You’re missing the cheese. Fries and gravy are nothing, but fries, gravy, and fresh cheese curds are the closest thing to heaven you’ll get in a dish. Poutine is a wonderful delicious food. I strongly believe everyone should work on a great poutine recipe to impress and share with their friends, so as to spread this wonderful food around.
You can use frozen French Fries, but if you can make your own fresh that just adds to the deliciousness.
Gravy is a bit tricky. You can experiment to find a canned or packaged one that is suitable, the best gravy is one you make from drippings of course but it’s hard to save these for poutine time, plus gravy is tricky to make. The key is hot hot HOT gravy, hot melts the cheese!
Cheese is the best part. The gold cheese is fresh cheese curds, the kind that squeaks in your teeth when you eat them. If you can’t find cheese curds, try a firm cheddar cut into cubes. I wouldn’t recommend a creamy cheese like brie, but you could try other solid cheeses or a mix of some. I once made poutine with St Albert’s spicy white cheddar cheese (they also make cheese curds, and their cheese blocks are pretty much pressed curd, so they have that yumminess) and it was wonderful.
Fries, cheese, gravy. Let it sit so that the cheese melts for a bit, or pop it under the broiler for a few seconds. Consume. Yum.
Fast food poutine should really be call pootine. Enough said.
Can you tell I’ve spent my life around poutine? :)