Full English Breakfast Poutine

England and Canada meet in a gravy-soaked love in. Who better to give it a taste than Carly Rae Jepson?

3 hours cook

Serves 2

Twisted: Unserious food tastes seriously good.

Ingredients

    For the gravy
  • 2carrot, roughly chopped
  • 3 stickscelery, roughy chopped
  • 1onion, roughly chopped
  • 6chicken wings
  • 3/4stock bones
  • 1/2 litreswater
  • 50g butter
  • 40gplain flour
  • to tastesalt and pepper
  • toppings
  • 3sausages
  • 4rashers streaky bacon, roughly chopped
  • And the rest:
  • 4 portionsfreshly cooked French fries
  • 150gcheese curds
  • 4 tbspchives

Poutine, Canada's second greatest national treasure (after Carly Rae Jepson and moose). Often dismissed as a glorified cheesy chips with gravy, in reality it's so much more. We've made a special treat for Carly by adding some meaty British treats to this Canadian classic.

Method

  • Start off by making your stock - roast the vegetables, chicken wings and bones for roughly an hour or until smelling amazing. Try not to burn them!
  • Place them in a pot with the water and simmer gently for as long as you've got - 2/3 hours is perfect. Strain and discard the vegetables, chicken wings and bones, saving the stock for the next step.
  • Heat the butter until foaming in a saucepan over a medium heat. Add the flour and stir until it is combined with the butter and smells biscuity, then pour over the stock, a little bit at a time, until you have a rich sauce. Set aside somewhere warm.
  • Fry the sausages in a little oil until cooked through, then remove from the heat, chop up into bitesize pieces and keep somewhere warm. Repeat with the bacon and finally the eggs.
  • Assemble the poutin! Use a wide, shallow serving dish and create a mound of fries. Top this with the cheese curds, diced sausages, bacon and eggs. Pour over the warm gravy and sprinkle with chives.
  • Serve forth!
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    Hugh Woodward

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