Celebration Nut Roast with Lemon and Pinenut Stuffing

Summary

Yield
Servings
Prep time1 hour
Cooking time
Total time1 hour

Description

This is a combination of a couple of recipes I found on the web. I made it for Christmas day, and it worked really well. The lentils in this recipe are assumed to be precooked.

Ingredients

2
Onion (Finely chopped)
6 clv
Garlic (Finely chopped)
5
Mushroom (Medium to large)
3⁄5 c
Puy lentils (Green or brown fine as well, if not using a can then precook)
100 g
Pinenuts
1
Lemon (We want its zest)
2
Puff Pastry (Large sheets)
1 T
flour
1 1⁄4 c
Vegetable stock
1 1⁄4 c
Mixed nuts (I use macadamia, almond, hazelnuts and brazil nuts)
400 g
Breadcrumbs
1 T
Soy sauce
2 T
Soy milk
1 1⁄2 T
Mixed herbs (I use thyme, oregano and some fresh sage)
1⁄2 t
Thyme
1 T
Sage (chopped)
3 T
Parsley (Fresh chopped)
6 T
Olive oil
1⁄2 t
salt (to taste)
1⁄2 t
Black Pepper (to taste)

Instructions

Stuffing

Saute half of the onion and garlic in olive oil until soft. As we are going to bake the whole thing later, try not to overcook anything here

Stir in the thyme and sage, then add the breadcrumbs, add the rest of the olive oil, stir through

Add the lemon zest, pine nuts and some salt and pepper to taste

Cook until it starts to brown a little, take of heat and stir through the parsley

Test the mixture, if it tastes too dry, stir through some more olive oil

Set it aside whilst we make the nut roast filling

Nut roast filling

Cook the remaining onions and garlic until a little soft (a few minutes max), then the same with the mushrooms

Sprinkle on the flour, add the stock, cook until hot

Stir in the nuts, breadcrumbs, soy sauce, lentils, herbs and seasoning

Place a sheet of pasty on an oiled baking tray,

Spoon in as much of the nut roast as possible, leaving a v shaped ditch from top to bottom for the stuffing

Put stuffing in v shaped ditch (You knew that was coming didn't you?)

Put other sheet of pastry on top, crinkle the edges with your fingers

Cover in the soy milk

Cut two stripes diagonally on the top to let some steam our whilst cooking

Bake for 25 minutes, or until pastry golden

Serve with roast vegetables, peas and gravy

Nut roast image