A traditional dish for the festive days by Veet Karen
Can anyone believe it’s almost Christmas again? I will be sharing festive recipes in the weeks leading up to Christmas. This week is the first recipe. It’s certainly a winner. I took the nut roast recipe I developed for my cookbook and then jazzed it up with some mushrooms and silverbeet (chard) and wrapped it in a homemade gluten free pastry and served it with cranberry sauce. It certainly is something else. I got the original idea of wrapping up the nut roast in pastry from one of my lovely subscribers. Thank you!
For the Nut Roast
Ingredients
1 onion diced finely (optional)
Oil to fry the onion and mushrooms
2 cups of nuts and 1 cup of seeds – I used a combination of almonds, cashews, walnuts, hazelnuts and sunflower seeds (if you want a nut-free version just use 3 cups of sunflower and pepita seeds)
1 tbsp fresh thyme chopped fine
1 tbsp fresh sage chopped fine
1 large handful of parsley chopped fine
2 tbsp chia seeds
½ cup water
1½ cups cooked brown rice
1 small block non-gmo silken tofu
1 tbsp gluten-free tamari
Juice of half a large lemon
A good 15 or so grinds of fresh pepper
Salt to taste
Method
- Fry the onion in oil until almost translucent.
- Place in a large mixing bowl.
- Place the nuts and seeds in a food processor and chop until fine. Mix the chia seeds with the water and let swell for 5 or so minutes.
- Place the silken tofu and swollen chia seeds in a food processor and combine for a few minutes. Put the silken tofu and chia mixture in the bowl with the rest of the ingredients and mix well.
For the Mushrooms and Silverbeet
Ingredients
4 large Portobello mushrooms (the really big mushrooms – or get equivalent in quantity)
1 bunch silverbeet (chard)
Splash olive oil
Salt and pepper to taste
Method
- Cut the mushrooms into small pieces and fry until brown.
- Wilt the silverbeet in a saucepan and then slice. Finely mix the mushrooms and silverbeet together and season with salt and pepper.
For the Pastry
2 x quantity of the pastry recipe
For the Cranberry Sauce
Ingredients
1 cup dried cranberries or 2 cups fresh
½ cup fruit juice
¼ cup water
¼ tsp all spice
¼ tsp cinnamon
Method
Place everything in a saucepan and leave on simmer for 15 minutes. With a hand-held blender, blend just half of the sauce leaving plenty of the cranberries whole.
To Assemble the Wellington
¼ cup plant milk
Pinch turmeric
Method
- Preheat oven to 180°C.
- Place baking paper on a baking tray.
- Mix the milk with the turmeric.
- Get the pastry out of the fridge and cut into 4 pieces. Flour your board and rolling pin and roll out each piece to form a rectangle making the pastry a few millimeters thick.
- Place a spoon of the nut mix along the middle of the pastry in a line, add on some of the mushroom spinach mix then top with more nut roast. Roll the pastry around the nut mixture until it forms a log. Cut any excess pastry off.
- Place the seam side down on the baking tray and brush with the milk and turmeric.
- Bake in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes or until the pastry looks cooked.
- Let cool for 5 minutes before slicing. Serve with the cranberry sauce.
This recipe was first published on Veet Karen’s blog (veets.com.au/blog) where you will always find a link to download the PDF file to print it out.
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