Vegetarian recipes for a large crowd??!
Vegetarian recipes for a large crowd??
I will be having a wedding of about 100 people and it is very important to me that the reception be vegetarian. It will probably be a buffet, and it will be a dinner meal. We will be preparing the food ourselves, so hopefully nothing too hard, and things that can be prepared in advance would be better, however anything you can toss out there would be great.
Thank you!!
Answers:
One of my best : Tofu salad
Recipe for 5 serves (X 20 for 100...)
one block of tofu (400gr.)
1/2 cup celery
1/2 cup mini-carrots cubes
1/4 cup green onions
1 cup sliced sweet peppers
Add parsley, coriander, black pepper, salt.
A great sauce:
- 1 cup lemon juice
- 2 cups vegetal oil (canola or sunflower)
- 3 tablespoons tahini butter (sesame butter)
- fresh garcil, crushed/grind
- black pepper, salt
Mix to the salad and keep the salad in the fridge.
It's 3 times too much sauce, but you'll like it so much you'll want to get more !
May be prepared 1 - 2 days before serving. Mix the sauce 24 hours before serving.
Enjoy !
Source(s):
http://index-go.com/health_fitness_medic...
Some ideas that are good "keepers" would be:
Diverse salad bar. Baby lettuces, spinach, raddichio, etc with at least 20 different toppings like tomato, cucumber, mushrooms, shredded cheddar, crumbled blue cheese, red onion, scallions, red, yellow and orange peppers, croutons, sunflower seeds, hot peppers, shredded cabbage, etc.
And several very good dressings for on top. Not the standard bottled Ranch dressing, but a few homemade favorites like Ranch and Blue Cheese and French but also a couple that are different. Like a mango vinagrette or creamy garlic parmesan.
Then you could do Spinach lasagna, multi-veggie "white" lasagna with a cream sauce and lots of sauteed veggies with lasagna noodles. So you would have one red sauce entree and one white sauce entree.
Also, a veggie stirfry with and without small bits of tofu (not a lot of people like tofu) and you could use a sweet and salty teriyaki sauce. Put in broccoli, waterchestnuts, shredded carrots, bean sprouts, little mini corns, green onions, mushrooms,....all the traditional stir-fry foods. Serve it with choices of white sticky rice or whole grain brown rice.
You could offer plenty of flavorful breadsticks, hearty garlic bread, dinner rolls.
Good luck and congratulations!
wow great question!
If i was throwing a wedding for 100 people i would also be asking myself the same question - All vego and self catered!
If you are going to have more than 1 course, i'd definatly offer soups as the starter. You could do a choice 2 or 3 soups (all veggie) very easy to cook in advance and reheat. You could even cook it WELL in advance and freeze it. Soups are also cheap to prepare.
Other weddings i have been to have had finger foods passed around instead of a starter. These tend to be the kind of thing you can buy frozen and just have to cook in the oven for a bit, like spring rolls, cheese and spinach triangles and samosas. That Ok, and easy, but i would not do that for my wedding as i would want the food to be more home made than that. For a simular style starter, but without buying packaged processed snacks, you could do stuff like
- Sushi (rice and avocado/cucumber wrapped in a sheet of seaweed - nori) cut into small rounds. Its easy to make, you just need a clean sharp knife to make nice cuts. Would need to be quite fresh, but making it the night before should be OK.
- little pastries you can make yourself with frozen puff pastry sheets. You can make them and then freeze them, then cook them in the oven on the day. You could do mini pizza or mini queche in muffin pans, little triangles with spinach and cheese (oh whatever) mini veggie pies, Veggie sausage rolls.
- Mini kabobs with veggies (and maybe tofu) marinated in a light sweet chilli sauce and cooked on a grill or BBQ. YUM! Make them the day before and then cook quickly when ready to serve.
- french or rye bread with gormet topping like fetta cheese and char grilled capsicum or pesto and tomato (bite size)
For your dinner buffet...
-You can't go wrong with pasta. Even people that shun vego food should be happy enough with a pasta dish!
What about a pasta bake with veggies, tomato based sauce and a white sauce or cheese toppping. You can make that in advance.
-A thai curry would proberbly go down well. Something like red curry vegetables (mild, put in tofu if you think your guests will enjoy it!) You can make it look really pretty if you use a wide varity of different veggies in all the colours of the rainbow! You could make that 2 days in advance and refrigerate it.
- a noodle stirfry maybe? i'm thinking hokkienne noodles, veggies, maybe tofu (marinated) with a honey soy type sauce....?
Accompany those with some yummy side dishes
- potato salad
- maybe 2 different green salads (like a greek salad and a colslaw)
- bread
can i come?
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i just read the above post and i LOVE the salad bar idea! You could have a choice of a couple of hot dishes, maybe thai curry and a pasta dish, and then move on to create your own side salad at the other end of the buffet!
That reminds me, the last wedding i went to i was very impressed with the way they dished out the food - none of this every 2nd person gets beef, every other gets chicken crap - it was sort of a buffet, except you went to the buffet and were served your choice (out of 3 choices) of hot dishes, then you could put your own side dishes and condiments on your plate. Sort of a 1/2 buffet... worked well!
Vegetarian lasagne is always good; salads of course but you can have leaf salads and then pasta salads; potatoe salads; etc; what about a soup?
hope this helps, congratulations!
I would go with Baked Ziti, roasted veggies, tomato salad and rolls.