Ingredients
- 150g peeled chestnuts, vac packed or boiled
- 100g cranberries, frozen, fresh (dried see notes)
- 1/2 clove garlic
- 3- 4 sprigs thyme
- 1/2 tsp salt
- pinch of pepper
Instructions
Preparation
- Are you using purchased peeled chestnuts or do they need boiling and peeling (if not frozen from the asian grocer or vac packed, you need to consult a boiled chestnut recipe and set aside quite a bit more time.)
- Are you using fresh/frozen cranberries? or do you need to re-hydrate some dried ones... if re-hydrating, measure 50g dried, and soak in boiling water until it reaches room temperature and drain. (Dried Cranberries in Australia are frequently sweetened, so, you can use this sweetened liquid to make an apple crumble filling so nothing goes to waste.)
- remove the leaves from the sprigs of thyme, unless someone is allergic, more is better than not enough.
Assembly & Baking
- Add all ingredients to a food processor, pulse a few times and them blend into a smooth dotted paste.
- Divide the paste into two to three portions, each designated for half a sheet of frozen thawed vegan puff pastry.
- Roll with some compression, the paste is dense.
- Cut rolls into small bite sized pieces, this filling is sweet and dense so a little can be quite filling.
- Bake for 20 minutes at 200 degrees celsius. for wrap and freeze for a later gathering.
- Serve on their own or with a maple mustard sauce or the like, they are quite sweet but not necessarily a dessert.
Notes
- Buy frozen cranberries from your local supermarket freezer section in our december... that is when they are shipped to Australia from America/ Canada and you will struggle severely to find them any other time of the year.
- I made these for Friendsmas, which is the Christmas everyone would look forward to if it carried not religious overtones, had no unwanted or broody guests and was simply about good food, good friends and good times!... Rant over, we host Friendsmas in July which is the middle of what Australia likes to consider 'Winter'... needless to say, While everyone tends to get all warm and fuzzy looking at traditional christmas fare with frosted windows, wood fires, roasted dishes, cookies, sparkles and happiness, the sparkles at an Australian family christmas is more likely to be beading sweat and the fumes of intolerance when someone ruins a perfectly good salad by putting prawn in it, or insists on using the oven in the blistering heat and roasting a leg of lamb on top of the roasted veg to improve the 'flavour'... I digress again... I would like to like Christmas or something like Christmas so I accomplish that by doing it in winter, having all the winter foods I want and forget the rest.