VEGAN Salteñas!!!!
Why I Love This Recipe
savory and sweet, this is vegan baking at it's ultimate.
Ingredients You'll Need
Salteñas
(15-20 salteñas)
FILLING
Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegan margarine
1/2 cup water mixed with ground spicy red pepper (cayenne)
1/4 tablespoon ground cumin
1/4 tablespoon black ground pepper
1/4 tablespoon crumbled oregano
3/4 tablespoon salt
1 cups white onion, cut into small cubes
3/4 cup green onion, finely chopped
1 1/2 pounds lean meat, cut into small cubes (I substitute with Gimme Lean/seitan for vegetarian ones)
1/2 cup boiled potato, into small cubes
1/4 cup cooked green peas
1/8 cup granulated sugar
1/4 tablespoon vinegar
1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped
1-2 tbsp starch
(I usually do a 4 oz can) sliced black olives for every salteña
(to taste, I do 3/4 cup) raisins for every salteña
DOUGH
Ingredients:
3 c. all-purpose flour
3/4 c. sugar
3/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
4 tbsp. chilled vegan shortening
6 tbsp. chilled vegan margarine
3/4 c. ice water
1/4 c. soy or other non-dairy milk
Directions
FILLING:
1. In a casserole add the margarine and the spicy red pepper water. Set to boil over high heat until the margarine separates from the pepper. Next add cumin, ground black pepper, oregano, and salt. Let cook for ten minutes over low heat so that the mixture does not stick. Stir constantly. Next add the white onion and let it cook for five more minutes. Finally add the green onion.
2. Remove the casserole from the heat, add the sugar, vinegar, parsley, potato and cooked peas.
3. Instead of using gelatin, as the traditional recipe calls for, sprinkle in a little starch to help the filling set and thicken the filling's juices. 1-2 tbsp of something like potato starch should work.
4. Mix everything together. Let it cool in the refrigerator over night or until it thickens. If wanted, add the olives, raisins and egg before it thickens or add them directly on the dough when preparing the salteñas.
DOUGH
1. Sift the dry ingredients together.
2. Cut in the chilled margarine and shortening and mix with a fork/pastry mixer/food processor
3. Stream in the water while you mix it with your hands. Add enough water that it holds together.
4. Knead the dough 2-3 times to build up the gluten then wrap it air tight in plastic and chill at least 4 hours.
FORMING THE SALTENAS:
1. Pull a handful of dough from the original ball and roll it out to about 1/4"
BAKING
1. Put salteñas, on a backing sheet sprinkled with flour. Place each salteña separate from the next one. Bake them at a high temperature (European oven: 300 C.; American oven 400 F) between 15-20 minutes. Serve them warm.
