Tofu Pie

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Tofu Pie

Here’s the tofu pie as promised. I’ll try to get a few more recipes on here in due course…

Ingredients

For the base:

Flour, sesame seeds, salt, sesame oil & sparkling water

For topping:

Onions, red pepper, mushrooms, sweetcorn, ume vinegar, tahini, mustard & shoyu

Make the base:

Put flour (as much as you think you’ll need…) into a bowl, add a pinch of salt, the sesame seeds and¬†then add a little bit of sesame oil. Rub oil¬†into the flour (you want to add just a little bit), make a well int the flour and pour in enough sparkling water to form a springy dough. Don’t worry if it isn’t springy though (as with all recipes, sometimes you have to play with it until you get it right and it also depends on the type of flour and how much oil you use. For a lighter dough make sure you use less oil).

Roll out the pastry and bake in the oven for about ten minutes.

Meanwhile, slice the onions and saute in a little oil, add the mushrooms and red pepper. Cook for about ten minutes until they are soft. Next, crumble the tofu into the pan and the sweetcorn and give it a good stir. Cook for a few more minutes. Now it’s time to add your flavouring.

Add a bit of ume vingerar, a bit of mustard, a bit of shoyu, a bit of tahini and then taste it. Then try to work out how you’d like the flavour to be. What does it need more of? Add more of whatever you think it needs until the flavour is how you want it. If you want it saltier add more ume vinegear or more shoyu, or if¬† you want it a bit more tangy then add more mustard. Play around with it, don’t worry, have fun & trust that you are going to get it right. Just make sure you don’t add too much of any of the flavours, add little by little, taste and then see. When you reach a point where you go ‘mmm, that is lovely’ then the flavour is right! Trust yourself!

Bake in the oven on medium temperature for about 10 minutes (just keep checking to make sure it doesn’t burn) and then voila voila. You should have a very delicious, beautiful looking tofu pie.