Curry Cauliflower Christmas Pasty with Almonds & Apricots

Name: Curry Cauliflower Christmas Pasty with Almonds & Apricots
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Ingredients: 1½ cups (150 g) grated aged cheese; Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; A generous bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley, chopped; 2 teaspoons salt; 2 small cloves garlic, minced; 4 heaping tablespoons (70 g) tomato paste; 4 eggs, beaten; 3½ cups (450 g) all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon paprika; 1⅔ cups (400 ml) sour cream; ½ cup (100 g) red lentils; 1 head cauliflower, ground into crumbs in a food processor; ¾ cup (100 g) almonds, finely chopped; 1 tablespoon curry powder; 1 egg, beaten; 4 ribs celery, finely diced; 1 tablespoon olive oil; 2 onions, diced; Sea salt and freshly ground pepper; Some scallion rings; Optional: fresh garden herbs; 7 tablespoons (100 g) butter; 2 cups (500 ml) vegetable stock; ¾ cup (100 g) dried apricots, halved; ¾ cup plus 1 tablespoon (200 ml) milk

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Home Made Christmas

By Yvette van Boven

Published 2018

About

This is a beautiful and very tasty vegetarian dish for the Christmas dinner table. If you serve this pasty to avowed carnivores they will believe they’re eating meatloaf. Please adjust your choice of herbs to your own taste. In this case I’m opting for the rather neutral-tasting parsley, but throwing in a handful of fresh cilantro will render the dish more Indian and make it a perfect companion for some raita (a yogurt sauce with cucumber and garam masala) instead of the sour cream I use he

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Main course
Vegetarian
Christmas

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