Food truck recipe - Vegetable Pies
15/7/2011
Recipes by Michael Van De Elzen. All recipes are based on food sold in TVoNE series The Food Truck. Nutritional Analysis are approximate only, done using Foodworks 2009.
Pastry
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| 2½ cups | Wholemeal flour |
| 2 tsp | Turmeric |
| 1 pinch | Salt |
| ¾ cup | Coconut oil |
| 2 tsp | Cider vinegar |
| ¾ cup | Water, (cold) |
Filling
| 4 tbsp | Chickpeas, cooked |
| 4 tbsp | Canned black beans |
| 2 cups | Baby spinach, loosely packed |
| 50 g | Ricotta cheese |
| 1 cup | Pumpkin, dry roasted and diced |
| 1 clove | Garlic, crushed |
| ½ cup | Green lentils, cooked or canned, drained and mashed |
| ½ cup | Coconut milk, (lite) |
| 1 to taste | Black pepper - ground |
| ½ tsp | Curry powder |
| 2 tsp | Parmesan cheese |
Directions
Pastry
- Place the flour, turmeric and salt in a bowl.
- Add coconut oil and mix until mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
- Mix cider vinegar and water together and add to the flour mixture to form a dough.
- Spray 4 x 10 cm pie dishes or 4 large muffin pans with a little oil.
- Sprinkle flour over a large board and roll out dough to ¼ cm thickness.
- Cut to fit the pie dishes or muffin pans and then line them. Cut tops to fit.
Filling
- Preheat oven to 180 degC
- Spoon filling into the pastry until level with the top.
- ooisten the edge of the pastry with a little water.
- Place pastry top on top of the mixture.
- Press down to join the edges.
- Bake in preheated oven for 25 minutes, or until the pastry is golden.

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