Canadian

Poutine

Name: Poutine
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Canadian
Ingredients: 26 oz frozen French fries; 2 cups cheese curds; 1.5 cups beef stock; 1 tbsp butter; 1 tbsp all purpose flour; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Jenny @jenny_calgary

Poutine is Canadian home cooking, eaten at dinner and lunch. 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.

35 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

26 oz frozen French fries
2 cups cheese curds
1.5 cups beef stock
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp all purpose flour
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Heat the oven according to the frozen fry packet directions and bake the fries until golden and crisp, about 22 minutes.
Meanwhile melt the butter in a small saucepan and whisk in the flour, cooking for a minute.
Gradually whisk in the beef stock and simmer until the gravy thickens, about 5 minutes, then season with pepper.
Pile the hot fries onto plates, scatter generously with cheese curds, and ladle the hot gravy over the top so the curds start to melt.
Serve right away.

Watch how to cook Poutine

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

Poutine Recipe | How to Make Classic Canadian Poutine Play the video

Serve it with

A Canadian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Poutine, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Buttered Green Beans
  
  10 min
What it is eaten with
- Canadian Dinner Rolls
  
  12 min

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. Poutine carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Poutine
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: 550 kcal
Protein: 19 g
Carbs: 46 g
Fat: 32 g
Fiber: 4 g
Sugar: 2 g
Sodium: 1040 mg
Saturated fat: 14 g

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

When to cook it

Poutine takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner and lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.