Need to cook a festive vegan meal

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Friends coming for a festive lunch on 27th Dec. I'd really like to cook a vegan meal for everyone this time rather than just doing a 'side' dish for my friend.

2 ideas I have:
Nut roast parcels in film pastry, rosaries & veg

Or pasta with veg sauce, stuffed peppers and salad

It sounds nice to me but not sure if I am the most adventurous cook! Anyone have any better ideas?!
Tia.

How's this?

www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/11/vegetables-wellington-the-ultimate-plant-based-vegan-holiday-roast-recipe.html

Jamie Oliver zombie brain celeriac recipe, minus the butter... So nice!

Lots of options, I was thinking of having cranberry stuffed seitan with all the usual stuff (sausages, roast potatoes, parsnips, sprouts, cranberry sauce etc) followed by Christmas pudding and brandy sauce but not sure I can be arsed to cook so might be a cheese board (vegusto) with crackers, good tomatoes, wine and chutneys followed by cranberry creme caramel (set with Vege jel) or chocolate gateux (easy to make)

I'd avoid veggie pasta but your parcels sound nice. Jamie Oliver had a bunch of vegan Christmas recipes I noticed this year which might keep it mainstream and avoid odd ingredients.

Indian is easy for vegans. Many Hindus eat no meat as a matter of course, some avoid eggs. Dhal, a rice dish, a veggie curry, chapatis, chutney, veggie side dish?

I am vegan and would love nut roast in filo!

I have something like that, plus everything else that everyone else has, so, stuffing (no sausage meat , Paxo is good) roast potatoes done in veg oil, veggies (without butter, I use Pure sunflower margarine as its buttery) and gravy made with original Bisto in the red pack, its vegan.

The best xmas lunch I ever had was at a work based function in the city - mushroom risotto. It was gorgeous. Vegan risottos are easy to make. I'd steer clear of anything pastry based just because many people actually don't like pastry, regardless of whether they are vegan, veggie or full carnivore.

I agree about Pure being the best vegan merge - it's superb.

Following, lovely ideas, yum!

www.theppk.com/recipes/

I'm coeliac and vegan.

For a starter we are going to have roasted cauliflower and butternut squash soup

For the main course I've bought some taifun grill sausages, we are going to serve the sausages with a huge roast nut salad, caramalised mini carrots, shallots and pomegranite seeds with baby pea shoots, rocket, baby spinach leaves and some baby kale leaves (which some supermarkets are just stocking and are gorgeous.)
The dressing is going to be a raspberry vinegrate.
I'm also going do those mashed potatoes with coconut oil not butter the ones you put into a piping bag and pipe on to grease proof paper in little swirly circles. You bake them in the oven until crisp on the outside but they're still soft inside. No idea what they're called but they're yum.

Dessert is going to be a raw chocolate and winter fruits cheesecake, served with cashew cream and homemade rum and chocolate ice cream.

I've also got some homemade mince pies for later and some booja booja chocolate and some of a vegan website that are truffle filled and mixed centers that are gluten free.

Was struggling too this year but I've found my groove. Merry Christmas.

For any nut roast phobics, I make a lovely one with chestnuts, they are dead easy and are not dry esp. if served with onion gravy. It can also be used as a stuffing for the meat eaters.

Wow, what a feast Ultra - so many great ideas. Room for one more at your Christmas lunch?!

A chestnut nut loaf sounds good ppeat and would be very Christmassy for me as my DF always made chestnut stuffing at Christmas

You just gently fry chopped small, onions ,garlic, celery and carrot in olive oil, till soft with a bit of stock added gradually(I use miso or tamari sauce) then add a tin of unsweetened chestnut puree, good rye, sour dough or whatever type of breadrumbs you like. I like chopped up whole chestnuts too (you can get the vacuum packed ones). Put it into an oiled loaf tin and bake for 3\4 of an hour at 170C (till it comes away from the sides).

You can freeze it too In fact I'm going to make mine today

Ooh thanks ppeat - that sounds fab and I might just give that a go. Even make two and take one with us to the DGPs/DPs ?

Enjoy Juggling

Mum is doing a chestnut and lentil loaf for Christmas, I expect it's something like this : www.vegetarianliving.co.uk/recipes.php?do=view&recipe=112
I'm looking forward to trying it

Course 1 : soup - of the general orange astounding veg variety
Course 2 : stuffed vegetables - peppers, aubergines, courgette with rice / bean / herby filling
Course 3 : rice, nuts, raisin and tomato filo parcels
Course 4 : sweet puff pastry log plait around vegan mincemeat

how many courses were you planning?

I'm commenting mostly so I can see the replies but I'll through some suggestions in:

www.buzzfeed.com/jamieoliver/how-to-make-a-delicious-christmas-vegan-feast-with-jamie-oli#.xbEoNl9Mj