Vegan Guinness Pie

You might also like these reader favorite recipes for vegan pot pie and vegan mushroom pot pie. After falling in love with everything Irish – and especially Irish food – since my trip to that gorgeous country, I’d been dying to make a vegan Guinness Pie and devour it. So I did, and now I have one more favorite family dinner that I know I’ll be making again and again. For this recipe, I drew on ingredients and flavors that would go into an Irish chicken stew. And I used Guinness as part of the flavor base – although the Guinness I used was not the traditional stout used in pot pies like these but rather the lighter, citrusy, blonde Guinness which, I think, works better with a recipe that doesn’t actually have red meat in it. On top of all that stew-y goodness I layered on strips of puff pastry that baked into golden, delicious crispy-ness. It was heaven on a plate, and I couldn’t stop eating. This is a rather easy recipe, and you can put it together rather quickly with storebought puff pastry (you can also use this healthier homemade whole wheat vegan puff pastry). For the rest, all you need to do is chop the veggies, and you’re pretty much done with prep. One word about the vegan chick’n stew that goes into this dish. This is an incredibly flavorful stew and you can totally serve it by itself, with rice or a crusty bread. If you do, you might want to thin it out a little more with vegetable stock.