Vegan Dishes From Around The World
Hello fellow foodies !
I'm really excited for my first participation to the steemit culinary challenge and to share with you a little overview of vegan French food.
France is well known for its cheese and Foie Gras, that said, French cuisine has a lot to offer to Vegans !
In Provence, vegetables are often the center of the dish. Indeed in this region we can find different varieties of tomatoes, zucchinis, eggplant, onions, pepper and many more. Also Olive oil is always preferred to butter.
One classic of the french provencal gastronomy is the Tomatoes Pie (Tarte à la tomate), but usually people use puff pastry, which contains butter, and often add cheese or anchovy on top.
Here i want to share with you a vegan version of this well famous Tomatoes Pie, and to give even more taste and colors to this dish, it will be served with roasted zephyr zucchinis. The zephyr zucchini is green and yellow and is distinguished from the green zucchini by its firm flesh with the slight taste of hazelnut.
Now let's do this !
For the preparation, you will need :
For the crust
Flour - 240g ( you can mix whole wheat flour with regular flour or choose a gluten free flour like chickpeas flour)
Water - 100 ml
Oliv oil - 70ml
Herbs of Provence - 2 tablespoons
A pinch of salt
For the pie
Dijon mustard - 3 tablespoons
Tomatoe paste - 3 tablespoons
Tomatoes - 5/6 but it really depends of the size of your tomatoes, here i choose a mix of ancient tomatoes with different size and colours
Herbs of Provence - as much as you want !
Salt and pepper
Olive Oil
For the roasted zucchinis
3 Zéphyrs Zucchinis
Salt and peppers
Olive Oil
1st step : Making the dough
Mix the flour with herbs and salt, then add the olive oil and the water. Start working the dough with your hand on the table, and you can water if it's too hard to form a dough. Take your time for this step, the dough can take time to be uniform. Then let the dought rest for 30 minutes or 1 hour.
When your dough is ready , flatten it with a pastry roller.
For a crunchy crust, you can keep a little thickness. When it's flatten, put the dough in your plate, and using a fork make holes on the dough. Then put in a pre heat oven at 180°c for 10 minutes.
2nd step : Garnishing the pie
During this 10 minutes you can start cutting your tomatoes. Depending of the variety of tomatoes you can cut it in differents ways, for example you can cut plum tomatoes into slices in their width, and you can cut little rounds tomatoes in wedges.
When the crust is ready, spread the mustard on the bottom of the tart.
Then spread the tomatoe paste over the mustard.
Now it's time to put your cutted tomatoes in the tart !
Make circle with your tomatoes pieces, starting by the bigger circle possible (that only works if your plate is round of course). Your tomatoes must cover all the crust, you can also add another layer of tomatoes.
It's almost done, now poor herbs of Provence on top, you can really cover your pie with a lot of herbs of Provence, for me it's never too much and plus it's really good for your health !
And the final touch, sprinkle with olive oil your pie, be generous, olive oil will exhausts all the flavour.
Option : you can sprinkle your pie with brown sugar too, i didn't do it this time, but that is really good and it absorbs the acitidy of the tomatoes
3rd step : preparing zucchinis
Cut the zucchinis in their lengths, put it a plate and sprinkle with olive oil salt and pepper
Now you can put both your pie and the zucchinis in a pre heat oven for 30 minutes at 180°c
When it's cooked, it goes really well with a glass of red wine, on the picture you can a bootle of Fronton - Chênes de Saint Louis, an organic red wine from the south West of France.
I hope you enjoyed reading it and most of all i hope this recipe will make you hungry for veggies !
Thank you @woman-onthe-wing for organising this challenge and @heart-to-heart for judging it
See you soon on steemit :)
Victoire
It's really appetizing!)))
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Thank you so much @kleryk200 ! That's really nice, i hope you'll try it :)
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STOPGreat entry for this weeks SSC @victoire! :) I hope to see more of your creations soon. You have a new follower now. And I also wish you all the best for the challenge! ;)
Thank you for your kind words @alinalisa ! I enjoyed a lot this challenge and it always a pleasure to share good and yummy recipe with the community. And you have a new follower too ;)
Hello @victoire! Really very great dish, i can feel the flavors of Provence in it! I just love French gastonomy, well i have learned a lot during my career!
Wish you good luck for the contest!
Cheers
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Thank you @progressivechef :) your kind words brought me luck ! Happy that you enjoyed the inspiration
I'm so happy that your dish won a prize my friend! I have a contest running too, you can check it out and participate if you wish!
mmmm that pie looks so good. I bet it taste even better with all those herbs and that oil
I want a cup of wine and cheese with it please :P
Great job :)
Soy tu tio
Haha @tioluis, i must admit, i had a glass of french red wine when i tasted the pie and the marriage was excellent. But during summer day a glass of home made iced tea with bergamote tea and mytle is perfect too. Thank you for passing by !
Hi @victoire I just love the colors of your tomato pie! This is something I have not been able to try yet in my life, I will have to make some now! =D
Thank you so much for entering this week! I had a great time reviewing all of the recipes and am excited to see all of the recipes from around the world! I hope this tastes as good as it looks ;)
The results will be out soon! <3
Thank you @heart-to-heart, i'm very happy to share with you and all this creative community a piece of what i know and love. <3
Oooh what a delicious looking pie @victoire! I love that close-up photo at the end, makes me really want to eat some! I love that you make the crust from scratch, and the filling is so simple compared to other kinds of pies... the herbs and oils bring out the delicate tomato and zucchini flavours.... beautiful. Your recipe and instructions are clear to follow and your photos are really lovely. This is definitely something I would like to eat! Thank you for sharing it in this contest!
@Woman-onthe-wing thank you so much for this nice review. I'm really glad that you appreciate my little efforts. taking part to this contest was a lot of fun, and it's a great pleasure to share what i love to people who will love it too
I'm delighted to hear you enjoyed taking part @victoire! Having fun is what it's all about really :-) I do hope you get chance to cook for us again whenever you get time!
Congratulations @victoire on your 'Most Creative Entry' prize awarded by @englishtchrivy. A beautiful and very delicious pie!
Wooaaah ! Thank you si much @woman-onthe-wing and @englishtchrivy for your choice !
This contest is a beautiful idea, i learned a lot from all participants, so much inspirations to follow around the world. It's great pleasure and honour to give back a little inspiration to others
PS: Sorry for the late answers, i've been away:)
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