This is an AI-generated image.

Cretons

Name: Cretons
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 500g Ground Pork; 1 Onion; 200ml Milk; 40g Breadcrumbs; 1 clove Garlic; 1/4 tsp Cinnamon powder; 2 Clove; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; To taste Bread

Side Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

A Quebec breakfast spread of ground pork simmered with onion and spices until smooth, for spreading on bread.

📱 Open in Storage App

🚧 The Storage app is currently in development. Please check back soon.

📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cretons is a pâté-like pork spread that's essential to a Quebec breakfast. Ground pork is simmered with milk, breadcrumbs, onion, cinnamon, and cloves, then chilled until set. It's spread on toast with mustard and sold in every grocery store in Quebec.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Quebec morning, cold cretons is spread thick on toast and eaten hurriedly with a café au lait.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Ground Pork 500g
Onion 1
Milk 200ml
Breadcrumbs 40g
Garlic 1 clove
Cinnamon powder 1/4 tsp
Clove 2
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Bread To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Combine the ground pork, chopped onion and garlic, and milk in a pot.
Add the cinnamon, cloves, salt, and pepper and put over the heat.
Simmer on low for 1 hour, stirring now and then.
Remove the cloves and stir in the breadcrumbs to absorb the liquid.
Process in a food processor or mash with a spatula until fine, then pack into a container.
Chill overnight until set and spread on toast.

← More Canada recipes 🗺 Explore another country