This pie was so easy to make, packed full of flavour, and healthy carbs to fuel your training from the potato and pumpkin.
Thai Tofu Curry Pie
This pie was so easy to make, packed full of flavour, and healthy carbs to fuel your training from the potato and pumpkin.
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 3 large potatoes
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ cup soy or rice milk
- 3 cups pumpkin 2cm (1in0 cubes
- 1 Tbsp. oil
- 1 medium onion sliced
- 1 Tbsp. oil
- 1 Tbsp. ginger or ginger puree finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic finely chopped or crushed
- 2 Tbsps. (about 1 stick) lemongrass (fresh or frozen) finely chopped
- 1 tsp Thai red curry paste mixed with ¼ cyp warm water
- 400 g (14 oz) can chopped tomatoes
- 1 Tbsp. arrowroot (or conflour) mixed with 1 tablespoono cold water
- 1 tsp ground corinader
- 1 tsp ground turmeric
- ¼ cup fresh coriander (cilantro) chopped
- 300 g (11oz) pack of firm tofu cut into 1 cm cubes
- 1 red capsicum (bell pepper) diced
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 Tbsps. honey or date puree
- 100 ml (3fl oz) coconut cream
- 6 large sheets filo pastry approxn100g (3oz)
Instructions
- Cut potatoes into quarters and put them in a pot of boiling water. Simmer until soft (around 10 minutes) and then drain. Add salt and milk and mash well.
- Cut pumpkin into cubes, put on an oven tray with oil, and cook for 20 minutes or 180℃ (350℉) or until soft.
- In a pot, saute onion, oil, ginger, garlic and lemon grass until soft. Then add remaining ingredients (except coconut and filo) and bring back to boil. Stir in coconut cream. The pumpkin should break to thicken the mixture.
- Select a baking dish around 20 x 30 cm (8 x12 in) in size.
- Put 6 layers of filo pastry in an oiled oven dish with the edges hanging over the side of the dish. Lighlly brush oil between each layer. If your filo is smaller than the dish you may have to have 2 sheets per layer.
- Pour in curried tofu mix which should be quuite thick.
- Add potato mash on top. Poll and fold the hanging filo around to form a crust inside the tray. Brush oil over the filo.
- Bake at 150℃ (300℉) for 30 minutes.
Notes
Dixon, Jeremy (2012) The Revive Cafe Cookbook 2
Although I’m not a qualified chef I do like to pretend I’m on Master Chef. I source the recipes from the stated source (not sauce) and make them by taking photos of the meal I produce for myself.
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