What is your favourite healthy vegetarian meal?

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.

Oh that sounds nice!!

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.

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

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

merlotgran

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

Always my absolute favourite

Cashew Celery stir fry on rice. New recipe to us.

My favourite “healthy” meal is not vegetarian and my favourite vegetarian meal not especially healthy.
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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.

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

Oh almost the same as yours Whitewavemark2.

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.

That’s Mary Berry btw

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

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

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Quiche and salad.
Stir fry veg
Omelette
Jacket potato

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Riccardo & Vittorio won the award for the best Italian Pizza outside of Italia but in The European Union.

I love roasted veg, usually aubergine, courgettes, mixed peppers and red onions. Sometimes we have them in the Boursin sauce with pasta, adding a couple of spoons of M&S red pepper paste. Also like to drizzle the veg with a bit of maple syrup, pile it up a bit in the roasting tin and drape it with a sheet of puff pastry. Tuck pastry in and bake. Turn out carefully for a veg tarte tatin.

Mushroom omelette

I've only ever made one totally vegetarian meal and it was about 50 years ago when entertaining some new friends who lived near us, who were vegetarians. I made a nut roast. No idea where I got the recipe from or what else was in it or accompanied it but to me it was WONDERFUL Why did I never make it again?

I do use a lot of pulses and lentils and huge handfuls of veg in any kind of casserole, but I don't do anything that's totally vegetarian - basically cos I am generally not a good cook and DH is a fish-and-chip type man.

That sounds good.
You could make a sort of veggie meat loaf with it, I reckon,and oven bake it.

This recipe is from a 70s cookbook when veggie meals were quite limited, but they are lovely, and children tend to like them too:
Finely chop an onion and sauté it.
Mix with equal quantities of cooked brown rice, grated cheese and ground nuts (4oz of each makes around 8 'burgers', but you can adjust to your needs).
Season well and add dried thyme.
Shape into burgers or sausage shapes.
Dip in beaten egg, and coat in wholemeal breadcrumbs then shallow fry until browned and heated through.

Serve with salad if you are being healthy or chips/baked potatoes if you prefer.

nightowl

The Vivera salmon fillet that Sarnia mentioned is actually vegan, so great for anyone who likes fish!

I am sorry I didn't realise that.

From the start of my vegetarian diet I have avoided meat and fish substitutes for a number of reasons but I still yearn for bacon sometimes.

I am eating a lot of salads at the moment with pecan nuts, beetroot, radishes, grated carrot and cold cooked french beans as well as the usual cucumber, lettuce and tomato. Lovely with fresh yogurt mayo.

Anyone tried courgette lasagne. One of the tastiest and easiest dishes I've ever made. It's now on the menu every week ...