Being influenced initially by French cuisine, Québec’s cuisine has gradually created its own style to adapt to the harsh winters of Canada (many dishes have a high fat), yet still kept the original flavors. Today, many traditional dishes take pride to be eaten at Christmas and New Year’s Celebrations. Here are the 5 popular foods that you should try in Quebec.
Traditional Poutine
Poutine definitely must be the Quebec’s popularly signature food. A flavor consists of French fries and fresh cheese curds, and topped with hot gravy. In recent years, it’s been spreading across Canada and going beyond to the other places around the world. Even the New York Times celebrated the poutine’s entrance to Manhattan.
The traditional taste is still the best for the 1st time eaters. You can find the food from a roadside chip truck on crowded city streets and even along highways all over the province. Just grab some and eat them on the go!
Quebec meatball Stew
The 2nd food travelers should try once visit Quebec must be meatball stew - a dish which consists of meatballs made from pork, beef, veal (or a blend of all three), and usually seasoned with the flavor of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. And all is rolled in flour. After that, the dish is simmered with onion and broth. Now, it’s ready to be served with boiled potatoes. This is a traditional dish that people usually use in Christmas time.
Bagels
Hand-made and baked in a wood-fire oven, Montrealers’s bagel, the Quebec version is smaller, sweeter, and denser than their well-known New York relative. It is definitely a perfect dish for your break time in a cold winter day. The traditional taste could go along with sesame and poppy seed. You can find bagels in many local restaurants. They are also available at many Montreal grocery stores.
Sugar pie
No trip to Quebec is completed if without the taste if this popular food. Filled with a mixture of flour, cream, egg, and sweet brown sugar (which can be replaced by maple syrup if you want), the single-crust sugar pie is a perfect match during your pleasure time. You can find this kind of pie at select restaurants, but they may taste differently a little bit.
Poor man’s pudding
No hesitation to say that this kind of pure maple-syrup cake is one the best choices of dessert, not only in Quebec but also in other places nowadays. If you can watch the way it is being made: once the white cake’s batter is laid down, the maple syrup sauce is poured on to cover the cake. Both parts are layered in a pan. After that, when the pan is taken out of the baker, surprisingly the sauce has totally penetrated in every pore of the cake, which makes it an unforgettable flavor!
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