Trouvez-nous chez Monoprix!

Your Bag

Products
Quantity
Price

Your shopping bag is empty

Discover Products
Subtotal
€0,00

Chestnut Wreath

serves
Serves 8-10
time
1 hour 10
level
Intermediate
This Chestnut wreath makes a showstopping centrepiece for your festive feast. Packed with creamy chestnuts, butternut squash, mushrooms, nuts and seeds - it's rich, satisfying and packed with veggie goodness. 

Chestnut Wreath

serves
Serves 8-10
time
1 hour 10
level
Intermediate
This Chestnut wreath makes a showstopping centrepiece for your festive feast. Packed with creamy chestnuts, butternut squash, mushrooms, nuts and seeds - it's rich, satisfying and packed with veggie goodness. 

Ingredients

  • 1 onion, roughly chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 small butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1.5cm cubes
  • 250g mushrooms, roughly chopped
  • 180g Merchant Gourmet Whole Chestnuts, roughly chopped 
  • 120g aalnuts, roughly chopped
  • 30g pumpkin seeds
  • 75g dried cranberries
  • 80g breadcrumbs
  • 3 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • 2 tsp wholegrain mustard
  • 3-4 sprigs fresh thyme, finely chopped (including the stalks)
  • 8 sage leaves, finely chopped (reserving 4-5 leaves for the end)
  • 2 sprigs rosemary
  • 1 orange, zest
  • Cranberries for decoration, if you like
  •  

Instructions

  1. Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a pan and sweat the onion until soft, adding the garlic for the last 2 minutes. . 
  2. Add the butternut squash to the pan and continue frying on a medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring regularly. Then add the mushrooms and cook for another 5 minutes - again stirring regularly and gently mashing the squash with the back of a wooden spoon as it cooks. 
  3. Add the chestnuts, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, cranberries, breadcrumbs, nutritional yeast, mustard, chopped thyme and sage to the pan, season well with salt and pepper and mix everything together well.
  4. Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F. Tip the mixture into a greased bundt tin pushing down firmly into the tin, and bake for 45-50 minutes until golden and crisp on top.
  5. Allow to cool briefly and then tip onto a flat plate. Fry the reserved sage leaves and rosemary sprigs  in 1 tbsp oil until crispy and use these to garnish the wreath along with the orange zest and cranberries, if using. 

5 comments

  • Hi Lesley,

    The wreath can be frozen or prepped ahead of time and stored in the fridge before baking.

    Hope this helps!

    Merchant Gourmet
  • Hello Dave, We used a 26cm bundt tin, but can definitely be scaled accordingly! Hope this helps.

    Merchant Gourmet
  • Greetings
    Are you going to answer my question as to the size of the bundt tin used that posted last w/e or just ignore me?
    Christmas is getting close you know, there is planning to be done here.

    Thank you
    Dave Turnbull

    David
  • Looks nice, but how big is the bundt tin? I have a 28cm one, which is quite large, for a big table, so some guidance as to how much to scale-up the ingredients would be good.
    Thanks

    Dave
  • Can you freeze the Chestnut wreath??

    Lesley Skeens

Leave a comment

Please note, comments must be approved before they are published.

More tasty recipes