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Who needs mince when you can make something as nice as this, using only vegetables!

It's another (vegan) calorie-counted bread recipe - a wonderful pie using bread dough instead of pastry and filled with a hearty, rich, tomatoey veg filling. <300 calories per (large) portion.

http://www.nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/52-diet-ratatouille-pie-vegan-made-with.html

Every time I encase something in a bread dough I'm always impressed - and delighted - by how the flavour is enhanced. Of course I realise this applies just as well to other types of enclosure, including aluminium foil, but the way that the ingredients meld together in a bread casing absolutely ticks all my boxes!

Just a note about using a bread dough instead of pastry. It need contain no fat - so it's got to be lower calorie. And you can make everything from a quiche to a pasty using a bread dough.

It's easier to add flavouring to a bread dough.

It's easier to make a bread dough than it is to make pastry - cold hands and all that malarkey mean nothing.

It's also cheaper to make, containing nothing more than flour, water, yeast and salt.

Cheers, B&W

This looks amazing, thanks for sharing! I've followed you all here from Mumsnet where I am a longtime lurker hoping to glean some new info here.

That looks vey substantial and tasty. I have never made bread so I will have to go get the ingredients in, then have a go. Thanks for the recipe B&W

Going to give this a go this week. It looks and sounds delish! Thanx.

[janeg]

Looks really good except I don't do tomatoes. What else would you recommend for wetness?

Looks really good except I don't do tomatoes. What else would you recommend for wetness?

Hi janeg

Thanks! Have you seen this site - might be right up your street:

http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/tomato%20free%20recipes.html

My wife also dislikes tomatoes - so when we have pizza, I make this for her:

http://nobreadisanisland.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/potato-and-cheese-pizza.html

Cheers, B&W

[janeg]

Oh, Breadand wine- that is amazing and cool. Thanks so much! So much veggie food is tomato based. I've been veggie for more years than I can remember and still struggle with the tomatoes. Not helped by being away just now and eating in hotel buffet where, for the fifth meal in a row, it was pasta in a tomato sauce. The carnivores have a choice of three or four meals. Feel like stamping my feet and throwing toys out of the pram!
ta much

This looks amazing, thanks for sharing! I've followed you all here from Mumsnet where I am a longtime lurker hoping to glean some new info here.

Hi Artemis

Sorry, I missed your post earlier- just re-read the thread!

Yes, there's loads of info on here as well -hard to keep up!

Cheers, Paul