Potato croissant, pumpkin, vadouvan and beech mushrooms

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Ingredients

for 4 people

For the cashew cream:

  • 200g cashews
  • salt
  • 1 tsp. chopped truffle
  • vegan margarine

For the croissant:

  • 400g floury potatoes
  • 1 tsp. thyme chopped
  • 1 clove of garlic chopped
  • 5 large baked potatoes
  • sunflower oil

For the pumpkin:

  • 600g butternut squash
  • 100ml almond milk

Also:

  • 200g beech mushrooms ( also called shimeji mushrooms )
  • 30g fried panko
  • 1 tbsp. vadouvange seasoning
  • Radish cress

Preparation

Pour boiling water over the cashews and leave to soak overnight. The next day, drain the water and finely puree in a blitz chopper with a little salt, truffle and margarine.
 

For the croissants, preheat the oven to 180°C. Peel the floury potatoes and cook them in salted water until soft. Mash them with 2 tbsp. margarine, thyme and garlic and season with salt.
 

Peel the baked potatoes and cut into long strips with a vegetable slicer. Roll up the sheets tightly and cut both ends straight. 1 Cut rolls into four 1.5 cm thick slices. Cut the rolls, which are about 6-7 cm thick, in half and push the inside of each to the outside. Fill the cavities of both halves with potato mash, press together and wrap a 1.5 cm strip around the middle to seal. Season with salt and bake in a pan with a little sunflower oil for 30-40 minutes. Turn halfway through, basting every now and then with hot oil.
 

Peel and core the pumpkin. Cut 1/3 into thin slices and cut them out round. Dice the remaining pumpkin, sauté in a little margarine and add almond milk. Cook until soft, puree finely and season with a little salt. Steam the pumpkin slices in some margarine and season with salt.
 

Clean the mushrooms and fry them in a little oil and season with salt.Finely grind the panko and vadouvan with a little salt in an electric coffee grinder.
 

Arrange the potato croissants with the remaining ingredients.

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