These crispy mushroom wellingtons with creamy brie and spinach centres make the perfect vegetarian main course for your next dinner party
Function: Circo Therm®
Mushroom Wellingtons
Ingredients
4 Portobello mushrooms approx 10 diameter, stalks removed
50g butter
1 leek, washed and white section only sliced
2 cloves garlic, crushed
120g bag baby spinach
1/4 cup semi sundried tomatoes chopped
2 tbsp chopped fresh oregano
2 tbsp shredded Parmesan
2 tbsp toasted pine nuts
Salt and pepper , to taste
80g double brie, cut into 4 chunks
4 sheets frozen puff pastry thawed
1 egg, lightly beaten for glazing
Green salad or steamed greens for serving
Method
To begin making your mushroom wellingtons, preheat the oven 200°C CircoTherm®.
Place the mushrooms, stalk side up onto a greased tray and bake for 10 minutes. Drain off any excess liquid. Cool
Heat the butter in a large fry pan and sauté the leek and garlic on a medium to high induction setting 7-8 for 3-4 minutes until softened, add the spinach, tomatoes, oregano, Parmesan, pine nuts and seasonings and cook another 3 minutes until the spinach has wilted. Cool .
Cut 2 x 15cm circles from a sheet of pastry. Place one circle onto a greased oven tray. Place a mushroom, stalk side up into the centre of the pastry and top with a chunk of brie then 1/4 of the spinach mixture to form a mound.. Glaze the outside edge of the pastry with a little egg then top with another circle of pastry. Ease the top sheet down to meet the pastry below and press the edges together to seal. Use a sharp knife to make small cuts around the outside of the pastry to form a decorative edge. Repeat with remaining pastry, mushrooms, brie and filling to make 4.
Cut a decorative pastry mushroom for each parcel from the scrap pastry and place on the top of each parcel. Glaze each with egg,
Bake for 15 minutes or until puffed and golden. Serve the mushroom wellingtons immediately with a green salad.
Notes
Authors Bio
As an experienced home economist and Food Designer Trish has worked over the span of her career in the food and home appliance industry as a demonstrator, teacher, recipe developer and food stylist. For more than 20 years she worked for and later managed the test kitchen for a large FMCG company working on some of Australia’s most trusted and iconic food brands, developing recipes and usages for their products as well as styling mouth watering images for cookbooks and websites. She has also appeared regularly as a brand ambassador on a number of well loved television cooking shows.