Tourtiere (French Canadian Meat Pies)
Recipe: #452
October 13, 2011
Categories: Game, Brunch, Christmas, Fathers Day, Game/Sports Day Passover, Sunday Dinner, Thanksgiving, Oven Bake, High Protein, more
"This is a combination of my grandmother’s and my meat pie recipes. I have omitted what I didn’t like in my grandmothers pies and added what I liked in mine and came up with this recipe. This is now the family’s meat pie recipe. Beef can be used instead of moose meat, however moose meat is much leaner thus needing more fat. If using beef, use 2 pounds ground beef and 2 pounds ground pork. This makes two very meaty meat pies."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (223.3 g)
- Calories 225
- Total Fat - 6.3 g
- Saturated Fat - 1.9 g
- Cholesterol - 94.6 mg
- Sodium - 296.3 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 15.2 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.9 g
- Sugars - 3.5 g
- Protein - 26.9 g
- Calcium - 39.4 mg
- Iron - 2.4 mg
- Vitamin C - 7.9 mg
- Thiamin - 0.4 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Combine ground meat, onions, garlic, carrot, spices, water and Worcestershire sauce in a large skillet or pot and bring to a boil.
Step 2
Reduce heat and cook uncovered for 20 minutes, or long enough to remove pink from meat. Mixture should be moist, not watery. If there is too much liquid, drain a bit out.
Step 3
Mix in the potatoes and adjust the seasoning.
Step 4
Cool.
Step 5
Fill crust, cover with top crust and seal edges. Cut vent holes.
Step 6
Combine egg and water and brush over pastry crust.
Step 7
Bake at 425 for 10 minutes, reduce heat to 350 and bake 30 minutes or until lightly browned.
Tips
No special items needed.