Over the years Minnesota has become known for a few specific foods, among them, those created in pyrex. We love nothing more than our home-cooked comfort food, and whether or not you eat them on a regular basis, if you’re a real Minnesotan you won’t be able to stop your mouth from watering when you read this list of MN favorites.
- Hotdish
Flickr/Pattie With tater tots to be specific. If you’re from MN and don’t love tater tot hotdish there’s a real issue.
- MN Beer
Minnesotans love their home-state brews from August Schell to Surly and everything in between.
- Hamburger Hotdish
Flickr/moleofproduction Hamburger hotdish! Another MN favorite, and totally different from regular tater tot hotdish because… hamburger meat.
- Bloody Marys
Flickr/pcutler With a snit or it’s not even worth it. But these babies are the best start to many a good MN Sunday.
- Green Bean Hotdish
Flickr/willie With some fried onions that are really the only part we like.
- Nut Goodies
Jo Magliocco This St. Paul-created classic is still a favorite of most Minnesotan’s today. Or am I the only one with a jar of these in my kitchen? Seriously… am I?
- Chicken Hotdish
Flickr/Kimberly Vardeman Chicken and wild rice hotdish! Minnesota’s amazing wild rice combined with classic hotdish ingredients like cream of mushroom, cheese, and peas!
- Burgers
Flickr/Kim More specifically, those with gooey, melted cheese on the inside. No matter how they’re spelled.
- Cheeseburger Hotdish
Flickr/Keith Ellison We’ll also take these molten cheeseburgers in hotdish form. Basically this is the super cheesy variety of the previously mentioned hamburger hotdish.
- Ice Cream
Flickr/Zechariah Judy Everyone loves ice cream, but Minnesota LOVES ice cream. We have so many places with homemade ice cream it’s crazy.
- Breakfast Hotdish
Flickr/Steven Depolo Breakfast hotdish. Eggs, hash browns, sausage… basically we throw in anything delicious that you would normally eat before noon.
- Walleye
Flickr/emilee rader Straight from our lakes, we favor it fried, but any preparation is still guaranteed to be a Minnesota favorite.
- Tuna Hotdish
Flickr/Corey Balazowich Because while everyone else dreads the ominous “tuna casserole”, we think our mom’s tuna hotdish is pretty dang good. The name makes all the difference.
- Brats
Flickr/fatherspoon Our favorite meat for cooking up all summer long. They’re the best.
- Pizza Hotdish
Flickr/lvalue Pizza hotdish! A newer take on the old classic. Because we love a good pizza but we’d rather scoop it out of a pan.
- Cheese Curds
Flickr/Connie Ma Sure this could be an effect of residing this close to Wisconsin for so long, but if you’ve had the ones at the State Fair especially, you get why the whole state can’t help but love them.
- Hotdish On A Stick
Flickr/matthew logelin The only thing better than hotdish is when you put it on a stick and deep fry it.
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Flickr/Pattie
With tater tots to be specific. If you’re from MN and don’t love tater tot hotdish there’s a real issue.
Minnesotans love their home-state brews from August Schell to Surly and everything in between.
Flickr/moleofproduction
Hamburger hotdish! Another MN favorite, and totally different from regular tater tot hotdish because… hamburger meat.
Flickr/pcutler
With a snit or it’s not even worth it. But these babies are the best start to many a good MN Sunday.
Flickr/willie
With some fried onions that are really the only part we like.
Jo Magliocco
This St. Paul-created classic is still a favorite of most Minnesotan’s today. Or am I the only one with a jar of these in my kitchen? Seriously… am I?
Flickr/Kimberly Vardeman
Chicken and wild rice hotdish! Minnesota’s amazing wild rice combined with classic hotdish ingredients like cream of mushroom, cheese, and peas!
Flickr/Kim
More specifically, those with gooey, melted cheese on the inside. No matter how they’re spelled.
Flickr/Keith Ellison
We’ll also take these molten cheeseburgers in hotdish form. Basically this is the super cheesy variety of the previously mentioned hamburger hotdish.
Flickr/Zechariah Judy
Everyone loves ice cream, but Minnesota LOVES ice cream. We have so many places with homemade ice cream it’s crazy.
Flickr/Steven Depolo
Breakfast hotdish. Eggs, hash browns, sausage… basically we throw in anything delicious that you would normally eat before noon.
Flickr/emilee rader
Straight from our lakes, we favor it fried, but any preparation is still guaranteed to be a Minnesota favorite.
Flickr/Corey Balazowich
Because while everyone else dreads the ominous “tuna casserole”, we think our mom’s tuna hotdish is pretty dang good. The name makes all the difference.
Flickr/fatherspoon
Our favorite meat for cooking up all summer long. They’re the best.
Flickr/lvalue
Pizza hotdish! A newer take on the old classic. Because we love a good pizza but we’d rather scoop it out of a pan.
Flickr/Connie Ma
Sure this could be an effect of residing this close to Wisconsin for so long, but if you’ve had the ones at the State Fair especially, you get why the whole state can’t help but love them.
Flickr/matthew logelin
The only thing better than hotdish is when you put it on a stick and deep fry it.
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