Vegan Recipes: Pie

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Vegan Substitutes

Most dinner and dessert pie ingredients can be replaced with soy substitutes, which can be found at most grocery stores.

For more information, check out these vegan substitute recipes. For a "richer" recipe, soy yogurt can be substituted for milk and soy margarine (without whey) are also available.

Dessert Recipes:

Vegan Pie Crust Recipe
Vegan Chocolate Crust Recipe
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe
Vegan Apple Pie Recipe
Vegan Chocolate Pie
Chocolate Peanut Butter Pie Vegan Peach Pie

Dinner Recipes:

Vegan Chicken Pot Pie
Vegan Sheppard's Pie
Vegan Sweet Potato Pie
Vegan Mushroom Pie
Vegan Cottage Pie

Vegan Pie Crust

Vegan Pie Crust Recipe: Ingredients

3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon salt
ž cup margarine
5 to 6 tablespoons cold water

Vegan Pie Crust Recipe: Preparation

In a medium bowl with fork, lightly stir together flour and salt.
With pastry blender or two knives used scissor fashion, cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
Sprinkle in cold water, a tablespoon at a time, mixing lightly with a fork after each addition until pastry just holds together.
With hands, shape pastry into ball (if it's a hot day you may have to refrigerate the dough for 30 minutes or so).
For a two crust pie, divide pastry into 2 pieces, one slightly larger, and then gently shape each piece into a ball.
On lightly floured surface with lightly floured rolling pin, roll larger ball into a 1/8 inch thick circle, 2 inches larger all around than pie plate.
Roll half of circle onto rolling pin; transfer pastry to pie plate and unroll, easing into bottom and side of plate. Fill as recipe directs.
For top crust, roll smaller ball as for bottom crust; with sharp knife, cut a few slashes or a design in center of circle; center over filling in the bottom crust.
With scissors or sharp knife, trim the pastry edges, leaving 1 inch overhang all around the pie plate rim.
Fold overhang under; pinch a high edge. Bake pie as recipe directs.

Source: www.vegfamily.com

Vegan Chocolate Pie Crust

Chocolate Vegan Pie Crust: Ingredients

25 chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreo or a generic brand will work fine)
1/3 cup margarine, melted

Process the cookies in a food processor until they turn into crumbs.
Add the melted margarine to the cookies and stir until well combined.
Using your hands or the back of a large spoon, press the mixture into a pie pan.
Chill before using.

Source: www.vegetarian.about.com

Vegan Pumpkin Pie

Vegan Pumpkin Pie Recipe: Ingredients

1 350-g box of silken firm tofu, drained
1 heaping cup of cooked or canned pumpkin
1 to 1 1/4 cups brown or golden sugar, not packed tight (read this first)
dash salt
4 teaspoons blended "pumpkin pie spice" OR:

1/2 teaspoon ground dry ginger
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoons nutmeg

1 pie crust

Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
Blend the tofu in a food processor or with a blender until smooth and cream-like, for about four minutes.
Stop the machine every once in a while to scrape large pieces of tofu down into the machine's blades.
Add the cooked pumpkin and blend some more, again stopping the machine and scraping the mixture down.
The result should be a light orange-colored paste with no lumps of tofu.

Put the paste into a large mixing bowl and add the sugar, salt, and spices.
Mix well and spoon it into the pie crust; decorate with cheerful shapes of leftover crust, if desired.
Bake 30 to 40 minutes or until the crusts are dark brown (but not burned).
Serve warm or chilled, plain or topped with whipped cream or ice cream.

Notes:

This pie takes about two hours to prepare, depending on how you budget your time preparing all the ingredients, and whether you have pie crust and cooked pumpkin available.

A single good-sized sugar pie pumpkin will usually yield enough material for two pies: the recipe doubles easily.

The pie refrigerates and freezes well.

Source: www.boutell.com

Vegan Apple Pie

Vegan Apple Pie Ingredients:

Pastry for 2 crust pie (recipe)
ž cup fructose or sugar
2 tablespoons whole wheat pastry flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
ź teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 to 2 teaspoons lemon juice
6 to 7 cups thinly sliced, peeld and cored cooking apples (2 lbs.)
1 tablespoon margarine
Soy or rice milk (for glazing)

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Put bottom crust in bottom of 9 inch pie plate.
In small bowl, combine fructose/sugar and next 4 ingredients.
Place half of thinly sliced apples in piecrust; sprinkle with half of sugar mixture. Top with rest of apples, then rest of sugar mixture.
Dot the filling with margarine. Preheat oven to 425° F.
Roll out remaining crust. Cut out a design using a knife or cookie cutter (i.e. four small leaves). Place crust over pie; trim edges.
Fold pastry overhang under then bring up over pie plate rim. Pinch to form a high edge then make your choice of decorative edge.
For golden glaze, brush the top crust (not the edge) lightly with some soy or rice milk. Bake pie for 40-50 minutes or until crust is golden.

Source: www.vegfamily.com

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