# The best traditional Québécois dishes

Traditional Québec dishes, from poutine to pouding chômeur, according to Destination Canada, Wikipedia and Québécois cookery guides.

- 12 votes · 13 items
- Oct 8, 2024 · Geneviève Gagnon
- https://even.best/en/l/409/the-best-traditional-quebecois-dishes

## Top 12

1. **Poutine** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Fries, squeaky cheese curds and brown gravy; born in Centre-du-Québec in the 1950s.
2. **Pâté chinois** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Layers of minced beef, creamed corn and mashed potato, Québec's shepherd's pie.
3. **Fèves au lard** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Beans slow-cooked with salt pork and molasses, a sugar shack breakfast staple.
4. **Montreal bagels** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Bagels boiled in honeyed water and baked in a wood oven, at St-Viateur and Fairmount.
5. **Tourtière** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Spiced minced meat pie, a must for Christmas Eve and New Year.
6. **Tire sur la neige** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Boiled maple syrup poured on snow and rolled on a stick at the sugar shack.
7. **Montreal smoked meat** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Smoked beef brisket sliced in a sandwich, made famous by Schwartz's (1928).
8. **Pea soup** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Thick yellow pea soup with ham, inherited from the coureurs des bois.
9. **Cretons** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Spiced minced pork spread, on toast for breakfast.
10. **Tarte au sucre** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Brown sugar or maple syrup pie, a holiday dessert.
11. **Cipaille** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Multi-layered pie of meats and potatoes, from Gaspésie and Saguenay.
12. **Grands-pères au sirop d'érable** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Dumplings poached in maple syrup.
13. **Pouding chômeur** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Cake topped with maple syrup or brown sugar sauce, born during the Great Depression.

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