Made this tonight for the big game in addition to some other dips. We saw this recipe on the same site as the Seitan Piccata from the Vegetarian Times. We made a few changes, but it tasted really good! I’ve never had pâté but that’s probably because it’s usually spreadable liver of some animal or something. I never thought it could be made vegetarian! I’m not even sure this is really a pâté, but it tasted good which is what mattered.
One change we did was instead of baking the cashews, we just dry roasted them in a pan on the stove. I MIGHT have kept my eye off them too long – whoops – but it didn’t make the pâté taste bad or anything. The other change was that we didn’t use vegan margarine. We used normal unsalted butter. The recipe also called for curry powder but I don’t have any of that in the house. I just had garam masala so I figured that would be OK and it worked great actually!
Lastly, the original recipe called for 4 cups of sliced mushrooms since it served 12. We didn’t need nearly that much, so we just cut down on certain ingredients so it didn’t make quite as much.
The end result was really good! I’m glad we tried it. We paired ours with cracked pepper crckers, carrots, celery and pretzel thins.
•2 1/2 8-oz. cartons of baby bellas, sliced (2-to-2 1/2 cups)
•1/4 cup whole cashews, toasted
•1/4 cup onion, chopped
•1 teaspoon minced garlic
•1 teaspoon garam masala (or curry powder if you would rather use that)
•1 tablespoon butter
•1/4 teaspoon garlic salt
•1/8 teaspoon cumin powder
•1 teaspoon cooking sherry
•1 1/2 teaspoons chunky peanut butter
What snacks did you make for Superbowl Sunday?
What? No curry powder in the house? lol. I’m hooked on my jar – I put curry in everything!
This sounds really delish – I’m bookmarking this one!
No curry powder because I just have homemade garam masala and make that fresh when I make Indian food lol
mmm, anything that’s packed with mushrooms gets my seal of approval. :) that photo of the mushrooms cooking makes me drool a bit…!
It’s so funny! I never used to like mushrooms and then I had this salad with shitakes and they were so meaty and flavorful! YuM!
Well that looks very lovely! May I compliment you on your great blog :)
Aw! Thank you so much for that, Sophie! :) It was actually really good, too! I think we needed more mushroom since I tasted a lot of the nutty flavor from the cashews and peanut butter. But it wasn’t bad at all! :D Thanks for stopping by darlin! <3
Sounds good to me just as you made it.
Thank you! :)