I don’t very often cook with pastry. It’s far too much like baking for me. However with the availability of fresh vegan pastry now widespread, I thought I’d give it a go.

Ingredients:

• 1 packet of JusRol fresh filo pastry
• Poppy seeds
• 5 small new potatoes
• 1 carrot, peeleds
• A small handful of curly kale
• Caramelised red onion chutney
• 1 teaspoon thyme
• Black pepper
• 1 teaspoon turmeric
• 1 block of Violife vegan cheese, grated

Method:

• Get the oven on a medium heat.
• Dice the potatoes and carrots and place in a pan of water, allowing to boil before turning the heat off.
• Heat a pan, drain the potatoes and carrots and place in the pan with the kale and chutney.
• Stir in the herbs and spices. Stir occasionally until the potatoes and carrots are soft.
• Roll out the pastry and cut into squares. Place a large spoonful of the pan mixture into the centre of the square and top with cheese.
• Fold the edges up over the mixture and sprinkle with poppy seeds. (You should have enough for four large parcels.)
• Place in the oven for 30 minutes.
• Serve warm with ketchup.

If you want to make your pastry, feel free. This isn’t Masterchef so I’ll take that short cut. 🙂

Blogs on Mushroom Laksa and The Vegan Police coming soon.