Canadian

Cretons on Toast

Name: Cretons on Toast
Total time: 8 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 1.5 cups cretons; 4 slices sandwich bread; 1 tbsp butter

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Cretons on Toast is Canadian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

8 min Easy

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cups cretons
4 slices sandwich bread
1 tbsp butter

How to cook it

Toast the bread until golden.
Spread a thin layer of butter over each slice.
Top with a generous spread of cretons and serve.

Watch how to cook Cretons on Toast

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Taste of Quebec ~ Cretons (Quebec pork spread) Play the video

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cretons on Toast carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cretons on Toast
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Gluten	Yes	Baked Salmon with Dill
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 640 kcal
Protein: 22 g
Carbs: 30 g
Fat: 48 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 1350 mg
Saturated fat: 18 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cretons on Toast takes about 8 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.