Reviewing Christmas Dinners from Around the World
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ธ.ค. 2022
- Today we explore the amazing dishes that are eaten around the world in other cultures. Jamie and Baz will review each and then try to guess where in the world they are from.
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Jamie guessing French on a French-Canadian dish and still losing the point is hilariously on-brand
Technically France is closer to Canada then Ireland, because of the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
@@snazzzzzz There are some things that should never be mentioned. Like those islands.
Gotta love little moments like that.
And wrong France still controls an island off Canada's coast.
I feel like no matter what geographically Jamie still should have gotten a point. It’s Christmas darn it!!
I love how Barry is like “I’ve been to said country but never seen this dish” then Jamie puts him down by saying “you been there at Christmas” which is so perfect when Jamie gets it right xD
Oh Baz 😂
Similar vibe as in one episode of Good Mythical Morning where they were playing that "where in the world" -dart game. Link saying he'd been in said country and never saw that food there. And gets shown a picture of him eating that food while there in next episode.
Not quite as 'burn' but bit of a scorcher for Baz there.
@@hannuala-olla4302 corn in Thailand lol
@@hannuala-olla4302 Well that's actually worse than what happened here.
What happened here reminds me more of Tom Scott & The Technical Difficulties, and Tom's infamous claims that he should know things about Finland because he'd been to Finland. In an episode of Two of These People Are Lying featuring a Finnish street food that Tom was convinced could not possibly be what the word meant because he'd been to Finland and had not encountered such food.
Barry's comment gained an immediate mental facepalm from me even before Jamie got his retort in. Christmas dinner is exactly the _one_ type of food you're not likely to encounter when visiting a foreign country - unless a local family actually invites you to their Christmas dinner.
This is one of my favorite formats as the boys work really hard to analyze and determine where it’s from only to be completely wrong.
Hahaha it's brilliant right?
To be fair, guessing France for a Quebecois dish is a pretty decent shout.
I’m a Quebecer and I can you, I would love it if my tourtierre looked even half as good as that one. I never saw carrots in tourtierre before but I might try that this year. Thanks for the representation 💜
Thanks so much for the lovely comment!
Yeah they got it wrong with the mirepoix but just happy people are talking about the dish.
Also a Quebecer, I've always had Celeri-Onion-Carrot in my tourtière, although I only learnt today that it is called mirepoix.
Usually eaten with Ketchup, or home-made "fruit ketchup", to add the tartness/sourness to balance it.
I came here to say the same thing! This got me SO excited for my aunt to make my grandfather’s recipe this year
Always had carrots in ours
Getting to research and cook these dishes was a world away from getting the food ready for Sorted Live! Both were just as enjoyable though- for different reasons ;).
You were so much fun to watch yesterday ! And this all looks amazing on this video!
@@SuperAngela40 thank you so much!
You did a wonderful job Kush, would love to see you cooking in front of the camera in a chef vs. chef battle, your cooking is amazing!
This is probably one of the most fun parts. Researching other cultures and their dishes. As my mother got older she wanted more Indian & Chinese dishes since she couldn't go out to eat as much.
@@SuperAngela40 yes seeing Kush being hero chef dressed as a elf was great
Thanks for including Finnish foods for once! Have to say, Ben's pronounciation of lanttulaatikko was very close! I've never had kale in the finnish christmas table and our ham (joulukinkku) doesn't look that glazed but is typically coated with mustard. We typically have peas and fresh salads, salmon in baked and/or graved form. In addition to the swede casserole, we have sweetened potato casserole (not sweet potato, that's an entire different dish), beetroot casserole with aura-cheese and my favorite carrot casserole, which is basically baked mix of rice porridge and pureed/mashed carrot. Ben was also correct, that the casseroles are eaten throughout the week between christmas and new years, as there's always have too much of them. In that sense, Jamie is also correct that you take just a little, as theres everything else on the table too.
I was gonna say that I've never seen kale or that kind of meat in Finnish christmas table. I guessed the lanttulaatikko correct but the other foods threw me off and I thought it was danish or something... Close but a bit to the south.
Btw Finnish christmas foods are quite horrible, just like lanttulaatikko. I eat them a bit every christmas for tradition, but there's like two of fifteen foods that are actually good. Rest are ok at best. 😬
For future quiz video, offer the guys some lipeäkala and laugh. 🤣
Came to say the exact same thing about kale. Never had it with a christmas feast and have never heard of anyone else including it. But the swede casserole is one of my favorites.
@@MSivonen Idk, the, rutabaga casserole, potato casserole, and carrot casserole are pretty banging if you make them right and sweeten "imelletty" in the traditional method. And then add butter and cream to taste. Not exactly health food though. Don't think anyone's gonna disagree with the ham or smoked salmon either. Everyone (at least here) likes Karjalanpaisti.
Lipeäkala is vile though, and I'm not a fan of the pickled herring either. Some weirdos insist on having liver casserole. I guess rosolli is an acquired taste.
I was confused and doubting myself in the Finnish one because it was so different looking that any of the Finnish Yule foods - but I knew it was us because only we make that food that taste like punishment and poison. And beat it to the mush.
Yet reviewing one side dish as a christmas dinner is pretty sus, specially when you try desperately to show off shitty italian christmas dinner as plentiful when it's known fact Finnish christmas dinner is superior to Italys one.
Jamie was absolutely on point with most of these dishes, even going so far as to guess the correct region of the last one
Jamie was on fire!
Jamie had Sardinie, this was from south of italy like puglia or calabria
@@gerritveldhuisen7920 definitely not calabria. Maybe sicily for the pinenuts.
I always really enjoy how they say “not to their taste” especially since these are traditional dishes that are probably much loved. I’m the same way at craft fairs and art markets, I’ll say something is “out of my budget” instead of “too expensive” because it probably took a lot of time and skill to make and just because I don’t want or can’t pay that much doesn’t mean they’re charging too much. Just because you don’t like something doesn’t mean it’s gross, it’s just not to your taste☺️
i'm gonna adopt that way of saying i can't afford something i think is totally worth the price!
Now if only people could do that to British food like beans on toast. For some reason it's suddenly different to them.
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN if it's your own everyday food, that means your taste has already been built around it, even if you don't really care for it as such
i love your way of thinking. Take my like
@@THENAMEISQUICKMAN nothing wrong with beans on toast if wholewheat bread is used it is a complete meal and extremely economical
As an English speaking Canadian; it’s not unusual to see tortiere served as well as having our turkey dinner. It is delicious and a real comfort food. Bravo Quebec!
I’m going to have to look for this now because I’ve never seen eaten or noticed this dish and I am from Toronto…. I feel like I missed a memo on this delicious looking dish!
@@zahraonokevbagbe2725 You can find it fresh in grocery stores or in the frozen section. If you go frozen, the best one I've eaten and I'm French-Canadian is the Plaisirs Gastronomiques brand.
@@MarinaLaroche I’ll definitely be on the lookout for that, thanks!
We serve ours with Aylmer’s herbed, crushed tomatoes on top. So good.
@@zahraonokevbagbe2725yeah, not too many French in the big smoke…
As a Venezuelan that's been following this channel for years, it makes me so happy to see you enjoy our food! Part of the beauty of making hallacas is getting together with your family to make them.
P.S.: The H in Hallacas is silent :)
As a Venezuelan who has been watching the channel for over a year I'm so happy to see one of my favorite Christmas dishes making an appearance! The leaves we use to wrap hallacas are commonly called 'Bijao' also there are different ways to make it depending on the state you are from. Thanks for this glow up guys!
At first I thought it was Pastelle from Trinidad and Tobago. It's the same except we use ground meat inside
@@MrsKhylaBaby I was right there with you. Then he said pulled pork and I was like must be a variation in the area.
@@chantalhamilton2374 It's not really pulled pork, it's just stewed a long time until it falls apart. It is quite loose when used to fill the dough.
Here in Brazil, we have a similar dish called Pamonha. It's filled with cheese and we cook it in the Saint John and Saint Peter festivities in June.
Primera vez que veo el termino "bijao" y eso que he vivido en varias ciudades del país 😂
Shout out to lanttulaatikko, a must-have dish for every Christmas despite never being anyone's favorite.
It is actually my favourite, but even I don’t know anyone else whose favourite it is lol
I really love lanttulaatikko! I mean the sweetened potato casserole isn't that big hit in our family, but this and carrot and sweet potato casserole are my favourites.
@@OverusedArgument It is my favourite too! If I'm on my own during Christmas that's the only casserole I make or buy.
My dad made tortiere every Christmas growing up - he passed in 2020 but I've been picking one up for Christmas Eve for many years. It's such a comforting dish ❤️
As a Finn we would have beetroot salad called Rosolli instead of the kale salad (again cold winters and root veggies). I have never seen kale salad on Christmas table around here. Swede casserole looks spot on and it's nice to see something from our country!
Rosolli was invented in Italy, or atleast by an italian man. But yea i didnt recognise that as a finnish christmas feast, that ham looks so wrong and ive never seen cale in the christmas table.
I Fkken hate rosolli won`t poke it with a barge pole, I remember at at school it was served with what I thought was unsweetened beetroot colored cream foam that made it barely edible.
@@Razid320 Yea the hams around here tend to have a mustard coating with cloves poked into the top bit like the pinhead from Hellraiser LOL
I was really surprised when they said ''Finland'' because that food looks nothing like any family would eat during Christmas. The casserole isn't supposed to be dry, it's supposed to be sweet and moist, creamy and amazing. What they made in the show looks like someone would do if they tried it without a recipe.
The Finnish Christmas ham has a mustard coat, sometimes with breadcrumbs. Depends really on the family recipe. Also, It would definitely be Rosolli or a mushroom salad.
Other Finnish Christmas foods are beetroot, potato, and carrot casserole. Gravlax, Swedish Skagen/Skagenröra (Shrimp salad with fresh dill). 😊
It's Sallatti, not Rosolli, you barbarian.
Always so respectful of other cultures and foods. Merry Christmas, boys! 🎄
Thanks Izzy! We really do try our best. Merry Christmas and thanks for watching :)
@@SortedFood One word....... Burrito lol
So happy to see Canadien food represented. My grandmother made loads of these pies every year. She used lard in her crust...the family joke was you would have pie Christmas eve and heartburn until New Year's. Our family Christmas penance.
I live in Vermont but crossed the border from Quebec to marry a Yankee. I still make loads of these pies with Tenderflake lard for crusts and there is none better for pie crusts. I use pork, beef and venison plus potato to bind them together.
SVP! Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
I'm a Finn and couldn't recognize what the guys were served 😅 I was like cool, I know other Nordics do ham at Christmas, maybe theirs look like that? (Did not register as ham, the big pig leg, to me lol) I've never heard of anyone eating kale at Christmas, so I was like "who does that, the Swedes??" 😄 I do like lanttulaatikko (lanttu meaning rutabaga, laatikko meaning box which in food contexts means casserole), I'm sad that most people don't
My thoughts exactly, I couldn't recognize it either. And wherever or whoever told them we eat kale around Christmas, clearly was lying. 🤣
We swedes do eat kale at Christmas so you’re right about that haha, but it’s kale stew we do😅 it’s never 100% correct with these things 😅
Looks home made version rather than store version. If you look some of the recipes they do tell you to use bread crumbs. I was also interested about the kale, i have not seen that in christmas table but i have seen rosolli salad and gravlax (Graavilohi).
@@Stan_man One day we'll get the boys to try gravlax blindfolded.. one day. But yea, home made swede/carrot casserole commonly has bread crumbs on it.
@@Lanka0Kera I'm pretty sure they've tried it already. It's not our signature dish after all, many other countries eat it as well.
As an American of Itaslian descent i LOVE LOVE LOVE that you represented the Feats of the Seven fishes!!!! As the years have progressed over the years to a menu of Stuffed Flouder, Tiny Shrimp in a hot tomato suace, fried butterflied shrimp, and Bacala (a salted whitefish salad with olives and other stuff) so we are down to only 4 fishes...but we add muscles and calamari on Christmas day (my brother cooks, my father and aunt on christmas eve) to make the whole thing easier on everyone!!!
Yeah, I was going to say, can you even have a Feast of the Seven Fishes without Bacala? It feels like the definitive dish of that meal.
As a Québécois myself I paused the video and got the family around to see that part. Very funny and thats a big and delicious-looking tourtière! Homemade ketchup with it is a must! Fun fact, it is called tourtière because it was originaly made with tourte, a kind of bird we ate into extinction (in the family of tourterelles).
The Christmas casseroles (there's usually swede, potato, a carrot-and-rice one, and possibly a liver one if someone at the table likes liver) are indeed a thing you have a spoonful of on the side - one spoon of each, for a moderately colourful array of things to soak up all the gravy with.
And for Ben's "that'd be great meal for the days between new year and christmas" - we have a feast of different foods on christmas eve, and the leftovers are eaten during the week until new year's. I frankly don't really care about the fresh-out-of-the-oven casseroles, but they are quite nice day or two later, fried in butter as a side for cold ham etc.
what? the casseroles are like the main warm food (besides the ham) of the whole meal, so I don't see how it's a just-a-bit-on-the-side thing. one spoonful of each is also unusual cause you can never find a person who likes all of them. more likely you just fill half your plate with the one or two varieties you actually enjoy (ie. not potato casserole).
sidenote: I know it's not traditional but sweet potato casserole has really become a mainstay at my family's table. really good.
The sweet potato one is the only one I eat!
was at the show on saturday night, me and my sister had such a great time! you guys absolutely smashed it!
Thanks so much Mia, comments like this really mean a lot to the whole team. Merry Christmas!
Loved seeing a bit of Canada thrown into this one ❤️
I was so excited to see tourtière featured - I was yelling the answer to the boys! My French-Canadian family has been making this for generations-each branch with their own twist on the meal. It’s wonderful with homemade cranberry sauce. My Québécois grandmother pronounced it tor-chair. I’ll be continuing the tradition this week with my daughter so we are ready for our Christmas Eve dinner. Merry Christmas, boys!
The lanttulaatikko looked pretty spot on but you wouldn't see that type of ham or kale served along with it. This casserole is just one of many different types of casseroles typically served at Christmas, there's also for instance carrot (porkkanalaatikko) and potato (perunalaatikko) versions. Next time you should try some Rosolli!
Is porkkana carrot then, peruna is potato, and lanttu is rutabaga?
@@GirishManjunathMusic Yes.
@@roskapostikohde4594 thanks! Always nice to learn some trivia
Also maksalaatikko (liver casserole).
I was pretty confused since it looks nothing like how my mom does it but I guess it depends on the person lol
I struggle with the festive period but I’ve got to thank you guys for the videos. You guys are my comfort creators!!❤️ Huge fan!
Thank you Rachel! Merry Christmas :)
@@SortedFood Merry Christmas guys!!☺️
I grew up eating Tourtière and, while I've never seen carrots in it, this is pretty spot on. In my family, we use a mix of beef, pork and veal, potatoes to bind, minced onion, and the same spices, but adding in a bit of allspice to round out the flavour.
Also, we just use short crust for the top, too. We don't exclusively eat it at Christmas, but rather eat it throughout the winter, because it's delicious. Also, eating it with a bit of (Tomato) ketchup is a must.
i have never had tourtère. However as a (winter) meat pie I am familiar with it.
If a am correct it used to be a dish that would also hold pretty well on the go. (and still taste good when it is cold)
I like creamed corn with mine - I think it was a side one year when I was a kid, and I enjoyed the combination so much I just decided it was mandatory
I’ve only ever seen it with meats like pork and beef, lamb, onions, spices and potatoes. Easy but delicious. I’m from Eastern Canada tho 🇨🇦
I grew up eating tourtière after midnight mass. My dad who was French canadian would make it every year. I have not had a homemade one in years since he passed away.
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Guys you have to visit Montreal, the food scene is amazing and you would love it. Maybe it's time for a little trip and new series 👀
Good job Ben on trying to pronounce lanttulaatikko! Swede and carrot casseroles are important part of christmas dinner. But have to say as a Finn, I don't think that we have much fermented food in Finland 😄
I was so confused by Jamie's comment that for a minute there I started to question everything I know about my home country. :D
Also, did he say shark? Do we have sharks?
We have sharks and whales if Jamie has talked with my childhood neighbour's son, who told be there were both in Yyteri. 😂 But it was such a weird comment. And the fremented food, what? I would have liked to know what Jamie was thinking of when saying that.
@@hattivattiensaari So weird 😂 Maybe Jamie thinks that all the Nordic countries are the same, because in Iceland they have fermented shark, but Finland isn't next to the Atlantic ocean and we don't have sharks 😆
@@mariakarjalainen3489 We do have some fermented foods in Finland! There are plenty of fermented dairy products, like piimä, we like fermented cabbage just like the Germans, and at Christmas we eat Imelletty Perunalaatikko, potato casserole that is naturally sweetened through fermentation. Mämmi and Sima are also fermented.
@@emmamemma4162 Imelletty perunalaatikko is NOT fermented. If it starts to ferment you've fecked up. It's actually the alfa and beta amylase from the added flour that breaks starches in the potato into sugars. Eipäs levitetä humpuukia. Edit: typo
Oh man lanttulaatikko is the best. No Christmas without it
Thank you for talking about the fact that the tourtière is French Canadian, and not just from Québec. Of course it originated in Québec, but it's really all around Canada. It's has been a staple in my franco-ontarien family forever. Although, we don't add mirepoix and potatoes in my family. Boiled oignons with the mix of minced pork and beef in a basic pie shell.
sounds a bit more like you go for the more quiche like approach. Also pretty good but more a dish for early spring.
I thought it seemed similar to a pasty from MI UP
@@charleyh.553 What is MI UP?
Et même s'il n'avait pas mentionner les canadiens français, est-ce un problème que ce plat soit défini comme québécois ? Je tiens tout de même à rappeler qu'il s'agit d'un plat issu de la province du Québec, reconnu comme une nation à part. Je suis conscient que nous sommes proches des francos-ontariens, par la langue et la culture, mais reste que nous avons nos traditions et une identité propre au Québec, qui hélas, tend à se faire appropriée par l'ensemble du Canada...
SVP! Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
Man you know hats off to both of the boys for doing such a good job thinking through this stuff. Especially Jamie he has really leveled up this year (not to understate how much Baz has improved this year).
As a French-Canadian, it took me a moment to recognize that was tourtière. But, like Ben said, it's radically different between regions. My mom has never made it with vegetables or potatoes in it, but in the Lac-St-Jean region, they're VERY protective of their version of tourtière. If you made something like what you did there in that region, they would call it "Paté-à-viande" and would be slightly incensed if you called it tourtière. Very glad to see representation of the dish here though :D
Or cipaille!
I agree. I did not recognize it and I'm from that region. I caught myself saying out loud "this is not tourtière, this is a meat pie" XD
As someone of South Italian heritage, I knew right away where the last dish was from before you even started describing the dishes, this is the menu for the Feast of the 7 Fishes on Christmas Eve. It came from the fact that in the old days Christmas Eve was a day of absitnance from meat.
Funny thing is that it seems to be quite popular among Italian-Americans but no one really does that in Italy. I'm Italian, and I never heard of it before this show.
Florentine here, first time I hear about it 😂
If it weren't for my Sicilian friend (living in America)inviting me to Christmas one time, I would never have known about this meal. It's really cool to learn and know about it
@@Denien82 My daughter and son-in-law have that every Christmas Eve at his Italian-American mother's home in a Philadelphia suburb. I think most Americans from areas with large Italian-American populations would've guessed that. I did, and I've never actually had that meal, being descended from people coming from colder European countries. Maybe it was more popular in Italy 100-150 years ago during the huge waves of Italian migration? Probably once they got established in the US and could afford this feast is when it became popular in Italian neighborhoods. I can't see those who came here in steerage and $12 in their pockets being able to afford such an elaborate and expensive meal before immigrating due to poverty. Maybe it was something well-to-do Italians had at that time and average Italians didn't have the funds to indulge in?
Anyway, that's what Americans do, they take the most fun, delicious, celebratory, and elaborate parts of the cultures of the "old countries" and make them their own and leaving the not-so-fun or delicious stuff behind. It becomes sort of a hybrid of cultures and what's available in local markets.
Me too I'm not Italian but my ex husband is an I had make it every Christmas Eve when we were married. My mother in law taught me how to cook it. I joke know that as a black woman I make amazing Italian food and wonderful soul food
This Canuck is adopting the term "moose 'nads"!!! Lovin' it!
My mother is from Quebec and the recipe she uses is from her mother. Ours is a more simple recipe with just beef and pork, onion, diced potatoes, warm Christmas spices in a deep dish pie shell. Not too complicated to make but very hearty and comforting. A dish I always look forward to having.
Well now I feel like my family's doing our Christmas eating weird, our lanttulaatikko has never looked that nice and we've never had kale 😂But it was nice seeing some Finnish food get shown here, would love seeing you guys try mämmi, or some good salmon soup
Finland mentioned, torille. :D
Yes it was a real surprise to see that dish here! Also, Jamie's response to it was rather understandable to me - even in my own family, one half likes lanttulaatikko whereas the other finds it a bit "meh". Like you suggested, a good salmon soup is a nice option if Finland pops up in Sorted's country roulette.
Finnish salmon soup is insanely good! Merry Christmas from Sweden!
My dad is Finnish and I ilke this as a side but prefer imelletty perunalaatikko
I was so confused by their lanttulaatikko. 🙈 Also the salad, nope, we have never had that kind of salad.
Mutta oikeesti, ei toi näyttänyt lanttulaatikolta. 🙈 Niillä on selkeesti erilaiset korppujauhot tuolla, ja sen ei ole annettu samalla tavalla ruskistua kuin mitä itse teen. Ihan mielenkiintoista kuitenkin, että olivat ottaneet lanttulaatikon tähän. Mutta olis nyt ollut koko sarja: porkkanalaatikko ja imelletty perunalaatikko, ehkä bataattilaatikkokin, kokeiltavaksi. 😅
12:05 Ben really couldn’t ‘Finnish’ that pronunciation. *THANK YOU! YOU’VE BEEN A LOVELY AUDIENCE* 😂
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Try the veal!
I love that you started with Tourtière. A family fave. Seasons greetings from Wakefield, Quebec
OMG! I am drooling for the Tourtiere! My Mom's is the best!
And yes Jamie. My Mom uses pre-made pie crusts now. She also uses Potato flakes and no carrot. It works beautifully.
What a lovely representation of the seven fishes feast. Looks delicious!
It’s -27c today. I’m smoking candied salmon. Merry Christmas!
The toutierre was a nice touch! Had one 6 days ago for my birthday! From my understanding, it started 'life' much like Shephards Pie...the meat was what was most abundant in the area, at the time. So, in some areas, it started off with things like eel, lamb, and pigeon...
There's actually two French islands off the coast of Canada so Jamie was actually closer with his guess of France!
Jamie was actually closer on the first one as St. Pierre and Miquelon is only 5 miles from the nearest Canadian island.
I think they measure the distance between capital cities.
@@petertaylor4980 This isn't GMM
@Mark Aspen You shut up. France owns St Pierre and Miquelon, Jamie was closer on the first guess
@Mark Aspen No, that's perfectly valid logic. There's no problem with the fact that Reunion being part of France and also being in the Indian Ocean. If they studied their geography better they should be able to use geography exploits to help win.
@@petertaylor4980 which makes little sense, since Russia would be considered to be farther away from China than the UK is from say Nigeria, despite China and Russia sharing a very large land border
Loving these Christmas videos. Being far from home and family and friends has me coming back to these videos.
I really love these episodes, all the nuances that get discussed, the explanations, ...
Love seeing what others around the world are having at the Christmas table.
Have to say as a Finn that 'lanttulaatikko' doesn't look as mushy as it's supposed to be. It's very soft, pretty much like baby food when done correctly. I really like it as it's very sweet (probably sweeter than you guys did) and therefore goes well with carrot box, potatoes and the meat dish (turkey at our family), or with different fish side dishes. Never had cale at the christmas table though traditions probably differ around the country.
Nope, have never heard anyone having kale at Christmas dinner. And like I have family and friends from all over Finland, and not one has had kale from what I have heard. I also think they missed the mark with lanttulaatikko, and it would have been funnier to have all the "boxes" with them, aka the ones made with carrots and potatoes.
Happy to see the French Canadian representation :D Though i think in the modern day most of us opt for either a ham or turkey "on the day", these are quite lovely to have on a winter's evening ^_^
Edit: Also glad you brought up the price! A lot of the traditional dishes from this area you will find differ from typical fancy "french" dishes because they were more "peasant" fair, which in the modern day means they are great for low income families.
Still a very classic dish to have on Christmas in my family, along with vol-au-vent and turkey.
We tend to have both. My mom will make some and either give them away as hostess gifts or save them for boxing day, new years, etc. They freeze so well it is super easy to pull them out for an easy but festive meal.
We always have tourtières, turkey and ragoût de boulette. Never had ham for Christmas, it’s usually for Easter in our family
@@boisjoli91 Hey, us too, except we have ragoût de pattes! I can't say we've ever made our tourtières with mirepoix though. Then again, every single French family has their own little differences, so that's probably common in someone else's. I recently found out that the do or don't on nutmeg in the mix is hotly debated lol
Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
I’m originally from Quebec. Never seen a tourtiere look this good but have had many various variations of it. They call them meat pies in the east coast but the same concept. I’m proud to say I knew what it was from the beginning. Jamie was on the right track just stayed a little to close to home
I see you, tourtière! I moved to Germany from Canada last year, and I spent last week making tourtière as gifts. Hope my new German friends like it :)
The recipe I have has been passed down for generations from the French Canadian side of an old friends' family. Her recipe did not include mirepoix, only onions and garlic sauteed in oil before adding the meat. During cooking, her family would add only dry mustard as a spice, and then bread crumbs instead of potatoes to absorb the liquid from the meats and as a binding.
I modified the recipe to bring back the Christmas spices - a bit of summer savoury, and a dash of cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove, and the pie is amazing :)
SVP! Respectfully...Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
@@marcotambeau8003 c'est canadien français. Ça appartient pas juste à la province de Québec. Il y a des francophones hors Québec et ce plat fait également partie de leur cuisine traditionnelle. I
My grandmother’s tourtiere recipe is legend. Key secret ingredient is sage. I receive many compliments whenever I make it. Have made it with beef, veal, pork and venison. The puff pastry topping was different for me, it’s not really a typical French Canadian thing that I know of. Sold in just about every grocery store in Quebec this time of year and usually served with a local chutney (sauce maison) or chili sauce. Having my mother’s version at her Christmas party tonight and introducing Branston’s original pickle as a perfect pairing. Thank you for highlighting this very Canadian seasonal dish! 😊❤
Immediately upon the first dish “OH MY GOD IS THAT A TORTIERE?!”
I would eat that whole pie. All of it.
Yay tourtiere! My family's recipe uses mushrooms instead of potato, and shortcrust for the full crust.
Love to see the Québec representation! Thank you Sorted Food!
I love how much they've both learned about foods around the world over the years - it's truly impressive
As a Canadian I'm so happy to see Tourtière on the show! This is a must for my family every Christmas. I just bought the ingredients for it this week, so I can have it even though I live on the West Coast now. 😁Our family recipe uses both beef and pork with the potato as a binding agent, but I've never seen it made with mirepoix. We also add Summer Savory or Thyme to ours as well as the Christmas spices. I feel like Savory is a herb found in many Canadian dishes and makes things more authentic. I'm not sure if people make Tourtière with game meat in it. I think that would be more along the lines of Cipâte?
SVP! Respectfully...Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
Lanttulaatikko aka the swede casserole is the least liked of the three main casseroles in our family so we always have just a tiny amount of it 😂 I was thinking that it looked like swede casserole when it was scooped onto a plate, but the kale and spices threw me to think it was from some other country. Nutmeg is rarely used in Finland and ginger does not belong into swede casserole. Also the amount of breadcrumbs is huuuge 😂
Still nice to see Finland pop up!
I can’t wait for Christmas Eve tourtiere, it’s my favourite dish of the holidays. Merry Christmas from Canada!
My step mother's family does it with a tomato relish that they called chili sauce. So good!
I love hearing Jamie's descriptions, his knowledge and the honesty about the swede dish!
Canadian here! I think it's amazing that Tourtiere was in this video as I literally just had it for dinner tonight with some extended family who we wouldn't be able to see on Christmas Eve/Day. I've loved Tourtiere growing up and it still warms my heart when we have it around Christmas time
SVP! Respectfully...Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
@@marcotambeau8003 incorrect
@@101Gamerbot Waiting for more than a 1 word answer Kermit. Merci. Tourtière and all our other Québécois dishes are not and will never be Canadian! ;)
@@marcotambeau8003 Respectfully...Incorrect ;)
@@101Gamerbot Well Kermit...still a ''1 word answer''!? Which clearly proves that ''Our Québec dishes or cuisine'' is ours and not yours. Unless you come back with a credible answer. Merci et bonne chance Kermit!
I guessed the tourtiere they did because we have it year-round but particularly at Christmas here in New Brunswick Canada! Love it! Lots of variations with different meat and game here by both French Acadian’s and English. Thanks for highlighting it.
I can't tell you how wonderfully bittersweet this is for me. I haven't made or had it since my mum passed, and probably won't again, but it's lovely to see the tradition brought to a wider audience.
I'm from Costa Rica, I've always been amused how the Latin America region has a lot of very similar dishes. We have something similar to Hallacas here, we call it tamales (same name as the ones in Mexico, very different diches.). Here it is usually done with wheat flour instead of corn, but you can find a few households that mix both or use corn entirely. Here you press the ingredientes on top of the starch base before bounding it tightly with a palm leaf and cord to make it waterproof before dropping it 4 to 6 hours with another 20 to 60 (depending on you pot size) into boiling water. A great aunt had a huge pot that was set on top of cinder blocks that could hold over a 100. Some people make it part of the festivities before Christmas to get the family together and build an assembly line for tamales.
Having been raised in Maine (now in Vermont) I recognized the Tourtiere immediately! Very popular here too amongst those of French-Canadian descent. I'm not French-Canadian, but I love it and try to make it every Christmas season.
SVP! Respectfully...Tourtière is Québécois and NOT Canadian. :)
@@maqtewek4628 Thank you for being tolerant and tactful. You can tell the type of person he must be. On a channel that does nothing but promote respect and inclusivity for every culture there's always the one arsehole that has to post a comment which is the complete opposite. And boy has he posted it on practically every single mention of French-Canadian. It just tells me to avoid chatting to him :) Merry Christmas
Hi, some one from Finland here. Kale salad is not traditional finnish christmas food. It's more traditional in sweden. And that ham is something else 🤣 you will never see a salad on a traditional Finnish christmas table
Lol, we always have had the basic tomato-cucumber-salad leaves -salad at our Christmas table. Might be because mum thinks it's good to eat our greens even when it's Christmas. 😂
it's 6am and i just wanna say i love this channel, positive and relaxing and chaotic all at once. Thank you guys!
The feast of 7 fishes is my idea of absolute heaven!
These are always so hard because I was raised in the military in different locales with people from different cultures so the Lanttulaatikko was something I had with friends of the family in Japan. Childhood memory unlocked
My family hails from Northern Italy and many of our foods are from that region, especially around Christmas and Hannukah times.
I never would have guessed that the last dish was from Italy, specifically because of the inclusion of chilies which are absent from traditional northern Italian foods.
I was with Barry along the Spanish coastal routes, maybe even a bit of Portuguese.
It's insane how much variety there is between regions, even in a country like Italy where you think you know what all the food is.
It's at best a very local Sicilian tradition that can be narrowed down to some towns rather than the whole region, but in the form shown in the video, it's specifically Italian-American, with a big emphasis on the American bit :P
If you'd mention the feast of the seven dishes to your average italian, they'd be rather confused.
In isolation, some of those dishes (specifically the linguine allo scoglio, the fried fish mix, and a more tame version of the stewed mussels) can be part of a more generic southern italian Christmas feast, but not necessarily all together.
As a Venezuelan viewer I've been dying to see you try hallacas on a Christmas video for years! So happy you finally did 🤩 I hope to see you try more Venezuelan dishes in the future
Love this video boys as it's good to learn about some history inside each of the countries when having these dishes that are uniquely special to them. I would like to see more of these videos in the future along with some other ones that you started with making dishes starting with the corresponding country and learn more about the dish and where it's from. Thanks, guys.
I watched you describe the tourtière meal in its entirety, going, yeah, that's right, that's normal, that's what goes with - WAIT THIS IS FROM HERE 😂 now I want to eat tourtière!!! that one looked so good!!!
Also, considering the French origins of Québec and the considerate amount of Irish people who came to live here, those two guesses were kinda right! 😂
This vid is going to make me so hungry I can already tell 😊
My mum once drove from many states away to bring me her tourtierre for christmas.
One of my favorite memories. Sadly no more of her tourtierre...
I always love these videos! The guys really show their knowledge of food and cooking when taking things apart, and even when they get things completely wrong, you can still kinda see what led them to that train of thought! Love these videos. :')
An idea for a future video might be to look into indigenous chefs and cultures, there is SO much variation and beauty in how the different cultures appreciate and make various dishes. And honestly, they deserve so much recognition and they're not focused on even close to enough.
From Quebec : Thank you from including une tourtière ! Elle a l'air délicieuse. You should come to Québec to discover boreal cuisine :)
Ah, so cool to see Tourtiere! I recognized it immediately after being served it at every Canadian Military Christmas Dinner! =oD
Do more dishes! Loved this! Merry xmas!
I knew that the first dish was tourtière, even without being able to taste it. I'm Canadian, and my Mum would make this every year for our Christmas Eve meal. Delicious!! 😋🇨🇦😊
I think Jamie just about dodged a red white and blue bullet from France there, as Ben gave away one massive clue as to why it could never have been a French dish. Stating that some would even use Ketchup for the sauce 🤣
Well done! And I miss the outtakes you use to have at the end! They were such fun! Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas!
I love playing along with these!!
as an italian american, i was absolutely shocked barry had never heard of the feast of the seven fishes!!
You’ll be even more shocked to hear then that very few Italians have heard of it either
@@bluerox24 next you're going to tell me they have never heard of panettone either 😭
As an Italian man born in Quebec it warmed my heart to see both tourtiere and the feast of 7 fish in one vid!
Honestly that tourtiere looks better than any I've had. Maybe it's time for me to make one myself!
By the way, another fantastic screwball from Quebec that you can throw at the lads is the classic "Pate Chinois." Frankly it's just an inferior Shepard's pie however because of that fact I feel like it would throw them off haha.
So happy to see Tourtière :) As a French Canadian definitely one of my favourite dishes. The best ones in my opinion must have three types of meat in them.
I was so excited to see my Christmas food in this video!!! Thank you so much for including Hallacas and learning about our culture, I always get excited when you guys try something new and I’m always hoping is something close to my heart! Love your videos and I hope soon you get to try more of Venezuela ♥️
Yeah! Early! Loving these Christmas and Winter videos!
I suggest a hot chocolates from around the world, Jamaica’s “chocolate tea” is especially good.
Grenada, W.I. has a chocolate factory, where they make fresh hot chocolate out of the most amazing cocoa. It's like nothing I'd ever had before.❤️💛💚🇬🇩
That's a really interesting idea!
This is one of the reasons I love Sorted. For its viewers and how they share. I'd never heard of Jamaican chocolate tea but I'll be looking for it now. Thank you
Tourtière is the Christmas Eve meal in my family! Coming from the whole eating it after mass.
How delicious! Merry Christmas Dani.
My grandmother was from Quebec and made meat pies every Christmas. As soon as I saw it in this video I almost teared up.
this is one of my favorite series..every year a winner.
Ben, I'm from Finland and you were very close at how you said lanttulaatikko 😆
Honestly, the fact that BOTH France and -a UK region- somewhere close to the UK was guessed for tourtière was amazing xD
I'm happy you showed something about Quebec (and you picked the more presentable option imho), but I would have loved to see the reaction to cipaille ^.^'
Ireland is not a UK region, saying that is extremely sensitive for a lot of people.
@@maqtewek4628 not quite the same, Ireland is a completely different country with a different currency, a member of the EU etc.
Well done Ebbers.... found ya channel this year and can't look back! Happy 2023 lads
This has helped put me in a really festive mood
Liver casserole or carrot casserole would have been better than swede casserole IMO. But good job from Ben pronouncing lanttulaatikko so well 😁
Imagine my surprise to see pastelles! Hallacas are called pastelles in trinidad and tobago, and we share similar Spanish influence as venezuela. Would love to see more Caribbean dishes, especially since the Caribbean diaspora is so prevalent in the UK
They looked AMAZING
I would totally try them, they looked good!
Omg the last meal looked absolutely stunning. Well done Kush 👌
My fiancee is from Quebec. His family makes it usually with moose and pork. Our in-laws made us a root vegetable pie with the same spices. The spices make it taste like Christmas. So good.
Hope you have Portuguese dinner, 🍽️ bacahlau🐟