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This is a catalog of well-known Canadian dishes, in alphabetical order.
English Name | French Name | Origin | Description |
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Baked beans | Fèves au lard | Quebec (and New England) | Beans cooked with lard or pork, similar if not identical to Boston Baked Beans |
Bannock | First Nations in northern Canada | Fried bread, using flour, water, baking soda and fried in lard | |
Beaver tails | Queues de castor | Ontario | A flat fried pastry |
Fiddleheads | Têtes-de-violon | New Brunswick | Immature fronds of the Ostrich fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris) |
Fish and brewis | Newfoundland | Salt cod and hardtack | |
Flipper pie | Newfoundland | Baby seal flippers in gravy, cooked in a crust | |
Frozen french fries | Frites congelées | Florenceville, New Brunswick | Invented by McCains in New Brunswick's St.-John River valley |
Ginger beef | Alberta's Chinese restaurants | Battered stir-fried beef strips, served in a sweet sauce | |
Hot chicken sandwich, hot turkey sandwich, etc. | Hot chicken, sandwich au poulet chaud | found throughout Canada | meat in two slices of white bread, covered in gravy and canned peas |
Jig's dinner | Newfoundland | Salted beef, boiled vegetables, and peas pudding | |
Lobster roll | Sandwich au homard | New Brunswick (and New England) | Lobster and mayonnaise in a hot-dog bun |
Maple Syrup | Sirop d'érable | First Nations in Eastern North America where the maple sugar grows | Boiled down sap of the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), may be made from other maples |
Oreilles de Christ (Christ ear) | Oreilles de Christ | Quebec | Deep fried salted pork, slathered with maple syrup |
Pea soup | Soupe aux pois | Quebec | Soup made from yellow split peas |
Pemmican | Pemmican | Metis in Manitoba | dried buffalo meat with berries, preserved in fat |
Pet de soeur (Nun's farts) | Pets de soeur | Quebec | Cinnamon bun slathered in maple syrup |
Planked salmon | British Columbia First Nations | Pacific salmon fillets cooked on a western red cedar (Thuya plicata) plank near an open fire. | |
Poutine | Poutine | Drummondville or Victoriaville in Quebec's Eastern Townships | French fries with gravy and cheddar cheese curds |
Poutine rapée | Poutine rapée | New Brunswick's Acadian community | Balls of grated potatoes with meat in the middle, an Acadian specialty |
Smoked meat | Smoked meat, viande fumée | Montreal's Jewish community | Smoked brisket of beef, usually eaten in a rye bread sandwich |
Solomon gundy | Nova Scotia | Pickled herring and onions | |
Tourtière | Tourtière | Quebec | A highly seasoned pie made with ground pork |
Tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean | Tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean | Lac-St-Jean and Saguenay region in Quebec | Meat and potato pie |
Winnipeg goldeye | Manitoba | Smoked goldeye (Hiodon alosoides) from Manitoba streams |