veggie main course ideas, please?

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...and, if anyone has done the Nigella pumpkin one, where did you get the pumpkin from, please?

Mushroom Wellington is my favourite. Can be prepared ahead and just put in the oven x

I recently made beetroot and feta burgers - they were awesome. I did them in buns with lettuce, tomato and cucumber but I'm sure you could posh it up.
Peppers stuffed with risotto or lentils is nice.
What is the meat main - can you make a veggie version?

Mushroom and chestnut Wellington is my vote! Plus all the usual sides!

We just do absolutely loads of vege sides... Roast potatoes, mash potatoes, parsnips, swede, roasted carrots. Greens, Brussels, peas, Yorkshire puddings. Meat free stuffing, cauliflower cheese, creamed leeks... I'm sure there are more but with a mixture of carnivores and vegetarians we never make something specific and they (including myself) just have a Christmas dinner without the meat (it's delicious!)

This usually follows a fish starter too.

Flat mushrooms stuffed with yummy stuff (ricotta / goats cheese / cream cheese, herbs and crumb topping)

Pumpkin is essentially the same as butternut squash .

The cheese and parsnip roulade is what we're going for this year I think, it's soooooooo good. Delia Smith recipe.

Glamorgan sausages - they are fried on the stove so great for Christmas when the oven is really full.

Another vote for Delia's roulade

Stuffed flat mushroom or a veggie cutlet - all the supermarkets do a Christmassy one. I like to keep it simple, so much to be doing anyway. In fact the best is just more of everything except the meat! :) I hate Christmas lunches where I end up with stroganoff or pasta - I want roast!

Nut roast with the same accompaniments as the meat eaters as I want the same meal as the meat eaters minus the meat.

Nut roast for me and Quorn roast for DS.

I'm doing homemade veggie sausages in toad in the hole, with extra batter for any meat eaters who crave Yorkshire pure.

Homemade pasta (100g of plain flour per large egg) and wild mushroom sauce.

YY to 'the roast without meat'

DH and I are vegetarian, we have a Quorn Roast (he isn't a huge fan) but all the accompaniments is what make Christmas Dinner special.
The DC have a chicken breast, roasted in skin.
If I have visitors, I do a whole chicken.

Something like pasta or bakes is nice for another day.
Christmas Day, maybe buy a ready made nut cutlet and ask if they want it. Chances are, they'll have the sides.

I used to make a Nut Loaf (Good Housekeeping) for my Mum when she couldn't eat dairy.

Fry onions + oil+ garlic until soft but still pale
Slightly toast some white nuts- almonds, macadamia. brazils,cashews then coarsley crush
White bread into breadcrumbs

Cooked chestnuts (canned or vacuum packed) drained artichokes hearts - chopped.

Then add thyme , pine nuts, grated cheese if you want, an egg.
Form into a roll and wrap in greaseproof then foil,
Freeze till you need it, bake from frozen, wrapped up until it's done then open to let it brown.
I'll check how long it cooks for, think it's 40 minutes.

YY Delia Roulade but IMO it's too rich to have with all the bits. It's nice for mid week with a salad and beetroot

Totally agree with you 70.

I too want the dinner without the meat. That doesn't mean just give me a plate of vegetables, you wouldn't dish up just vegetables for the meat eaters. I also don't want a different meal, so no to pasta or wellingtons unless that is what the meat eaters are having. I don't want veggie sausages as I eat them every week.

I just wish restaurants would get it...I normally decline works Christmas dos as I am sick to death of the dire veggie option at a ridiculous price.

Sorry, rant over.

Thanks all of you. We will be seventeen in total, seven veggies, ten carnivores who will be having a traditional turkey.

Thanks all of you. We will be seventeen in total, seven veggies, ten carnivores who will be having a traditional turkey.

Yep, all the gorgeous usual roast accompaniments (roast potatoes, roast parsnips, cauliflower cheese, potato gratin, peas, stuffing etc) with Quorn roast and veggie sausages. We gave up meat in 2007 and Christmas dinners are sooo much easier and cheaper without it. Our last carnivore Christmas cost us £80 for the meat alone. The veggie equivalent comes to under a fiver! And you just bung it in the oven and it's done 45 minutes later, no basting or faff. And it's bloody delicious

The redwood celebration turkey roast with pigs in blankets is amazing!

Alternately I love quinoa nut roast

I find even the carnivores round my table like a slice of this Parsnip, cranberry & chestnut loaf.