French Meat Pie

French Meat Pie

Just a Pinch Recipe Club, Family Favorites, United States.
This recipe comes from a friend, who got it from her great-great grandparents who were French Canadian. I made this on 9 Jan 2024 and it is not only easy to put together, takes some time, but easy, and my family loved this! This is an excellent dish that I will have to make more often. Common ingredients as well.
Prep Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 15 minutes
Course Main Dish
Cuisine Canadian
Servings 8 servings

Equipment

  • Pie Dish (9 inch)
  • Oven

Ingredients
  

  • 680 grams ground pork, (1½ lb)
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 cup water
  • 2 large potatoes, peeled, cut into large chunks, (I used 3 regular potatoes from Tesco)
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon black pepper
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves
  • ½ teaspoon allspice
  • 1 double pie crust, homemade or store bought, Shortcut

Instructions
 

  • To a pot, add the pork, onion, garlic, and water. Place on medium low heat, breaking up the pork with a large spoon and stir occasionally.
  • Once the pork is started, add the potato pieces to another pot, add water to cover by an inch or so and bring to a boil, just like you are making mashed potatoes. Cook the potatoes until fork tender, drain.
  • Cook the pork for about 1-1½ hours or until the water is evaporated, but do not brown the meat, only a little fat should remain on the bottom. Remove from heat but leave in the pot.
  • When the potatoes are drained, mash with a large fork or potato masher, but do not add any milk or butter, you are just mashing the potatoes only.
  • Add the mashed potatoes to the pork, sprinkle in the salt, pepper, cloves, and allspice. Mix with a large spoon. Taste and add more spices to taste.
    If making the pie crust, go ahead and prepare that now.
  • Preheat your oven to 180° C (350° F) and get out a 9 inch pie dish. Place a pie crust in the bottom of the dish and add the filling.
  • Top the dish with the second pie crust, flute, and cut some slits in the top to vent steam.
  • Place in the preheated oven and bake for 30-45 minutes or until the top is lightly browning.
  • Slice into serving sizes.
  • Serve with a salad or vegetable, and cranberry sauce is excellent with this dish as well.

Notes

Fair cost per serving depending on number of servings you get out of the pie.
Shortcut: Pie Crust.
 

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