Happy haggis recipe

Happy fruitsandveggiesmonday everyone! It's fruitsandveggiesmonday with @lenasveganliving and @plantstoplanks and this is my entry, it is a happy haggis because no animals were injured. Haggis, as most people know is a Scottish dish with sheep offal, which is awful, haha you see what I did there, and it is like a big sausage with oats and spices. I tried eating haggis a few times before going vegan and hated it, mainly because the thought of eating sheep guts. I tried the vegetarian version which you can by at the shops here and it was quite good, so I thought I could recreate it, and here it is.

Ingredients

2 carrots
2 onion
75g rolled oats
75g pumpkin seeds
250g mushrooms
4 garlic cloves
75g margarine
1 and a half teaspoons ground coriander
1 teaspoon nutmeg
Half a teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon yeast extract or Marmite
75g pearl barley
Pinch of salt
400g soaked green lentils

First I put garlic, pumpkin seeds, mushrooms and carrots in the food processor.

I sautéed the onions in a non stick pan till soft.

Then I added the mix from the processor and cooked till reduced, so no water is left from the veggies.

I then transferred to a larger pan and added the pearl barley with 200ml water and the spices, salt and yeast extract.

I cooked this until all the water had reduced and let it cool down.

Then I transferred to a bowl and added the margarine, lentils and oats, mixed up well.

Then I got some parchment paper and placed half of the mixture and rolled up some huge sausages, two of them.

I tied up the ends with a bit of string so it doesn't unravel.

Then popped them into a pot of water and boiled for an hour.

Once they were cooked I put them in the oven with the roast veggies with the paper left on.

OK, so haggis is meant to be eaten with mashed turnip and potatoes, hence the name haggis neeps and tatties, but I made a potato and leek soup for starters and could not find turnips in the shop, so I roasted sweet potato and parsnips, it's some kind of tattie and neep I guess. Oh here is my soup.

I have posted the recipe before, don't peel my potatoes twice like 😉, but I do have a chocolate oat crunchy to share if you like.

Ingredients

300g dates
300ml boiling water
300g rolled oats
300g pecans
3 teaspoons chocolate powder
1 banana

Wow look at all those threes! So I left the dates to soak in boiling water for about an hour and chucked everything into a blender and well, I blended it, and baked it.

Yum yum. Hope you like it.

Funny story about haggis, Scott's like to make fun of people who ask what haggis is, they say it is like a wee animal, like a rabbit, but with one leg shorter than the other so it can run around the mountain, there's a clockwise and anticlockwise haggis. I heard of a foreigner going around the Scottish Highlands in search of the haggis, he went back to the guy who told him about the haggis and said he can't find one, the guy said it is because they are very shy, lol 😂