Dutch vegetable cordon-bleu
I am looking for the name of a dish that I used to eat a few years ago in The Hague, Netherlands. It looked like a cordon-bleu stuffed with chopped vegetables (carrots, onions, fennel, and maybe millet) for what I remember. The outer part was kind of a fried breaded crust.
It was served as the main course at the vegetarian desk of the cafeteria, and now I blame myself for not paying attention to its name.
Does someone have a clue of the name of that dish ?
EDIT : As requested, here are some precisions about the shape. It was half-oval shaped : one side was straight and the other side was rounded (like on this picture)
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The Dutch make a few dishes similar to what you describe. (note: I'm assuming that your 'like a cordon-bleu' doesn't mean it's breaded stuffed chicken, as you mentioned it was vegetarian)
If they're smaller (one or two bites), they'd be bitterballen. They're normally meat-filled, but they can be filled with vegetables, too.
If they were larger, they'd be kroketten
update: to clarify, I am not Dutch, and moved from the Netherlands 30 years ago. As a non-native Dutch speaker, I had (possibly incorrectly) assumed that 'kroketten' was a class of food / style of preparation. From Marc Luxen's answer and Cerberus's comments, I'm going to assume that the term is similar to American 'burger'. If someone ordered a 'burger' and you gave them a veggie burger, it'd not be what they expected. (and similarly, we have 'cheeseburger', 'veggieburger' and other compound words that are more specific)
(and there hadn't been complaints about people answering in comments, I wouldn't have made this an answer ... as I had to make an assumption about what made it 'cordon bleu'-like. I assumed something stuffed, then breaded & fried, possibly with cheese or other dairy).
... and I'm making this community wiki so that any native Dutch person can correct it, as I don't know how to undo it being marked as correct.
You had a nasischijf. It is the Indonesian nasi goreng dish (rice with veggies and spices) in a crust, deep fried. You usually get it in snackbars or from a snackbar-wall. You eat it with sambal, Indonesian chilli-paste. Here are the Google image search results for "nasischijf".
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