Mini Bundt Chestnut Loaf with Sage Gravy is a tasty vegetarian and vegan Christmas main. They're quick to make and look showstopping. If you don't have mini bundt tray you can make them in a loaf or cake pan.
Commissioned post.
People often get a bit worried about what to make for a vegetarian or vegan main for Christmas dinner or Thanksgiving.
For a typical roast dinner, as a veggie I'm usually happy to just have the trimmings. But Christmas dinner needs something special. Here, my friends, is the answer: Mini Bundt Chestnut Roasts with Sage Gravy.
Seriously, these are sure to please any veggie and they're super-easy to make.
You can easily cook the chestnut roast in a large tray or loaf pan, but for a bit of Christmas wow factor, get a decorative Mini Bundt Pan. You can even make them ahead and just reheat them on Christmas day!
This post was originally published on 6 Dec 2016. Updated on 12 Dec 2018 with new pictures, recipe card and some new text.
Mini Bundt Chestnut Roasts with Sage Gravy
It isn't a vegetarian Christmas feast without a nut roast, but this one is extra-special. The individual roasts are cooked in decorative mini bundt pans to make each one a showstopper.
The chestnuts and mixed nuts bring wonderful flavour and texture, working perfectly alongside the fresh herbs. The chestnut roasts are quick and easy to prepare, and you can have them cooking in one oven while the sage gravy bubbles on the stove.
You can make these roasts a day or two ahead to save time on Christmas day, and then you’ll only need to reheat them.
They're perfect with parmentier potatoes.
Vegan Nut Roasts
These little showstoppers are packed with festive flavour. The herbs work beautifully with the sweet chestnuts. You can usually find vacuum-packed cooked chestnuts in most supermarkets at Christmas time.
Nut roasts can often be a little dry, but not this one! The chestnuts ensure not only a great flavour, but they also make it moist. It's then perfect drizzled with a little vegan gravy that's packed with sage.
All you need to serve with it are some roast potatoes, roasted veggies and a glass of Mulled Wine Spritzer!
I've made these mini bundt chestnut roasts as part of a Three Course Alternative Christmas Feast.
This time, my work with Leisure is all about Christmas and providing exciting veggie alternatives, so I came up with these cute bundts, as well as a Gingerbread Cake and Baked Camemberts with Roasted Vegetable Rosemary Skewer. Get the recipes in the Three Course Alternative Christmas Feast.
Cooking Christmas dinner can be a bit stressful, can't it? There are just so many things that need to come together at the same time and often too many cooks in the kitchen.
This year I'm so excited to cook Christmas dinner with my husband, on our range cooker.
The three ovens and grill will all come into their own and we can cook each dish at the right temperature without having to open the door constantly to shuffle dishes around.
It also helps to plan everything out, right down to a running time written out beforehand.
Sage Gravy
The sage gravy doesn't take long to make, but makes these chestnut loaves extra special. I love the flavour of sage at this time of year and it really makes this gravy special.
It's lovely on these nut roasts, but also on roast potatoes, mashed potatoes and veggie sausages, as well as over vegetables. It's so tasty that you'll find plenty of uses for it!
So, put away the instant gravy and treat yourself to this savoury, fragrant and delicious sage gravy. Vegetarian and easily vegan by using dairy free butter.
This vegan gravy would be great served alongside my Roast Brussel Sprout Christmas Tree.
Thanks for checking out my recipe! I love hearing from my readers. You all allow me to do what I love and write this UK food blog, sharing vegetarian and vegan recipes, vegetable cake recipes and also easy vegan desserts.
Kate x
Disclosure: This recipe for Mini Bundt Chestnut Roasts was commissioned by Leisure Cookers as part of my Three Course Alternative Christmas Feast. All opinions are my own. Thanks for supporting the brands that make it possible for me to be a UK Food blogger and write Veggie Desserts.
Sign up for our free newsletter and never miss a recipe!
Plus, you'll get a free eBook: 15 Minute Vegan Dinners!
📖 Recipe
Mini Bundt Chestnut Roasts with Sage Gravy
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoon butter or non-dairy spread
- 2 onions diced
- 2 cloves of garlic finely chopped
- 300 g (2 cups) cooked peeled chestnuts (store-bought vacuum-packed is easiest)
- 150 g (1 cup) mixed nuts
- 200 g (2 cups) breadcrumbs
- 500 ml (2 cups) vegetable stock
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon fresh sage finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 teaspoon fresh rosemary leaves chopped
- Salt and pepper
For the Sage Gravy
- 2 tablespoon oil
- 1 red onion diced
- 4 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 4 tablespoon fresh sage chopped
- 2 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1 bay leaf
- 3 teaspoon plain flour
- 500 ml (2 cups) vegetable or mushroom stock
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Grease a 6-cup mini bundt tray well with cooking oil spray (or grease a baking dish).
- In a frying pan over a medium heat, heat the butter, then add the onions and cook until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and cook for another minute.
- In a food processor blitz the nuts and chestnuts until fine and crumbly. Pour the mixture into a large bowl and mix in the onions, breadcrumbs, stock, soy sauce, herbs and salt and pepper.
- Press the chestnut roasts mixture into the mini bundt pans, ensuring that it gets into all the edges. Bake for 35-45 minutes (depending on the size of your pans) or until golden on top and cooked through. Allow to cool in the pan completely. Place a large plate or chopping board over the bundt tray and carefully invert to turn out the loaves. Serve warmed up with the gravy poured on top.
- NOTE: To cook without mini bundt pans, spread the mixture into a large baking dish and cook for 35-45 minutes.
For the sage gravy
- In a pan over a medium/low heat, heat the oil then add the onion and cook for 3 minutes. Add the garlic and herbs and cook, stirring, for a further 2 minutes.
- Add the flour and cook for 2 minutes, stirring.
- Pour in the stock, add the salt and pepper, then reduce the heat and simmer for 10-15 minutes until thickened and reduced.
- Place a fine sieve over a bowl and pour the gravy through it, pressing down to extract as much gravy and flavours as possible.
Nutrition
The nutritional information provided is approximate and can vary depending on several factors, so is not guaranteed to be accurate. Please see a registered dietician for special diet advice.
glenn hutton
These look amazing, sound delicious too... Ideal for us veggies, I am just thinking how far things have come!
Luci
These little bundts look amazing and too cute. It reminds me of dressing but shaped in a bundt pan.
Allison Leigh
Yum! I am vegan and this would be a wonderful Christmas dish! They are so pretty and original thanks for posting this recipe!
Kathi
So festive! These would be perfect to add to your table when you have vegetarian dinner guests!
Elaine Benoit
Kate, these look absolutely delicious! I love everything about it! I also adore that these beautiful little bundts are vegetarian!
Sues
Wow, these are so cute and festive!! I don't have any vegetarians in my family, but might want to make these anyway since they're so perfect for the season! Great idea 🙂
Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry
These look like a delicious treat
Jane
Love the sound of these little savoury bundts, wondering if it would be sacrilege to serve them alongside our turkey...
Divya @ Eat. Teach. Blog.
YUM! I'm not a vegetarian, but I don't particularly love turkey or ham, so I'd prefer this as my main course too!
Anosa
These are definitely some awesome ideas for a vegetarian Christmas dinner. I am a dessert lover so I would be all over that
Dom
I love this idea so much that i'm planning to make them for The Viking this year... loved working with you on this project x
Lucy Parissi
What a totally brilliant idea! They look so cute and so festive. The whole post is amazing. I must admit at at a bit of a loss as to what to serve my vegetarian guests at Christmas.
Debbie-jean Lemonte
Can I just pay you to be my chef for a week? Lol! The gingerbread cake grasped my heart strings the minute I laid eyes on it.
Krystal // The Krystal Diaries
I love these ideas and think my family would like any of these. They are all different from anything we've made before.
Kavey
How delicious and beautifully celebratory. I've never cooked on a range cooker, would be fun to see how they differ. They always look so gorgeous!
Jemma @ Celery and Cupcakes
Those mini bundts look just lovely. We have a range and it will be the first time cooking in it for Christmas. I can't wait!
blair villanueva
I will pass your recipe to my Momma, coz she knows I like veggies meals, and I'm cutting more meat recently. Super thank you!
Oindrila
I have been searching for cake recipes this Christmas. I'm so happy to find something different from other cake recipes. Surely gonna try it out!
Bertram Moore
This sounds so delicious. But that cake makes me feel painfully inept in the baking department, though I want to try making it!
Kate Hackworthy
It's really easy - I'm sure you'll be fine making it!
Ola
This looks really delicious - especially with al the chestnuts. The finished product looks so much like a dessert.
Amber Myers
Oo yum! I would really like that gingerbread cake. I love gingerbread flavored anything! I'm hungry now!
Sheri
This looks so amazing. All these treats and choices. When I see pics like this I can only hope to create it almost as awesome as it looks.
Tara L
I love the mini chestnut loaves but I think my favourite recipe on this blog post would be the Gingerbread cake. It looks so good and moist. I bet it taste delicious too!
Corey
Your photos are absolutely beautiful! This all looks so delicious. I've never had chestnuts, but after reading this, I think I'm going to have to try them!
Kate Hackworthy
I hope you like them! Pre-cooked chestnuts in vaccum-sealed packs are in most supermarkets.
Briana Marie
Oooo. This is something different for me to try! Right on time for the holidays.
Gemma
These sound yummy! I'm a meat eater but I actually don't really like turkey as it's quite dry and bland - I think I'd prefer these!
fashionmommy
These are fantastic ideas for vegetarian guests, or even as an alternative for boxing day.
Kate Hackworthy
They would be great for Boxing day leftovers, too!