Very quick and easy one:
2 cups rice
3 cups boiling water
2 tins of tomatoes
2 onions, chopped
oil
salt and pepper
about 4oz grated cheese.
Fry onion in oil until soft. Stir in rice. Add tomatoes, water and seasoning. Bring to the boil, reduce heat to low and cover tightly. Cook until water is absorbed and rice is cooked, about 12 minutes for easy cook white and about 45 minutes for ordinary brown. Serve in bowls sprinkled with grated cheese. Nice with a bit of watercress on top and tortillas for scooping or wrapping. serves 4
Another very quick and easy one:
2 onions, chopped
oil
2 tins mixed veg, not drained
1 tin beans, (canellini or borlotti are nice) not drained
2 cups rice
3 cups hot veg stock
bunch fresh parsley or coriander or a couple of tablespoons dried
1 tspn chopped garlic
1tspn turmeric
6tablespoons dried milk powder or replace stock with 1 cups water, 2cups milk and 3 stock crumbly cubes.
Soften onion in oil. Add everything else, bring to the boil, reduce heat to low, cover tightly and simmer until liquid is absorbed.
lemon pasta:
bag pasta
1 tub phily type cheese, (black pepper one is nice)
1 small carton double cream
juice and zest of 2 lemons
2 tins peas.
Cook pasta acording to packet. Drain. Pour lemon juice into a large bowl and dump cooked pasta into it. Mix it around and leave it to the side.
Put the cream, philly and zest into a pan. Heat gently, stirring, until cheese is melted and cream is piping hot. Stir in pasta and peas. Mix well and heat through.
Lentil and rice tacos
1 cup green lentils
1 cup brown rice
5 cups hot veg stoc
1 chopped onion
taco seasoning
tacos or tortilla wraps
chopped tomatoes and onions
grated cheese
lettuce
other taco type stuff
Put the lentils, rice, onions, taco seasoning and stock in a pan. Bring back to the boil, cover, reduce heat and cook on low for about 45minutes, until liquid is absorbed and rice is cooked. Use mix to fill tacos or tortillas and top with your favourite toppings.
You can use the basic lentils, rice, stock and onion thing, without seasoning as a substitute for mince in a lot of things. AS above, you can add a tin of kidney beans and a tin of tomatoes and use it to make tortilla pie. Pour the lentils and rice mix into a pie dish. Cut a packet of tortillas into little bits (maybe about an inch square.) scatter these over the lentils and mix them through. Scatter the top with grated cheese and bake at 180 for between 20 and 30 minutes, until crispy on top.
Mushroom pasta
cooked pasta
1 tin condensed mushroom soup
1 tin chopped mushrooms
1 tin corn
1/2 soup tin milk.
Mix everything together and heat through.
Other things you could try are things like:
lentil burgers
potato and spinach curry
different soups
nut loaf
mushroom and chestnut pie
dried beans, soaked, cooked with onions, garlic and black pepper and served with chunks of homemade cornbread or soda bread
baked polenta
bean chilli
Noodles cooked in veg stock and coconut milk with stir fry veg and tofu.
Savoury sauage rolls made with wholemeal onion bread dough and veggie sausages.
chick pea salad rolls ( a bit like egg mayo)
Mash a couple of tins of drained chick peas, but not too smoothly. Add a bunch of chopped spring onions, a couple of chopped dill pickled cucumbers, a couple of chopped peppadew peppers, some of the pickle vinegar and enough mayonnaise to bind it all together. Season to taste and adjust vinegar to taste. Serve in crusty rolls with salad.
Chick pea burgers
veggie sausage crumble
root veg and barley stew spiced with cumin and black pepper
barley rissotto
leek, mushroom and potato pie or jacket potatoes topped with creamy leek and mushrooms.
There are lots of different things that you can make. I haven't bought a veggie cook book for a long time, but I used to have one that had some interesting recipes in it called 365 plus 1 vegetarian meals, or something similar. It had a different main meal for every day of the year. A lot of them were really good and very easy. Also the Vegetarian Society has a great website with tons of good recipes.