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Vegetarian main course

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Copperblack · 03/12/2019 22:23

What are you doing instead of turkey for your vegetarians? I’m open to cooking or buying in, but had been hopeful that the Waitrose beet wellington would fit the bill and in the test run it was not popular!

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Montyman · 07/12/2019 14:04

I’ll be doing this again:

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/melty-mushroom-wellingtons

But instead of individual ones I do one big one. It’s tasty and simple.

whyamidoingthis · 07/12/2019 14:04

@Jumpi - I was quoting you, albeit incorrectly.

I do apologise. It should have read "going to such lengths", rather than "great lengths".

Being a pedant, I really couldn't leave that uncorrected. Thanks for pointing it out .

whyamidoingthis · 07/12/2019 14:08

The Gosh stuff is lovely.

I've made mushroom pate en croute a couple of times too. It's lovely with cranberry sauce.

I've also made a gougere with a veg and hazelnut filling.

PorpentinaScamander · 07/12/2019 14:13

I've got a small pork roast for Ds2 and I
Ds1 (15) is the only vegetarian. He's opted for Linda McCartney pulled pork burgers

WilmaJean · 07/12/2019 14:42

I saw this on TV today. Looked lovely. I'm planning to make it after Christmas when I have a veggie friend staying

www.itv.com/john-and-lisas-weekend-kitchen/recipes/leek-squash-and-blue-cheese-pithivier-and-star-on-top

goose1964 · 07/12/2019 15:52

I'll agree about veggie haggis,I'm an omnivore and love itt

whyamidoingthis · 07/12/2019 16:06

Anyone have a recipe for veggie haggis?

JessicaJoans · 07/12/2019 17:13

I was coming on to say veggie haggis too. Waitrose does one this time of year - just needs a few mins in the microwave and works perfectly with all the usual trimmings, especially bread sauce... I’m already salivating at the thought!

Fueledwithfairydustandgin · 07/12/2019 19:39

We have veggie haggis and I do a quorum wellington which the meat eaters have tried to share the last 2 years. It’s just a quorum roast cut in half lengthwise and filled with homemade stuffing then wrapped in pastry. Really quick and easy and tastes delicious

ElluesPichulobu · 07/12/2019 23:25

all supermarket veggie haggis is awful - you can see visible lumps of peas and carrots in them which is wrong.

boil up some barley in vegetable stock

fry up an onion and a bag of quorn mince (or a packet of mashed up veggie sausages if you don't get on with quorn)

mix together the fried mince, the drained boiled barley and some jumbo oats along with an egg yolk, generous amounts of black pepper, allspice and cayenne plus (less generously) some salt - and some suet, and a good dram of whisky

I don't give quantities because it's not an exact science and it's not going to go far wrong whatever.

if you can buy a proper (synthetic) haggis skin online or use a boil-in-the-bag bag, or if not then it is fine baked rather than boiled (just pop some foil over to stop it drying out)

it's really easy but I never do it for Christmas as we celebrate Burns' night only a month later and I like to keep that special.

whyamidoingthis · 08/12/2019 00:52

That haggis sounds like it might taste a bit meaty for me but I might give it a go with lentils rather than the meat substitute.

ElluesPichulobu · 08/12/2019 07:35

@whyamidoingthis it's a very flexible recipe so very amenable to adaption. The original concept was developed to stretch a small amount of meat to cover a meal for a whole family by the addition of the other cheaper ingredients. I'm sure lentils will work, or a combo with a mix of both lentils plus a modest amount of quorn/tofu/soya and lentils, or equally I should think mushroom would be a good substitute if you had the energy to dice a couple of punnets into mince-size pieces. depending on what you use it might be wise to add a bit more egg at the combination stage. I only specified an egg yolk because "half an egg" is a bit fiddly. bung the whole egg in if need be, you want the mixture to be a bit sticky.

pontiouspilates · 08/12/2019 07:45

Look at Jack Monroe's nut roast recipe. I'm test cooking it today with a view to do on Christmas day.

foxcote90 · 08/12/2019 07:58

Another vote for a mushroom wellington.

As a long time veggie married to a meat eater, we've made the recipe below lots of times (and for dinner parties for all guests to eat) and it goes down a treat every time. No one even comments about it being meat free.

It's also vegan if you use standard ready rolled puff pastry so great if you've got vegans coming too:

pin.it/2t4k2rbsgllcth

whyamidoingthis · 08/12/2019 09:20

Thanks @ElluesPichulobu.

The mushroom option sounds good.

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 08/12/2019 09:21

Veggie haggis! If you have all the lovely veggies (obv bit cooked in goose fat). Yum.

christmasathome · 08/12/2019 09:24

Im a veggie and personally I love really nice sides and stuffing. Up until a a few years ago I didn't have anything extra but now i do myself some quorn fillets.

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 08/12/2019 09:25

Try veggie haggis - you won’t regret it!

AnnaMagnani · 08/12/2019 09:33

I made this Ottolenghi traybake ragu recently and it was a complete winner and v easy to do. Could easily go in a pie to make it a bit more Christmassy.

www.theguardian.com/food/2019/nov/16/yotam-ottolenghi-mushroo-recipes-ragu-aioli-lasagne

Have also previously done Anna Jones' Christmas pie and that was good too - she had one before which was more celeriac

www.theguardian.com/food/2019/dec/06/an-alternative-christmas-dinner-anna-jones-recipe-for-squash-winter-herb-and-popped-butterbean-pie

Sistercharlie · 08/12/2019 09:35

Jamie Oliver demonstrated a veggie recipe for Christmas dinner, on his Quick and Easy Christmas show last night, not sure which channel, I was doing chores at the time and only half watching. It seemed to involve hollowing out and roasting a squash or vice versa and filling it with some Christmassy version of a bean stew (made from one of those mixed pulse/grain supermarket pkts). It looked very festive. I'm sure the recipe will be out there somewhere.

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 08/12/2019 09:39

I actually have 3 mains to make on Christmas - turkey, salmon and veggie. God knows why I agreed to this!

Here’s a question for meat eaters - is the turkey hot when it’s served? Or can I make it in the morning and leave it aside for later?

FloraGreysteel · 08/12/2019 09:46

I made a vegan mushroom steamed suet pudding once: it went down very well but it was a faff! These days I usually do a nut roast for my vegan DP. He also likes Paxo sage and onion stuffing (which is vegan) so I try to find a nut roast that doesn't taste of sage and onion so that he doesn't end up with two identical slabs of brown on his plate.

hazeyjane · 08/12/2019 09:46

Can anyone recommend the best supermarket veggie haggis?

Might take dd1 some persuading, but our veggie main has to avoid nuts and 'obvious mushrooms'

If it was just for me I'd make a nut and mushroom Wellington, I used to make an enormous one called The Beast, which was gorgeous cold too.

ItsChristmaaaaaaaaas · 08/12/2019 09:48

McSweens! Halls is rather smooth, more like pate - so the texture is just wrong!

Very nice with mint sauce (I know, I’m a heathen!)

FloraGreysteel · 08/12/2019 09:48

There's no such thing as a good veggie haggis :-(

McSween's is the best effort I've tried and you can buy it in all the supermarkets round here.

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