Saturday, December 1, 2012

Tofu Vegetable Puff Pie!


Hello!! I've been MIA for about a week, sorry about that. But now I'm back and with a delicious, different kind of pie made with Tofu. You can see the tofu above, it's marinading in half a teaspoon of masala curry powder (you can pick some up at your local Indian grocery store, or at a supermarket near you). 
It was our first try doing vegetable pie (xortopita) using tofy as our dairy alternative. It turned out really good, but already we've realized that it would've been better if we had added onion and if we had let the boiled vegetables sit for a while until some water drained away.

Here's what we used.

  • 2 1-inch slices of firm tofu, marinated in half teaspoon masala curry powder.
  • 1/2cup spinach 
  • 1/2 cup celery
  • 1/2 cup kale
  • 1/2 cup leek
  • salt/pepper to taste
  • 1 package of butter puff pastry
  • spry/shortening to oil our cookware so our pie doesn't stick
We boiled the vegetables, and let them sit for a bit. Put salt/pepper or any other seasoning of your choice. Meanwhile we set out half of the butter puff pastry on our oiled cookware and we started to preheat our oven at 350 degrees F.


 Put your vegetables in the pastry spreading them out.
Add the marinated tofu on top of them. The tofu will provide a spicyness due to it's masala curry taste. We also added the juice that you can see from the photo of the tofu being marinated.
 Start wrapping our filling with the pastry. Don't force it, we don't want it to tear up.


 Add the other half of our puff pastry packate on top, and continue wrapping it up until it's all covered up.

That's it! We placed it in our pre-heated oven at 350 degrees F for about half an hour, or until golden-brown.



It tasted great. BUT, we also thought that next time, we'll put a medium onion chopped up in our mixture. However, unlike our vegetables, we aren't going to boil it beforehand.

What do you think?

No comments:

Post a Comment