Healthy Vegetable Portuguese Turnovers (i.e. Rissol)
These Healthy Vegetable Portuguese Turnovers (i.e. Rissol) are the perfect recipe for those gluttonous days. They are healthy, and tasty, and take very few ingredients. They are great to take in a lunch box, poke, or make into a meal.
Portions: 14 turnovers
Ingredients
For the dough
- 1 bottle or can boiled chickpeas you can use dried chickpeas and cook them in a pot
- ½ cup spelt flour or oatmeal
For the filling
- 1 grated carrot
- ½ grated zucchini
- ¼ sliced leek into rounds
- Olive oil to taste
- Soy sauce to taste
- Sesame oil to taste optional
- Sesame seeds to taste or poppy seeds
- Pepper to taste
- 1 egg
Instructions
For the dough
- Start by washing the chickpeas with cold water and drain the water well.
- Using a fork, mash the beans until they have a puree-like consistency.
- Make a ball with the peachick puree, spread it out a little and make a hole in the middle.
- Place the spelt flour in the place where you opened the hole and knead it well (almost as if you were kneading pizza dough).
- Once the dough is homogeneous, roll it out on a flat surface, previously dusted with flour (so it doesn't stick).
- Make the molds for the turnovers, with the help of a mold of your own. If you don't have a mold, make them with the help of a glass. Since my glass was small, I made the turnovers round. But the idea is to make them in a half-shaped moon.
- When the molds are prepared, let them rest and start preparing the filling.
For the filling
- In a high frying pan or wok, put a drizzle of olive oil and let it heat up.
- When the oil is already hot, add the sliced leek and cook over medium / high heat for about 3 to 4 minutes.
- Add the grated zucchini and carrot and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add the soy sauce and if you like, a little sesame oil (it gives an amazing flavor).
- Add the pepper and stir well.
- Let the vegetables cook and when they are soft turn off the heat.
- Assemble your healthy vegetable turnovers: put some filling in half of the mold and fold it over, placing the other half on top (just like the Portuguese rissol).
- Press the ends to connect the parts (if necessary wet your fingertips with water to make it easier to glue the ends of the dough together).
- Beat the egg and brush it over the turnovers.
- Put the sesame (or poppy) seeds on top and bake in a preheated oven at 200º for about 20 minutes or until the turnovers are golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and serve with a spinach and cherry tomato salad or eat as a snack.
Notes
Try other bases for the dough, with ingredients you like better, like boiled white potatoes or sweet potatoes. I don't know if beans work, but it's a matter of trying.
You can change the flour to your liking, you don't have to restrict yourself to spelt flour.
If you want, add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the dough, just to gain some flavor and to keep it somewhat fatty (it prevents it from sticking in the oven).
Use other vegetables for the filling, and if you don't want to make them vegetarian, use beef, chicken, or tuna for example.
With chopped mushrooms or shrimp they should be great, I'll have to try it!