Veggie meals without tomatoes anyone?

[specialmagiclady]

Trying to do more veggie cooking (budget etc) but DH is allergic to tomatoes. DS1 is allergic to raw egg so funny about eating anything which is overtly eggy eg frittata.

So what are your best veggie recipes that don't have tomatoes in?

Maccaroni cheese!
Pizza (you can manage without the tomato base)
Ummmm I'll have a think...

Oh stuffed peppers (rice and veggies, with cheese on top)
Stews and curries can be done tomato free.

You can make tacos with a tomato free chilli.

This was pretty lush!

creamy risotto type dishes?

Canelloni tubes - spinach and ricotta? egg free pasta?

Risotto - hfw carrot and broad bean risotto is lovely

Vegetable gratins

Tacos / fajitas with roasted squash and red onion ( as much or little chilli as you like) salad, and sour cream

My dc love butter bean burgers from BBC good food (on phone so can't link sorry)

Soups- potato and leek, broccoli and Stilton, butternut squash, country veg etc

Pasties- cheese and onion, swede and potato, goats cheese and spinach.

Frittata/quiche

spinach and chickpea coconut curry is a favourite here...

Ooh yum - love the idea of the squash and onion tacos, and butter bean burgers. And actually I cook quite a lot of these already but I tend to forget what I can do.

Keep 'em coming!

Mushroom stroganoff.

pasta pesto, vegetable strudel ( vegetables stir fries with oyster sauce and wrapped in filo pastry).

Ooh -mushroom stroganoff. (Pictures ds1 diligently picking every mushroom out, doesn't care)

Risottos are great cos you can vary what you put in them to make them more interesting/seasonal/just so you have variety.
Egg fried rice could work too as although it has egg in, it isn't particularly obvious.

spinach and chickpea coconut curry is a favourite here...
that's what I was going to say. Or chickpea and red pepper/aubergine/ whatever curry with coconut base.

Goat's cheese with roasted red peppers - tart, salad, or on toast.

Stir-fried veg with cashew nuts, whatever type of sauce you like (some of the bought ones are of course not strictly veggie) and noodles.

Buy a pack of ready rolled puff pastry. Top with something delicious and veggie and then bake. Spinach and ricotta is lovely. Or caramelised onion and cheese (of some description). Or roast peppers and onion.

(You can either bake it lying flat or roll it up like a roulade, which needs longer cooking).

Vegetable yakitori are lovely. Yakitori sauce (similar to teryaki sauce) is easy to make. Peppers, spring onions, mushrooms, aubergine, squash/pumpkin are all nice grilled on sticks and covered in yakitori sauce. You can serve with rice and/or cucumber salad.

The same thing with other sauces also works really well. And you could add halloumi too. It's very easy to vary veg on sticks.

Oh and falafel are easy to make (and very tasty).

CalamitouslyWrong got me thinking about some of the Arabic dishes like stuffed vine leaves

Ooh Arabic is the way forward - I shall consult Claudia Roden.

When you think about it, tomatoes didn't get to europe and asia till post-columbus (and then didn't take off for a while) - quite large parts of asia are predominantly vegetarian so there should be lots of tomato-free recipes as you go east.

This is lovely

www.galbani.co.uk/recipes/pasta_with_dolcelatte_and_spinach.html

Courgette fritters, bean burgers, falafel, tomato-free veg and chickpea curry. The A Girl Called Jack cookbook has some good veggie recipes.

Ooh non nom all round.

Last night we had a Chinese Feast (squash and ginger fritters, stir fry bok choi and then other veggies stir fried with black beans) from a book by Kylie Kwong, an Australian-Chinese food writer. It was a guddle, but delicious.

Kids hardly ate any of it - tough.