Filo strudel with port wine sauce

Simon Rimmer makes an impressive vegetarian recipe for Christmas Day: individual savoury strudels.

By Simon Rimmer

Ingredients

  • Olive oil, for frying
  • Knob of butter
  • 150g/5¼oz chestnut mushrooms
  • 1 garlicclove
  • Salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 150g/5¼oz leeks, trimmed, well washed, drained and roughly chopped
  • 250g/9oz ricottacheese
  • 250g/9oz full-fat cream cheese
  • 5 tomatoes, skinned, de-seeded and chopped
  • 18 pieces filo pastry(23cm x 15cm/ 9in x 6in)

For the sauce

  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 75g/3oz chestnut mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 garliccloves, crushed
  • 100ml/3½fl oz vegetable stock
  • 200ml/7¼fl oz red wine
  • Good glug of port
  • 25g/1oz cold butter, cubed