A tourtière is a meat pie originating from Quebec,
usually made with ground pork and/or veal, or beef. It is a traditional
Christmas and
New Year's Eve dish in Quebec, but is also enjoyed and sold
in grocery stores all year long. This kind of pie is known
as pâté à la viande (literally, meat pie) in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
region. Tourtière is not exclusive to the province of
Québec. Tourtière is a traditional French-Canadian dish
served by generations of French-Canadian families throughout
Canada. In the U.S. state of Vermont citizens of Québécois ancestry have introduced the recipe to the
state's culture, and it is traditionally eaten on Christmas
Eve.
Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
The tourtières of the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean area are deep-dish meat pies made with potatoes and various meats (often including game), which are cut into small cubes. In Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, this variety of tourtière is sometimes referred to in French and in English as tourtière du Lac Saint-Jean to distinguish it from the varieties of tourtière with ground meat, described above.
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