Normally though, for this recipe, a mixture of cashew nuts and ground almonds is used.
Most people don't seem to have tried nut roast before, but trust me, it is worth trying- just because its a vegetarian dish does not, by any means, mean it is lacking in flavour.
Ingredients (serves 3-4):
- One slice of bread, blitzed in to bread crumbs.
- 200g of your chosen nut (or a mixture of a few), toasted/roasted and ground.
- One pepper, chopped in to small pieces
- One onion, chopped
- Two garlic cloves, sliced
- 50g mushrooms, chopped
- 5 cherry tomatoes, quartered
- 200ml vegetable stock
- One egg
- Dried oregano
- Dried thyme
- One teaspoon of cornflour
- Red Pesto
- Ketchup
- Lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp Marmite
- Freshly ground pepper
Method:
- Over a low heat, slowly fry the onions and garlic until soft and just picking up some colour.
- Add the rest of the veg and cook until soft
- Add the bread crumbs and ground nuts and mix together.
- Add the cornflour, and cook through with the veg for a few minutes
- Slowly add the stock, stirring as you go, making sure that each addition has been fully absorbed before you add more.
- Add generous amounts of both herbs, and season with the ground pepper. Mix in the marmite.
- Add the ketchup, red pesto, and lemon juice to taste.
- Once the flavoring has been sorted, move the pan off the heat and add the egg. Mix immediately to prevent the egg from cooking on its own, making sure all the mix is incorporated.
- Grease and line a loaf tin with baking paper
- Tip the mixture in to the loaf tin and level out the top.
- In a preheated oven of 210c, bake the loaf for 30mins covered with foil, and a further 20 minutes uncovered.
- When the time is up, turn the tin upside-down on to a plate- the nut roast should come out easily, keeping its shape, however, if it needs it, you can always loosen it from the tin by going around the edge with a knife.
- Best served with all the roasty things that come with a roast (i.e. roast potatoes, roast onion, carrots, gravy/bread sauce/cheese sauce e.t.c.)
Is this the same recipe Mum uses, or have you tweaked it? If not this is very useful because she never gave me the recipe.
ReplyDeleteYeh it's the same recipe. I obviously wasn't reading it straight from the original recipe so I may have forgotten maybe one or two things, but it's basically the same. And tastes the same :)
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