January yummy recipes help please

[BelligerentYhoULE]

After pigging out on chocolate, biscuits etc for days, I am now really fancying things like Thai curry etc.

Does anybody have any brilliant vegetarian recipes for Thai style curries, Thai salads, anything else fresh and crunchy and light tasting please?

Nobody? :(

I love this soup - it's not really fresh and crunchy though, more mushy and comforting!

Thai soup

My sis makes this Thai style soup at Hallowe'en - tis lush. We leave the rice balls out though.

Have a look at Tom Yum soup recipes & Vietnamese Pho recipes for beautiful, clear, tube-clearing soups. Not sure what would be a veggie substitute for the fish sauce though (hence my recipes won't help TBH - am addicted to the smelly stuff!).

Thank you both. Waffling - we seem to live on coconut milk and lentil soup, so that was good one!

Thanks for giving me names of recipes to Google, Jet - very useful! I'd probably just add a slug of soy and some lime juice instead of the fish sauce - not the same but still tasty. :)

Hopeful January bump.

Doesn't have to be Thai - anuthing fresh, crispy tasting etc - but not just boring salad!

I love this Vietnamese Chicken Salad from Nigella but tweak it like this:

• use chinese leaf instead of white cabbaga
• add a finely sliced bulb of fennel
• use more chilli - usually 1 red + 1 green plus a hot one

It's so nice, really healthy but tastes exciting and there is a lot of eating in it so I don't feel deprived.

I think I'll make it tomorrow actually - yum.

Thank you - need vegetarian though.

this looks nice...

Actually, a lot of his recipes seem like they would fit the bill- light and delicious, if a little complicated.

Yum

Ooh yes, that looks fab - I love edamame. Thanks Tethers.

More yum

Yuk to the eggy thing but yum to figs. :)

Yes, try and ignore the egg

Some more of my favourite things :

lentil chilli with 3-4 peppers added as a bit dull otherwise

lentil salad

risotto

curry

Wonder if I eat too many lentils?

Thanks for these - all great but mostly not crunchy! I Want Crunchy. :) :)

Yum to feta though - adds to Sainsbo's order...

Oops, sorry Belligerent - I've also made the same salad with sauteed tofu and it was really good. I still used fish sauce as not veggie any more, guess you could just substitute soy? Would be nice with some toasted cashews too and v crunchy all round.

Don't be sorry. Tofu sounds good - even the fussy dds like tofu! AND cashews - sounds like a plan...