Frikadel Pan

Indo-Dutch Meatloaf

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Home Made in the Oven: Truly Easy, Comforting Recipes for Baking, Broiling, and Roasting

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2019

  • About

There are as many recipes for frikadel pan as for Bolognese sauce. It’s an Indo-European comfort food that’s a curious melting pot of Indonesian and Dutch cuisine. Most likely, its appearance in Indonesia was a result of Dutch food culture’s influence. The word frikadel is old Dutch or Flemish for meatball, and it resurfaces in Indonesian cuisine as a name for the same dish, either with or without the addition of vegetables like potatoes or corn. Frikadel can be a small