Winter 2024

Smoked Mushroom and Squash Wellington

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Ingredients

For the mushroom filling:

500g chestnut mushrooms

2 tbsp olive oil

2 red onions, finely chopped

2 garlic cloves, crushed to paste

A handful sage leaves, chopped

A few sprigs of thyme, leaves picked

150ml double cream

100g cooked chestnuts, chopped

Maldon Chilli Sea Salt flakes

For the squash filling:

600g butternut squash, peeled and diced into 2cm chunks (1/2 medium squash)

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tsp smoked paprika

1/2 nutmeg, freshly grated

50g butter

Maldon Garlic Sea Salt flakes

1 x 320g pack puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

Maldon Garlic Sea Salt flakes

Preparation

  1. Fire up the barbecue ready for indirect smoking with a temperature of about 140-150C. 
  2. Drizzle a little oil over the mushrooms and season with Maldon Chilli Sea Salt. Smoke for 40 minutes and then remove.
  3. Open up the air vents of the barbecue to increase the temperature to around 180C. 
  4. Drizzle a little more oil over the squash and season generously with Maldon Garlic Sea Salt, roast indirectly until tender and lightly charred at the edges – 45 minutes or so.
  5. Soften the onions in oil over a medium heat, on the BBQ or on the hob. Then add the garlic, sage and thyme and stir for a couple of minutes. 
  6. Chop the smoked mushrooms and add to the pan of onions along with the chopped chestnuts.  Pour in the cream, allowing it to bubble and thicken. Leave to cool.
  7. Mash the squash with the butter, smoked paprika and nutmeg.  Leave to cool.
  8. Unroll the pastry, roll out very slightly thinner, lift onto a baking tray. 
  9. Spread the squash over the pastry leaving 3cm border. 
  10. Spoon the mushroom mix in a line down the centre. 
  11. Brush a little beaten egg on the pastry border then roll up the pastry so it looks like a fat sausage roll.  Snip a pattern in the top with scissors. Brush the egg all over and sprinkle generously with Maldon Garlic Sea Salt.
  12. Bake indirect, between two fires, at about 200C for as long as it takes to cook the pastry to crisp and golden brown, perhaps 45-55 minutes. 
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