Happy Columbus Day: Gluten-free Beets and Green Lentils Empanadas and Pie 🌱🥟🥧😋❤️

Hello everyone, hope you have a great start of the week and for those in America: Happy Columbus Day!🤗

Today I made Empanadas that filled with mashed beets and green lentils, served with Spring mixed and homemade pesto sauce.😋

As anything, it takes practice through trials and errors, I figured out how to make pastry/pie crust now. 😇

I used 1.5 cup of gluten free quinoa and flaxseed all purpose flour, 1 tbsp baking powder, 3/4 cup of small cubes cold vegan butter, 1 tbsp flaxseed egg and add little by little of ice cold water until the dough has wet sand texture. Do not kneed but clump the dough together with hands. Let the dough sit in the fridge for at least 30 mins and roll it out. 😁👍

These empanadas and small pie came out perfect, flaky and non-drying. All ready to enjoy with Spring mix salad and pesto sauce mixed with red wine vinegar for a perfect lunch and dinner. 😋👍

As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️

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I find baguette tray makes perfect baking tray for crispy pastry. 😁👍

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I made 6 empanadas, ate one for taste test 😋 and a small pie to practice pie crust baking with the same beets and green lentils filling. 😁👍

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[HungryHufflepuff]

That all looks really good. Happy Columbus Day 🥧

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Thank you HungryHufflepuff very much! 🤗🙏

We do enjoy our day off. 😁 Everything turns out delicious. Hope you have a nice day coming up! 😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator]

Oh wow! that all looks wonderful Koko, your so creative.

Happy Columbus day 🙃

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Awe thank you very much Debs for saying that, you’re too kind!🤗🙏

Definite vegan butter makes a difference than milk and oil like last time I made. I am very pleased that I could put check box on pie crust baking.✅ 😁👍

It’s a nice relaxing day a bit chilly but not too bad over here. Hope you have a great day ahead!😊

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I will try that next time my self - thank you for the tip, it does look like you have mastered it thats for sure. Glad you had a nice relaxing day 😊

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Awe thank you Debs, we are all sharing here among friends as I learned flaxseed egg from you. I didn’t know that before just relying on Just egg premixed liquid bottle or Bob Miller egg replacement only. 😊🙏

It’s nice to be able to make pie and pastry now that the holidays coming around I can bring homemade goodies to friends and family. 😁

Hope you enjoy the rest of your evening as well. 🤗

[ZazenRiver345]

You're mastering GF vegan baking so quickly😊. Your empanadas look perfect👌. Now you can create all the varieties of pie/pastry you want. Have a good day and thanks for sharing 🤗🙏.

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Awe thank you Zazen for your encouragement also through my gluten free vegan journey as you have been doing so well for years! 🤗🙏

It’s so nice to be able to make your own pastries and pies after several fails 😂

You enjoy the rest of your day also! 😊

[Byron2020]

Firstly hope you had a nice day yesterday on Columbus Day and thank you for sharing your delicious dishes with us they look very tasteful .😋

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Awe thank you Byron2020 very much for saying that, much appreciated! 🤗🙏It was definitely a nice sit back day to enjoy the homemade food and watched my favorite show. It was very windy day yesterday so staying indoors was perfect. 😊

I hope you had a great dinner and a restful night coming up! 😊

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Awe thank you very much Happyman4 for saying that! 🤗🙏

I’m very pleased with the result because i had hard time baking gluten free vegan pie crust before many fails. 😅 It pays off to practice and be able to have homemade pie, pastries because we can bake whichever fillings we want in at anytime. 😁👍

Yes, It’s October pumpkin season here for us and by making your mum’s pumpkin pie will bring back great memories so as the enjoyment for the whole family. 😋🤗