Washington

Washington food refers to the food of Washington, a US city, which is well known for foods like sweet onions, strawberries, and apricots, which find extensive use in various regional dishes. Both vegetarian and non vegetarian dishes are popularly eaten in the city, with a generous use of apples, onions, cheese, and seafood in the preparation of different dishes. Fish is one of the much favored foods of the city.

 

 

Historical Influence on Food in Washington

Washington D.C., the capital of United States, which was formally known as District of Columbia, bears the influence of the cooking styles followed by the Europeans and Nacotchtank (people speaking Algonquian) people who inhabited the region around 17th century.  

 

Food in Washington: Popular Recipes

Apples

Washington City is highly known for its apples (state fruit) due to their high nutrition content. The state of Washington harvests various varieties of apples, a few of which include Red and Golden Delicious, Braeburn, Granny Smith, Jonagold, Gala, and Fuji. In Washington, apples and pork chops are considered to be a great duo.

 

Fish

The people of Washington have a strong affinity for fish based dishes. Food in Washington seems to be incomplete without fish. Fish is available in large quantity in the city, where the fish market in Washington is very famous due to ready availability of fresh fish all the time.  

 

Hot dogs

Hot dogs are very common in the city of Washington, where a hot dog refers to sausage stuffed in sliced bun.    

 

Potatoes

Potatoes are also loved a lot by the people of Washington, where they are used in the preparation of burgers (which are quite common in the Washington), and various other dishes.

 

Cheese

Cheese is a Washington food product which is available in different forms like American Cheddar, Cougar Gold®, Viking, and Smoky Cheddar, where the cheese is sued in preparation of various dishes like burgers pizzas etc.

 

Smoked Salmon Spinach Rolls

This is one of the favorite appetizers of Washington people where all the ingredients like Sea Bear smoked salmon, chopped spinach, sour cream, mayonnaise, chopped green onions, and chopped chestnuts are mixed together, spread on large sized flour tortillas, rolled, refrigerated, and then consumed after cutting them into various slices.

 

Barbeque Roasted Wild Salmon Dinner Fillets

This barbeque dish is available in various restaurants in Washington where wild salmon dinner fillets, pineapple juice and lemon juice are combined together in a plastic bag and kept in refrigerator for an hour. Thereafter, brown sugar, chili powder, cumin, grated lemon crush, salt, and cinnamon are combined together and rubbed over the marinated salmon dinner fillets, where the fillets are then placed in the baking tray coated with cooking spray, which is then placed in preheated oven for a few minutes and served hot along with lemon. This Washington food is mostly prepared for dinner.