Tourtière

Ingredients:
2/3 lb soil pork
2/3 lb soil thin beef
2/3 lb soil veal
i large carrot, finely chopped
i large onion, finely chopped
iii cloves garlic, minced
i stem celery, diced
i 1/2 loving cup cider
i 1/4 cups mashed Russet potatoes*
1/4 teaspoon celery seed
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon soil cloves
1/4 teaspoon crushed rosemary
1/4 teaspoon chervil or savory
1/4 teaspoon dry out mustard
1/4 teaspoon marjoram
1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
bounding main salt
freshly soil dark pepper
i bay leaf
pastry for a two crust pie
i egg, beaten


Directions:
Preheat oven to 375.

In a large skillet, sauté meat until no longer pink, breaking upward whatever large chunks. Drain off whatever fat. Add onions, carrots together with spices together with saute until the carrots are tender, 8-10 minutes. Add cider together with convey to a simmer. Simmer until well-nigh of the liquid is absorbed, 10-15 minutes. Remove from heat, take away bay leaf, thence stir inward potatoes together with allow to cool to nearly room temperature.

Line a 9-inch pie pan alongside pastry. Fill alongside meat filling. Cover alongside remaining pastry. Pinch shut. Brush alongside egg. Vent together with bake forty minutes. Allow to sit down v minutes prior to serving.

*I used roasted Russet potatoes

My thoughts:

Tourtière is a Canadian meat pie served traditionally around Christmas together with New Year's. This version is roughly inward the mode of what is served inward Manitoba together with has quite a mix of spices! Tourtière inward other parts of French-speaking Canada vary inward which spices they purpose only well-nigh serve it alongside chutney or other pickle-y items. It is a chip time-consuming only really slow to brand together with your whole family volition olfactory belongings fantastic every bit it bakes! The finished dish is flavorful together with good spiced together with actually does sense of savour similar the holidays.