NASI GORENG

Canada is a major producer, exporter and importer of an immense variety of agricultural and food products ranging from processed foods with global value chains to local, farm-based value chains.  In this section, we share 3 of our research insights and assess to what extent our recipe can be made from Canadian agricultural and food product.

We can see that the vast majority of countries that produce rice reside in Asia. This trend allows us to understand that rice is an integral part of Asian culture and that we should not be surprised that our dish that we have selected uses rice as its main base ingredient.

Canada ranks pretty far down on the list of countries that produce green peas (0.3% of world production) in comparison to other countries such as China (61.5%) and India (22.2%). We can conclude that peas are prevalent in Asian culture, which leads to it becoming a staple in many dishes – not just fried rice. As such, although we can find green peas in Canada, we are unlikely to see green peas in this particular version of Nasi Goreng. Rather, we can substitute it with other cheaper and more accessible alternatives.

When we look through the cookbook, we noticed that the vast majority of the dishes use chicken. This can be explained by the high production levels in Asia, which makes the cost of acquiring a chicken less than if you were in North America. As chicken is the ingredient that really highlights the dish, and since Americas produce 27.1% of chicken, we do not need to substitute it for any other alternative as it is easily purchases.

In summary, 8 out of 8 ingredients we needed are produced in Canada. All of the ingredients we need are available, and we did not have to make any substitutions.