Vegetarian Pâté Chaud is a flaky, buttery pastry filled with savory impossible meat filling, a vegetarian take on the classic French-inspired Vietnamese snack. You don't even miss the meat!
Ingredients
Filling:
¼onion, chopped
1 ½lbimpossible meat
¼cupcarrot, thinly julienned
¼cupdried wood ear mushroom, chopped
¼cuptaro, thinly julienned
¼tsp kosher salt, plus a pinch for sauteing onions
In a pan on medium low heat, sauté onions with a pinch of salt for 25 minutes until the onions soften and start to caramelize. Let it cool to room temperature.
Combine all ingredients of the filling and add the caramelized onions.
Separate egg white and egg yolk, keeping both. You will use egg white to seal the dough and egg yolk to brush the top of the square to give it that beautiful golden color after baking.
Mix egg yolk with one tablespoon of water.
Defrost the pastry sheet and unfold. I like to use a 3 inch round cookie cutter with serrated edges to make the shape for the pate chaud, but you can easily cut the pastry into 3.5 inch wide squares if you don’t have a cookie cutter at hand. If using the cookie cutter, then use 1.5 tablespoon of filling. If doing the 3.5 inch square, then use 2 tablespoons of filling.
Brush the edges with egg white to seal them together.
Place another pastry piece over the filling and seal with a fork by pressing down on the edges.
Brush the top of the pastry with egg yolk.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and place your pastries on top.