What are some good, basic vegetarian meals?!
Answers: My boyfriend and I have been living on pasta and tofu stir-fry for the past couple of months. I need some good, basic meals that we can make staples in our vegetarian diet.
Amy's Soy Mac-n-cheese, add Soy Knox or Smart Dogs.
Amy's Indian food or Trader Joe's Indian Food (Dal) with rice.
Veat 'Salmon' (pan fry in olive oil, garlic powder and capers or lemon juice) serve with rice and a salad.
Hummus, pita bread and a salad.
Gardenburger Breakfast Bacon - make a BLT add avacado.
Slice tomatoes in rounds, top with Soya Kaas mozzarella cheese, basil, cut up figs (peeled, washed in hot water to bring out the sweetness) sprinkle with a little olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Leave out to room temp until cheese is 'melted' looking.
Stir-fry veggies and rice with Tofu - I use extra firm, wrap in paper towels to soak up the excess water. Cut in slices, fry in a little olive oil, hot pepper sesame oil and soy sauce. Sprinkle with ginger, garlic, curry, whatever you have in the cupboard. Top with sesame seeds. You can also top it with sliced veggie cheese and serve on toasted sourdough with mustard.
Gardenburger Riblets, baked potato, broccoli (w/ lemon, margarine and garlic) and a salad.
Pasta w/ marinara sauce, if you have Boca Itailan Sausages (vegetarian) cut them up and add it to the sauce. Serve with garlic bread - spread butter on bread, sprinkle with garlic powder and brown in a pan, butter side down.
Clean portobello mushrooms, cut up, saute in olive oil, garlic and a little soy sauce. Serve with salad.
Boca Sausages or even MorningStar Farms Sausages (not the breakfast ones) are good on homemade pizza - add mushrooms, tomatoes, broccoli, peppers, onions.
Easy Corn Chowder Soup – 1 can each of White Corn, Yellow Corn and Creamed Corn, including the water from the can. Cut up celery add to the pot, add a little rice dream milk.
To vegetarian refried beans add mild green sauce. Add soy cheese if desired. Make Spanish Rice – Far East and/or Rice-a-Roni makes it in a box, just add tomatoes. Serve in a burrito, taco or tostada – add lettuce, tomatoes, soy cheese and avacado to the top.
Quorn turkey roast, with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. Use leftovers on for a 'turkey' sandwich or in soup -
Vegetarian Chicken Noodle Soup
6 cups of pure water
? cup Vegetarian Chicken Soup Base
6 organic celery stalks, chopped
1 ? cups sweet onion
6 carrots, chopped finely
1 package organic noodles (rice, corn or barley)
1 package of Quorn Tenders (or use leftover Quorn Turkey Roast cut up)
Sauté Tenders lightly in olive oil. Heat water, add soup base, stirring gently. Add vegetables, noodles (consider breaking them into 1-2 inch pieces) and Quorn Tenders.
Basil, Tomato and Mozzarella Sandwich
INGREDIENTS
1 (1 pound) loaf Italian bread
6 fresh basil leaves, chopped
2 tomatoes, sliced
4 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, sliced (Soya Kaas)
1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1/2 cup balsamic vinegar
DIRECTIONS
Slice the loaf of bread in half lengthwise. Layer the basil, tomato slices, and mozzarella cheese between the two halves of bread. Cut into four sandwiches.
In a small dish, stir together the balsamic vinegar and red pepper flakes. Use as a dipping sauce.
Rice and beans in the same meal provide a complete protein.
A simple meal like vegetarian lasagne is very tasty, but still easy to cook and good for you!
Delia Online has loads of vegetarian meals where I get a lot of mine from. She does like to use salt in her recipes, but I never add it, but I think it always tastes nicer without the salt.
You can't get much more basic than beans on toast, and Tesco do fantastic baked beans and vegetarian sausages, 44p a standard sized tin.
vegetable stir fry is quick and easy to make, and will help you towards your five a day. just get some baby corn, peas, brocolli, peppers, green beans, carrots, noodles and, if you like, some tofu, get a packet of stir fry sauce and cook it all up in a wok. ^.^ it'll keep for a few days afterwards as well and it's not too expensive either.
Cous cous with side salad and a hardboiled free range egg.
Sounds odd, but I love this!! )
Pasta is great, but you don't want to be living of it. Here a just a few of my faves.
Grilled veggies with watercress cracked pepper & olives:
Chop & grill - Eggplant, Zuchinni, Mushroom, Tomato, Onion
Add some watercress leaves, olive oil, pinch of salt, cracked black pepper & a few olives. Its absolutely delicious. I had that for dinner tonight.
OR
BBQ Veggie & Tofu skewers:
Chop up green & red capsicum, zuchinni, & spanish onion
medium tofu cubes
whole large-ish cherry tomatoes
whole medium mushrooms
put them all on a skewer then BBQ for a few mins. make sure you marinate the tofu in what ever flavour you like before. I like to serve it with some salad, hummus and lebanese bread.
Bon appitite =)
I live off pasta, but I do eat some other things.
Try vegetarian tacos. Grab some fake ground beef, or even some tofu, and take one of those Taco Kits you can get at the supermarket. Tada. They're simple to make and really delicious.
You can also buy a lot of frozen stuff that you just heat up and serve. Pierogis are really, really good. They're pasta shells filled with potato and other flavorings. You can boil them or fry them. They're really interesting. However, some have meat, so be careful. Try the Mrs. T's ones, they're good.
Assuming you're just vegetarian, you could also go back to the little kid basics. Have some mac and cheese. Have some PB&J. You can check online for millions of vegetarian recipes. Also, I'll link you to the Peta2 website, because they have TONS of basic ideas--it's aimed at teens, so they don't expect you to cook much.