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
Potjevleesch on top of the stove for 3 hours. After cooking the dish is chilled in the refrigerator and served cold. It is customary to serve it with chips and often the dish is enjoyed with a glass of jenever or "Genièvre (juniper) of Houlle". Potjevleesch Potjevleesch is a traditional French Flemish dish, which can be translated into English as "potted meat", although in appearance it is more like a terrine or head cheese than a pâté. It is traditionally made in a ceramic dish—such as a marmite—from three or four different types of meat and held together either with gelatin