Chestnut Casserole Recipe

Serves 2

Ingredients:

• 1 tbs olive oil
• 8 pickling size onions
• 3 medium carrots in chunks
• 1 stick celery in 1" pieces
• 8 button mushrooms, halved
• 2 tbs broad beans
• 2 or 3 broccoli florets
• ½ tsp mustard powder
• 1 tbs soy sauce
• 12 tinned chestnuts (or dried chestnuts coooked in water til tender)
• 2 tbs chopped parsley
• 2 tsp cornflour

Cheese dumplings

• 2oz bread crumbs
• 2oz veggie cheddar
• ¼ tsp mustard powder
• pinch cayenne
• 1 egg

Method:

1. Stir fry veg in oil for a couple of minutes and stir in mustard powder.
2. Add soy sauce and enough water to come up half way up the veg.  Simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Meanwhile  mix all ingredients for dumplings and divide mixture into 10 small balls.
4. Add chestnuts and stir, then balance the dumplings on top of veg and put lid on pan, simmer for another 10 minutes.
5. Lift veg and dumplings onto a serving dish and thicken sauce with cornflour and pour over veg.