Tourtiers (French Pork Pie)

Name: Tourtiers (French Pork Pie)
Prep time: 4 h 15 min
Cook time: 4 h 15 min
Total time: 4 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Mediterranean, French, European
Ingredients: 4 baking potatoes, peeled and cubed; 1 bay leaf; 1 stalk celery, chopped; 0 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 0 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 kgs lean ground pork; 1 large onion, chopped; 850 grams packages refrigerated pie crusts; 1 teaspoon salt; 710 milliliters water

Tourtiers (French Pork Pie) requires about 4 hours and 15 minutes from start to finish. This recipe covers 13% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 16. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 476 calories, 17g of protein, and 29g of fat per serving. If you have ground cinnamon, bay leaf, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. It is a reasonably priced recipe for fans of Mediterranean food. Users who liked this recipe also liked Tourtiers (French Pork Pie), Tourtiere (French Canadian Pork Pie), and Pork Aux Champignons (French Pork With Mushrooms).

Instructions

In a large saucepan, mix together the ground pork, cloves, cinnamon, onion, salt, celery, bay leaf and water. The water will help break up the raw pork. Simmer over medium-low heat for about 3 hours, or until the water has evaporated.

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Remove from the heat and discard the bay leaf.

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Towards the end of the pork cooking time, place the potatoes into a separate saucepan and fill with enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, about 10 minutes.

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Drain and mash potatoes. When the pork is done, stir the mashed potatoes into that pan until evenly blended.

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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line two 9 inch pie plates with bottom crusts. Spoon equal amounts of the pork filling into each crust. Cover with top crusts and flute the edges to seal.

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Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until crust is golden brown.

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Servings:

baking potatoes, peeled and cubed 1

bay leaf 1stalk

celery, chopped 0teaspoons

ground cinnamon 0teaspoons

ground cloves 1kgs

lean ground pork 1large

onion, chopped 850grams

packages refrigerated pie crusts 1teaspoon

salt 710milliliters

water

Recommended wine: Vin Santo, Late Harvest Riesling, Lambrusco Dolce

Vin Santo, Late Harvest Riesling, and Lambrusco Dolce are great choices for Pie. These wines are all sweet, which is important since wine should usually be sweeter than the food you're pairing with it. The Taittinger Taittinger Collection by Sebastiao Salgado with a 5 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 320 dollars per bottle.

Taittinger Taittinger Collection by Sebastiao Salgado

Beautifully intense floral aromas, with traces of honeysuckle,generous raisins, hot, honeyed fruits and greengage plums. Fresh, unctuous and supple flavors help the wine's balance andrichness.Made from selected Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes grown in the finest microclimates in Champagne. Chardonnay is harvested from Grand Cru of Côte des Blancs and Pinot Noir comes from Grand Crus of Montagne de Reims and edge of Vallée de la Marne.Following harvest, grapes are pressed immediately in press houses in the vineyards. First pressing is only juice used for this wine. Blending is after primary fermentation, final cuvée completes secondary fermentation in bottle in Taittinger's cool cellars.About Sebastião SalgadoSebastião Salgado was born in 1944 in Aimorés, Brazil. Growing up in a family of eight children on his parents' farm, he became fascinated by the natural world around him, from taking walks in the forest, looking from the hilltops and listening to the trainsthat transported the local minerals. After studying economics in school, Sebastião decided to change careers and become a photographer, focusing on his love of nature. Sebastião Salgado’s photographs express human and environmental tragedies, and yethe always manages to find extraordinary beauty, thereby offering a glimmer of hope. His work focuses on the biodiversity of the planet, highlighting that which has not been transformed by human beings. The photograph chosen for Taittinger Collection is a statement of what is most universal and original: Life, simple and peaceful.