Winter Vegetable Casserole

January 18th, 2006

The original intention was to make a vegetable pot pie, which I found on Stephanie’s site – the happy sorceress. However, I could not get half of the ingredients (ok – some of the ingredients – mainly potatoes soup and pastry) from our local supermarket, and I was too lazy to drive to a bigger supermarket. So, several amendments were made.

Since the winder comfort food event is currently running, I also decided to turn the recipe into a really tasty vegetable stew (event if its 30 dec C down here in Cape Town at the moment!).

So, here’s the recipe:

Ingredients:

1 handful baby leeks, chopped
3 cloves garlic
2 medium potatoes, sliced into 1cm pieces and lightly steamed
10 -15 French beans
1 red pepper, sliced
2 cups mixed broccoli & carrots, chopped
½ cup dry white wine
½ cup fresh or frozen peas
1 tin vegetable soup

Method:

Fry the garlic and leeks for a couple of minutes.
Add the red pepper, beans, broccoli & carrot
Add the potatoes
Add the wine with salt, pepper & herbs to taste
Simmer for about 5 minutes
Add the tin of soup & the peas, and simmer until done

Hints:

You can add a dash of Worcester sauce and a chilli for flavour if you like.
Use whatever vegetables take your fancy.
You can also (like Stephanie did) put it into a pie dish, add a crust and bake. If you do, simmer off some more of the juice.

Serve with rice.

I found it really tasty and fulling, let me know what you think.

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