Your favourite quick go to meal

[Mallowmarshmallow]

After a successful veganuary I'm fairly determined to keep up veganism.

Can anyone share their favourite, quick go to main meal? Some of the emails I've made have taken a while to make and to keep it realistic with a job and small children and busy life I need a stock of quick and easy meals to fall back on....

Pasta with sautéed vegetables and tapenade.

I have several as we get bored quickly.
Falafel burgers www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/falafel-burgers
Microwave chilli www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/microwave-chilli
Satay stir fry healthylivingjames.co.uk/speedy-satay-sauce-noodles/
Chickpea curry www.hungryhealthyhappy.com/10-minute-chickpea-and-spinach-curry/

Wholewheat pasta with a can of borlotti beans (just dump the can in the pot a few mins from the end of the cooking time). Drain the pan about a minute before the recommended cooking time, saving about half a mug of cooking water. Then I fry some cavolo nero or kale with a clove of garlic in olive oil for a couple of minutes, add a jar of sacla tomato olive stir in sauce and about half of the cooking water. Add the pasta and beans and stir everything around for a bit so the pasta soaks up the sauce and finishes cooking. Its delicious! The quickest meal though would just be the pasta and jar sauce :)

West African peanut stew is incredible given the lack of effort
Veggie fajitas (just fry up fave veggies with spices and have on wraps with salsa and guacamole)
I have a few pestos I made (sundried tomato, basil, kale, rocket etc) in the fridge so if I can’t be arsed I just have them with some pasta or on some ciabatta and make bruschetta

Pesto pasta with garlic mushrooms and red onions.
Pizza and chips.
Stir fry.
Burgers with onion rings and coleslaw.
Baked potato with chickpea tuna.

Cheesy peasy pasta - pasta with frozen peas lobbed in at the last minute, drain, stir in violife cream cheese.

Rice casserole - combine cooked brown rice, a drained tin of black beans, a drained tin of sweetcorn, a chopped courgette, and cover in sauce made by blending an onion, a red pepper, 3 tablespoons of cashews, 1 tbsp tahini and half a cup of nutritional yeast. Bake 25 mins.

Roast veg mixed with cooked quinoa.

Beans on toast.

Scrambled tofu on toast.

Baked potatoes (or sweet potatoes) with hummus and veg.

Put a pack of wholewheat noodles on to boil. While these are cooking very thinly slice one leek and one of those nice (Ramiro?) red peppers plus 1cm of fresh ginger if you have it (I keep it ready diced up in the freezer).

Once noodles are cooked drain them and chuck in a good glug each of sesame oil, soy sauce, and sweet chilli sauce (vary the ratio according to your own taste).

Mix well and then add in the leek/pepper/ginger along with a handful of sesame seeds and roasted peanuts (I rinse the salt off them first).

Fork everything together and finish with a sprinkle of fresh coriander and a squeeze of lime (if you have them).

Ace.

Tin of green lentils, tin of chopped tomatoes, chilli powder, veg stock cube, cumin, ground garlic and smoked paprika. Makes instant chilli :)

Same again but add ground garlic, ground chilli, curry powder and garam masala for an instant lentil curry.

Black bean & kidney bean chilli with rice
Mushroom and leek risotto
Green lentil spaghetti Bolognese
Lasagne
Pizza (ready made bases most are vegan)
Pasta bake (quite a few ready made sauces are vegan)
Sweet potato curry
Chickpea curry
Vegan sausages (Richmond) chips & beans
Jacket spud and beans
Creamy mushroom pasta (oatly cream for the sauce)

Onion and garlic fried on the pan
Add to cooked pasta
Vegan pesto and an avocado mashed

Optional extras
Frozen peas
Red peppers fried with onion
Chopped tomatoes

Fresh tomatoes added at the end plus black pepper