I saw a video for a spiral vegetable pie recipe on FoodRepublic.com and have been wanting to try it for awhile. I made it my own by substituting the puff pastry shell for a cauliflower crust and adding a roasted red pepper goat cheese layer. It turned out to be one of my favorite Meatless Monday recipes so far! I hope you give it a try.
2 Large Carrots
1 Large Zucchini
1 Large Squash
(try to find veggies that are equal in size)
1 Eggplant
Veggies for the pie
4 oz Goat Cheese
8 oz Roasted Red Peppers
Juice of 1/2 Lemon
Cheese Layer Ingredients
1 Small Head of Cauliflower
1 Egg
2 TBSP Parmesan Cheese
2 TBSP Sharp Cheddar Cheese
EVOO
Preheat oven to 375
Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt, Onion Powder, and Herbes de Provence to taste
To being, you will make “cauliflower bread”. HERE is the recipe that I originally made into cauliflower grilled cheeses, but follow along the recipe below.
Cut cauliflower into florets
Place florets in food processor and pulse until the consistency of fine crumble
Pour crumble (aka cauliflower rice) into a microwave safe dish that has a lid
Microwave for 4-5 minutes
Line a kitchen towel with a few paper towel sheets
Once cauliflower rice has cooled, pour onto kitchen towel
Ring cauliflower to remove excess water
Pour cauliflower into a bowl, crack egg, add spices (Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt) and Parmesan and cheddar cheeses
Stir until mixed thoroughly
Spray a pie tin with cooking spray and pour mixture into tin
Cauliflower Crust
Bake in oven for 35-45 minutes or until cauliflower crust begins to brown (you may have to cover with tin foil to ensure it will not burn)
While the crust cools, combine goat cheese, roasted peppers, and lemon juice in food processor
Ready to process the goat cheese, lemon juice, and peppers
Process until smooth
Processed cheese, lemon juice, and peppers
Using a mandolin, slice vegetables into thin slices (cut eggplant into quarters to match the size of the other veggies)
Veggies
When crust is cool, spread cheese dip along bottom
Start fixing the vegetables in a spiral and repeat the process until the entire pie bottom is covered
Starting to spiral the veggies
Almost ready to be baked!
Brush with EVOO and sprinkle spices of choice on top
Topped with spices
Ready to be baked
Bake in oven for 45-60 minutes or until vegetables tender
Baked Spiral Veggie Pie
Slice and enjoy!
Sliced Pie
Original Recipe: http://www.foodrepublic.com/recipes/check-out-this-video-of-a-spiral-vegetable-tart-then-try-the-recipe/
- 2 Large Carrots
- 1 Large Zucchini
- 1 Large Squash
- (try to find veggies that are equal in size)
- 1 Eggplant
- 4 oz Goat Cheese
- 8 oz Roasted Red Peppers
- Juice of 1/2 Lemon
- 1 Small Head of Cauliflower
- 1 Egg
- 2 TBSP Parmesan Cheese
- 2 TBSP Sharp Cheddar Cheese
- Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt, Onion Powder, and Herbes de Provence to taste
- EVOO
- Preheat oven to 375
- Cut cauliflower into florets
- Place florets in food processor and pulse until the consistency of fine crumble
- Pour crumble (aka cauliflower rice) into a microwave safe dish that has a lid
- Microwave for 4-5 minutes
- Line a kitchen towel with a few paper towel sheets
- Once cauliflower rice has cooled, pour onto kitchen towel
- Ring cauliflower to remove excess water
- Pour cauliflower into a bowl, crack egg, add spices (Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt) and Parmesan and cheddar cheeses
- Stir until mixed thoroughly
- Spray a pie tin with cooking spray and pour mixture into tin
- Bake in oven for 35-45 minutes or until cauliflower crust begins to brown (you may have to cover with tin foil to ensure it will not burn)
- While the crust cools, combine goat cheese, roasted peppers, and lemon juice in food processor
- Process until smooth
- Using a mandolin, slice vegetables into thin slices (cut eggplant into quarters to match the size of the other veggies)
- When crust is cool, spread cheese dip along bottom
- Start fixing the vegetables in a spiral and repeat the process until the entire pie bottom is covered
- Brush with EVOO and sprinkle spices of choice on top
- Bake in oven for 45-60 minutes or until vegetables tender
- Slice and enjoy!