Chinese Pie

Ground beef (often of ox), Corn, Potato out of mashed potatoes, superimposed in this order, are the three principal ingredients of the Chinese pie . The meat can easily be replaced by other thing to return the mets Végétarien.

The Québécois Chinese pie is similar to the Cottage pie French or the sheperds black and white Irish to which one would have added a layer of corn between the chopped meat and potato mashed potatoes.

According to a majority of Inhabitant of Quebec, the dish must be absolutely tasted sprinkled sauce ketchup .

Origin

American theory

The name of this dish would come from English Black and white China, according to the city of in Maine (or in Michigan). Certain Inhabitants of Quebec previously emigrated in the United States would have returned thereafter with this receipt in their luggage.

In bilingual zone of the Estrie just as for the majority of the English-speaking of Quebec, it is also sold under the name of Shepherd' S Pie .

Railway theory

During the construction of the railroad pancanadien, much the Asian ones worked ardûment and were nourished with the food products easily available at that time: potato, corn, ox.

A previous model of this theory speaks about an Asian cook of origin which, facing a certain shortage, offered to its “customers” (workers of the railroad pancanadien or railroad going towards Québécois North) a mixture of ground beef, corn and potatoes.

Cook

Ingredients

4 average Potatoes
30 ml to 45 ml (2 C. with soup with ¼ of cup) of Milk
5 ml (1 C. with the) of oil or butter
½ fine Onion chopped
250 G (8oz) of Ox chopped
salt and Pepper with the taste
284 ml (8 or 9 OZ) of corn in cream and or grains

Preparation

To make boil an minor amount of salt water in a small pan for the cooking of potatoes.
To peel potatoes then to rinse and cross in districts.
To plunge potatoes in salted ebullient water and to cook until they are tender.
During this time, to peel and chop onion.
To cook onions in a little oil or butter then add the meat.
To make cook the meat until it is not any more dew.
And to withdraw the surplus of fat.
To salt and pepper with the need.
To put the meat in a small dish going at the furnace.
To extend corn in cream and or grains on the meat.
To preheat the furnace with 190°C (350 F.).
to drain potatoes Well.
To crush potatoes using a rammer.
To add milk and to beat well with the rammer to make very light mashed potatoes.
To cover the chopped meat and potato mashed potatoes corn while making use of a rubber spatula.
To cook with the furnace approximately 25 minutes until the top is gilded.

Alternatives

To powder with paprika or spices BBQ before cooking with the furnace.
To furnish the dish with grated cheese (mozzarella, Parmesan…) or of sections of yellow cheese and gratiner at the end of the cooking.
To add to the meat, in the course of cooking, of sweet herbs, the mustard of Dijon (¾ C. with T. per meat pound) and of the Worcestershire sauce, to give more taste and a beautiful color to the meat.
To add pieces of bacon to the meat.
To extend from corn in cream on the top of pie before charging.
To replace the meat by lenses cooked to make a dish vegetarian of it.
To mix corn with the meat.
To add garden peas or other vegetables to corn, or straightforwardly to replace this one by other vegetables. (One speaks then sometimes about ““pastoral” pie or farmhouse p4at3e”, but these terms indicate according to some another dish.)

General culture (Canada)

In the humorous television serial the Small Life , the character of Therese absolutely makes a point of cooking a Chinese pie adequately, difficult and difficult act for it. Môman, his/her mother, exasperated, shouts to him with conceal-head: “Steak, Indian corn, potatos” so that this one remembers about the ingredients in the receipt. Therese manages all the same to miss the receipt, that it is by using a “ox steak”, by not crushing potatoes or another eccentric alternative. Since, the expression “steak, Indian corn, potatos” is usually used in Quebec to indicate Chinese pie or to mean the intellectual slowness of a person.

Cinema

Chinese Pâté is a film of 1997 (see Philippe Falardeau and Sophie Leblond)

satirical means-measuring on Asian immigration in Canada IMDB

See too

Cottage pie

External bonds

Viarail : extract on the history of Chinese pie

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