1 hr 30 min
Québec Poutine
Crisp double-cooked potato fries are topped with fresh cheddar curds and a hot, savoury brown gravy that softens the curds without melting them completely.
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Canadian recipes from poutine and Montréal favourites to prairie berries, Newfoundland comfort food and maple treats
Make Québec poutine and tourtière, Montréal smoked meat and hand-rolled bagels, Toronto peameal bacon, Halifax donair, Newfoundland Jiggs dinner and toutons, prairie Saskatoon berry pie, Nanaimo bars, butter tarts, maple taffy and a documented Métis-style campfire bannock. Each recipe includes precise quantities, practical timing and culturally specific context.
13 recipes published
2 hr 30 min
Québec Tourtière
A deeply savoury French-Canadian meat pie with pork, potato, onion and warm spices enclosed in flaky pastry and baked until burnished.
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25 min
Montréal Smoked Meat Sandwich
Warm, peppery Montréal smoked brisket is gently steamed and piled generously on soft rye with yellow mustard and dill pickles.
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2 hr 50 min
Montréal-Style Sesame Bagels
Smaller, thinner hand-shaped bagels are lightly sweetened with honey, poached in honey water, coated in sesame and baked until deeply golden.
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1 hr 13 min
Ontario Butter Tarts
Tender flaky pastry cups hold a buttery brown-sugar and syrup filling with currants, baked until puffed and bubbling but still soft in the centre.
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2 hr 15 min
Nanaimo Bars
A no-bake Vancouver Island square with a cocoa-graham-coconut base, vanilla custard-butter centre and a thin bittersweet chocolate cap.
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30 min
Toronto Peameal Bacon Sandwich
Cornmeal-crusted cured pork loin is griddled until golden and juicy, then stacked in a soft kaiser roll with mustard and a simple tomato garnish.
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1 hr 30 min
Halifax Donair
Spiced beef is baked as a compact loaf, sliced thin and griddled, then wrapped in warm pita with a signature sweet condensed-milk garlic sauce, tomato and onion.
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14 hr
Newfoundland Jiggs Dinner
Salt beef, pease pudding and a generous pot of cabbage, turnip, carrots and potatoes make a traditional Newfoundland Sunday dinner.
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1 hr 20 min
Newfoundland Toutons
Pillowy rounds of risen bread dough are shallow-fried until golden outside and tender inside, then served warm with butter and molasses.
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2 hr 20 min
Saskatoon Berry Pie
A double-crust prairie pie filled with deep-purple Saskatoon berries, lightly thickened and brightened with lemon, baked until the centre bubbles.
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25 min
Maple Taffy on Snow
Pure maple syrup boiled to the soft-ball stage is poured in ribbons over clean packed snow, where it cools into a chewy maple candy rolled onto wooden sticks.
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40 min
Métis-Style Campfire Bannock
A simple, lightly sweet bannock inspired by one Parks Canada-documented Métis campfire recipe: a soft flour dough cooked in a greased cast-iron pan until golden outside and tender inside.
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