BTU Advent calendar: Door 18

Festive food is as much a part of Christmas as candles and mulled wine. Jan-Hendrik Eichelberger, kitchen manager at the Mensa Zentralcampus, recommends his favourite recipe for a Christmas roast with a difference.

If you prepare the roast, please take a photo of it and send it to us. We are looking forward to seeing your creations!

Irish nut roast

Preparation:

First fry the onion with the garlic in the margarine. Add the mushrooms and sauté.

In another bowl, mix the other ingredients well with a fork, except for the puff pastry and the rice milk. Add the pan contents and mix everything together to form a dough.

Pour the pastry into a 30 cm loaf tin lined with parchment paper, smooth it out and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C top/bottom heat for about 50 minutes. Alternatively  form a loaf from the dough and wrap directly in puff pastry.

Remove the roast from the tin and leave to cool until lukewarm. Then wrap the roast in puff pastry with the smooth side facing up. Using an apple corer or similar tool, carefully poke two holes in the surface to allow air to escape. Decorate with a leftover puff pastry if desired. Brush the puff pastry with rice milk (or egg) and place in the preheated oven at 200 °C for another 15 minutes.

Serve with potato dumplings, red cabbage, a vegetarian gravy and pear halves filled with cranberries.

Tip: You can also prepare the roast without puff pastry. However, it looks more festive with puff pastry.

Preparation time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients for 6 servings:

For the pastry:

  • 1 large onion, finely diced
  • 3 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
  • 1 tbsp margarine or Alsan (or butter)
  • 200 g mushrooms, finely diced
  • 400 g mixed nuts or ground almonds,
  • 3 medium potatoes, boiled and mashed
  • 3 slices of toast, de-crusted and shredded
  • 80 ml red wine, high quality
  • 80 ml vegetable stock, strong
  • 4 tbsp soya flour or 4 eggs
  • Salt and pepper
  • Curry powder
  • 1 handful parsley, fresh, chopped

Also:

  • 275 g puff pastry, rolled out
  • 2 tbsp rice milk (rice drink) or soya-hazelnut milk
  • optionally 1 egg
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