Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, my tourtiere. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
My grandmother's tourtière tasted exactly like this except that she never used potatoes starch or bread crumbs in her tourtière(which she found diminished the taste of the meat and the spices). Tourtière, also known as pork pie or meat pie, is a combination of ground meat, onions, spices, and herbs baked in a traditional piecrust. This is my version of the classic Quebecois meat pie recipe - tourtiere.
My Tourtiere is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. My Tourtiere is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook my tourtiere using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make My Tourtiere:
- Prepare 1 lb lean ground beef
- Get 1 lb ground pork
- Make ready 2 cloves minced garlic
- Take I medium onion chopped fine
- Take 2 tsp salt
- Prepare 1/4 ground cloves
- Prepare 1/4 ground pepper
- Prepare 1/4 dried thyme
- Get 1/4 tsp dried sage
- Take 1/2 tsp celery salt
- Make ready 1 bay leaf
- Prepare 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup beef stock
- Make ready 2 medium potatoes,peeled,chopped, boiled & mashed (1 cup or so)
- Get 1 (9 inch) double crust pie shell
This recipe is for all my fellow Canadians and especially my fellow Quebecers. You can't have a proper Thanksgiving or Christmas holiday without a Canadian tourtiere. For such a simple meat-filled pie, tourtière certainly has a vast number of different incarnations! Tourtière is a popular meat-filled pie enjoyed at Christmas.
Steps to make My Tourtiere:
- Simmer all the ingredients except the mashed potatoes on low for 2-3 hours, stirring occasionally.
- Remove the bay leaf. You don't want the meat to be bone dry but there should be no liquid at the bottom. If it is too dry just add a bit of water. Cool completely.
- Fill the pie plate with the cooled meat mixture. Cover with the top part of pastry and seal the edges. Make an egg wash and brush on the pastry
- Bake at 400f for 10 minutes then reduce heat to 350 for another 40-50 minute bake. Serve warm
A French-Canadian staple, this double-crusted savory pie has many family-style variations; our recipe is made with a ground pork. Tourtière is the savoury centrepiece of réveillon, the traditional Québécois dinner held on Christmas Eve. Light and flaky pastry is the key to this dish - you want to keep the focus on the subtly spiced. When the weather gets cold and the days get shorter, nothing sounds Whenever the Northern winds batter my windows, I always find comfort in a big slice of tourtiere. Tourtière is a French Canadian meat pie that my mom used to make when I was a girl.
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