Vegetarian Recipe Help Please

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

I have a vegetarian friend coming to stay and I only have 4 vegetarian recipes that I use.

Spicy bean casserole (mixed beans, onions, tomatoes, corriander, cummin and chilli powder,topped with crushed doritos and grated cheese,

Mushroom Rissoto.

Roast vegetable pasta (served with a good dollop of hummus on top).

Vegetable strudle (roasted veg, pine nuts and motzarella in filo pastry).

Can anyone please suggest something easy and tasty that I can cook for him please - the only thing I have a real problem with is pastry - I could pave my path with it, and it would last better than stone!

Thanks all

[chips-and-brown-gravy]

No spinach please - I detest spinach!

[cookiecookuk]

vegetable lasagne with salad.or vegtable chilli/curry

[ed_blackadder_1]

Was going to suggest roasted vegetables with pasta and cheese sauce, a favourite in our house, although none of us are vegetarians,

Go on be a devil cheat with the pastry and buy it ready made, a real lifesaver.

[ed_blackadder_1]

stuffed marrow with spicey cous cous,

[cookiecookuk]

mushroom strogganoff is also very tasty

[ed_blackadder_1]

Savoury bread and butter pudding, made the same as sweet one only with cheese, mushrooms and onions, serve with salad.

[kaeptm]

Savoury pastry slice. I buy  a puff pastry sheet (A*da has it for £1 at present). It's enough for 4 slices, I make 2 and freee the remaining 2 pieces of pastry when flat. Score the pastry about 1cm from edge on all 4 sides. **bleep** the pastry. The topping can be what you like, Usually, I slice tomato, add a little chopped onion, sprinkle with a little grated cheese and some mixed herbs and bake gas 7 for 20 to 25 mins. There will be a suggestion on the pastry pack. Served with new potatoes and salad.

Pizza. I buy pizza bases and add whatever topping we fancy. Quick and easy.

Vegi lasagne. Lots of recipes online. I make a sauce with sliced cougettes, chopped onions and garlic, some grated or liquidised carrots and tinned tomatoes. Layer tomatoe sauce, lasagne sheet and I use cheese sauce, and repeat finishing with cheese sauce on top, then bake gas 5 until the lasagne is cooked, about 40 mins.

[kaeptm]

Oh dear! the bleep should say    p r i c k    the pastry 

[ed_blackadder_1]

loving the pastry slice, tea for tomorrow I think

[stroppy*cow]

You could make any dish that you would usually make with minced beef, but substitute either Quorn mince or rehydrated TVP (Textured vegetable protein).  I used to make no end using TVP rehydrated with vegetable stock cubes and it was very economical (and tasty).

How about a spanish Frittata (omelette) with a variety of veg - here it gets made with whatever happens to be left over, sometimes with potato, sometimes cooked pasta, sometimes a mixture of both. Very quick and easy.

[grumpyoldlady2014]

We went to a dinner party on Saturday and the starter was baked Camembert but scrummier. Individual cheeses, smeared with apricot jam and baked in a bun made from croissant pastry, the old pillsbury dough stuff. It was lush! You broke open this bun and dipped croissant into the melted goo. Mmmmm.

[xtf70]

Go Indian? Bombay potatoes, vegetable samosa, etc.

Plan B: Look up Slimming World recipes on line and look through those for ideas

[isisthecat09]

A good starter is beetroot and goats cheese salad. Or dips with carrots, breadsticks etc.

As above, I always try to do a veggie version of whatever the meat eaters are having. Quorn is so good for that. Mixed with mushrooms in a cheese sauce with puff pastry top, yummy. Shop bought pastry is great.

Roasted veg with Moroccan spiced cous cous another tasty choice.

Hope it goes well.

[stampingpat]

Pan fry some butternut squash and add to a salad along with some goats cheese. Use balsamic vinegar for a dressing. 🙂 Can add onions, etc to the salad. Goats cheese goes well with roasted beet root too. 🙂 And throw in a few walnuts for texture and crunch.