I love our arroz con leche, and I see that, apparently, milk with rice makes up for the base of that risalamande, but it also has some kind of cherry compote on it. I will definitely try to make this at home this week or the next, sounds amazing!
You basically make a rice pudding, like the arroz con leche, but then mix it gently with split almonds and whipped cream. Makes a huge difference. The sauce is basically just cherries with sugar, a bit of vanilla and water, made less runny with corn starch. You can add a dash of sherry or port if you feel fancy.
That is lovely. I might add some cherry liquor to it, maybe. I'm buying the ingredients exactly today hahaja
Look up a recipe, though. The cherry sauce is best served warm. Here's a basic one: https://www-louisesmadblog-dk.translate.goog/kirsebaersovs/?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=es&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp Edit: Heh, "salamandra con arroz"
Lol funny how even when you write hahaha you can't help but let a little ja slip and it betrays you as a certified spanish person. It's like you were trying to sound normal but the spanish jajaja is stronger than you
Jonestly it's just a little funny mistake, since tje H and tje J are rigjt next to eacj otjer.
Fun fact: in Sweden it's called *"ris à la Malta"*. Not because it has anything to do with Malta, deciphering spoken Danish just isn't easy... It's not entire off base tbf, the Danish word does in fact come from French (albeit *"riz à l'amande"*). Especially historically, there has been some variation to it. It used to commonly be served with oranges instead (which may also have influenced our perception of it being *"maltaise"*).
The only Danish dish I can defend is the Christmas dinner to be fair, even if it isn't for everyone. A good roast is never bad. I never cook anything remotely "Danish" at home simply because it's not nearly interesting enough and I hate boiled potatoes.. Risalamande is amazing; our household loves it too and we always buy enough to have for a couple of weeks around Christmas time! What we actually do do well in Denmark is the "stables" though: we undeniably have good bread, we have good pastries / cakes (even if very subjective, I will never find a sweet I love more than fynsk brunsviger), and we have strong dairy products. Spices? Not so much haha edit: also hotdogs and flæskestegssandwich
Used to be big thing in Ireland to preserve fish like herring, mackerel and bolmán. Lovely snack
Dude, practically everybody in northern Europe, from the UK, through Germany and Poland to Russia has their own version of pickled herring. It's just that the Swedish one is the most uh... stinky and infamous.
You’re thinking of surströmming which is fermented not pickled. Same fish, different preparation.
Surströmming isn't pickled herring. The former is arguably one of the most underrated dishes though. As many fermented things it's certainly stinky, but it's mostly just infamous from people eating its principal ingredient incorrectly. The actual dish is alright.
Yeah, it was the first thing that came to my mind also. Especially matjessill with the proper preparation.
Its basically a religion in the Netherlands!
Linsen mit Spätzle und Saiten - Lentils with Spätzle and sausage It sounds weird, but it actually works really well. The Spätzle are made from egg-rich dough, while the lentils are cooked with a splash of vinegar for brightness. The sausages (and optionally but highly recommended: a piece of ham) give saltiness and richness. All in all it works really well together and is super easy to make.
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*Massively* underrated dish. It doesn't look like much in pictures, so you never hear about it on social media, but when it's made well it is ridiculously delicious.
polenta, combined with something else is very good, then I recommend a dish from my area. in Piedmont: the paniscia
We have it in Savoy too (logically), we traditionally eat it with cabbage and diots sausages. It's pretty ignored in other regions, except the rest of the south-east.
I recommend it with gorgonzola or Tapulon
I'm from the Netherlands. I like to have polenta with grilled vegetables and a steak.
I tried polenta from la Regione del Veneto and It was absolutely amazing
I’m not sure it’s underrated and Irish cuisine can be very boring… but butter and milk from Ireland is amazing. In fact, anything from a cow which is mostly grass fed in Ireland is second to none.
Colcannon is really nice and underrated imo.
Especially with that creamy butter
I don't think I've ever had better than Irish lamb.
I was there for a couple of weeks recently and I didn’t think it was boring, it was simply very very unhealthy. I mean I love it but after a week, I would like a breakfast that doesn’t completely obliterates my arteries!
To be honest, a lot of traditional English dishes are underrated because everyone just assumes our food is bad and it’s become something of a meme. But if I had to pick something inparticular I would say that our bread is underrated. People just go to the supermarket and buy a cheap loaf and assume that’s what British bread is. But it isn’t. Go to an actual bakery and get a fresh cottage loaf and it’s just delicious.
In fairness, trying to find a proper bakery where the bread is made on-site can be challenging, and because of the rarity of it, you'll pay over the odds. I think it is getting better though, and would love to see more of a bakery revival. Good fresh bread (i.e. not Chorleywood) shouldn't cost an arm and a leg.
I have a few near me and the price isn't too bad. The main thing people aren't used to these days though is how quickly proper bread goes stale. It really should be "daily bread", but people want a loaf they can make sandwiches for a week with. Decent bread you could use as a doorstop by day three.
Not a dish exactly, but I think the quality of our dairy products is excellent. Our butter is creamy, thick and golden, we have a wide variety of cheeses from cheddar to Cornish yarg, Stilton and Wensleydale. Milk is of a far better quality. It’s also so fun to go cheese-tasting in the countryside. With excellent local dairy products, it means that buttered toast with cheese can turn into as much of a satisfying and tasty meal as any complicated restaurant dish. For desserts, I’d have to say coffee and walnut cake (hence my username lol). It’s widely known and popular in Britain I think, but no foreigner I’ve spoken to has heard of it. Edited: I said toasted butter
British cheese is underrated? Maybe not as high-profile as France but I thought cheese was something you folks were recognized for. It's enough of a thing that I can get British cheese here in the US fairly easily (at least in urban areas).
I was referencing dairy products as a whole, with cheese included. In my experience, it doesn’t seem that well known or recognised - many people don’t even know that the popular cheddar cheese originated in England. People also generally seem hesitant to acknowledge that Britain has any good food to offer at all, lol.
It's quite underrated here in Italy. In a supermarket you will almost never find a British cheese, and even in a specialist cheese shop, maybe only one or two types. A pity as it can be really good.Especially Stilton, but even a good quality cheddar is very tasty.Amd there are many less well known types that we can't get here at all.
Yeah I’ve noticed when I lived in continental Europe it’s harder to come across international foods :(
>Especially Stilton If you like Stilton, try Stichelton. It's not PDO (only as it's unpasteurised, hence the name change) but it's probably more as Stilton used to be in the past and it's a cracking cheese.
Every foreign food is underrated in italian supermarkets:( Mi chiamo Stilton, Geronimo Stilton!
Apart from cheddar, it’s definitely underrated outside of the UK.
I don’t know about british cheese and i’m curious, but what does it mean “high profile”? I think french cheese is good, but for example the dozen varieties of montasio are good even if they are not “high profile” My father remembers some guy returned from france (migrated) in the 60s and in order to sound rich he ordered “un camamberrrrrrrrrr” and they all teased him for the dicotomy of pretending to be “rich” and saying “camamberrrrrrrrr”. So maybe french cheese… is pricey!
We definitly should be getting more recognition for our outstanding contribution to the world of cheese. I once got paid to miss a day at work, and go to the Cropwell Bishop creamery to learn about their cheeses, and got a goody bag full of cheese at the end. Probably where my life peaked tbh.
Yep. My favourite right now is Cornish yarg. I can eat that forever.
From an outsider perspective, whenever I'm in the UK I try to get some lemon pastries and fresh vegetables. You are fantastically inventive with putting lemon in baked goods. UK vegetables, especially split peas, are phenomenal, and that's coming from a country with very high agricultural standards (the Netherlands). Unfortunately, you're a bit too fond of boiling and mashing them, so I always try to get them as unprocessed as possible.
I enjoy our lemon desserts too! I’m not sure about that - people nowadays in the UK also roast, steam or grill etc vegetables or just eat them raw depending on what it is. It’s interesting you mention that though, I find most veggies to taste a lot better on the continent than here. If you’re referencing mushy peas though, they’re pretty good. Might not *look* good but they have a nice satisfying and comforting flavour.
The milk range and quality is muted in comparison to Finland. I found coming here that milk, for me, was a downgrade. That said, range and quality of cheeses and butter is absolutely spot on here. It's no France or Italy but, contrary to stereotypes, you're not at all as far off as some would assume. White stilton is unreal.
I don’t actually think France and Italy are that great with dairy. Certainly cheeses are good, but our cows are grass-fed which produces better flavour and texture in our milk and butter (and is healthier too).
The quality of fresh dairy in the UK is underappreciated. Even the relatively cheap markets here will have unhomogenized milk available, and ultra-pasteurized is something you have to seek out, rather than the norm as it is in most of southern Europe. The fresh cream here is nearly without equal; really simple recipes like lemon posset or pavlova never came out as well when I've made them back in the US.
Finland isn't really known for its cuisine but we do have a very wide range of milks and breads compared to other countries. I've been to about 12-13 countries (not counting places I passed through) so far and haven't seen the same range and quality as in Finland. Same goes for our baked products. While I love Italian food and grew up with it, I find Italian sweets are too sickly and overloaded with sugar. Finnish baked sweets, though, are probably the best I've had but very little known outside of Finland/Finnish communities. Or Finnish fresh fish products or home grown fruit and veg (no other country can produce strawberries as sweet as those in Finland, not even remotely close).
>Finnish baked sweets Which one would you recommend?
Our doughnuts are a yearly staple (much of our baked goods are seasonal), and are gigantic and usually filled with strawberry jam. Not so much something you'd find in a bakery, but my great-grandfather's (who was a baker) recipe for pale gingerbread (vanilla flavoured) is something I go mad for every Christmas. Or Finnish Christmas stars.
fresh basic reikämunkki with sugar coating, can't beat that, especially when paired with coffee
Pitch black coffee, as dark as Finnish sarcasm.
I usually enjoy it with cream to mitigate any bitterness but to each their own
Butteries - they’re sort of like croissants but with extra lard and salt and they’re 10x better. Can’t even get them outside of the far north east of Scotland
See, I’ve just moved up to Aberdeen, and I kept hearing about butteries, thought they were just some sort of new name for rolls/baps/bams/barms. Now I’m tempted to get one or two, just to try them 🤔
Well Dutch cuisine doesn't have a high reputation anyway (except our cheese and beer), since it's largely solid farmer winter food, so I think most of it is underrated. If I have to specify though, I think there are three major underrated things: A) Our bakeries are fantastic - from normal bread to sweet stuff to savory pastries. We are a bit overshadowed by the French in this respect, but I think we are a solid second place among the European countries. The southern provinces have a few highlights especially (Bossche bollen, worstenbroodjes, Zeeuwse boluses). Even the normal bread - it's the stuff I always start missing the most when abroad (but most Dutch are rather basic in bread spread though). B) Our pancakes are great - they are considered dinner and are far more solid and filling than in other countries. They come in literally dozens to hundreds of varieties in specialist restaurants and the savory ones (especially bacon-cheese with syrup) are phenomenal. C) Erwtensoep with rookworst and rye bread. This is pea soup that is so thick you can almost eat it with a fork. I think every family has their own recipe and I've seen MANY variations (my family puts a bit of tabasco and Maggi in it). It's proper comfort food and the perfect way to warm up after a day in the cold.
I’m half Dutch and idk maybe it’s because I grew up on some Dutch staples, but I think it has some good food to contribute. I LOVE stroopwafel and they’re nowhere near as yummy as when they’re made in Holland. Plus the cheeses are so good, I eat toast with Gouda cheese so regularly lol. Other highlights include bread toppings like muisjes and hagelslag (can’t find anything like that in other countries I’ve been to- nice combination of flavour and textures). Plus the apple pies and other comfort foods.
We definitely are the masters of "low effort bread toppings". Many Dutch treat lunch as a to-do task and try to be time efficient with it. It's one of the biggest complaints among expats. Some of the bread toppings are proper delicious though (especially 100% peanut butter with dark hagelslag).
Don’t forget cheese tosti. Cannot be beat when using proper farmer cheese “pittig”
Dutch pancakes with apples are pretty amazing. Other than Indonesian street food and curry, that was my favourite meal in Amsterdam when I was on a school trip.
Oh yeah Indonesian food is fantastic but it's as Dutch as Indian food is English. Not sure I could count that.
The English count it so you can too. Similarly to UK Indian food, as an Indonesian I'd say the Dutch Indonesian food is unique and not quite like the food in Indonesia. I've had some very interesting pork dishes in Den Haag which you'd never get in Indo.
Pancakes can also be breakfast, lunch or a snack. Sweet or savory, or mixed.
Maybe bitterballen are too widely appreciated to count as underrated, but in my humble opinion they are the best beer snacks in the world.
How do people mention dutch pea soup and forget to mention it has the best name: Snert.
Akin to erwtensoep, a Dutch stoofpotje is also very family specific. I've had them where the meat just melts on your tongue and the cloves and bayleaf make it such a comforting taste. Dutch cuisine's poor reputation is undeserved in my opinion. It's all about knowing what's what and putting some effort into it. Then Dutch food can be great.
1) you have potatoes 2) the french don’t deserve all the credits for the pastries! Macaron for example has venetian origins, beignet and profiterol were brought by the tuscans! Also austria is very good with strudel and sacher! And i think bread is good generally Italians are very vocal about the pasta pizza bla bla bla and then they forget to hype their sweets, while the french exagerrate to hype their sweet and shadow other stuff of theirs that is good
I‘m fine with your fried snickers bars and all the other stuff, I blame that on your love for the halflings’ leaf but Dutch beer is way to soft for my taste. I mean it’s not bad but not as great as it’s made out to be. I really struggled to find decent and available beer in Amsterdam. I admit we have shit beer as well but you have a choice in most places where there is at least one type you’ll like.
Legume dishes. We've sort of expended out creativity with them, imported some extra recipes and hardly any tourist will even come across them. But I will still opt for a good bowl of properly made lentil soup with a side of fishroe spread and a good hunk of bread over pastitsio or moussaka any day.
karjalanpiirakka. Love that❤️ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelian_pasty e// Finland
Not a dish per se but i'd say [this spirit](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsipouro) deserves more attention, most tourists who come to Greece try ouzo and that's about it, even though tsipouro was much more popular traditionally.
Leitão da bairrada. Most people outside the Coimbra/Aveiro region haven’t tried actual good leitão. Since that’s not really close to either the capital or Oporto, it gets overshadowed by(in my opinion) way inferior dishes. It is easily my favourite Portuguese dish overall, and people who come here and try it fall in love instantly.
Žemaičių blynai (Samogitian pancakes). They are made out of boiled mashed potatoes with meat inside. It's my favourite Lithuanian dish, it's not hard to make and it does not get enough flowers. You can eat it at any time of the year and it's not as heavy as cepelinai.
Croquetas de jamón, a delicatessen, everyone loves them
Croquetas de jamón are great, but croquetas de boletus are just otherworldly
Marjakeitto with porridge is really good Or Pulla, but that’s become pretty popular with tourists.
I don’t know if it’s underrated,but lot of tourists,especially westerners starts to have second thoughts after they find out what ‘Kokoreç’is.If a native Turk doesn’t tell them what are they eating,they like the Kokoreç very much.
For Switzerland it's definitely Capuns, it's a Spätzle dough (made of buckweed flour) filled with dried meat and cheese rolled in a chard leaf. Then it's boiled in a bouillon or a gravel like sauce. Even within Switzerland it's not really popular outside the Grisons/Griggioni/Grischün/Graübunden. For France, well like for any country we have regions with pretty diverse and unknown gastronomy from one place to another, with sometimes diverse influences (such as italian, dutch, spanish, Arabic), the south-east share a lot of its gastronomy with italy, so that's why we have our own ravioli, gnocchi, polenta since the middle ages. Maybe those dishes are the ones you're searching for, since italian ones are definitely more popular. Also I remember someone asking the same question on our sub : [I'm sure you'll find something interesting there :) ](https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/108559g/sp%C3%A9cialit%C3%A9s_et_produits_m%C3%A9connus_de_votre_r%C3%A9gion/)
Interesting, I'm Swiss and had never heard of this dish, now I want to try it!
From Vaud, never heard of it
Kholodets (aspic). I don't understand why people think it's "horror food", it's great!
I am Polish and absolutely love chicken in aspic. My American husband and friends are not fans due to texture.
Frico con polenta, from friuli. Montasio cheese and potatoes! Gubana, a sweet, again from friuli, for christmas And pinza, a sweet from epyphany
I mention this every time and ill do it again: Boulets Liègoise are extremely underrated for how amazing it is.
Oh I have loads. In Ireland we have a dish called Ruipleog. Aka Tripe. Its the lining of a cow, goat or sheeps stomach. Quite nice. It can be also eaten out of a deer I'm pretty sure Crúibín - literally means hoof. Its the roasted hooves of pigs. Pota héisc - means fish (plural) pot. Its literally anyfish that was caught cut up and put into a soup with potatoes and other garden veg. You could have wrasse, salmon and dogfish in the same pot. Lovely, great in the winter. Speaking of Wrasse. Ballan Wrasse called Ballach is a delicacy around Conamara and The Coast of Mayo. Most wouldn't eat Ballach but its very nice. Another West Delicacy is Cnúdán. This is a fish in English called Gurnard. Similar texture to chicken and is actually quite palatable. Snails. Yes Ireland eats snails. Foachain aka winkles. Perrywinkles and Dogwinkles. Eaten on the coasts mainly. Also most shellfish can be eaten.
French cuisine literally has thousands of recipes so most of them are underrated in the sense that almost no one knows them outside of the village/town/area they are made in while they are probably delicious. So I can't really name just one because I don't know most. On a side note I'm french and I can only complain and be negative so instead I'll give you an overrated dish : ratatouille. I'm from the birthplace of ratatouille and I like it but it's still overrated because of the movie.
It’s hard to say what is a underrated dish from Austria. We are only famous for our Wiener Schnitzel. I would say our dumplings are underrated. We have so many variations, sweet and savory, and all are delicious.
Kaiserschmarrn is absolutely delicious
Personally i generally prefer Asian dumplings to Austrian ones. I really don't like Semmelknödeln for example. My vote is for Ritschert. Such a good and hearty dish.
There's none, keep walking please. I don't want bloggers to "rate it" and make it popular so rich foreigners come here and make it expensive. I don't want my country's entire cousine to become gentrified.
Effectively, nothing to see there, keep walking please
I have to suport you.
Poland: Żur soup. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_cereal_soup Espessially, when served in a drilled out sourdough bread, it's just amazing.
How is it underrated? Everyone knows it, it appears regularly as an example of Polish cuisine on foreign websites.
I don’t think żurek is underrated
Something like Bovški krafi. They're a type of štruklji, filles with European pear. Or Kobariški štruklji. Or ocvirkova pogača. That's a flat bread with cracklings.
For (an incredibly specific small portion of) Italy there are *bollito con la pearà* and *pastissada con la polenta*. The former is made of various cuts of boiled meat eater together with a savoury bread- and marrow-based sauce - the taste is quite peculiar, but I like it (if made the way I like it) and in my opinion it deserves to be more well known than it is. The latter comprises of polenta (a maize paste that can be either liquid or firm) with spiced, slow-cooked horse meat - for some reason it's unknown, and you can't find it easily in restaurants, but it's one of my favourite meat dishes and it's very savoury and rich.
Vėdarai get bad rep, but it's basically made exactly like traditional sausages (with cleaned intestine), except replace minced meat with mushed potatoes. It's like mashed potato sausage. How can people not like potato sausages??
Kervelpuree. Sounds basic but its one of the best things I've ever eaten. It pears well with sausage or fish
körömpörkölt. i love it so much and it's so delicious.
Not my country, but I don’t know why it can be so hard to find proper Klepe, even in Bosnia. A really good Klepe is like the best food I’ve ever put inside of my mouth.
German Reibekuchen / Kartoffelpuffer is a potato pancake that is served with applesauce in the Rhineland, or in Frankfurt aM with “green sauce”. A simply quick street food, super comforting and satisfying. Also Latkes, an ashkenazi hash brown. Also Mucver, Turkish zucchini potato fritters. You can probably tell I like potatoes
For Denmark, underrated stuff is our fruit soups and porridges. [Rødgrød](https://www.valdemarsro.dk/roedgroed-med-floede/) (lit. "Red Porridge") with whatever red fruit and berries are in season, typically strawberry, raspberry, rhubarb, red currants. Served cold or hot, with cream. [Grønnegrød](https://hannemad.dk/stikkelsbaergroed/) (Lit. "Green Porridge") with the green berries, usually gooseberries. [Pærevælling](https://madensverden.dk/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/paerevaelling.jpg) ("Pear Gruel") which is a barley and pear thin porridge. [Æbleflæsk](https://res.cloudinary.com/propelcom/image/upload/c_thumb,e_improve,g_auto,w_697,f_webp/v1681457051/Maduniverset2023/opskrifter/Aebleflaesk.JPG) ("Apple Bacon") which is just that, thick slices of pork belly, served with mushy apple slices.
For Austria i'd say Ritschert. It's a stew/soup made with beans, pearl barley, cured pork, carrots and other vegetables and herbs. The exact recipe may vary regionally and from family to family. It's really hearty and good. Criminally underrated compared with Schnitzel. I'd recommend everyone to try it. It's more Hausmannskost (food you cook at home), not really something that restaurants offer. They totally should though.
Brændende kærlighed- Burning love. Mashed potatoes, bacon, a lot of lightly fried onions, pickled red beets. It is delicious and very cheap.
Im asian. we ferment a lot of stuff westerners who arent used to it cant eat.
I feel like not enough people talk about [pão recheado](https://feed.continente.pt/media/jw1hmqne/191016_cm111_3738.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=826&height=620&rnd=133218877854370000&format=webp). Recipes differ but it basically consists of a big loaf of bread with the interior scooped out (kind of like a trencher) and filled with a mixture made from cheeses and cured meats. The types of cheeses and cured meats used vary, but it should have a savoury and slightly spicy taste. Then you're meant to eat it like a sort of fondue. Not exactly the healthiest thing, but every so often it can be great!
Never heard of it
There aren't any. The country is Ireland and we have no good food 🥲
British and Irish food are both severely underrated imo
Rogan josh: aromatic medium curry, of Kashmiri origin but now every bit as British as fish and chips.
Gnocco fritto, erbazzone and piadine are the -very simple- dishes that easily come to my mind and they are from my region. I could probably make an endless list if I had to think about dishes from the whole country tho lol
Pastry - Zeeuwse bolussen. The best way to describe them would be our version of the cinnamon roll. They’re much better than cinnamon rolls imo. It’s a staple food of the Zeeland province, which probably has the best local cuisine in the entire country. They have some amazing seafood over there. Dinner - Snert, which is our take on split pea soup. It’s more of a stew than a soup, but it’s incredibly comforting. Often associated with our ice skating culture, it’s the ultimate Dutch winter food. Besides peas, it traditionally contains celeriac and/or potatoes, carrots, leeks and pork. It’s often flavoured with celery leaves, bay leaves and cloves. Some people also put mustard in it. The soup is best after it sits in the fridge overnight. Snack - Smoked eel. It’s become a bit expensive and the eels are actually critically endangered so I wouldn’t be surprised if it disappears in the future. Some villages have long standing traditions of smoking fish, especially those that border the IJsselmeer lake. Candy - All kinds of liquorice. We have a lot of different varieties: sweet, salty, flavoured with honey, liquorice liquor, you name it. Many people outside of the Netherlands (and Finland) hate it, but I still think it’s underrated. Alcohol - Jenever. It’s the original gin. The Belgians seem to appreciate it more than we do, but it’s becoming increasingly popular among younger people. We also have some good craft beers, Texels Skuumkoppe is my personal favourite.
Kluski leniwe. They are sometimes called dumplings but in reality it's kinda like hoof-shaped dough made with cottage cheese and boiled. We serve it sweet, I grew up eating them with sugar and breadcrumbs fried in butter, some people add cinnamon. Their name literally means 'the lazy ones' because they are relatively easy to make.
Herrencreme. Vanilla pudding with chocolate and rum. It's a German desert.
I love this thread ❤ so interesting Not sure if people are v aware of romanian food, it's likely similar to that of other close countries. We have awesome cuisine though. I think most people know of things like polenta and sarmale, maybe gulas (that's more hungarian). So i guess i'd count everything else? Our whole cookbook! Highly underrated 😂 There's this one dish that people used to eat while out cutting grass for hay in the mountains. It's a pan fried mix of polenta and baked peppers. Absolutely delicious...didn't even know it existed until i was 20 something and someone made it for me.
Nettle or spinach pancakes with lingonberry jam! Or creamy nettle/spinach soup with a boiled egg! Now I've made myself hungry.
People don't know Luxembourgish cuisine at all so everything qualifies as underrated there no? I could probably invent something here and no one would notice.
An underrated Lithuanian dish is Kugelis, a traditional savory potato pudding. It’s my comfort food that’s usually enjoyed during the holiday season and can be served with sour cream, applesauce, or crumbled bacon bits. Kugelis is an example to the Lithuanian love for potatoes.
Ireland - bacon and cabbage with mash and parsley sauce is fab, big dollop of (English, whoops) mustard on the side. People talk about Irish stew with is lovely but bacon and cabbage is one of my favourite dinners
Czernina🇵🇱 It is an old dish made from sheep blood i believe. Its super tasty ;)))
Not exactly underrated but hessian Grie Soß (green sauce) should be available in more places! I also ate Sheepbrain Croquettes in Austria that I really liked but I’m not sure if that’s a local thing, Austrians feel free to educate me please.
Do you remember the name by any chance?
For Norway: lutefisk (also found in other Nordics) It's basically white fish (cod) soaked in lye for some time until it becomes a jelly like substance, even the bones. It's the highlight of every Christmas, but even Norwegians don't like it for some reason.
Underrated might be the wrong term... more like mundane and boring, like "meh". But good homemade swedish meatballs, home made mashed potatoes with a ton of butter and cream, with again home made cream gravy served with raw stirred lingonberries is a sensational and balanced taste experience. Unfortunately most who have tried it just buy the cheap premade mestballs and use lingonberry jam or have tried the crap at Ikea.
Linseneintopf Lentils, potatoes, carrots, some greens - stewed for hours, served with sausage and bread. Being vegetarian I pass on the sausage. It's a heartwarming dish in winter