Creamy Corn-Crusted Tempeh Pot Pie

May 24, 2014

Cindy has left me to fend for myself piece she falls inwards honey alongside Wholefoods together with other North American goodies. I must confess that for the get-go calendar week I ate a lot of eating theatre meals. When the weekend rolled around I in conclusion got my deed together together with cooked for myself, tackling 1 of the to a greater extent than involved recipes from Viva Vegan.

I'm a sucker for a skillful tempeh-based stew, together with the pie filling hither combined the nutty tempeh flavours alongside some saltiness from the olives together with sweetness from the currants. The topping had a hint of sweetness to it too together with was creamy together with crispy inwards all the correct places. The whole dish is a fair fleck of work, but it tastes skillful plenty to justify the endeavour together with volition feed y'all for the best business office of a week.

Creamy corn-crusted tempeh pot pie

(based on a recipe inwards Terry Hope Romero's Viva Vegan!)

filling

ii tablespoons vegetable fossil oil

300g tempeh, sliced into pocket-size cubes

ii chocolate-brown onions, sliced finely

1 large carrot, diced

ii tablespoons cherry-red wine

1 teaspoon soil cumin

ii teaspoons dried oregano

1 teaspoon paprika

250g potato, diced into 1cm cubes

1 1/2 cups veggie stock

ii tablespoons tamari

1/3 loving cup currants

2/3 loving cup sliced light-green olives

soil pepper

crust

iv cobs of corn, shucked

three tablespoons corn flour

2/3 loving cup heavy cream (obviously vegan cream past times default, but nosotros had dairy cream to usage up)

1 clove garlic, minced

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon pepper

three tablespoons olive oil

10 basil leaves, shredded

1 tablespoon sugar

Steam the murphy until it's only cooked, nearly xv minutes, together with and thence steam the tempeh for 10 minutes.

Once the tempeh has cooled a bit, crumble upward the cubes equally best y'all tin - the filling should resemble a sort of thickly soil mince.

Heat the fossil oil inwards a large frying pan together with tyke the onions together with carrot over medium rut for nearly 10 minutes, until the onions completely soft. 

Add the vino together with stir - it volition laid upward off pretty quickly. Stir inwards the cumin, oregano together with paprika together with and thence add together inwards the tempeh, potato, stock, soy sauce, raisins, olives together with the pepper. Simmer for five minutes, stirring together with and thence withdraw from the heat.

Lightly fossil oil a casserole dish - I used a circular 1 nearly 25cm across - together with pour the filling in.

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

In a nutrient processor, combine the corn kernels, corn flour, cream, garlic, tabular array salt together with pepper together with whiz until it's a thick, creamy paste.

Heat the fossil oil inwards a large saucepan together with add together the corn mixture, stirring, until it thickens (about 10 minutes). Remove from the rut together with stir inwards the basil. Spread the mixture on elevation of the tempeh filling together with sprinkle over the sugar.

Bake for 45 minutes, or until the elevation has browned upward nicely. You tin char the elevation upward nether the grill for a few minutes at the halt if y'all actually desire a crunchy shell, but I didn't intend it actually needed this step.