Are oliebollen calorie bombs?
An oliebol is not only a treat, but it is also part of a long tradition of New Year's Eve. But what if you're a bit on the calories want to watch? Is such a ball with powdered sugar responsible?
oliebollen consist of a batter of flour, milk, yeast and a very small amount of sugar. Possibly raisins, currants or candied peel are added. The dough of oliebollen is very similar to bread dough, so it contains little sugar.
So far it's going well, but then it comes, the bulbs have to be in the fat: deep-frying. As soon as the bulbs go into the fat, they act like a sponge, part of the fat is absorbed into the bulbs.
According to the Nutrition Center, an oliebol contains about 160 kilocalories, but they assume a small one (65 grams). An average oliebollen from the oliebollen stall will soon weigh 120 grams, which means that you end up with approximately 300 kilocalories per piece. Quite a lot for a snack, but it's not shocking either. Compare it with a slice of mocha pie (396 kcal), apple pie (292 kcal), a bowl of crisps (217 kcal), a large bar of chocolate (411 kcal) or two tablespoons of peanuts (250 kcal). The advantage is that an oliebol hardly contains any sugar.
An adult man should consume about 2.500 calories (kcal) per day. An adult woman 2.000. If you eat four large oliebollen then you are talking about 1.200 kcal and if you continue to eat 'normally', the layers of fat quickly fly on your body.
So an oliebol is fine, but it makes quite a difference whether you eat one or two on New Year's Eve, or whether you throw half the shell in your aim. If you have problems with your weight, limit the number of oliebollen and also pay attention to other snacks.
Source: Gezondheidsnet.nl
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It's not the difference if you eat one or two, the difference is if they're fried right,
And for those two days, it would do me some.
DEFINITELY but if it's not every week then no problem.
with us in Belgium no tradition like in the Netherlands, but especially at fairs where one always finds an oliebollen stall that is called a smoutebollen stall with us in BELGIUM where one can sometimes also buy and enjoy the real Belgian fries!
Indeed. "Smoutebollenkraam". Formerly standard on the “Sinksenfoor” in Antwerp and on the “Vogeltjesmarkt”. Other than that, we never actually ate this. However, the smoutebollen were without fruits or raisins. Later when I came to the Dutch more and more, I got to know the Oliebol and also that it was eaten cold, in contrast to the warm "Smoutebol"
Later I also baked them standard with old and new.
Here in Thailand it depends on whether we are at home.
In any case, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and the Oliebollen will come later
The only plus point mentioned by 'Gezondheidsnet' – that it contains no sugar – can easily be circumvented by generously sprinkling the oliebol with icing sugar.
No powdered sugar available? You can easily make it yourself from regular sugar with a simple hand blender with the right attachment, a sharp knife.
Not only does it look nicer, the number of calories also increases considerably and the taste improves.
Does anyone have any idea where in Pattaya (so not in Jomtien) these days oliebollen are available?
You can get oliebollen in the Holland/ Belgiumhouse (Darkside)
correction: Holland Belgium House
Unfortunately, the message comes too late for Fransamsterdam.
unfortunately he can no longer be with us.
Still miss his funny stories.
I don't care about those calories, I eat those oliebollen because it's a tradition, preferably as much as possible.
I can still remember when I was about 12 years old, my mother and my eldest sister were baking donuts and apple piglets all day long.
And after 4 days there were still some left and they were still fine. DELICIOUS though.
In Amsterdam they are called Apple turnovers.
And those Beignets are those triangular things with Jam in them.
Of course they are calorie bombs, but those two days (New Year's Eve and New Year's Day) in a whole year are not really a problem. What you get every day in excess salts, sugars and possibly calories is a much greater risk to health.
At least these days I have a nice glass of wine and enjoy the food. After the holidays we eat with our mind again and try to ignore too much salt, sugars and calories.
Merry Christmas to everyone and a fantastic New Year. And for 2018 a healthy and happy year!
The same fallacy every year.
Most people worry whether they'll get fatter of all the goodies between Christmas and New Year's, although they've been proven to get fattest between New Year's Eve and Christmas.
So just enjoy everything during the holidays, and in the latter period, think a little.555
I never understood why the Dutch eat that from old to new.
Belgians don't eat oliebollen from old to new... At least I don't know that it's a tradition somewhere.
Usually we are full by midnight with a tasty Burgundian meal, accompanied by the necessary moisture in the form of wine or beer.
Oliebollen is not really something that belongs to that.
Oliebollen reminds me of a fair, but nice with powdered sugar.
See the history of the oliebol https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliebol
Gringo,
Thanks.
All three possibilities can explain the origin.
What I mainly wondered is why the Dutch keep that tradition alive at New Year and the Belgians don't (anymore) and does it now stop at the border that was still non-existent at the time?
Is it perhaps something that the Belgians also broke with in 1830 at independence, because during the year the smoutebollen are just as well available in Belgium at any fair.
So you see the country's wisdom, the country's honor
The Dutch don't eat in the evening, they bake delicious donuts and fritters and eat that once a year, mmmmm
I'm looking forward to it already
You can be very short about enjoying oliebollen, you can eat them just like everything else in this world, but also eat them.
This latter option in particular is loaded with a lot of calories.
I regularly buy 5 small fried balls from the cart, which look a bit like our oliebol …the Thai eat them with a sauce, they are also available in a butterfly shape. So far I don't know what kind of dough they are made of …I think they are delicious….who oh who knows from which dough they are made??
It doesn't matter at all how many oliebollen you eat on New Year's Eve. It doesn't even matter at all what you eat between December 24 and January 1.
What does play a major role is what you eat between January 1 and December 24 .
an oliebol does not have to be an excess in itself, it just depends on how you make and garnish it.
if I were to make them, if there are currants or raisins in them, I would not sprinkle them with powdered sugar again because the batter already contains starch from the flour and the milk, so enough carbohydrates, and I would then slide them into the pure coconut oil do you have a "hybrid bulb" too!
Deep fried doughnut balls? I don't like them… unless they are filled with jam or something sweet… then I want to eat one. However, I ate the last one more than seven years ago… phew
I love apple turnovers….is there an address in the Hua-hin area where I could get this?
Apple fritters, that is, they're not apple fritters, sorry for the mistake.
For me it's apple turnovers.
It's just like chips or fries, it depends on the region where you were born.
During my last holiday in Thailand in April last, an old lady was baking oliebollen and banana fritters on Sukhumvit Road Bangkok near Nana. The best I ever ate, and unbelievable, only 40 baht for 6.