Spring Vegetable Pot Pie Recipe Ingredients: - 3 cups blanched potatoes, diced into ½” cubes - 1/4 cup Extra virgin olive oil - 2 1/2 cups leaks, diced - 4 1/2 cups button mushrooms, diced into ½” - 1 1/2 cups carrots, diced into ½” - 1 1/2 cups celery, diced into ½” - 1 cup fennel bulb, diced into ½” - 1 cup pearl onion, blanched until tender - 1 cup asparagus, cut into ½” pieces - 1 cup peas, blanched (frozen and thawed) - 1/2 block of seared tofu, diced into 1” cubes - 1 cup All-purpose flour - 4 1/4 cups vegetable stock - 1/4 cup light sour cream - 1 tbsp. Dijon mustard - 1/3 cup dry white wine - 2 ½ tbsp fresh parsley, finely copped - 2 ½ tbsp fresh tarragon, finely chopped - 2 ½ tbsp fresh chives, finely copped - 3 tbsp nutritional yeast - White pepper and salt to taste · 1.5 tbsp egg yolks - 1 sheet puff pastry dough, cut into 6 rounds Directions (yields 8 servings): 1. Sweat leeks in medium size sauce pan, 5-6 minutes, until tender and translucent. 2. Add carrots, celery, fennel, mushrooms, salt and pepper, reduce heat until tender. 3. Add white wine, reduce until nearly evaporated 4. Add in flour and stir in nutritional yeast 5. Stir in sour cream and mustard. 6. Stir in vegetable stock in 3 stages. 7. Turn off heat. Add peas, asparagus, onions, and potatoes. 8. Season to taste, add stock if mixture is too thick. 9. Fold in the seared tofu. 10. Portion pot pie mix into lions head bowl or ramekins, leave ¼ to 1/2” of space below rim. 11. Cool completely before moving to next step 12. Prepare a thick egg wash, mix eggs with water. 13. Lightly brush rim of bowls with egg wash 14. Cut rounds of puff pastry, make sure rounds fit over the bowls. 15. Place pastry rounds over bowls, press firmly. 16. Brush puff pastry tops with egg wash. 17. Reserve prepared pot pies until ready to serve. Serving directions: 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. 2. Arrange pot pies on a sheet tray, place into oven. 3. Bake for 20-30 minutes until crust is golden. 4. Serve immediately after removing pies from oven. Northwell Health is New York State’s largest health care provider and private employer, with 23 hospitals, nearly 800 outpatient facilities and more than 14,200 credentialed physicians. We care for over two million people annually in the New York metro area and beyond, thanks to philanthropic support from our communities. Our 72,000 employees — 17,000-plus nurses and 4,500 employed doctors, including members of Northwell Health Physician Partners — are working to change health care for the better. We’re making breakthroughs in medicine at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. We're training the next generation of medical professionals at the visionary Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Hofstra Northwell School of Graduate Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies. Visit https://www.northwell.edu/ Subscribe to Northwell Health’s YouTube http://bit.ly/2wPz7on or head to our channel null The Well - https://thewell.northwell.edu/ Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/northwellhealth Twitter - https://www.twitter.com/northwellhealth Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/northwellhealth LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin/northwellhealth