Savory Carrot Tart

Are you feeling like having some comfort food? Let's bake an Argentinean Vegan Savory Carrot Tart. one of the easiest and best dinner tart recipes you will find out there!

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When I was living in Argentina, I would always make a big one and freeze these vegan savory tart portions to have them readily available as the main dish for quick lunches or lazy dinners. This one is a vegan version!

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• 🧾 Ingredients
• 🔪 Instructions
• 💡Pro tip
• 👨🏻‍🍳 Making a vegan tart
• 🤔 How to make a chia egg
• 📖 Savoury tarts recipes ideas
• 🥢 How to serve
• 📚 More Argentinean recipes
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• 🌡️ Food safety
• 💬 Reviews and Comments

🧾 Ingredients

• Carrots
• Vegan Pie Dough Recipe (or store-bought puff pastry)
• White onion
• Fresh Garlic
• Celery
• Red bell pepper
• Chia seeds
• Vegan mozzarella cheese
• Your choice of herbs (thyme, rosemary, and oregano)
• Olive oil
• Nutmeg (optional)
• Oats (optional)

Salt and pepper to taste.

See quantities and complete instructions in the recipe card.

Which pie dough to use?

We use this straightforward recipe that also works for Vegan Empanadas, which we make with a lentil or mushroom filling. If you want to make this easy dough from scratch, find it here: Vegan Empanadas Dough.

You can also choose to use store-bought puff pastry, and it will also work well. Just take it out of the fridge ten minutes before using it.

If you are going for the store-bought puff pastry option, remember that there are different kinds of puff pastry, some of them being dryer and others flakier.

If you are using frozen puff pastry, I recommend leaving it to thaw overnight in the refrigerator.

🔪 Instructions

Preheat the oven to 400 ºF (200 ºC). Use olive oil and a bit of flour to prepare an 8” (25 cm) baking sheet and place the tart crust on top of it; you can use parchment paper to help you manage it. Pinch with a fork.

Make the chia egg by hydrating the chia seeds in one cup of warm water for 10 minutes.

Prepare the filling

1. Peel and shred the carrots, and continue chopping the rest of the vegetables.
2. Stir fry the chopped onions and the minced garlic, then add the celery and chopped bell peppers. Stir regularly.
3. Add the shredded carrots, followed by the herbs and spices, and remove them from the heat.
4. Cool down the mixture, remove any excess liquid, and stir in the chia eggs and the cubed vegan mozzarella cheese.
5. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
   

Assemble the carrot pie

1. Sprinkle the rolled oats in the puff pastry, this will help absorb any residual moisture from the carrots mixture, ensuring your crust is cooked well and doesn’t come up soggy.
2. Pour the veggie and cheese mixture into the baking pan and spread evenly. Then fold the puff pastry inwards.
3. Bake the vegetable tart in the oven for 30-40 minutes, until it looks golden brown.
4. Let the galette sit for 10 mins before serving.

Note: Optionally, you can brush the tart with a mix of paprika and water to replace the egg wash, adding color and making the golden brown color stand out more. I usually don't use it.

Serve warm with a green salad with cherry tomatoes.

💡Pro tip

If you are not using a non-stick pie pan. Use one teaspoon of oil to grease the pan.

Then use flour to dust the oiled pan, and then place the dough in.

Tip: sometimes, the moisture of the filling can prevent the dough from cooking evenly. To avoid this, lay oats flakes on top of savory tart dough. This will absorb any residual moisture from the carrots mix, ensuring your pie crust is cooked well and doesn’t end up mushy.

👨🏻‍🍳 Making a vegan tart

In this case, it is the binding feature that we are going after, and both chia and flax seeds are great at binding.

You can also add the pulp of red pepper carrot juice to this savory tart to avoid waste and make the most out of your juice's fiber.

🤔 How to make a chia egg

To make a chia egg, double the amount of water to the number of chia seeds.

Let the chia seeds soak for 10 minutes, stirring once, ensuring all seeds come in contact with water. A gel will form. This chia egg mixture is then added to the filling mix, which will make it all hold together.

You can use the same method with flaxseeds, although you need to let them soak for 20 minutes or use boiling water.

📖 Savoury tarts recipes ideas

Tarts are free forms versions of open fruit tarts, and you can find them in various shapes and fillings.

The most common tart options include the veggie ones: Verdura (Spinach and chard), Butternut Squash, zucchini, yellow summer squash, Cheese, and Onion, Eggplant, but you can find endless combinations.

A savory vegetable tart is not time-consuming and is a cheap, tasty, and convenient option for a mid-day lunch. It is common to find them on fixed-priced menus. Rotisseries (ready-made food-to-go stores) also have them as a widespread, fast, jet-healthy option.

Veggie tarts are so typical that some food delivery restaurants only make empanadas (filled pastries), pizzas, and pies. As a result, many Rotiserias survive entirely on these three menu options. Just with a slice, you have a light and convenient meal.

Carrots are an excellent source of beta-carotene, fiber, and antioxidants. They also have several health benefits linked to lower cholesterol levels and improved eye health.

🥢 How to serve

This simple carrot recipe works as a main dish or a side dish when paired with a nice salad with cherry tomatoes, a spinach salad, or a kale salad. That way, you have a complete meal.

To learn more about the benefits of Carrots.

Include more Carrots in your daily routine: Have this Apple, Carrot, Celery Juice First Thing in the Morning.

We use carrots quite often for juicing, and we love zero-waste cooking and minimizing churn; we also use carrot tops to make carrot greens pesto. It goes perfectly with vegan tuna salads and cold pasta salads.

Sometimes buy way too many carrots; what do we do? Carrot and Ginger soup is another favorite that is made very quickly with minimal cooking time and it's sooo yummy!

Have you heard about vegan bacon? You may be heading to a new treat with this easy-to-make and healthy carrot bacon recipe.

If you love cooking with carrots, you will surely love our one-pot carrot cake, made with our go-to gluten-free flour blend, for a healthy treat or breakfast.

📚 More Argentinean recipes

• Pickled Eggplants (Berenjenas al Escabeche)
• Vegan Lentil Empanadas
• Spinach Ricotta Empanadas
• Vegan Empanadas (or Tart) Dough
• Vegan Eggplant Pie

⭐ If you try this vegan savory tart recipe, let us know! 💬 Leave a comment, rate it, and don't forget to tag us @ourplantbasedworld on Instagram. Cheers!

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