Vegetarian Christmas dinner?

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I'd be really grateful if the vegetarians here could tell me what they're cooking and eating on Christmas day or Boxing Day please, with links to recipes if at all possible.

We're normally a meat-eating family but my son has become vegetarian at university and I'd like to do meat-free meals while he's home, especially on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.

Thanks for your help. 🙂

I'm very boring and don't like anything fancy. I have the spuds, veg &stuffing with a quorn escalope or fillet.

Vegetarian for 45 years and a friend bought me a Vegetarian Christmas book many moons ago
Its my go to every Christmas and Easter

Theres a second hand one for sale with world of books …

Theres snacks, party food, main meals etc
Many things can be made before and are just fabulous. Lots to chose from gor all tastes

I love a nut roast. Loads of great recipes out there or the big supermarkets sell them at Christmas esp M&S. One thing I get absolutely sick of as a veggie is vegetables in pastry being the veggie option at every Christmas do, wedding or function. No protein, just huge lumps of tasteless puff pastry with a few peppers and courgettes and onions in the centre. So I would recommend avoiding that!

Get some Veggie sausages (Richmond taste lovely!) take insides out of its casing, add mushrooms or any thing you fancy, wrap in pastry, very tasty sausage wellington!! Made it 3 years now it’s so nice and even the meat eaters approve!

My vegetarian enjoys a Quorn roast (available at most supermarkets). We've offered far more fancy alternatives over the years, but he really enjoys it (makes sandwiches with it afterwards) and looks forward to his Christmas Quorn as he doesn't have it regularly. All our side dishes are veggie anyway and he never did eat gravy, so popping an extra roast into the oven with the roasties is not a great hassle.

The Felicity Cloake nut roast, the Hairy Bikers nut roast and the Sarah Brown nut roast with a mushroom layer as 'stuffing' are all very good and pretty straightforward.

And added advantage it that you can slice them up and freeze them for the rest of the times in the year that he's home and you're making a roast dinner. Just bob a slice in the frying pan for 4 minutes a side when you're ready to serve!

NB - with the Felicity Cloake recipe I don't bother with the cabbage leaves wrapping the loaf. They are a bit of a faff and don't add much.

TBH there is so much food - including two types of stuffing, a nut and a herb one - I tend not to bother with a veggie main. MIL used to do a mean nut roast made with ground cashew nuts - and I say that as not a big nut roast fan. I do get Quorn slices for when we have cold meats and cheeses on Boxing Day.

I had the Quorn roast at the weekend and it was tasty.

hey, I just recently became an official vegetarian although I never really ate meat anyways.

I have found this butternut squash, brie and caramelised onion wellington at m&s which is what I'll be having.. maybe worth a try? reviews are really good.

happy Christmas :)

Red Wine and Mushroom En Croute

My wife and I have had this every year since this recipe was first published in the Guardian.
I am really looking forward to my Christmas lunch and the subsequent days with fry up (Bubble and Squeak)

Every year we look at alternatives but no, this is the perfect main for Christmas lunch.

I leave out the celery. We have that a soup over the holidays. OP I hope you have a lovely Christmas Dinner!

Im a meat eater but this sounds delicious

None of us in the family are vegan/veggie but when me and DH were a few years ago, we made this Bosh Xmas mushroom wellington and it’s been everyone’s favourite for the last 5 years, all meat eaters seem to love it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeUGghqmW48

Kids and I don't eat meat but I'm very boring and just get a quorn roast. DH has beef but everything else is the same just I cook it without meat fat. To be honest it's the same when I do a roast, I just do veggie sausage toad in the hole for us. I do like food but don't go all out with dinner, I'm happy to get a lot of cheese and nibbly bits to snack on over the period. I think a roast is a big meal anyway without lots of courses.

i wanted a vegetarian haggis for st andrew's day but couldnt get one from my usual source, waitrose
i found one last week,
so may do this for christmas, perfect!

I find cooking meat for 10 people more hassle than vegetables for myself (vegan). So I’m grateful I have one less meat eater to cater for.
Whenever I go to anyone else’s house I offer to bring my own food.

Vegans are easy if.you're cooking from scratch, hard if you're using pre-prepared stuff.

I usually just have veggie sausages with all the usual veg etc.
I made some complicated Ottelenghi thing one year and thought it wasn't really worth it and there's so much going on on the day. Although if you're not cooking meat perhaps there's more space and time to make something elaborate.

For my stepmum and DD I'm doing a version of this Jamie spinach and feta pie but with puff pastry not filo, added chestnuts and cranberries, and cranberry sauce.

One year I did a wild mushroom, goat's cheese and red wine pie, it was phenomenal and I just made it up, finest moment of my life but sadly out this year as DD is 9 and would therefore rather eat her own toes than either mushrooms or goat's cheese...

We usually do a couple of different nut or lentil roasts. One carrot and cashew nuts, one butternut squash and chestnut, or lentil and mushroom roast. I also do homemade vegetarian gravy (the rest of the year we use granules).

They also have the advantage that I can make them the day before and put them in the fridge.

I've done a quorn roast for someone before now - but nut roast is easy enough.
Cranks is always good
cranks.co.uk/recipes/nut-roast/

I did a really good vegan Christmas dinner a couple of years ago. A vegetable and nut wreath thing with roast potatoes and vegetables as usual, followed by a pavlova made with chickpea water which was excellent and a cheeseboard which was also excellent if rather expensive.

Similar to spanakopita !!! Which is delicious

Individual parcels are also excellent if you want to make beforehand and squeeze into that stuffed full freezer

The idea of adding chestnuts and cranberries sounds delicious
😋

Thanks for this YouTube video
It all looks so delicious

I second that
Its absolutely delicious !

Dd 2 has been vegetarian for 10 years now. We have often made this nutloaf its delicious

Nut roast recipe | Good Food https://share.google/8s7DBpTosYQPEbne0

Also made pastry christmas wreaths. Many recipes out there.

Cook has some nice options too.