Pâté chaud facts for kids
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| Type | Pastry |
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| Place of origin | Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Main ingredients | Meat (pork, chicken, or beef) |
Pâté chaud (French: [pate ʃo]), which means "hot pastry pie," is a yummy Vietnamese savory puff pastry. It is also known as bánh patê sô. This pastry has a light, flaky outside with a tasty meat filling inside.
Traditionally, the filling was made with ground pork. However, today you can often find Pâté chaud with chicken or beef fillings too. This delicious pastry was inspired by French cuisine. You can find it in bakeries in Vietnam and in places around the world where Vietnamese people live. It's a bit like the Haitian patty.
What Does 'Pâté Chaud' Mean?
The name "Pâté chaud" comes from French words. "Pâté" is a French word that used to mean "pie" or "pastry" a long time ago. "Chaud" means "hot." So, "Pâté chaud" meant "hot pie" in French colonial Vietnam.
Back then, in France, people used "pâté chaud" to describe a hot meat pie. For example, a famous chef named Urbain Dubois wrote about it in 1868.
Today, in modern French, the word "pâté" usually means a mixture of finely chopped meat. A pie is now called a tourte. But in Vietnam, the name "Pâté chaud" or "bánh patê sô" still means a delicious "mixture of meat in a crust."
