Recipe Viva!’s Deluxe Chestnut, Port and Thyme Strudel

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Viva!’s Deluxe Chestnut, Port and Thyme Strudel

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A delicious Christmas roast - also suitable for any chilly-weather Sunday dinner!

Ingredients:

• 1 packet puff pastry, defrosted
• 1 large onion, finely chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 sticks celery, finely sliced
• 450g/1lb chopped nuts
• 1 packet vacuum-packed pre-cooked chestnuts, chopped
• 1 tin of chestnut puree
• 60g/2oz breadcrumbs
• 2-3 tsp fresh thyme, chopped, or 1/2 tsp dried
• 4 tbsp/60ml port
• 1 tbsp soya milk
• Salt and black pepper
• Sprout mixture
• 10 Brussels sprouts
• 1 tbsp Pure margarine or other dairy-free spread
• Ground black pepper to taste

Method:

1. Pre heat oven to 180°C/350° F/Gas Mark 4.
2. Lightly fry the onions, garlic and celery until soft. Add the rest of the filling ingredients and stir.
3. Steam the sprouts until just tender then mash with margarine and pepper.
4. Line a baking tray with foil. Oil it then mould half the filling into a rectangle. Using a spoon, make an indentation down the centre and spoon in the sprout mixture, pressing down. Layer the rest of the filling on top and smooth off with a palette knife into a rectangle. Bake for 20 minutes.
5. Meanwhile, flour the work surface and rolling pin and roll thinly into a rectangle, three times the width of the filling. Using two fish slices, carefully move the filling on to the pastry. Cut neatly round it, removing excess pastry in whole pieces.
6. Use this excess pastry to cut into thin strips. Layer half of the strips diagonally and neatly across the strudel - see the picture above. Place the other half of the strips in the other direction, creating a lattice effect. Brush with soya milk.
7. Use any excess pieces of pastry to decorate the strudel with holly leaf shapes and berries or anything else you fancy - and also brush these with a little soya milk.
8. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until the pastry is golden.

http://www.veganrecipeclub.org.uk/recipes/viva's-deluxe-chestnut-port-and-thyme-strudel


After this its the sprout chilli!!

 

[L_B]

Anxiously waiting to hear about the sprout chilli! I already know that I am going to like it!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

This actually looks to be a really nice recipe for Christmas day! I may well nominate it fit the 2nd Christmas day meal we have to endure this year. If we are careful about the Port used it will still be vegan. Port like wine is not always vegan due to what it is filtered with/through.

 

[kgord]

Ha, it does look delicious, however, I would hazard a guess, that if I was to attempt something like this it would look nothing like the picture. I get highly impatient with foods that take many steps. If a recipe takes more than 5 steps or 5 ingredients I am apt to bag it. In my experience, it never tastes quite as good as it looks anyway, and then you have wasted all that time..but nice dish nonetheless!