Special Sunday roast dinner recipes please.

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I would be ever so grateful for any suggestions for a lovely vegan roastie.
Something you’ve had or would love to have in a restaurant? Or something delicious you’ve made at home?
Im relatively new to vegan cooking and would love to find some new recipes.

A whole roast celeriac? All the other sides you'd usually have with a meat roast. It looks and tastes very special - and takes a while to cook.

Mushroom wellington always goes down well in this house

Roast potatoes and carrots, parsnips, cauliflower all done in oil. Green veg steamed. With beyond beef bits (or this is not chicken chunks) in veg gravy is a favourite of the vegans here.
Mine would prefer not to have "special", just loads of roasted veg.

I shall look up the roasted celeriac, ty. I make mushroom wellington, love that. Roasted veggies all good on that score. Cauli cheese, I’m experimenting with homemade cheese as I’m not too keen on the shop brands.
I’m good with puds and starters. It’s just a fancy home made main centre piece I’m struggling to find something for.

There's several different kinds of seitan-based roasts you can make. Some of the recipes are here: https://seitansociety.com/holiday/

Ty, ive been looking at seitan. Is there a brand you would recommend? Or is it best to make your own?

I've had caramelised shallot and potato tarte tartin in a restaurant recently. Yum!

Ugh no don't do a whole roasted celeriac. Bogging, lazy, and in no way a decent centrepiece.

Wellington, a pie (we love a steak and kidney bean, using Fable mushrooms as the steak), cauli cheese using vegan Applewood smoked (this is delicious and pretty much indistinguishable from a dairy one when cooked, cheapo soya milk makes the best white sauce base), leek pithivier again using Applewood smoked with Oatly creme fraiche.

Definitely make you own. Especially if you use vital wheat gluten instead of going down the washing of wheat flour to extract the gluten, it's really quite easy as most of the recipes call for you to just mix the vital wheat gluten flour with a liquid (which adds the flavouring) and usually something else like tofu or beans. You let the dough rest for a period to develop gluten strands and then shape it in pieces or logs or whatever. There's several cooking methods, but most recipes call for some sort of simmering (not boiling) of the dough and then pan frying (or basting) before eating. The Seitan Society link has lots of advice on how to get started and beginner recipes. Some of the roasts are a bit more complicated, but not all of them. It's so cheap to make and you can make analogue chicken fillets, chicken pieces, beef steaks, burgers and tons of things that you can freeze and have on hand for throwing into meals. I tend to make one recipe of something like this a week on rotation just to keep my freezer full. If you're new to vegan cooking (and especially if you have meat-based recipes you're familiar with), it's so easy to swap seitan out for the meat and just make the recipes as you normally would. Fish is a little harder to replicate in my experience, but there are recipes for that too.

Thank you so much everyone, that’s really helpful.

I make a lovely sausage plait. It is a great centrepiece - all shiny and plaited! Good vegan sausages mixed with grated apple, chutney and grated onion.Mix it all by hand and put it down the middle third of ready made shortcrust pastry. Plait the outside pastry strips and wash with oat milk. Really lovely served with lots of fresh veg and vegan gravy.

Ooh. I’m going to try this. Which sausages do you use?

My Mum used to make steamed leek suet pudding when we were kids (we weren’t vegan but it was cheap and filling!) I’ve made it for vegetarian friends using vegetarian suet,

I make a sort of cheats wellington using McSween Haggis which is vegan friendly and make a mushroom and kale duxelle and cover in pastry. It tastes gorgeous and looks so fancy when sliced

I think they were Cauldron vegan sausages. I don’t like many of the others but these are nice and ‘herby!’

This sounds amazing!

have you tried tiba seitan? I got some in asda

I think cauldron contain milk so not vegan but are veggie

My husband and my favourite Sunday dinner was potatoes cut into wedges, shoved in the oven with a whole garlic. Then peppers, tomatoes, portobello mushroom, thick wedges of courgette and a couple of whole shafts of leek all shoved in the oven. Then into the oven shortly afterwards a whole packet of basil-flavoured tofu cut into slices (because it's quite expensive we ended up marinating plain tofu in soy sauce and various herbs). Let it all roast, haul it out, get all the condiments on the table. It was delicious.

DH makes Sarah Browns Cheese and Lentil loaf on Xmas day and plenty left for Boxing Day.

Goats cheese tart with roast potatoes and lots of different vegetables.

Ours were definitely vegan. There are a wide variety so you do need to check carefully.

Since when was goats cheese vegan

Oops, I misread, DH is vegetarian but often eats vegan recipes too.