Natchitoches meat pie Natchitoches meat pie The Natchitoches meat pie is a regional dish from northern Louisiana, United States. It is one of the official state foods of Louisiana. Ingredients include ground beef, ground pork, onions, peppers, garlic, oil, and a pie shell. Natchitoches meat pies are often fried in peanut oil because of that oil's high smoking temperature. A number of restaurants in the historic district in Natchitoches serve meat pies, and frozen pies are available from grocers in northern Louisiana. It has a savory meat filling in a crescent-shaped, flaky wheat pastry turnover. It is similar to a Spanish picadillo beef
Culture of Kazakhstan of cuisine which blends traditional savoury Kazakh dishes with European fast food, such as "betinjantabs", proving very popular with younger generations. "Besbarmak", a dish consisting of boiled horse or lamb meat, is the most popular Kazakh dish. Besbarmak is usually eaten with a boiled pasta sheet, and a meat broth called "shorpa", and is traditionally served in Kazakh bowls called "kese". Other popular meat dishes are "kazy" (which is a horse meat sausage that only the wealthy could afford), "shuzhuk" (horse meat sausages), "kuyrdak" (also spelled "kuirdak", a dish made from roasted horse, sheep, or cow offal, such as heart,