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Tourtière

Name: Tourtière
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Canada
Ingredients: 2 Frozen puff pastry sheet; 500g Ground Pork; 1 Onion; 1 Potato; 1 clove Garlic; 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder; a pinch (ground) Clove; A pinch Nutmeg; 1 Beef Bouillon; 1 tsp Salt; A pinch Black Pepper; 1 Egg; To taste Ketchup

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spiced ground pork baked in pastry — the meat pie essential to Christmas in Quebec.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tourtière is a traditional Quebec meat pie: ground pork is scented with spices such as cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, wrapped in pastry, and baked. In French Canadian homes it's essential at réveillon, the late-night meal after Christmas Eve mass. It's served with ketchup or chutney.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a snowy Christmas Eve, a Quebec family home from midnight mass celebrates around a fresh-baked meat pie.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Frozen puff pastry sheet 2
Ground Pork 500g
Onion 1
Potato 1
Garlic 1 clove
Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp
Clove a pinch (ground)
Nutmeg A pinch
Beef Bouillon 1
Salt 1 tsp
Black Pepper A pinch
Egg 1
Ketchup To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Boil and mash the potatoes.
Fry the ground pork, chopped onion, and garlic in a pot, add the spices, salt, pepper, and 150ml water with the beef bouillon dissolved, and simmer 20 minutes.
Mix in the mashed potato and let cool.
Line a pie dish with the first sheet of pastry and fill with the meat.
Cover with the second sheet, seal the edges, cut steam holes, and brush with beaten egg.
Bake at 200°C for 40 minutes and serve with ketchup.

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