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Canadian National Dishes

Browse Canadian dishes through complete recipes, with regional context, practical cooking steps and food-safety guidance.

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Wide platter of golden poutines à trou with syrup-filled top holes and cut pastries showing apple, raisins and cranberries.

Canadian National Dishes

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Browse Canadian dishes through complete recipes, with regional context, practical cooking steps and food-safety guidance.

24 published recipes

24 published recipes

Golden poutines à trou on a plate, with brown-sugar syrup in their top openings and one pastry cut to show apple, raisins and cranberries.

Poutine à trou (Acadian Apple and Cranberry Pastries)

A bowl of lightly thickened clam fricot with potatoes and onion, beside a small plate of clams.

Fricot aux palourdes (Acadian Clam Fricot)

A rustic bowl of light seafood fricot with potato cubes, clams, mussels and scallops, with a coastal view behind it.

Fricot aux fruits de mer (Acadian Seafood Fricot)

Three golden scallop gratins in shells on a platter beside a coastal window.

Coquille Saint-Jacques — Acadian Style (Scallop Gratin)

A platter of golden fried clams with lemon and tartar sauce beside a harbor.

Fried Clams (Atlantic Canadian battered clams)

A plate of crisp oatcakes with tea and blueberry preserves by a coastal window.

Nova Scotia Oatcakes (Cape Breton Style)

Two browned Lunenburg sausage patties with boiled potatoes and sauerkraut on a plate.

Lunenburg Sausage (South Shore Style)

A glass bowl of Nova Scotia pickled herring and onion with saltine crackers beside it.

Nova Scotia Solomon Gundy (Pickled Herring)

Pan-seared haddock topped with creamy lobster sauce and herbs on a white plate.

Haddock with Creamed Lobster (Acadian Shores Style)

A bowl of thick PEI lobster chowder with potatoes, apple and parsley on a wooden table.

Prince Edward Island Lobster Chowder

A bowl of cooked opened PEI mussels with tarragon, lemon and melted butter on a wooden table.

Steamed PEI Mussels with Tarragon and Lemon

A whole cooked PEI lobster with steamed mussels, dill potato salad, a buttered roll and strawberry shortcake on a coastal wooden table.

Traditional PEI Lobster Supper with Potato Salad and Strawberry Shortcake

A plate of crisp fries topped with browned ground beef, brown gravy and green peas in a PEI diner.

PEI Fries with the Works: Beef, Gravy and Peas

A tall bacon-wrapped potato pie cut to show potato and cheddar layers, with a bowl of maple-bacon sauce.

PEI Bacon Potato Pie with Maple-Bacon Sauce

A bowl of creamy PEI potato chowder with red and russet potatoes, vegetables, bacon and chives

PEI Potato Smoky Bacon Chowder

Six golden crumb-topped Malpeque oysters on a dark platter with lemon.

Baked Malpeque Oysters with Island Herb Crumbs

Four golden seared scallops with crisp bacon and lemon on a white plate.

Digby Scallops with Crisp Bacon

White ramekin of lobster pieces in golden butter with toast and a small knife.

Potted Lobster

A bowl of creamy clam chowder with potatoes, carrots and crackers on linen.

Atlantic Clam Chowder

A bowl of creamy smoked haddock chowder with parsley and rustic bread.

Finnan Haddie — Nova Scotia-Style Smoked Haddock Chowder

A round golden Luskinikn bread cut into wedges, with butter and berry jam on the side.

Luskinikn (Luski) — Baked Mi’kmaw Bread

A bowl of golden split-pea soup with potato and salt pork, with crusty bread on a separate plate beside it.

Traditional Acadian Pea Soup — Split-Pea and Salt Pork Soup

Golden salt-cod-and-potato fish cakes on a white platter, with green tomato chow-chow beside them.

Maritime Fish Cakes — Atlantic Canadian Salt-Cod Cakes

A dark bowl of golden crisp pork-fatback scrunchions, with fish and brewis softly focused behind.

Scrunchions — Newfoundland Salt-Pork Cracklings