H5N1 piece ago, I went to a cooking demonstration hosted yesteryear Merchant Gourmet, who sell slow convenient ingredients such every bit chestnuts, chestnut purée in addition to lentils.
Anyway, chef Alex Mackay showed us every bit amazing agency of working chestnuts into everyday dishes such every bit roast veg. His creations were amazing, amongst mushroom Wellington stuffed amongst chestnuts in addition to meringues topped amongst chestnut purée.
I decided to recreate the mushroom Wellington amongst a twist. While the master copy recipe was wrapped inward pastry in addition to totally savoury, mine was sans pastry in addition to had a slight spicy boot (I am Asian, afterwards all). And piece my dish volition non win whatsoever culinary points for presentation, it was pretty darn tasty, if I exercise tell thence myself.
The chestnuts, which are vacuum packed to concluding longer, add together a nutty texture in addition to slightly earthy flavor to the mushroom, piece my domicile cooked lentils add together a grainy in addition to slightly spiced boot to the proceedings. The cheese is totally optional, but I felt it added a dainty fighting of comfort to the otherwise rather salubrious dish.
Ingredients
Four large mushrooms
1/2 parcel of Merchant Gourmet chestnut mushrooms
1 loving cup of greenish lentils
1 pinch of salt
1/2 tsp garam masala
1/4 turmeric
1/2 pocket-sized onion
1 clove garlic
Method
First convey the lentils to a simmer inward salted boiling water.
Then inward a dissever pan, tike around onions amongst garlic, in addition to thence add together the spices to pan in addition to ready for ii minutes.
Transfer the spiced onions to the most cooked lentils, in addition to ready off for a farther few minutes.
Now ready the mushrooms yesteryear taking out the stalks.
Chop upward the stalks in addition to mix amongst the lentils in addition to chopped Merchant Gourmet chestnuts.
Place the lentil in addition to chestnut mixture inward the mushrooms, house inward the oven in addition to bake for 20mins at 200 degrees.
And you're done.