Does anyone do a veggie sausage casserole?

[MadFestiveGnome]

I like the idea of a sticky sausage casserole with lots of onions and sauce (and maybe lentils and beer?) but am veggie and don't think I've ever actually eaten a proper one. Can you do it with veggie sausages or don't you get enough fat and taste from them? Anyone got a good recipe if they do do one?

Yes please Remus, I'd love the recipe.

Hassleback potatoes and polenta both sound excellent with it. We might be trying a few versions at this rate!

We use a recipe for Spanish style casserole on the quorn website which is tasty.

I don't think you will get the 'sticky' thing you are after from vegetarian sausages. It's the gelatinous quality of the meat that causes that when it caramelises under heat. In my experience even proper meat sausages don't go caramelised and sticky in a casserole because they just steam/stew in too much liquid and end up all flaccid and anaemic looking.. Urgh.

My recipe is:

Fry diced onion, celery and carrots, plus a finely chopped pepper. Add a dessert spoon of honey, a teaspoon (or more) of grainy mustard, some paprika and lots of black pepper plus (if liked) a teaspoon of Marmite or a bit of barbecue sauce. Add a tub of passata. Shove in the oven (you can do it on the stove but I shove it in the oven and ignore it) and cook for ages until it's all getting meltingly soft. It might need a bit of water.

Meanwhile defrost your veggie hotdogs and slice; drain a tin of greeen lentils or butter beans. Add hotdog slices and pulses and warm through. You can add herbs too, if liked.

It's also nice with baked potatoes with soured cream.

Just popping back to say that Bertrand we made that Jamie recipe for dinner tonight and it was a total winner. Deeeelicious, will definitely be making again.

Thanks Remus

These all sound yummy. A tip for these kinds of veggy savoury things is to add everything brown in the kitchen - Marmite, soy sauce, worcester sauce, mustard, balsamic vinegar, anything else brown (prob not gravy granules though I've never tried). GIves it that delicious, well, brown taste I find!

Worcester sauce is not vegetarian. By the way.

You can get veggie Worcester sauce.

Bertrand, do you do the Jamie baked beans one as a meal in itself?

I know. 31 years a veggie and counting.

You can get vegetarian bacon, but bacon itself is not vegetarian.

Oops - yes of course you're right about Worcester Sauce. 32 years a veggie and the odd careless slip-up.

Not worcester sauce then, unless it's vegetarian.

i don't understand your point. On this thread, as a veggie thread, it's surely obvious that any mention of this sauce (what would you call it?) refers to the veggie version. Same with Parmesan. Yes, in legal terms you can't call veggie Parmesan Parmesan but on a MN thread? That's very pedantic. And I say that as a pedant myself. And my phone automatically capitalises so I can't help that.

I would imagine loads of people wouldn't know that ordinary Worcester sauce isn't vegetarian- particularly if they were looking for tips on the occasional vegetarian meal rather than actually being vegetarians. So I think it's a good point.

It depends on portion size with the Jamie baked beans. Big bowlfuls followed by salad=main course. Somewhat dantier portions=accompaniment.