Celeriac Wild Mushroom Pithivier; wild mushroom parsley on a celeriac thyme marjoram porcini almond cream bed encased in crisp puff pastry.
Enrapture your tastebuds with pure ecstasy. And, quiver with delight.
This dish will obliterate your senses that vegan food CAN’T taste this f**king awesome.
Make this:
- When you’ve rattled your beau/belle’s cage and need to creep back into their good books
- When you’ve got the bondage gear out and need a little of bit of frisky savoury morsel to elevate you to the next level of pure oblivion
- When you fancy a lavish dinner party and just as an aside, wish to make a splash in demonstrating how versatile your cooking skills are
Celeriac Wild Mushroom Pithivier was inspired when I attending Borough Market. As I leeringly gazed at the fresh wild mushrooms’ erotic thoughts of pithivier exploded. My synapsis were abliss as they kissed. Picking up a few morsels I returned home. Though, I detoured to a local Greek Cypriot deli to pick up the puff pastry. I was drooling in anticipation. This was going to be a taste sensation.
Celeriac Mushroom Pithivier is vegan.
What equipment to use
For this recipe, I suggest:
Oven
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Ingredients
- For celeriac layer
- 1kg celeriac
- 3tbs olive oil
- 10g porcini, dried
- 100g almonds, blanched
- 200ml filtered water
- Few sprigs of thyme
- 1tbs marjoram
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- Season to taste
- For mushroom layer
- 300g mushrooms (chestnuts, girolle, chanterelles, shiitake)
- 3tbs olive oil
- Bunch of parsley, chopped
- Season to taste
- 600g puff pastry sheets
Instructions
- Soak the porcini mushrooms in water and set to one side.
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius or if a convection oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
- Shave off the skin of the celeriac. Using a mandolin or knife cut the celeriac into thin strips (no more than a quarter circle).
- Baste the celeriac in olive oil and bake in the oven for 15 minutes. Remove and set to one side to cool.
- In a high-speed blender whizz together the almonds, and mushrooms in water. Set to one side. Transfer a large mixing bowl.
- Into the almond cream add the thyme leaves, marjoram, garlic. Season to taste. Once mixed, add in the celeriac and set to one side.
- Sweat the wild mushrooms in olive oil. Switch off heat and toss in the parsley. Season to taste.
- Line a large baking tray with parchment paper.
- Over a large clean surface place half the pastry (300g). Place over a large dinner plate (26cm diameter) and cut out the pastry into a circle. Gently transfer to the parchment paper.
- Layer the celeriac over the pastry bed, leaving around 2 cm lining around the pastry. Once you have placed all the celeriac, then layer on the wild mushroom and parsley mixture.
- Baste the pastry edges with olive oil.
- Complete the pithivier by placing the second half of the pastry (300g) by cutting a circle that is 32cm in diameter. (I use a large pizza board to help me with this part). Cut a hole in the centre of the pastry and use a knife to make swirls round the pastry.
- Layer the second pastry atop of the vegetables.
- Baste all the pastry with pastry in olive oil.
- Cover the pithivier in aluminium foil and bake in the oven for 25 minutes. Remove the aluminium foil and cook for a further 15 minutes uncovered. Baste with more olive oil.
- Serve warm.
