Fall salmon pot pie

A salmon and mushroom pie hidden in a pumpkin. That’s Halloween on the plate.

This month :

Hannah of Rise and Shine was our October 2013 Daring Bakers’ hostess and she challenged us to bake our own double crusted savory pot pies. Using any from-scratch crust and filling we choose, we were allowed to get completely creative with our recipe, showing off the savory flavors and fillings from our own home or region.

So let’s go for Japanese season produce and even tofu for a dairy free pie :

Autumn/Fall is the season of kabocha pumpkin, salmon, mushrooms (shiitake).

Kabocha pumpkin crust : 1/3 boiled kabocha flesh, 1/3 flour, 1/3 whole wheat flour. Plus a little baling powder, salt, chili flakes and enough of the squash cooking water to for a dough.

The fresh ingredients.

Gravy : I stir-fried onion, garlic, the feet of the shiitake with salt and black pepper. Then added the shiitake hats, the peas. To cream it, passed in the blender : 1/2 block of silky tofu, 1 glass of white wine, a tbs of potato starch. I’ve added the fish and parsley raw.

Baked 45 minutes.

The crust is perfectly cooked. The inside is a little curded (I should have added the wine to the onions to avoid it), but it looks nice.

Cress and parsley pesto on the plate.

Piping hot under the crust, a simple pot pie.

The perfect Winter food. Bring the very hot bowl on the table, break the crispy golden crust and discover the fragrant broth, the soft bits…

The ingredients are cooked at 80%, let them cool a while, then covered. Don’t forget to make a chimney. It’s a simple olive oil dough, thinner that it looks on the photo.

Inside, chicken liver, shiitake mushrooms, onion, awamori sake, water, nuoc nam, pepper. Just before baking I added a piccata of garlic, onion, ginger, spinach and a good lick of brandy.

Lots of these in it. They become so soft.

Baked.

Let’s devour it…