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Treat yourself with Vegusto: Recipe No. 186

Tomato-apple pie with Vegan-sausage, Onion

The pie is an English invention, which has enjoyed worldwide popularity for a long time. This mini pie recipe features a surprise filling of fruity tomato and apple chutney and hearty sausage meat made from carrots and vegan-sausage.

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 200°C and bake the rissoles on the second lowest rack for 15 minutes.
Peel and divide the sausages in half. Cut half of the sausages and carrots into 3-5 mm cubes and set aside.
Coarsely chop the other half of the sausages and put them into a tall container together with the remaining ingredients for the filling and puree finely with a hand blender. Now add the sausage and carrot cubes to the pureed mixture with a spoon.
For the chutney, caramelise the onions in oil with the sugar. Then add the apple cubes and fry for 1 minute on medium heat. Now gradually add the rest of the ingredients and simmer gently over medium heat for 5-7 minutes.
In the meantime, grease 10 muffin cups, line them with puff pastry and spread the chutney evenly inside them.
Make 10 balls (30 g each) out of the carrot-sausage mixture and put them into the muffin cups. Add puff pastry circles to the tops and press the edges down with a fork.
Pierce an air hole in each pie to allow air to escape during baking.
Coat the tops of the pies with Soya Cuisine. This will turn them a nice golden yellow when baked.
Preheat the oven to 180°C and bake the pies for 25-30 minutes on the second lowest rack.

A hearty potato salad is a perfect side dish.
If you like, you can make double the amount of chutney. Then you can serve the mini pies on a bed of chutney.
Tip: bake tasty apple pies using the rest of the puff pastry.