What are you serving your veggie guests for Xmas dinner?

[LittleMosIron]

Or if you're vegetarian, what are you having?
It has to be something to go to go along side all the usual trimmings.
I don't mind either making it or buying it. Just has to be something lovely.

TIA

Marks and Spencer nut roast is lovely. I get one every year for the vegetarians.

M&S and Lidl are my go to!

Parsnip roulade with separate potatoes, sprouts and probably other things too. I don’t actually do the cooking 😂

My favourite would be a pie. You could go to a deli buy a few slices now and then freeze until Xmas

Risotto with mushrooms and petits pois

Chargrilled veggie lasagne

with all the trimmings (olive oil for the roasties).

I’m made my mum a mini pie when I last hosted with mushrooms, chestnuts, a small amount of cranberries, grated carrot and masala wine. I can’t find the recipe but it’s also possible I winged it based on another recipe. She finds nut roasts boring.

I’ve done a few various veggie wellingtons in the past and a variation or toad in the hole.

I'm the veggie but I love a nut roast, with cheese crumbled in, seeds and layers of veg, and bread sauce . I wouldn't like pastry or pasta with a roast but would be happy with just the trimmings.

MIlL and SIL just prefer to eat the trimmings and not have a specific veggie main ( there is veggie gravy and cauliflower cheese and I do veggie stuffing and potatoes anyway). TBH I’m not really bothered about the turkey and I’m not even veggie.

My DH is a vegetarian. He cooks a lentil loaf on Xmas Eve and slices it up on Xmas day and microwaves along with having the veg cooked on hob others are eating.

I did a butternut squash, sage and ricotta wreath as a centre piece one year and it was gorgeous. You use croissant dough and fill it with roasted squash, seasoning, ricotta and sage - assemble it into a wreath, top with grated veggie Parmesan and roast. We all ate it and it was lovely.

I would hate a nut loaf but love something like a veggie wellington

This sounds yummy

I'm vegetarian and absolutely love a nut roast. I either make one or buy a good quality one from m and s or waitrose

I'm vegetarian and usually have a nut roast or something, but to be honest I'm happy with just the usual vegetables / trimmings.

I think the best thing to do is check with the veggies and see their preference given how many people have different preferences.

@LaPalmaLlama we don’t do turkey for that reason! We choose meat like lamb rack or beef welly that is special and we love

Absolutely this. Veg, stuffing, potato, the sauces etc. I never make myself anything to replace the turkey.

I make a pie using puff pastry folded over a mixture of roasted root veg, herbs, pine nuts and cranberry wensleydale. I cut out a pastry star for on top and it's the tastiest thing ever.
Even my meat eating Father in Law used to eat it with me instead of Turkey.
I make enough to last a few days and freeze or chill other portions to have later. Goes well with stuffing balls, roast tatties and veggie bisto gravy. Yum yum.

Oooh - that's worth thinking about! My go-to is a mushroom bourguignon, but probably not for Christmas lunch. If I had the time I would probably do a version of a vegetarian chestnut stuffing loaf thingy, but since I always have so much to do at Christmas and no time to do a trial to see if it works, I would probably the best ready made nut roast I could find.

If I was expecting vegetarian guests next year I would definitely experiment to find something tasty to make with chestnuts. I like chestnuts and it would be good to make something that I would like to eat too.

The veg, that’s it. Nothing extra or nut related.
Just the veg that everyone else is eating and veggie gravy.

This is what I tend to always do, have what everyone else is having but without the meat, 🍖 never expect anything else or different.

Which shop does the best veggie gravy?

I made this on hogmanay last year and it was so delicious so I'll be making it for Christmas day this year https://www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/ottolenghis-butternut-crunch-pie/

Personally can't think of anything worse than a nut roast or anything with chestnuts. But everyone has different tastes.

@LaPalmaLlama turkey doesn’t darken our door! We don’t eat it any other time of year - I don’t like it, dh and ds are ambivalent, dds don’t like it either. Beef for us, and a ham.

oooof - this sounds delicious (not a veggie but enjoy veggie options)

I’m having a lentil and nut roast with creamy mushroom sauce.

I'm veggie and I don't like nut roast or lentil loaf or anything like that. I usually just have the dinner with no meat but I did see the no turkey crown in M&S and thought I might get that