Beet Green Pie
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Beet Green Pie is a quick and easy recipe to put together. It also assists with using those beetroot tops which normally get discarded. Highly nourishing and luscious this Beet Green Pie will assist in our attempts towards a wholefood diet.
Author: Edward Daniel
Recipe type: Vegan Main, Vegan Side
Cuisine: Vegan
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 50g pumpkin seeds
- 3 cloves of garlic
- 2tbs olive oil
- 500g beet greens (beetroot leaves and stems)
- 50g olive oil
- 10g nutritional yeast
- Salt and pepper
- 250g Yufka Turkish pastry leaves
Instructions
- Soak the pumpkin seeds in filtered water about 30 minutes. Drain, place in baking dish with the garlic and coat with olive oil
- Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 180 degrees Celsius or if you have a fan oven 160 degrees Celsius.
- Bake the pumpkin seeds for about 10 minutes, and remove. Leave the garlic to roast for a further 10 minutes. Set to one side.
- In a blender, place the beet greens with the peeled garlic and half the pumpkin seeds, 50g olive oil, nutritional yeast. Whizz. Remove the beet green mixture and place in a mixing bowl with the remaining pumpkin seeds and season to taste.
- Line a small baking dish with oil and then with three or four sheets of the Yufka leaves. Ladle in some of the beet greens and alternate between the Yufka leaves and beet greens. Cover the Yufka leaves and glaze with oil.
- Bake the pie in the oven for about 15 minutes.
- Serve warm as a main or side.
Notes
Nutritional Analysis
Good points
• No cholesterol
Good points
• No cholesterol
Nutrition Information
Serving size: 187g Calories: 276 Fat: 13.8g Carbohydrates: 30.5g Sugar: 5.7g Sodium: 541mg Fiber: 2.6g Protein: 9.4g Cholesterol: 0
