This French Canadian meat pie (tourtière) contains pork, potatoes, onions, and spices.
Prep
24 min
Cook
105 min
Servings
Difficulty
Hard
Ingredients
1 large baking potato
1.5 pounds ground pork
1 large onion
, minced
0.5 teaspoons salt
0.5 teaspoons ground black pepper
0.5 teaspoons ground cinnamon
0.25 teaspoons ground cloves
1 pinch ground allspice
0.5 cups water
1
, 14.1 ounce
1 large egg
, beaten
0.25 teaspoons paprika
, or to taste
Instructions
1
Gather all ingredients.
2
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
3
Prick potato several times with a fork and place onto a baking sheet.
4
Bake in the preheated oven until easily pierced with a fork, 50 minutes to 1 hour. Let cool for 10 minutes, then discard skin and mash flesh. Turn the oven off.
5
Place mashed potato into a large skillet with ground pork, onion, water, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, and allpsice. Bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer until very thick, at least 1 hour.
6
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
7
Line a deep-dish pie plate with one pastry. Spoon in pork and potato filling.
8
Cover with remaining pastry. Brush with beaten egg and sprinkle with paprika. Cut a steam vent in pastry.
9
Bake in the preheated oven for 50 minutes. If the edges brown too fast, cover them with a strip of foil. Serve warm.
Nutrition per serving
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