MY Grandmother (my "meme") made a similar mix of pork and mashed potatoes but used a bit of sage for flavor and used it to stuff ducks or geese. Magnifique!
This is delicious! And easy to make too. It does take a long time to cook but the results are worth it... we got a fluffy well-flavored meat pie. This one's definitely a keeper!
I did substitute half ground beef and half pork. Only made one pie for 3 of us. Definitely a keeper for a winter night meal!
Our family makes Tourtiere pie every year too but our recipe uses 1/2-2/3 hamburg and the rest pork. And we cook it up with a chopped onion instead of celery which I think tastes even better. All in all this is a great and easy recipe and is delicious hot out of the oven or cold out of the fridge the next day! Yum!
I am so glad I found this recipe! My parents and my meme before them make this every year for Christmas Eve! Now I can surprise my father (a pepe himself now) with one! This pie is the best and oh so good! Everyone should give this recipe a try you'll surely love it!
I made this recipe over the holidays and my entire family loved it. I halved the recipe and only made one pie but have been asked to make more!
I found this recipe to be delicious and highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for an authentic French pork pie recipe. Everyone in my family loved it and it is definitely one that I will be making again and again...for those of you who have never tried French pork pie it can be somewhat of an aquired taste with the strange combination of spices. I have found that most people either love it or hate it. I would also like to add that I am always surprised when people leave ratings of 1 or 2 stars for a recipe when it is a food that they never tried before and do not care for the taste...their rating has more to do with personal likes/dislikes and not the actual success of the recipe...let's face it. If you don't like the taste of tourtiers regardless of which recipe you try you are not going to like tourtiers. I take a lot of stock in the amount of stars a recipe has and almost overlooked this recipe because of negative reviews from people who didn't know how tourtiers were supposed to taste.
My grandmothers used to make this for the holidays too; I didn't care if there was another dish served or not...as long as I had my own pie! Like my grandmothers I use a fresh ham and boil it until well cooked and falling from the bone. It may be hard to find a fresh ham so substituting the ground pork works too. I then grind the ham and put the potatoes through the grinder/strainer as well. The rest of the recipe is basically the same except we didn't/don't use celery or bay leaf. And the pastry dough is made fresh...preferably with lard. Glad to see someone else knows what this wonderful dish is!:)
I'm from Quebec so I know my tourtieres. This is the most delicious one I have ever had. I used a 2 to 1 pork and veal blend (my preference) though. I'm sure my guests will be asking for this recipe tonight! Thanks for sharing.....
I wouldn't say it's the best Tourtiere recipe I've ever tried but it's not bad. I think I'd prefer a few more ingredients to make it a bit more flavourful A Quebecois collegue at work thought it smelled great though!
