Atlantic Canada Recipes

Maritime and Newfoundland classics: Jiggs dinner, toutons, hodge podge, blueberry grunt and more East Coast home cooking.

6 recipes

Atlantic Canada

Jiggs Dinner

Newfoundland's Sunday boiled dinner: salt beef, root vegetables, cabbage and pease pudding.

3.3 h 6Easy

Atlantic Canada

Nova Scotia Blueberry Grunt

Stewed wild blueberries topped with fluffy steamed dumplings, cooked on the stovetop.

35 min 6Easy

Atlantic Canada

Newfoundland Toutons

Pan-fried bread dough from Newfoundland, served hot with butter and molasses.

35 min 8Easy

Atlantic Canada

Nova Scotia Hodge Podge

Early-summer new vegetables simmered in butter and cream, a Nova Scotia garden tradition.

40 min 4Easy

Atlantic Canada

Maple-Glazed Salmon

Weeknight sheet-pan salmon with a maple, mustard and soy glaze. Ready in 20 minutes.

17 min 4Easy

Atlantic Canada

Halifax Donair

The Nova Scotia street food classic: spiced beef, sweet garlicky condensed-milk sauce, tomato and onion in a warm pita.

1.3 h 4Medium

East Coast home cooking

Atlantic Canada cooks with what the ocean, the garden and the pantry provide: salt beef and root vegetables in Newfoundland, fresh summer vegetables and cream in Nova Scotia, and wild blueberries across the Maritimes. Many dishes here began as ways to stretch simple ingredients through long winters.

Expect Sunday dinners like Jiggs dinner, quick fried dough like toutons, and desserts built on wild berries. Each recipe notes swaps for ingredients that are hard to find outside the region.