Pumpkin Poutine
Let me introduce you to this tasty and autumnal recipe: The Pumpkin Poutine
Yess! Canadian’s are crazy about both: Pumpkin and Poutine of course.
Canada’s number one Street food has to be represented on my Blog, not only because I obviously resonate a lot with this country and have beautiful memories of the time I used to live there, not to mention the emotional value I feel especially for Montréal!
But also because it’s POUTINE: it’s dirty, delicious and yet so simple! A real foodporn celebrated by a whole nation.
The classic version is simply made out of French Fries, cheese curds (it has to have the quich-quich effect like they would say in Montréal!) and hot gravy sauce.
But there are plenty of delicious poutine variations, as this one for example.
The Poutine itself emerged in Quebec in the late 1950s and is until today the most popular street food in Canada.
Ingredients:
For 3 servings
4 middle size Potatoes
1/2 of a sweet potato
4 mushrooms
100 g Bacon cubes
140 g Hokkaido pumpkin
189 g Cheese Curds
25 g Poutine Sauce
How to:
Cut the potatoes and the sweet potatoes in fine stripes (or wedges for a more rustic version), cut the pumpkin in mouth friendly pieces.
Put potatoes and pumpkin on an oven tray and drizzle with olive oil and a bit of salt.
Bake in the oven for 20 min with 200 degrees Celsius, when golden turn of the oven and leave for another 10 min.
In the meantime cut the mushrooms in slices and cook in the pan with a minimum of oil and bacon cubes.
Prepare the poutine sauce with simply following the instructions written on the package (read carefully!) And you have to take out the cheese curds from the fridge 1h before doing the poutine.
Time to serve! Serve fries in cardboard trays or simply in a bowl topped by pumpkin, mushrooms, bacon cubes and last but not least the cheeseacurds and the poutine sauce.
Bon appétit!
