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# Broodje Rollade
- URL: https://onesandwich.com/broodje-rollade/
- Published: 2026-05-17T15:17:15.000Z
- Updated: 2026-05-26T11:14:15.000Z
- Description: Rolled meat sandwich; sliced pork or beef roll.
- Author: Andrew Lekashman
- Tags: Netherlands, Split Roll Sandwiches, Broodje Vlees & Vleeswaren, #auto-imported

**🇳🇱 Netherlands** · Family: [Broodje Vlees & Vleeswaren](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vlees/) · Bread: bolletje · Proteins: pork, beef

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Ingredients

bolletje · pork · beef · mustard · butter

The *Broodje Rollade* is a Dutch cold-cut roll built on *rollade*: a rolled and tied roast of pork or beef, slow-cooked, pressed, and sliced thin for sandwiches. It is a national counter staple, the slightly more substantial cousin of plain ham, and it carries a particular association with festive and Sunday cooking, where a *rollade* is roasted whole and the leftovers become lunch. The angle is the cut itself: a sandwich whose character comes from a seasoned, rolled roast, so the seasoning baked into the meat does the work that condiments do elsewhere.

The build is straightforward and the meat leads. The bread is a fresh white roll or *broodje*, sometimes a soft bun, with a thin layer of butter on the cut face to season it and to keep it from drying against the lean slices. The *rollade* is sliced thin across the roll so each piece shows its spiral of meat and seasoning, and laid in overlapping layers rather than a single thick slab, because thin layered slices eat tender while one heavy slice eats dense and dry. Pork *rollade* tends to be milder and faintly sweet from its seasoning; beef *rollade* is firmer and more savory. The careful-versus-careless line is the slicing and the meat's own moisture: a well-made *rollade* sliced thin stays juicy, while overcooked roast cut thick is chewy and the seasoning cannot save it. Good execution is tender, well-seasoned slices on fresh buttered bread, balanced without needing much else. Sloppy execution is dry, thick-cut meat, stale bread, or a *rollade* whose only flavor is salt.

Variation runs along two lines: the meat and the dressing. Pork versus beef *rollade* changes the base entirely, and some counters use a herb- or garlic-heavy seasoning that comes through clearly in the slice. A smear of mustard, a few pickle slices, or a leaf of lettuce is a common addition that turns it into a fuller deli roll without changing what it is. The broader Dutch cured-and-roasted meat-roll category it descends from, the *broodje vlees*, covers many such fillings and deserves its own article rather than being crowded in here. At its best the *Broodje Rollade* depends on two things: a roast seasoned and cooked so the slice tastes of more than salt, and slicing thin enough to keep it tender.

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## More from this family

Other [Broodje Vlees & Vleeswaren](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vlees/) sandwiches in Netherlands:

- [Broodje Achterham](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-achterham/)
- [Broodje Babi Pangang](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-babi-pangang/)
- [Broodje Bacon](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-bacon/)
- [Broodje Beenham](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-beenham/)
- [Broodje Biefstuk](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-biefstuk/)
- [Broodje Boterhamworst](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-boterhamworst/)
- [Broodje Carpaccio](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-carpaccio/)
- [Broodje Cervelaat](https://onesandwich.com/broodje-cervelaat/)

[See all Broodje Vlees & Vleeswaren sandwiches →](https://onesandwich.com/tag/broodje-vlees/)