How many calories in tourtière
A slice of tourtière has about 450 kcal, with 17 g of protein.
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Tourtière is a meat pie from Quebec, usually ground pork, sometimes with beef or veal, spiced with cinnamon, cloves and allspice. It belongs to the réveillon, the late meal after midnight mass on Christmas Eve, and to New Year.
A slice is 450 kcal, with 28 g of fat, 32 g of carbs and 17 g of protein. The pastry, top and bottom, brings a lot of the fat.
In Saguenay and Lac-Saint-Jean, tourtière means a different pie, deep and full of cubed meat and potato. The number here is for the ground pork one.
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What is in tourtière?
Ground pork, often with some beef or veal, onion and spices like cinnamon, cloves and allspice, in a pastry crust. Some recipes add potato to bind it.
How many calories in two slices of tourtière?
About 900 kcal.
When do people eat tourtière?
Mostly at Christmas and New Year in Quebec, after midnight mass on Christmas Eve. Shops sell it all year.
Is tourtière high in protein?
It has 17 g a slice, which is decent, but the pastry makes it a fat and carb dish first.
What do you eat with tourtière?
In Quebec it is usually fruit ketchup, a homemade relish of tomatoes and fruit, or plain ketchup.
