Artichoke & Wild Mushroom Strudel

Vegan

Artichoke & Wild Mushroom Strudel Mmm… this little gourmet job is actually dead simple as well as tasting lovely – but don’t let on to your highly-impressed guests! Just remember to defrost the filo pastry in time – check out the packet instructions the night before. Artichoke hearts can be bought in tins - or better still, frozen in larger supermarkets.

Serve as a traditional roast with roast potatoes and all the trimmings - or with salad as a light meal or even starter.

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Serves:

Time:

50 minutes total preparation and cooking time.

No sesame

Reduced sugar

Ingredients:

1 tbsp olive oil, plus more for brushing
3 shallots, chopped finely
2 cloves garlic, crushed
250g/9oz mixed mushrooms (shiitake, chestnut, etc.), chopped
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
250g/9oz firm tofu
1 tbsp soy sauce
50g/2oz ground walnuts
1 tin (390g) artichokes, drained and roughly chopped - or the equivalent weight of frozen (then defrosted) hearts
2 tbsp fresh tarragon leaves, chopped 1
Filo pastry, 1 pack (250g)
3 tbsp cranberry sauce
2 tangerines

Method:

1. Heat the olive oil and sauté the finely chopped shallots until translucent. Add the garlic and mushrooms and season with salt and pepper.

2. Cook over a medium heat until the mushrooms release their liquid. Continue cooking until the liquid has evaporated.

3. Crumble the tofu into a bowl (or mash it roughly with a fork) and add the soy sauce, ground walnuts, chopped artichokes, tarragon and the cooked mushrooms. Combine well and season with salt and pepper. Divide roughly into six portions and set aside to cool.

4.Preheat the oven to 180˚C/350˚F/Gas Mark 4 and line a baking tray with non-stick baking paper.

5. To make individual strudels use two sheets of filo pastry for each strudel. Remove only two sheets at a time from the pack and keep the rest covered to stop the pastry from drying out.

6. Place one sheet on a flat surface with the short side facing you and brush lightly with olive oil. Lay the second sheet on top and brush with oil too. Now, fold the bottom third of the pastry upwards. Place one portion of the filling on this doubled up third, leaving a 5 cm/2 inch border all around.

7. Fold the left and right sides in to encase the filling and start rolling the strudel up (like a spring roll). Place the strudel seam side down on the prepared baking tray. Continue with the remaining five strudels and brush the tops lightly with oil.

8. Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown. Just before the strudels are ready for serving, squeeze the juice from the tangerines and combine it in a small pot with the cranberry sauce. Heat over a medium flame until warmed through and serve with the strudels.

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This recipe is delicious. i

Submitted by Anonymous on January 17, 2012 - 3:31am.

This recipe is delicious. i used bricks pastry which came out perfect. i did put a little bit too much tarragon so it came out really sweet, but still lovely. i recommend to serve it with some leaves :D

most of recipes i tried from this website come out as they should ! (it isn't always the case in cooking websites/books... ) so thank you for making them easy to make :D

PS: that was my main course at xmas lunch mmmmmmm