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cpearson@routledge.comButter Bean and Leek PieIngredients (use vegan versions): 2-3 oz butter beans (or one medium can)
2 large leeks, chopped
tablespoon virgin olive oil
crushed clove of garlic
4 oz chestnut mushrooms, chopped
1 courgette, chopped
1 teaspoon yeast extract
1/2 pint soya milk
veggie stock cube
large pinch mace
1-2 tablespoon corn
salt and pepper
6-8 oz puff pastry (I buy it ready made)
Directions:Serves 2-3.
Gently heat the olive oil in a large, deep pan. Add the garlic and stir for about 30 seconds. Add the leeks and cook for 1-2 minutes. Next add the courgette and mushrooms - cook, stirring often, until just beginning to tenderise. Then add the cornflour and stir for 1 minute until all the vegetables are coated. Gradually stir in the soya milk until a smooth sauce is formed. Add the stock cube, mace, yeast extract and salt and pepper to taste. Stir all of these in and put to one side.
Meanwhile, roll out the puff pastry to a size slightly larger than the dish in which you are going to cook the pie (I usually cut around the outside of the dish). Pile the mixture into the dish, place the pastry on top and baste with soya milk. Cut a cross in the centre of the pastry. Bake for around 20 minutes (until the pastry has risen and is golden brown) at about 200 C. Serve with new potatoes and salad.
Potentially stupid question, howe'ver: would someone please let me in on what courgette is exactly? This recipe sounds wonderful, can't wait to try, as soon as I find out that mystery ingredient. Thanks, efb
Archived comment by: elizabeth
Its not stupid. A courgette is the British word for zucchini. I learned this from my daughter, who spent her junior year in Scotland and is now, once again, in the U.K. because she loves it so.
Archived comment by: bunny
Where I come from a Courgette is a very small zucchini (about 10cm long and 2 across)
Archived comment by: rebecca
As I live in an area where it is difficult to get some of the ingredients without paying alot of $, I modified it. I sauted the onions and then cooked the butter beans - since I was cooking them from dried - with the sauted onions.When hte butter beans were cooked, I coated it with a store bougth corn muffin mix. Added some italian dressing seasoning mix I got a the grocery store, used a biscuit mix and put it on top. Then I cooked it per the biscuit directions. It was a fantastic success!!! My meat and potatoes hubbie loved it, his only request was that the butter beans be cooked a little longer so they weren't crunchy. oopps.
Not bad for my first try at a vegetarian meal.
Archived comment by: anita
is this a modified traditional scottish recipe? It sounds familiar. I'm going to try it, using oatflour pastry (really yummy) and KALE, which I think always compliments leeks, as it does in a lot of scots recipes-- it holds up well in subzero temperatures, in soups and pies, and its SO good for you! in fact, id like to see more recipes containing it. let me know if anyone has any, or if they try the pie this way!cheers---
Archived comment by: alycen
is this a modified traditional scottish recipe? It sounds familiar. I'm going to try it, using oatflour pastry (really yummy) and KALE, which I think always compliments leeks, as it does in a lot of scots recipes-- it holds up well in subzero temperatures, in soups and pies, and its SO good for you! in fact, id like to see more recipes containing it. let me know if anyone has any, or if they try the pie this way!cheers---
Archived comment by: alycen
I'd just like to say that I've read a lot of comments on recipes saying what's this ingredient? and so on. I just want to remind people that there is always the glossary to find definitions of strange foods!
Archived comment by: megara
This recipe sounds great, but itsays to add a pinch of mace What is that? Where I come from, mace is something you spray at people trying to attack you! Thanks, Gina
Archived comment by: gina
But at what stage do the butter beans make an appearance? It doesn't mention them in the instructions. I suppose you just throw them in with everything else.
Archived comment by: antonia
mace is a spice... its the outer aril of the nutmeg nut.. they usually remove it when selling whole nutmegs, because it, itself, is a valuable spice... (it has a different flavor, so you can't substitute nutmeg for it)
Archived comment by: carrie_lynn
11-16-2004 Regarding the suggestion of using a glossary, here's a good online food glossary:
http://www.foodsubs.com/ Happy Thanksgiving from Maryland, in the Eastern U.S., Everybody! =)
Archived comment by: gracefulfish
Tried this one last night - no mace so used 1 tsp of ginger and one of Paprika: worked a treat, will make again!
Archived comment by: white Horse
