This Christmas Nut Roast is very simple to make, gluten free, vegan, refined sugar free and absolutely packed full of flavour!
It’s the perfect Christmas main event dish. Or even as a side instead of stuffing.
It’s the perfect Christmas recipe if you’re gluten free, vegan or hosting someone who is.
As you can see it holds together perfectly without the need for any eggs or gluten.
And don’t worry I have the perfect Mushroom Gravy to accompany this Nut Roast! Make sure to give it a try as they work so well together.
If you try this Christmas Nut Roast let me know!
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It’s so comforting and the perfect nut roast to share with family/friends this Christmas!
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Christmas Nut Roast
Ingredients
- 180 g roasted chestnuts vacuum packed such as merchant gourmet
- 150 g walnuts
- 100 g cashews
- 100 g dried apricots sliced in to halves
- 1 small red onion finely chopped
- 2 large garlic cloves crushed
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 large carrot grated
- 1 large parsnip grated
- 2 large sprigs rosemary finely chopped
- 3 sage leaves optional
- Small handful fresh thyme finely chopped
- 2-3 sage leaves finely chopped
- 3/4 cup gf flour 130g
- 1/2 cup water 135ml
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Pre heat your oven to 200C
- Add the chestnuts, walnuts, cashews and apricots to a food processor and blend into crumbs (roughly 1 minute)
- In a large mixing bowl add the finely chopped red onion, crushed garlic, chia seeds, grated carrot, grated parsnip, finely chopped herbs, large pinch of salt and pepper and toss with your hands
- Now add the nut mixture into the mixing bowl and toss again with your hands without pressing it together
- Now add the flour and toss again without pressing together
- Add the water and start pressing it together until fully combined
- Allow this to sit for 10 minutes
- Line a bread baking tin with baking paper and grease with olive oil or coconut oil
- Place 2 or 3 sage leave in the bottom of the tin before pushing all the mix into the tin
- Place in the oven for 45 mins at 200C (ovens vary on timings so keep an eye on it)
- Remove from the oven and take out of the tin and allow it to rest for 10 minutes (this is important to help it firm up and slice better)
- Use a very sharp knife when slicing
Notes
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Hi we had this for our Christmas lunch yesterday and it was delicious Thank you James!
It looks amazing!
Would it work with tapioca flour instead?and how much?
Let me know
Thank you!
I love your recipes!
Hey Marta, thanks for the support 🙂 never actually used Tapioca flour before so unsure but if it normally works as a swap for you then I would assume it will work in this! Let me know
I have made this early as I won’t have much time next week…. in the oven now so would it be ok to freeze it until Christmas love your recipes…keep up the good work…many many thanks…Rosie x
Hey Rosie, that should be fine! Enjoy 🙂
Made this for a Sunday roast and it went down a treat! Had to replace a couple of ingredients due to dietary requirements but it was still so delicious! It was also super easy to make!
Thanks for the feedback Clare, glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Just made this for Sunday roast along with your free from Yorkshire’s and no cheese cauliflower the house smelt amazing as it was cooking and it didn’t disappoint on taste.
Even my two year old loved this so will definitely be making again.
Used gram flour … It was very nice. Kept half of nuts at 5mm size. But … Used fresh chestnuts which have REAL flavour. Wouldn’t fancy it with packaged chestnuts, which I find flavourless in e extreme. Worth the effort. (BTW… Cooked fresh chestnuts will keep well in a bag in the freezer…. So you can eat it all year round. (Have saved some of roast to use as stuffing next week)
What flour are you using in this please?
Just a gluten free white flour (I use FREEE by doves farm)
Amazing
Thanks Susan, glad you enjoyed it 🙂