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National Canadian cuisine is a kind of symbiosis of culinary traditions of European cuisines. The local restaurants serve both Italian pizza and American hamburger. Many cuisines have taken root in Canada, and depending on the region of the country, you can try here Japan, Mexico, Thai Poland, Portugal and many others.
As for the original Canadian dishes, these are meat and fish – stewed rabbit with vegetables, fried chicken, baked sturgeon, pies with various fillings, ham in maple syrup. Traditional Canadian cuisine is also represented by dishes with cheddar cheese, seafood, pates. Popular soups include onion, pumpkin, pea, homemade noodles and broths with croutons. What should you definitely try when visiting Canada?
Putin
The dish of French Canada is very specific and distinctive. It is a french fries with peppery meat gravy with “squeaky” curds. Several provinces are arguing about its authorship, trying to attribute all the laurels of a delicious side dish to themselves.
Canadian BBQ Chicken
BBQ chicken is a traditional Canadian dish and the most popular food in the country. The chicken meat turns out to be very juicy and incredibly tasty. In the original, it is cooked on open coals on the grill and always with the addition of maple syrup.
Turtier
Named after Lake Tourtière St-Jean, this dish is where the traditional meat pie is served. Its difference is in several fillings from different types of meat, including fresh bison, wild boar and deer. Most often it is a mixture of pork, beef and lamb. The dough for the pie is taken chopped, and the dish is baked at a low temperature of 120 degrees for several hours.
Bannock Bread
This Scottish flat bread is made from sourdough without the use of yeast and is a popular dish with many nations. Traditionally, it is not baked in the oven, but in a frying pan.
Montreal-style meat
Smoked meat in Montreal is a kosher delicacy that is prepared by salting and aging beef brisket in aromatic herbs. The brisket is left to “mature” for a week so that it is saturated with flavors. Then it is smoked hot, and at the end it is doused with steam.
Pea soup
French explorer Samuel de Champlain ate this soup along with other early settlers in Canada, and Ottawa Mayor Mark Myron revived the tradition of cooking this dish. Previously, jerky meat and dried peas were used for its preparation, which remained fresh for a long time. All that remained was to collect vegetables and cook a fragrant stew.
Beaver Tails
Beaver Tails is a national dish of Canada, the recipe of which has been passed down in the Graham Hooker family for generations. And only in 1978 his secrets were revealed to the public. These are flattened donuts without a hole and are served with sweet sauces or powdered sugar.
Nanaimo bars
This dessert, despite its three layers, is very easy to prepare. Chilled cakes are made with crumbs, vanilla-flavored butter glaze and chopped chocolate. Who is the author of the dessert is unknown, a similar delicacy was described in the book “Assistant for the Lady in the Hospital of Nanaimo” 1952 edition. A year later, a book was released with the already original recipe for Nanaimo.
Cream tart
This dish belongs to early Canadian cuisine. The dessert consists of tender crunchy dough and soft filling of butter, sugar and egg mixture melting in your mouth. Raisins are added in some varieties, but most Canadians consider this to be an unnecessary addition.
Cocktail “Caesar”
Caesar is the most popular Canadian cocktail, not a salad as it might seem. In 1966, Mott’s began producing Clamato , which became the basis of the popular cocktail. Clamato is a reconstituted tomato juice drink with spices and oyster sauce. When bartender Walter Schell invented the Caesar cocktail in 1969, he did not use Clamato, based on good tomato juice and oyster puree.
Canadian bacon
Bacon in any country is bacon, and for Canadian pork fillet is used, which is salted, pepper, but in this country it is still covered with a layer of corn or pea flour. Then the bacon is dried rather than smoked, which also distinguishes Canadian bacon from the commonplace classics. Sprinkle the pork with ground steel peas in order to preserve the product as much as possible, as the peas have good hygroscopicity.
Klenovыy syrup
It is a symbol of Canada and is used in various cuisines around the world. It is used here not only in desserts, it is added to sauces, marinades, alcoholic drinks, main dishes and snacks – wherever a sweet taste is appropriate. It is also used as a natural sugar substitute. In Canada, there are many festivals associated with maple syrup.