What is your favourite healthy vegetarian meal?

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I recently tried some vegetarian ready meals. They tasted awful and were definitely not healthy. Neither was the banoffee pie I made recently.

Last nights dinner was tasty.

Fried sliced red onion, courgette and red pepper in olive oil and butter S&P
Place on a rectangle of puff pastry which has been cut into 4.

Top with a good strong cheese - Stilton although I only had goats cheese then place sliced tomatoes on top.
Brush edges of pastry with beaten egg.
Bake at 200 for about 20 mins

That’s Mary Berry btw

Yesterday I made Mediterranean vegetable Tart Tartin for the first time, all with home grown veg. It was so delicious and easy to make, it’s going to be a firm favourite.

Oh almost the same as yours Whitewavemark2.

The only home grown for us was courgette and tomatoes though. 😊

A stir fry, with noodles and just lots of veg.

We also like one of my ‘signature’ ha ha ‘dustbin’ soups (my mother’s name for them) which consist of as many different finely chopped veg as possible, with red lentils and/or pearl barley/orzo pasta added - and not puréed or blended.

And cauliflower cheese with baked potatoes, if that counts as veggie.

My favourite “healthy” meal is not vegetarian and my favourite vegetarian meal not especially healthy.
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Cashew Celery stir fry on rice. New recipe to us.

merlotgran

Aubergine Parmigiana. Not exactly quick to make but so delicious.

Always my absolute favourite

Witzend we always called the same soup. Veg box clear out. Never the same twice but always good

Baked potatoes, stir fry and cauliflower and broccoli cheese are my three favourite veggie dishes

One of my favourites is a simple lentil and vegetable stew with carrots, tomatoes, spinach and a few herbs. It’s filling without being heavy, and I usually make enough for a couple of meals. A bit of Greek yoghurt on top makes it even better.

Oh that sounds nice!!

I make a dal with spinach (usually frozen) and cauliflower.

A winter favourite is rice (risotto) and red lentil soup, with plenty of ground cumin and coriander, and onions fried until almost burnt, stirred in at the end, plus the juice of half a lemon.
Super tasty and filling enough for a main meal, at least in this house, where ‘serves 4’ does for me and dh.

Any left over goes thick, like dal, and is v good next day for lunch.

Chardy

merlotgran

Aubergine Parmigiana. Not exactly quick to make but so delicious.

Always my absolute favourite

Similar to that is Courgette, Tomato and Mozzarello al Forno, or Courgette Bake as it's known in our house.

www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables/courgette-tomato-mozzarella-al-forno/

The recipe I was given by my sister-in-law (Courgette Bake) and uses strong grated Cheddar. If you don't have a glut of tomatoes, you could use tinned instead.

Lovely as a lunch dish with crusty rolls or as part of a main meal as a side dish with jacket potato and perhaps vegetarian sausages.

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I like variation of roasted veg dishes - often crumble feta cheese on top, or add some cooked lentils or beans -

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/root_vegetable_traybake_06195

www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/roasted_vegetables_with_29823

We also like Leek, cheese and breadcrumb bake -

All real food is healthy - it only becomes unhealthy if we process it too much, add too much fat, sugar and/or salt and pig out on it day after day!
To answer the question (at last), my favourite is my DH's one and only dinner recipe, which started out as "Tuna Fiesta" (onion, garlic, mushrooms, red pepper & peas, all stir-fried in olive oil, with tuna and (listen to the groans) Campbell's mushroom or tomato concentrated soup stirred in at the end. When we turned veggie 40 years ago, he substituted the tuna with vegan chunks, which works beautifully.
Another favourite is a puff-pastry pie I fill with chestnuts, onions, aubergine & courgette antipasti, garlic, baby spinach, sweet mixed spices (which must include cinnamon), harissa and tomato puree. I serve it with roast potatoes and broccoli. It's very rich and doesn't freeze well, so I only make a small one as DH's birthday treat. The next day we have the leftovers cold and that's that for another year.

We like roasted butternut and other veg (tray bake) with Panzanella as our salad. Seems well suited to our garden and time of year.

Large ripe tomatoes, sliced and dressed with salt, pepper, virgin olive oil and torn basil makes any ordinary salad taste much better. You could add crushed garlic you like it.

Vegetable lasagna with every vegetable you can think of and tempura veg.