I've had this recipe bookmarked since 2008: a fourth dimension earlier I had my ain copy of Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit. Dairy substitutes were yet a novelty to me, too I imagine that I was especially taken past times the pine-nut cream topping on this moussaka (it certain couldn't stimulate got been Lindy Loo's "worst painting exhibit ever" that lured me in, right?).
I merely never got some to making it until nosotros constitute ourselves amongst 5 eggplants inwards the refrigerator this week. And hence I decided to brand it on a Mon night. Yep, I reckon it'd hold upwards a proficient reckon to thinly piece too pre-bake 2 too a one-half kilos of vegetables, brand a sauce too a pino nut cream too layer it all upwards for a terminal bake, all subsequently coming abode from a total hateful solar daytime at work. It. Took. Four. Hours.
Let's locomote out aside my questionable sentence for a moment, piece I assure you lot that at to the lowest degree it was non a stressful 4 hours. There was no hollo for at which I was wrangling 3 saucepans too a tray nether the grill, burning ane element piece trying to blend another. Michael patiently sliced all the vegetables earlier I arrived home, hence tagged me inwards for the mass of the cooking: methodically baking those vegetables, tray past times tray, cooking the tomato plant sauce too hence blending the pino nut cream every bit the veges baked. Relying on a timer for my cues, I fifty-fifty caught moments to read other blogs at the kitchen table. Helping myself to a few of the baked Irish Gaelic patato slices kept my spirits upwards too.
With the quantities of H2O held inwards these vegetables addition the stone oil too common salt bandied nigh inwards the recipe, at that spot was a run a peril that this would destination upwards a sludgy, salty mess. It was just the reverse - draining the salted eggplant kept the fluids inwards check, too a low-cal behave upon amongst a tin of spray stone oil rendered it velvety too non at all greasy inwards the finished moussaka. It did piece a fleck sloppily, but that was to hold upwards expected - refrigerated pieces (such every bit the ane photographed) flaunted much prettier layers.
We were real happy amongst the result, but it's non ofttimes that we'd laid aside some other 4 hours to earn it. I suspect we'll hold upwards turning dorsum to our tempeh lasagne too Lancashire hotpot recipes earlier nosotros larn The Full Moussaka again.
Vegetable moussaka amongst pino nut cream
(adapted slightly from Yeah, That "Vegan" Shit,
where it's already adapted from Veganomicon)
vegetable layers
900g eggplant
450g zucchini
1.3 kg potatoes
lots of spray oil
common salt
tomato sauce
1/4 loving cup olive oil
1 medium brownish onion, chopped finely
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/3 loving cup vegetable stock
2 x 400g cans crushed tomatoes
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1/2 teaspoon Earth cinnamon
1 bay leaf
salt
pine nut cream
1/2 loving cup pino nuts, addition extra to garnish
juice of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon arrowroot
1 clove garlic
generous pinch nutmeg
generous pinch white pepper
salt
450g silken tofu
1/2 loving cup breadcrumbs
Preheat an oven to 200°C. Line baking trays (as many every bit volition gibe into your oven) amongst baking newspaper too spray them amongst oil.
Wash the eggplants, cut back off the stems too piece them lengthways into large apartment pieces, nigh 4mm thick. Rub the slices amongst common salt too layer them inwards a colander over the sink to drain. Wash too cut back the edges off the zucchini, piece them lengthways into 4mm-thick rectangles too laid them aside. Scrub too pare the potatoes, hence piece them into large rounds nigh 4mm thick.
Spread the Irish Gaelic patato slices across the baking trays, sprinkle over a footling common salt too spray them lightly amongst oil. Bake the potatoes for some twenty minutes, turning them over half-way through, until they're cooked through too merely browning a footling at the edges. Set the potatoes aside.
Retrieve the eggplant slices from the colander, tapping off whatever excess water, too spread them over the baking sheets, spraying them amongst oil. Bake them for some fifteen minutes, flipping halfway through. Finally spread out the zucchini, spray them amongst oil, too bake them on both sides for a total of fifteen minutes. Keep the oven on.
While all of this baking is going on, you lot tin brand the sauce too the pino nut cream. Place the stone oil inwards a large saucepan too laid it over medium heat. Add the minced garlic too laid upwards it for merely xxx second, hence add together inwards the onion. Cook the onion, stirring regularly, until soft - I gave it 5-10 minutes. Add the stock too simmer for a farther 5 minutes. Pour inwards the crushed tomatoes, oregano, cinnamon, bay leafage too a footling salt. Allow the sauce to simmer for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
Use a blender to brand the pino nut cream. Start amongst the pino nuts too lemon juice, blending them to brand a paste. Next add together the arrowroot, nutmeg, white pepper too common salt too blend thoroughly. If you lot stimulate got room, blend inwards the tofu - otherwise whisk the tofu to a shine creamy consistency inwards a bowl, using a fork, too hence whisk the pino nut mixture into it.
Now you lot mightiness hold upwards laid upwards to gather the whole shebang! Remove the bay leafage from the tomato plant sauce too discard it. Spoon a 3rd of the sauce across the base of operations of a large, high-walled baking dish. Layer one-half of the eggplant across the sauce, hence one-half of the potato. Spoon over one-half of the remaining sauce too sprinkle over one-half of the breadcrumbs. Use all of the zucchini inwards a unmarried layer, hence complete upwards the eggplant, hence the potatoes. Spread over the remaining sauce too sprinkle it amongst the residuum of the breadcrumbs. Spoon the pino nut cream evenly across the dish too sprinkle over whatever extra pino nuts.
Bake the moussaka for 35-40 minutes, until the pino nut cream is set, golden too staring to crack. Allow it to cool on the bench for at to the lowest degree 10 farther minutes earlier slicing too serving.
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