Savory Rainbow Breakfast Pastry with Salsa
Team: The Frying Flying Turtles
Host School: Vermont Commons School
Age Group: Middle School
Ingredients
Pastry Crust Ingredients
3 cups all purpose local flour*
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp yellow curry powder
2 sticks cold unsalted local butter*
3/4 cup cold local water* :)
1 tbsp white vinegar
1 large local egg*
1 large local egg separated, retaining both yolk and whites
Filling Ingredients
3 tbsp vegetable oil
2 cloves local garlic minced*
1 med. local onion chopped*
6 orange, red, and yellow mini peppers, sliced thinly
3 med local carrots*, peeled and grated
2 local beets*, peeled and grated
3 small local boiling potatoes* boiled until al dente and thinly sliced
3/4 can black beans, drained and rinsed
2 handfuls baby spinach
1 cup grated local cheddar cheese*
2 large local eggs* plus egg yolk from pastry, whisked
Salt, pepper, red pepper flakes to taste
Cilantro sprigs
Salsa Ingredients
6 med. tomatoes coarsely chopped with juice
3 avocados, coarsely chopped
6 scallions, pale parts chopped
2 tbsp garlic, minced
2 tbsp cilantro, chopped
juice from one lime
Salt and pepper
red pepper flakes
*denotes local ingredients
Preparation Instructions
Pastry Crust Directions
- Stir together flour, salt and curry powder
- Cut in cold butter until mixture is coarse
- Whisk together water, vinegar and egg
- Slowly add water mixture to flour mixture while stirring until dough ball forms
- Divide dough into two equal sized balls
- Wrap dough in plastic bag and place in ice bath while making filling
- Flour surface and roll dough out to 1/8 of an inch
Filling Directions
- saute onions in 2 tbsp oil for 4 mins
- add peppers and carrots and continue sautéing for 3 mins.
- at same time, in small fry pan, heat 1 tbsp oil, sauté grated beets with salt and pepper, 4 mins.
- add garlic, salt, pepper and red pepper flakes to pepper mixture and sauté for 1 more minute
- Layer ingredients on rolled out dough in following order (leaving 1/2 inch along edges to join pastry):
- Spinach
- potatoes
- pepper mixture
- beets
- beans
- cheese
- whisked eggs (make holes in filling and pour in egg mixture)
- dampen edges of pastry with egg white mixture
- Place second rolled dough on top and pinch edges together
- brush with egg white mixture and bake for 30 minutes
Slice into wedges and enjoy!
Salsa Directions
- Toss all together lightly