Salmon pie, known as ''pâté au saumon'' in Quebec, is a

pie A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients. Sweet pies may be filled with fruit (as in an apple pie), nuts ( pecan pie), brown sugar ( sugar pie), swe ...

or variant of ''

tourtière Tourtière (, ) is a French Canadian meat pie dish originating from the province of Quebec, usually made with minced pork, veal or beef and potatoes. Wild game is sometimes used. It is a traditional part of the Christmas ''réveillon'' and New ...

'' filled with

salmon Salmon () is the common name for several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family (biology), family Salmonidae, which are native to tributary, tributaries of the ...

. In

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, the most popular form of salmon pie resembles more

chicken pie Chicken and mushroom pie is a common British pie, ranked as one of the most popular types of savoury pie in Great Britain and often served in fish and chips restaurants. It is also very popular in South Africa. Ingredients The outside is usually ...

, where distinct pieces of salmon are cooked in the

, in a sauce resembling ''

suprême sauce ''Suprême'' sauce is a classic and popular "daughter sauce" of French cuisine. It is made from mother sauce velouté, then thickened with cream. Recipes According the ''Larousse Gastronomique'', a seminal work of French ''haute cuisine'', firs ...

'', in the base of which other ingredients have been cooked. The Irish also call ''salmon pie'' something that closely matches

cottage pie Shepherd's pie, cottage pie, or in its French version hachis Parmentier is a savoury dish of cooked minced meat topped with mashed potato and baked. The meat used may be either previously cooked or freshly minced. The usual meats are beef or lam ...

or ''

pâté chinois Pâté chinois () ('Chinese pie') is a French Canadian dish similar to the English shepherd's pie or French ''hachis Parmentier''. It is a traditional recipe in both Québécois cuisine and Acadian cuisine. Ingredients The dish is made with l ...

'', where salmon is at the base of an assembly, like for cottage pie, or at the base of a casserole, like for ''pâté chinois''. Other ingredients may be part of the salmon base, and be superposed, but in both cases the dish's assembly is completed by the application of

mashed potatoes Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American and Canadian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt and pepper. It is generally served as a ...

. In its

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

version, ''pâté au saumon'', the pie is a preparation of cooked salmon and mashed potatoes, which, themselves, may include other ingredients such as

eggs Humans and human ancestors have scavenged and eaten animal eggs for millions of years. Humans in Southeast Asia had domesticated chickens and harvested their eggs for food by 1,500 BCE. The most widely consumed eggs are those of fowl, especial ...

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black pepper Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, known as a peppercorn, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diame ...

onion An onion (''Allium cepa'' L., from Latin ''cepa'' meaning "onion"), also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus ''Allium''. The shallot is a botanical variety of the onion ...

, etc. which would normally enter in their preparation, by the household or region. The mixture is then placed between pie crusts, and is otherwise prepared in the same manner as most other sweet and savory pies.

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