Onion Nut Roast

I haven't made a nutroast for a while and really wanted to make some stuffing this weekend. I thought I will combine the two and make a nutroast more how I would make stuffing! It was yummy, hubby went back for 3rds! 

Ingredients:

1x Leek

2x Red Onion

3x Celery Sticks

1/2 a large courgette

Hand full of dryed apricots

Hand full of white mushrooms

One roll of ready to roll puff pasty

1/2 a hand full of almonds

Hand full of walnuts

1x vegetable stock cube

Breadcrumbs (homemade are the most yummiest.) Depends on how hard you like your mix I would say 1-2 cups. 

Chia, sunflower, pumpkin and sesame seeds. Rosemary and thyme. Black pepper. Sprinkle of chilli powder. 

How to make:

Crush up the nuts, add the seeds and herbs. Cut into very small chunks the apricots. Mix. 

Cut off the ends and peel the onions (leave whole.) Then boil until soft. 

Blitz them in a blender, and stir into your seed and nut mix. 

Fry the leek, courgette, celery and mushrooms till they are starting to brown. Pour water till it covers them and add one vegetable stock cube. 

Cover and leave till soften. (Let most of the water evaporate but take off the heat with a little left.)

Add to your mix and stir. Add in herbs aswell.

Add to a cooking tin. I like using a loaf tin. 

I put a layer of breadcrumbs on top and then cooked it till these where golden brown. (This makes the mixture very wet and sticky still. Which was yummy. If you would like it firmer, cook for longer with tin foil over it.)

You can serve it like this or do like I do, for extra yummnes and roll over with puff pastry!

I washed it with oil to make sure it came out golden brown.

I ended up with a huge log which would feed about 8 or 4 very, very hungry (aka hubby having 3 helpings) people! 

Yum. 

Girls Night Nut Roast

My turn to cook this week, for our weekly girls night dinners. Really fancied a nut roast but having not long had Christmas, I thought the girls would fed up of full on roasts so sweet potatoes it was! 

Here is my second ever nut roast-

Ingredients: 

Lots and lots of Mushrooms

Half a courgette

Handful of peanuts

Handful of cashews nuts

Handful of walnuts

(I need to start weighing as I go!) 

Blend up the nuts, add to a large bowl.

Fry up mushrooms till starting to brown off and squeaky. Then blend and add to the nuts. 

Don't worry about all being the same size.

Grate courgette add in with the mushrooms.

Add what ever seeds you would like. (Will list once I have got the baby off to bed.)

Breadcrumbs and mix.

Handful of porridge oats, mix.

Once mixed add to a bread tin, which you have lined or buttered.

Cover and pop in an oven at about 190, I cooked it for just over an hour and it was a little dry. So try for about 45 minutes. 

Take off too to brown. 

This was so close to being perfect, just a little over done.

Place on top of pre brought and rolled puff pasty. Close and add detail, oiling the party. Cook till golden. 

Everyone had seconds, the whole thing was gone. 

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