Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegan mushroom and chestnut stuffing. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Vegan Mushroom and Chestnut Stuffing is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Vegan Mushroom and Chestnut Stuffing is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have vegan mushroom and chestnut stuffing using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mushroom and Chestnut Stuffing:

1. Make ready 1 loaf whole-grain bread
2. Prepare 175 grams green or red lentils
3. Get 75 ml vegan butter
4. Get 3 medium onions (diced)
5. Get 5-6 stalks celery (diced)
6. Prepare 3 medium carrots
7. Get 400 grams chestnut mushrooms
8. Get 1 package chestnuts
9. Get 4 1/2 cups vegetable broth
10. Get 1 flax egg (see my recipe)
11. Take 1.5 tsp fresh chopped sage (can lightly fry if you have time)

Nostalgic Vegan Chestnut Mushroom Stuffing With Thanksgiving almost here, it's time to think about those traditional foods that say holiday celebration. Even without a turkey, stuffing (aka dressing) is one of our staples, along with cranberry sauce, yams, greens, gravy and pies. Mushroom and chestnut stuffing Make this stuffing on Christmas Eve and cook it from chilled before serving, or prepare further in advance and freeze, defrosting before cooking. For a vegan version, whizz a drained, rinsed can of bijoux lentils into the mushroom mixture, omit the sausagemeat and use oil not butter for the glaze.

Steps to make Vegan Mushroom and Chestnut Stuffing:

1. Get a decent loaf of bread and cube it the night before and let it dry out. If you are pressed for time spread out the cubes on a baking tray and set your oven to a low temp (around 100 C) and bake for 30 minutes. Turning half way through.
2. When you are about to make the stuffing. Start to cook your lentils. It takes about 30 minutes to do so, giving you plenty of time for the rest of the stuffing.
3. Preheat your oven to 180C.
4. While you lentils cook. Cut and dice your celery and onion first then sauté them until your onions are translucent.
5. Chop up your chestnuts while you are sautéing the veg.
6. Put your bread cubes in to a large mixing bowl and pour (2/3 of) your wet ingredients over evenly. Add your flax eggs to the mix at this point.
7. Then add in your veg and chestnuts. Mix thoroughly. It should be of a consistency where it wants to stick together, but isn’t runny. Use stock as needed to achieve this.
8. Grease a baking dish with a vegan spread. I use Flora.
9. Transfer everything to baking dish and pat it down with the back of a spoon so it is evenly spread.
10. Cover with foil. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes.
11. Take the foil off and crank the oven up to 220C, then cook some more for about 10 minutes or more. You want a golden crusty top.

Mushroom and chestnut stuffing Make this stuffing on Christmas Eve and cook it from chilled before serving, or prepare further in advance and freeze, defrosting before cooking. For a vegan version, whizz a drained, rinsed can of bijoux lentils into the mushroom mixture, omit the sausagemeat and use oil not butter for the glaze. Beat egg and milk together and pour over cubed bread. Drizzle bread with warm broth and toss to ensure even coverage. Toss through cooked mixture gentle with your hands to coat everything well.

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