3 dishes people actually cook in Canada: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Canada? 3 traditional Canada dishes, from Poutine (60 min, the quickest) to Tourtière (875 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Canadian tart whose filling is melted butter, brown sugar and syrup poured raw into a flaky shell and baked only until the centre still wobbles.
Twice-fried potatoes under day-fresh squeaky cheese curds, with boiling thin brown sauce poured over so the curds soften without melting.
The Quebec meat pie is defined by its warm spices, clove, cinnamon, allspice and savory, and by a filling that is simmered then chilled before it meets the pastry.
Copper documents three dishes from Canada: Butter tarts, Poutine and Tourtière. All three are baked. All three need an oven. Between them they use 28 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 28 ingredients between them. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Canada entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Poutine is the quickest at 60 minutes. Tourtière is the longest at 875 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 150 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
None of the dishes from Canada here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Poutine is the shortest way in.
Canada is part of North American.
Countries close to Canada on the globe — and close on the plate.
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