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Here’s a warming pie made with chestnuts, mushrooms and marsala wine. You could use white wine, red wine or vermouth if you don’t have any marsala to hand.


Vegetarian chestnut and mushroom pie

flour

butter,

salt

water

butter

leeks, sliced

350 grams/12 ounces mushrooms (such as chestnut or button mushrooms)

garlic cloves, sliced

mushrooms

grams/1¾oz plain flour

Dijon mustard

100 milliliters/3½fl oz marsala

200–300 milliliters/7–10fl oz vegetable or chicken stock (amount depending on whether

vacuum-packed chestnuts, left whole

It’s definitely worth the effort of making your own stuffing for Christmas dinner, and Mary Berry’s vegetarian chestnut version with apricots is a winner. This recipe is easily doubled.

Chestnut stuffing

onions, roughly chopped

celery,

225 grams/8 ounces dried apricots, snipped into small pieces

breadcrumbs

grams/3½oz butter

225 grams/8 ounces frozen chestnuts, thawed, roughly chopped

parsley,

thyme leaves

black pepper

Mary Berry likes to get ahead with her Christmas dinner preparations by making her crispy chestnut and apricot stuffing on Christmas Eve.

Mary Berry's sumptuous Christmas stuffing

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