Not just your average veggie muffin, these quinoa vegetable muffins use carrots, parsnips, zucchini, quinoa, and gruyere cheese to give a distinct nutty character. Pairing with the mushroom mustard sauce and salad, we have a complex and tasty vegetarian meal.
1cupenoki mushroomsor other small decorative mushrooms
10gbutter
Instructions
To make the vege stock...
Clean and roughly chop the leeks, onion, carrot, and celery stalks.
In a large saucepan, melt the butter and add the olive oil.
Saute the chopped vegetables until fragrant, about 10 minutes.
Add the water, bring to the boil, then reduce to a simmer.
While simmering, add the stalks from the mushrooms.
Simmer for 1 hour.
Strain the stock, discarding the vegetables.
While the veggie stock is simmering...
Cut off stalk clump from the enoki mushrooms and discard. Cut off the heads and about 2cm of stalk, and reserve for the garnish. Add the rest of the stalks to the other mushrooms.
Wash the other mushrooms, remove stalks and add the stalks to the stock. Slice up the mushrooms.
Peel the carrots and parsnips and grate.
Grate the zucchini.
Put the grated carrots, parsnips, and zucchini into a colander, sprinkle with a tsp salt, and allow to drain for 30 minutes.
Whisk the eggs and self raising flour and set aside in the refrigerator for 20 minutes or so.
Trim and finely dice the red peppers.
Finely dice the onion.
Squeeze any remaining moisture out of the grated zucchini, carrot, and parsnip.
In a large bowl, gently combine grated vegetables, red peppers, onion, quinoa, grated gruyere cheese, egg mixture, and salt.
Distribute into large muffin tins.
Bake at 180 degC for 20 minutes, or until golden brown.
For the sauce...
Melt the butter with the olive oil in a pan over medium heat.
Add the mushrooms (excluding the enoki mushroom heads) and saute for 10 minutes. They will reduce in size quite a bit.
Sprinkle over the flour and stir. It should form a roux with the oil and juices from the mushrooms.
Cook the roux for 5 minutes.
Slowly add vegetable stock until you get to a good sauce consistency (it coats the back of a spoon).
Add the cream and mustard, and simmer for 10 minutes.
Saute the enoki mushrooms heads in butter until starting to brown. Drain on paper towels.
Notes
"I cooked this with my awesome and smart daddy” - Amy