Green onion cakes are a flatbread cooked on a griddle or deep fried and usually served with sambal oelek pepper sauce. Because they were easy to pre-prep and hawk at markets, To decided to sell them at Taste of Edmonton , the Edmonton Folk Music Festival and the Edmonton International Fringe Festival , and to this day green onion cakes continue to be festival fare in Edmonton.
Nowadays they are widely available at Chinese and Vietnamese restaurants, pubs, food trucks and even trendy restos. In there was a push to make green onion cakes the official food of Edmonton, but for now they maintain unofficial status.
Alberta is the leading producer of Canadian beef, and enjoys international repute for its juicy and tender, well marbled cuts. With that said, Alberta-raised beef can be a thing of beauty when purchased from a good farmer or butcher and expertly prepared. The Longview Steakhouse is considered by many to be the spot to eat Alberta beef. Steak nights at The Bruce Hotel , a rural steakhouse an hour east of Edmonton, are highly recommended. But beef eating in Alberta does not end at the backyard barbecue or pricey steakhouse.
Every pub in Alberta is judged by the merits of its steak sandwich ; a 6oz-8oz hunk of beef on a piece of garlic bread should be very good and very cheap. Photo Courtesy of Dinner With Julie. Puffed wheat squares are a popular confection in Alberta, whether at potlucks or bakeries and cafes.
I am told that no good Alberta kitchen is without a big bag of puffed wheat cereal in the pantry, waiting for the next church social or school bake sale. Puffed wheat cereal is combined with corn syrup, brown sugar, vanilla and cocoa powder to make a sweet chewy morsel.
See the recipe at Dinner With Julie. Every year the town celebrates the 2 day Taber Cornfest. Buyer beware: check that your corn is certified by local growers. Falher, Alberta is the honey capital of Canada, boasting a 22ft honey bee statue and the Falher Honey Festival. Another sweet attraction is the Chinook Honey Company which offers tours and tastings of their hives and meadery!
It was here that he started making the donair recipe he had learned in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The Edmonton Donair is a different animal than its Halifax predecessor not literally, though chicken donairs are in fact common. Edmonton donairs are tidier, handheld pita wraps often served in a combo with fries and a pop.
Cheese is a common addition, but the major point of contention is that Edmonton donairs include lettuce whereas Halifax donairs do not. Every locale produces a honey unique to that area, depending on what crops and flowers grow, so look for Made-in-Alberta honey to discover the flavours you can only find here.
Though it's a Canadian heritage food and was the baking and milling industries' standard of wheat from to , it was also the first wheat to grow well in Alberta. Here's a little summer trivia to impress your friends and family. Share on Facebook. Email Sign Up. There are trillions of bottles of beer around the world made from Alberta malt barley. We are currently seeing an explosion in micro brewing in the province and will have over 60 micro breweries by the end of thanks to talented young brewmasters wanting to use this great ingredient at the source.
We asked our community about their favourite raw Alberta ingredients and finished products too. People posted what they were eating on Instagram with the hashtag eatalberta from the May long-weekend to August 7. We picked at least two photos per day to win exciting Alberta food prizes with gift certificates from producers, restaurants and fabulous hotels and resorts.
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