- Tourtière
A tourtière is a
meat pie originating fromQuebec , usually made with groundpork and/orveal , orbeef . It is a traditionalChristmas and/or Christmas Eve andNew Year's Eve dish in Quebec, but is also enjoyed and sold ingrocery store s all year long. This kind of pie is known as "pâté à la viande" (literally, meat pie) in theSaguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region.Tourtière is not exclusive to the Canadian province of Québec. Tourtière is a traditional
French-Canadian dish served by generations of French-Canadian families throughoutCanada and the bordering areas of the United States. In the U.S.Maine ,Massachusetts ,New Hampshire ,Minnesota ,Rhode Island , andVermont , citizens ofQuébécois ancestry have introduced the recipe. Every family has their own "original" recipe, passed down through the generations. Like the recipe, there is no one correct filling, as the meat that goes into the pie depends on what is available in the region. In areas close to the ocean, fish such as salmon is commonly used, whereas pork, beef and game are used inland.The name supposedly comes from the name of a pie-making utensil but by 1611 tourtière more or less referred to the meat pie as we know it today. There is speculation that this culinary form is related to Moroccan pastry-making practices brought to Europe by way of Spain. [ [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9A0DE3DB143EF93AA25753C1A960948260 FARE OF THE COUNTRY; A Festive Dessert of Southwest France - New York Times ] ]
aguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
The tourtières of the
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area are slow-cooked deep-dish meat pies made withpotato es and various meats (often including game), which are cut into small cubes. Elsewhere in Quebec and the rest of Canada, this variety of tourtière is sometimes referred to in French and in English as "tourtière du Lac-Saint-Jean" or "tourtière saguenéenne" to distinguish it from the varieties of tourtière with ground meat.References
External links
* [http://archives.cbc.ca/IDCC-1-69-1371-8412/life_society/canadian_food/ The tourtière debate] at the CBC archive.
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