Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Prepare the baked potatoes
- Preheat oven to 425 F
- Begin by thoroughly washing the 4 large potatoes
- Using a fork, pierce the skin of the potatoes about 4 or 5 times to create small holes**don't skip this step! Poking holes in your potatoes allows the potatoes to release steam while baking, preventing potatoes from bursting during the cooking process
- Brush olive oil on the potatoes so that they are totally covered
- Place oiled potatoes in tin foil, wrap, place on a baking tray
- Place potatoes in a preheated oven. Bake for one hour.
- **while potatoes are baking, move onto the rest of the recipe
Prepare the bangers (vegan sausage)
- When your potatoes have 25 minutes left, place the vegan Beyond sausage on the baking tray and bake for the remaining 25 minutes.
Prepare the vegan Guinness gravy
- Cut shallots into thin slices and chop garlic into small pieces. Set aside
- Place 2 tbsp of vegan butter into a sauce pan over medium heat.
- As butter begins to melt, add sliced shallots. Cook over medium heat for 3 minutes. Stirring often
- Add diced garlic, stir and combine. Cook for another 2 minutes
- Add 2 tbsp of flour to the pan and mix thoroughly so the flour blends well with the butter. This should only take about 15-30 seconds
- Slowly add Guinness while you continue to mix. This will start to make your flour and butter mix more smooth
- Slowly add 1/2 cup of water and continue mixing.Just start with 1/2 cup, you will add the rest of the water in a minute.
- Once you have thoroughly mixed your ingredients so they are smooth and thick add 1 1/2 cups of water, 1/2 of a Not-Beef Bouillon Cube, 5 dried shiitake mushrooms, 1 tsp mustard, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, 1/2 tsp onion powder, 1/4 tsp poultry seasoning. Mix thoroughly
- Bring gravy to a boil and then lower heat to medium-low and allow to simmer for another 15 minutes. Add more water if you desire a thinner gravy.
- Pull out the mushrooms and cut them into strips. Return them to the gravy
- Once you have allowed your gravy to cook for 15 minutes gravy should be ready! Remove from heat.
Put it all together
- Once the potatoes and vegan bangers have finished baking and the gravy is ready, it's time to plate!
- Remove potatoes from the oven and carefully remove them from the tin foil
- Cut each potato open and mash the inside of the potatoes with a fork. Set aside
- Place vegan sausage on a cutting board and cut sausage into smaller pieces
- Fill baked potatoes with chopped vegan sausage and top them off with the Guinness gravy. Garnish with sliced shallots
- Serve and enjoy!