> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://onesandwich.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Broodje Bakkeljauw - URL: https://onesandwich.com/broodje-bakkeljauw/ - Published: 2026-05-17T15:16:44.000Z - Updated: 2026-05-26T10:56:57.000Z - Description: Salt cod sandwich; Surinamese-style salt fish (bakkeljauw), often with madame jeanette peppers. Surinamese-Dutch community food. - Author: Andrew Lekashman - Tags: Netherlands, Split Roll Sandwiches, Broodje Haring & Vis, #auto-imported **馃嚦馃嚤 Netherlands** 路 Family: [Broodje Haring & Vis](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vis/) 路 Region: Netherlands (Surinamese) 路 Heat: Mixed 路 Bread: broodje 路 Proteins: fish --- Ingredients broodje 路 salt cod 路 madame jeanette pepper 路 onion 路 tomato The *Broodje Bakkeljauw* is a Surinamese-Dutch community staple: a roll filled with *bakkeljauw*, salt cod that has been soaked, flaked, and stewed down with aromatics and heat. It belongs to the Surinamese kitchen as it lives in the Netherlands, sold at *toko*s and Surinamese lunch counters rather than the mainstream *broodjeszaak*. The angle is the salt cod itself: a preserved fish that has to be rehabilitated through soaking before it becomes food, and a sandwich that succeeds only if that work was done with care. The build follows the cooking. *Bakkeljauw* starts dried and intensely salty; it must be soaked and often boiled to draw the salt down, then flaked free of skin and bone and stewed with onion, tomato, garlic, and, characteristically, *madame jeanette* peppers, the fruity, ferociously hot Surinamese chili. That stewed fish is the filling. The bread is a soft Surinamese-style roll or *puntje*, sturdy enough to hold a moist mixture. Spoon the *bakkeljauw* in warm or at room temperature, evenly, so the heat and salt are distributed rather than concentrated in one bite. Good execution is fish that is savory and present without being punishingly salty, the chili heat real but not the only flavor, the roll holding firm. Sloppy execution is under-soaked cod that tastes like brine, or a mixture so dry it is hard to swallow, or so wet the roll falls apart. Variation lives mostly in the heat and the aromatics. Some kitchens keep the *madame jeanette* restrained; others let it dominate, and that is a deliberate choice rather than a flaw. A version stretched with extra tomato and onion eats milder and softer. The same salt cod also turns up as a side or a *roti* filling, which is a different format that deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. What holds constant is the soaking: every other decision in a *Broodje Bakkeljauw* is downstream of whether the salt was drawn out properly first. --- ## More from this family Other [Broodje Haring & Vis](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vis/) sandwiches in Netherlands: - [Bagel met Zalm](https://onesandwich.com/bagel-met-zalm/) - [Broodje Garnalen](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-garnalen/) - [Broodje Gebakken Vis](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-gebakken-vis/) - [Broodje Gerookte Haring](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-gerookte-haring/) - [Broodje Gerookte Zalm](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-gerookte-zalm/) - [Broodje Haring met Augurk](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-haring-met-augurk/) - [Broodje Haring met Uitjes](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-haring-met-uitjes/) - [Broodje Haring](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-haring/) [See all Broodje Haring & Vis sandwiches 鈫抅(https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vis/)