Check out the recipe: www.allrecipes.com/Recipe/261983/Tourtiere-French-Canadian-Meat-Pie/

“Beer and a very specific dance performance.” Dude kills me.

“We crossed the boarder for beer and a specific type of dance performance” Chef John, you are excellent.

I am a chef from Montreal and I make and sell Tourtiere every Christmas and this recipe is just about spot on, I would add a bit more ground cloves and I cook my potatoes in chicken stock, and that potato water has more flavor. Cooling it is just a way to make sure not to sog the bottom crust in case your meat mixture is too wet. This is fantastic! well done!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! My stepfather made this every Christmas when I was a kid. His family was French-Canadian. He passed away nearly 20 years ago and never wrote the recipe down. I’m making it today as a trial run for the holiday season and it totally brought tears to my eyes from the flood of memories. I always put cheddar cheese and ketchup on mine. 😊😍

My wife was crying while you made this. It brought back a thousand childhood memories of her mom, who has since passed away, making this for the reveillon a New Years Eve tradition. Very traditional and made almost like her moms. Thank you for sharing.

As a French Canadian, I approve of this video.

I just made this, it is absolutely incredible. Thank you very much for this walkthrough. I added way more spices than you suggested as well as tons of garlic and a chopped jalapeno. I love spicy food and the end result is a Carribean/Quebec fusion that is brilliant. I highly recommend the additions to anyone making this.

Chef Martin Picard, here in Montreal, created his own version of this dish that involves replacing some of the original meat with duck confit. I've made it, it takes tourtière to a whole new level.

I hope I'm not the only one who thought he said "urban spice blend" when he actually said "herb and spice blend."

I'm drunk and Chef John's voice is making me so happy 💜

I am a French Canadian,we make tourtière during Christmas, and we prepare 10 or more tourtières at the time it takes a day to do it....that is the best dishes during the holidays. You did very very well. And it makes me proud to be from Québec 💕

I'm from Montreal and this is exactly how we make toutiere. (Minus the celery and cayenne) Great job !👌👍

I like the idea that there's someone out there for whom this was their first Food Wishes video and they got to 4:32 and were momentarily befuddled by the normally sized wooden spoon quip.

I’m French Canadian from Montreal and we always and still have this on Christmas Eve....I use my grandmothers recipe and she used grated raw potato, instead of cooked...I may try your recipe this year...thanks for sharing !

This is in my wife’s repertoire and *every* time people think she is amazing. And, of course, she is for a thousand other reasons; this is just one moe. 👍

The sound of the crust crackling as you cut it made me suddenly and intensely hungry.

That has to be the most perfect pie crust I've ever seen! Thanks for showcasing Canadian food and recipes.

I live in Québec and I have to say: that looks like an amazing tourtière.. well done! Poutine next... yes!

Thank you for reminding about putting the pie dough into the refrigerator for an hour. Believe it or not, no one ever taught me that and I spent 60 years making pies whose crust had to be glued back together as it cracked and refused to roll neatly. True I haven’t made pies that often, definitely because of this trouble so I didn’t seek out teaching. Thank goodness Food includes pies and you are a great man!

Thank you so much Chef John for this recipe. My husband is Canadian and always asked me for Tourtiere for Christmas or New Year's but my version was a mix of recipes I found online (note: I am from Italy so no help there). Finally I can say I found the right recipe. It's awfully hard try to cook something you haven't even tried. Many blessings to you and your family. Arrivederci a presto!

"Take a completely normally sized spoon" 😂😂 ❤

With all the French themed recipes lately, Chef John is certainly having a *love affair* with his *tourtière* You are after all, the *Marty McFly* of your *Meat Pie*

The filling is cooking away right now and OMG it smells AMAZING!

I did 4 yesterday, excellente recette ! Gave 2 to my sons and their mom. The pleasure of cooking is to make those you love happy. Merci Chef John. Hi from Québec !

This brings back memories of the pies my mother used to make and serve in a wine bar, they were good enough to be mentioned in Egon Ronay’s good food guide.

In a few years Chef John will be singing "and as always; enjoy!" in an operatic voice... Probably with a huge choir backing him...

I made this, turned out so yummy. I can't wait for a holiday family gathering to serve this to extended family. Oh by the way, I made the best pie crust ever in my life when I made this. Love the recipe for the pie crust.

Wow! That is totally my dream crust! When I get that crust down, I can cross one more thing off my bucket list! Thank you for sharing!

I'm Quebecois myself and i have to say that this is a very good tourtiere John! Thanks for making this recipe. One thing that could have made it more "traditional" would be to have some chunky pieces of meat and potatoes but great recipe!

First joke of the video had me laughing out loud. On point Chef John... on point 😂

Meat pie for breakfast has been a Christmas tradition at my parents house since I was a kid. Minced meat pie, my mom's homemade baked beans and cinnamon rolls and a tall glass of fresh eggnog. Yes, I know it sounds weird, but it's actually really good. Every other meal on Christmas was wide open, but breakfast is always meat pie and beans.

I love how you inject humor into your delivery. Crossing the border into Canada........LOL

One of my greatest childhood memories is the tourtiere my Canadian grandfather cooked for us.

Yaaaaaaasssssss toutière!!! Do a sugar pie and homemade poutine to complete the Québec Holy Trinity of Foodwishes :D

I love how chef talks about method. Much appreciated.

I remember eating this as a little kid(I'm 54 now)...can't wait to make this as a surprise for my Mom who was born in Quebec, same as myself.

my memere made this only with pork and a lard crust, served it room temp with pickled beets on the side, yummy!

Wow! A québécois recipe! Thank you so much John for representing us!

Man I love my Country. God bless Canada.

OMGosh, I was so happy to get this recipe from you. My dad is French Canadian he he said his family always had meat pie on Christmas eve so mom found a recipe for meat pie. We never had a recipe for this or knew the actual name other than meat pie. Your pie has many more seasonings than the one mom has made. I am definitely going to try this Tourtiere. Thank you.

As a Québécois, I approve this video. Btw, everyone eats it with Ketchup. But don't use the commercial one, make your very own!

OH SHIT CHEF JOHN IS A CONNOISSEUR OF THE MONTREAL NIGHT LIFE!

that's a pretty good Morealais tourtiere. However, I was in the middle of a tourtiere fight. I was the first Englishman to visit the village and all of my wife's aunts found out that I was really impressed with tourtiere. She has 7 aunts on one side of the family and a whole bunch more on the other side of the family. The jungle telegraph announced that I liked tourtiere. I was there for two weeks and I had tourtiere for breakfast, lunch, supper, evening snack and before bedtime snack. Every aunt prepared their best rendition of tourtiere and everyone expected a proper evaluation of her efforts. I didn't disappoint. I let my stomach do the talking. The tourtiere you made is a Montreal meat pie. The Lac St-Jean tourtiere is a minimum of three meats, herbs and vegetables from the garden (or the forest) cooked in a large roasting pan with a really thick crust. I had every rendition of that recipe in a broad variety of meats, domestic and wild, every one of which was a taste of heaven. There is another version called "six pates" (six pastries) with meat and vegetables layered between layers of pastry. It is supposed to be a south shore delicacy but damned devilish to prepare. I can cook but I refuse to make tourtiere simply because I wouldn't want to insult the magnificent offerings prepared by her aunts.

I'm of French Canadian decent...my grandmother made her version of this... since her passing there was none to be had... I'm not much of a cook but I gave it a try and was very happy with the results. Thank you chef John for the inspiration and confidence to try to fill a void in my families' special meals.

I was literally just looking up this recipe yesterday. As a french canadian its one of my favorite holiday dishes. I haven't had it in years but hopefully I can have some home made soon!

Oh chef Jon, a star of David on a pork pie, how michievious of you.

I'm from Quebec and the old tradition way that Tourtiere (French Canadian Meat Pie) is made is with wild game. The meat that we use in the pie is moose, deer, porc and beef and it's usually 5 inches thick. Good stuff

Delicious. Oh, and the crunchy sound while cutting the crust, absolutely divine 😍

I'm a simple man, I see a Food Wishes video, I click "like".

My family is from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and we always had Tourtiere on Christmas Eve. Thank you for this I’ve tried a couple recipes and can’t wait to try this one

This reminded me of my late mother-in-laws amazing tourtiere. We don't have her recipe but I will try this one in her honour. Miss you Mom!

Love how you picked up every last crumb for no wasting! True cook!

You had me at "potatoes mixed with meat."

Christmas pork pie with a Jewish star on top. Love it! Reminds me of just about every sausage recipe out there. First ingredient, 5# pork. Second ingredient, 200g KOSHER salt. Love it.

'A very specific dance performance' ROTFLMAO!!!!!!! chef john, you're the bestest!

That looks unbelievably delicious. Chef "St Jean" makes everything look so utterly simple too. Surely one of the best if not the best step by step Chefs on the whole of KZfaq. How perfect where those crumbles for his flaky pastry, and in seconds.

Chef John you're welcome back in Montreal anytime. I had a room temp Tourtiere at a holiday party yesterday. So good.

Best Tourtiere recipe I’ve ever seen. Thank you 😊 Chef John!!

Wow! The sound as you cut through the crust was amazing and it all looks so good. I'm definitely going to try this.

In my opinion,you are a true superstar of culinary KZfaq videos,your humour and skill are the best.If I could go back in time,I would enroll in your classes at culinary school🇨🇦👍

Such interesting flavorful spices... all mixed together!

Bonjour de la belle province😉. Your tourtière looked perfect👍🏼

Tourtiere is our xmas Eve tradition. We have it with a muesli salad with toasted walnuts and warmed herbed panko coated goat cheese slices. The maple balsamic dressing on the greens shouts.....we love Canada and our food and pairs perfectly with the pie and a glass of red 🍷.

In my small town in Northern NY 90% of our population was Canadian French including us! Every Christmas and New Year you could stop after Midnight Mass and have meat pie at nearly any house in town! I did it for 30 yrs and it brought new memories to my own family! Thanks & God Bless 🙏

I cannot believe I dint get the “specific type of dance” joke and actually googled “folk dance of Canada “

His voice is strangely comforting. I'll watch videos of things I have no intention of cooking just for the narration. That said, I'm trying this one.

Grandfather was French Canadian, we'd have this on Christmas, and I donno but for some reason I loved pickled banana peppers with it. I'm weird I also like this with my roast beef but I'd like to give this a try. This is one of the truly authentic Canadien piece of cuisine. Thank you for making this!

My grandmother made this every Christmas - served it with a variety of diff pickles. Oh man so excellent!

Looks so perfect! I want to make. And that crust would go well for my salmon pie!!!

Soggy crust. That’s what you’ll get if the mixture isn’t room temperature

I have been searching for this recipe all my life. I had this flavour combination tourtiere as a child and never forgot how it tasted. I will now replace your recipe with the one I’ve been making for 20 years. It was very good but yours is the real deal. Thank you, thank you Chef John.

My father who has since passed used to make French Meat Pie during the holidays. Its a dish that makes Christmas feel like home for me. It’s now a dish and tradition that I make for my kids. They may not understand the origins of it today but I hope that someday they’ll remember Dad making French Meat Pie during Christmas and make it for their kids.

Now that you're made tourtière, now you need to try your go at a sugar pie. Another very popular French Canadian dish.

Hey John! I’m from Montréal so I grew up eating tourtières, really glad you did this video! Happy Holidays to you and your family 🙋🏻‍♂️

My mom has been making the best pies you ever had for over 40 years, and she always had to wrestle with the top of the pie, that neat little trick with a rolling pin would have saved so much time for Thanksgiving Christmas and Birthdays. So cool. That is a delicious sounding crust.

Our local church in my hometown in western bc makes tourtierre. So good and part of my heritage. Love it

Made this yesterday and it was so good! This will be added to our regular rotation. I used mushrooms instead of celery but will try celery next time. Thank you!

I'm from Quebec and that sir, is a nice looking Tourtiere! You should make some poutine someday!

Made this tonight for a party with a bunch of my coworkers. It took a while, but it was worth it. Absolutely delicious, everyone was very impressed - as was I. Thank you for showing us this recipe in such an easy to follow way. I only used some nice ground beef, but I'll definitely make it again and try a mix of other meats!

The sound of you cutting that crust.....wow. I can smell it, taste it. Thank you so much.

I love your pronunciation of tourtière, chef John! I'm pretty sure my grandmother would approve this recipe too! Random fact: originally ''tourtières'' were made with tourtes, or passenger pigeons in English. Unfortunately this specie of bird is now extinct due to over hunting.

Me watching this hoping that I'll cook it someday. Silly me, silly silly me.

What a beautiful pie, made by my favorite chef.

OMG that crust looks amazing!

you are the Fido of your pie dough! ;) love you, chef john!! ;)

That has to be the MOST BEAUTIFUL PIE CRUST!! I'm thinking I will make this the week before Christmas and, like Chef John, no one in our family has ever turned down gravy so I will make a light gravy too. You are the bomb Diggity Chef John! Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and mine! Kathi

That is one of the most beautiful food-type thingies I’ve ever seen.

I would love love to come back and find food wishes John with this great meat pie that keeps you coming back here after year🏆🏆🏆

i can't believe you made a 2nd Tourtiere, just to make that look like your first cut piece...being from Maine I also went to Canada for what they offered to 18 year olds...

Nice work. When I lived in the Manchester NH area there were a few neighborhoods that were French Canadian families who had resettled there and Tourtiers could be found for sale in some of the stores. They also were sold as pork pies.

Oh how I love this! Thank you haven't had one since living in Nova Scotia.

I formally declare you an honorary québécois - this brings nothing but good memories !! Porc/boeuf/veau par chez nous !! Merci énormément !!

That looks delicious - it will be tourtiere for me to have to wait until I can try it myself.

The sound of that pastry when you cut into the tourtiere!! Wowee! My tourtiere recipe is from my french mother in law and is similar to this one. I think there were regional differences but they all taste great! My husband is in charge of the filling and I make the pastry. I might try this recipe as well as ours and see how they compare. It looks wonderful. Thanks for the recipe.

“Take that, sceptics! “ 😂🤣 Chef John you crease me up every time.

I will honor my French-Canadian heritage and give this a whirl. Great vid.

Being a French Canadian, you tourtière est manique and goes great with home made fruit ketchup

I bet this would be amazing with 1/2 beef and 1/2 lamb, especially with the spices you use.

The tourtière looks lovely,I would enjoy it on its own too,thank you for another of your yummy recipes x