Festive Vegan Mushroom Wellington

AN ABSOLUTE GAME CHANGER. 😱🌱

2019 has undoubtedly been the year of the rise of plant based/vegetarian/vegan cooking. It’s incredible how many restaurants traditional, meaty restaurants have begun offering plant-based options on their menus. I’ve noticed this particularly in some restaurants in Belgium and France where meat has always been king, and where cuisine has always been a major part of their cultures. 🇧🇪  🍽 🇫🇷

I eat meat very occasionally because I feel it’s beneficial for my body type to have some animal protein every now and again. Christmas is certainly one occasion where I’m easily tempted into eating turkey, notably out of habit. 🦃

However, this year, I got the idea for this mushroom wellington for my mum who doesn’t eat meat at all and the more I thought about it, the more I was tempted myself. 🤤

When it came down to it, I couldn’t believe just how amazing this tasted and I don’t regret diverging from tradition in the slightest! Going vegan also makes festive food coma just that little bit easier to bounce back from as well. 😉

This wellington is just oozing with flavour, and the last-minute addition of a particular ingredient made this simple vegan recipe a 5* standard dish! 🏆 💯

Makes: 4-6 portions

Ingredients:

• 150g mushrooms
• 1 ½ large onions
• 200g spinach
• 1-2 tbsp Dijon mustard
• Few sprigs of thyme (I used lemon infused thyme)
• Some olive oil as cooking agent
• Splash of marsala wine (the magic touch!!)
• 1 vegan puff pastry
• Salt & pepper
• 1 egg for egg wash (if making vegetarian instead of vegan wellington)

Vegan egg wash:

• 1 tbsp aquafaba (the water that chickpeas have soaked in)
• 1 tbsp plant-based milk (a mild flavour like cashew or oat)
• 1 tsp olive oil

How to:

1. Heat olive oil in a medium sized pan and cook the onions for 15 minutes. Take out the pan and set aside to cool.
2. Heat olive oil in the pan and cook the mushrooms with marsala wine for 10 minutes, ensuring occasional movement so mushrooms are cooked thoroughly. The marsala gives the mushies a beautiful flavour of brandy.
   Take out the pan and set aside to cool.
3. Heat olive oil in the pan and cook the spinach until wilted, (a few minutes – it wilts quickly).
   Take out the pan and set aside to cool on paper towel to drain excess water.Note: cooking the vegetables separately ensures they’re each slow cooked optimally considering they each have different cooking times.

4. Put the cooked ingredients in the fridge for 30 minutes to cool through.
5. Set the oven to 200°C & take out an oven tray to use to prepare wellington. Line tray with baking paper and spread out the pastry flat.
6. Combine the onions and mushrooms in a medium sized bowl with mustard, salt and pepper.
7. Layer the spinach onto one half side of the pastry, leaving a couple of cm gap around the diameter so we can fold over the pastry and secure after.
8. Spoon the mushroom mixture on top of the spinach.
9. Fold over the empty side of the pastry and secure edges. Roll the wellington over if its secure enough so the ‘seam’ side is faced down.
10. Prepare the vegan egg wash or crack and whisk an egg if making it vegetarian and coat the wellington.
11. Put the wellington in the oven for 30 minutes or until golden.Note: You can totally cook this the day before eating and re-heat. This was something I wondered about since I made this on Christmas Eve for Christmas Day.

And there you have it! Serve it up with all the trimmings – veggie stuffing, veggie sausages, roast potatoes, carrots, sprouts, parsnip, cranberry sauce, gravy.

This wellington doesn’t just have to be a festive recipe either!

I’ll for sure be making it again sometime soon.
Enjoy & I hope you’re having a lovely holiday season. 😚🎅🎄

If you liked this post, check out my blog 6 Easy Vegetarian Meals for Busy Days – more veggie inspiration to get more plants into your diet! Easy, creative & delicious. 

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Namaste,

Tori xoxo