Roasted Vegetable & Goats Cheese Puff Pastry Bake with a Sage & Cashew Nut Pesto
I made a veggie thing didn't I?!
PREP
30 minutes
TOTAL
1 hour
INGREDIENTS
For the pesto
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1
Large bunch of sage (stems removed)
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1
Small bunch of parsley (stems removed)
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75 g
Plain cashew nuts
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50 g
Grana Padano/Parmesan (roughly chopped or grated)
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2
Small cloves of garlic
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Salt & pepper to taste
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Good quality olive oil (as much as you need to get the consistency you want)
For the bake
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2
Shallots (halved length ways and skins removed)
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2
Garlic bulbs (tops removed but skin left on)
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2
Large carrots (halved and then roughly chopped)
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1
Small celeriac (peeled and diced)
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½
Punnet of plum tomatoes (chopped in half)
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6
baby peppers (left whole)/
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100 g
Goats cheese (or a cheese that melts nicely that you prefer)
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1½ tbsps
Fresh thyme/dried thyme
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375 g
Puff pastry sheet
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1
egg
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25 ml
milk
For the pesto...
- Take all ingredients aside from the olive oil and salt & pepper and add to a food processor.
- Blitz the ingredients until all is combined.
- Gradually add the olive oil while blitzing to bring it to the consistency you like. I personally like thick pesto.
- Add salt and pepper and pulse until seasoned to your taste.
- Set aside or pop into the fridge until ready to use. Always serve it at room temperature!
For the bake...
- Pre heat your oven to 180℃ .
- Put the carrots and the celeriac in a pot and cover with water and add a nice amount of salt.
- Put on a hob set to a high heat and bring to the boil. Once boiled, keep cooking for a further 10 minutes.
- Drain the water and leave to cool and dry for 5-10 minutes.
- Take a roasting dish and put the carrots, celeriac and shallots in to it. Add the thyme and add a nice glug of olive oil and mix everything through.
- Add to the oven for 15-20 minutes until just starting to change colour. Remove from the oven then allow to cool.
- Line a baking tray with greaseproof paper and roll out the pastry sheet.
- Add the roasted vegetables and shallots evenly across the sheet leaving a 1 inch gap as a border.
- Put the garlic bulbs on spaced well apart from each other and brush the tops with oil.
- Scatter on the tomatoes and peppers then top it all with crumbled goats cheese.
- Season with salt and pepper and drizzle over with oil avoiding the pastry edges.
- Fold the pastry edges over onto themselves creating a raised border. Don't worry if you cover some ingredients slightly.
- Mix the egg and milk together to make an egg wash, then brush the pastry edges with the egg wash.
- Put into the oven for 25-30 minutes or until the pastry is golden brown.
- Remove from the oven then add as much pesto to the top as you like! Slice up and serve!
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