Favorite Vegetarian Recipes?!
Favorite Vegetarian Recipes?
What are some of your favorite vegetarian recipes? Lately I have been having a hard time trying to figure out what to make for dinner. Preferably low colestrol and sodium. I have tried tofu once in lasagna and it gaged me, but I am willing to try it again, honestly I don't think I cooked it either long enough or got enough water out.
Answers:
So delicious, everybody asks for the recipe!
Baked Corn
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups whole kernel corn
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup green bell pepper, chopped
25 g margarine
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
ground black pepper
3/4 cup milk
1 egg
1/3 cup cracker crumbs
1 tablespoon butter, melted ( = 15 g )
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large skillet, saute onion and green peppers in the margarine. Using a wooden spoon, stir flour, salt, pepper and milk into the sauteed mixture. Stir corn kernels and egg into the mixture before pouring the entire concoction into an ungreased medium-size casserole dish.
Combine cracker crumbs and melted butter in a small bowl. Pour the mixture over the casserole.
Bake in a preheated 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) oven for 30 to 35 minutes.
Source(s):
http://sidedish.allrecipes.com/az/bkdcrn...
Make the basic white sauce, grate cheese finely into it, to make it a cheese sauce, pour over steamed vegetables of your choice and bake until brown on top. If you have a wok, you can stir fry your vegies with sauces of your preference or buy stir fry sauce that's readily available. Once you are done stir frying, you can put the vegies on top of hot rice and have it. You can search for recipes at:
www.epicurious.com
Happy cooking!
:-)
Prime Rib, Mashed Potatos, and a Salad
I had a similar experience with tofu. You have to ease yourself into it start by trying this.
But firm cotton tofu (the type packed in water)
Freeze overnight
Place the unopened plastic pack in boiling water and boil for 10 minutes.
Remove from the pack and wrap in a clean tea towel
put all your weight on it and squeeze as hard as you can.
Cut tofu into cubes and place in your favourite sauce - leave for 30 mins.
Fry the whole lot in a little oil until beginning to crisp.
As for favourite recipes, I can't choose just one! I moderate a vegetarian discussion board at the site below we are all about tasty healthy food, you might find it useful.
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?ca...
http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewforum.z...
I'm not a tofu person either. Some of my favorites are Stir-fry's, veggie lasagna, Quorn and risotto, pasta with garlic and olive oil with broccoli and bell peppers mixed in and a crockpot stew I make with Potatoes, carrots, onions and quorn tossed in at the end. If you want the recipes for the stew, post a question and I'll be happy to post it.
I don't have the recipe in form of me but you can find it n the internet. It is called "NEATLOAF" (meatloaf without the meat) and it can be made in either a pure vegan form or a vegetarian form. I love this stuff!
Another fave that I make:
Gnocchi topped with fresh diced ripe roma tomatoes, smashed roasted garlic, fresh basil, olive oil and some sea salt.
See the link below for lots of good recipes!
The next time you do a tofu lasagna use extra firm tofu, remove it from the package, put it between two plates and set a couple of cans for around an hour to get out the excess moisture. Mix with defrosted and squeezed frozen spinach (to avoid excess liquid again) along with some Italian herbs (chopped fresh preferably but dried is ok), If you've got it add a scoop of nutritional yeast to add a bit of 'cheesy' flavor and vitamins. Just remember that tofu is the blank slate on which you build your culinary masterpiece; it is *not* the paint!
2 pounds fresh baby spinach, washed and stems trimmed
1/4 cup ghee, recipe follows
1/2 pound cubed paneer cheese
2 yellow onions, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon curry powder, recipe follows
1/2 cup buttermilk
1/4 cup plain yogurt
Salt
Bring a large pot of water to a boil, toss in the spinach and blanch for 1 minute until very tender. Dump the spinach into a colander and press firmly with the back of a spoon to extract as much water as possible, set aside.
Heat the ghee in a deep skillet over medium-high flame. Add the cubed paneer and fry for a couple of minutes until light brown on all sides, gently turning to avoid breaking up the cubes. Remove the cheese from the skillet and set aside.
Return the skillet to the heat and sauté the onions, garlic, and ginger; cook and stir for about 5 minutes until soft. Sprinkle the mixture with the curry powder; continue to stir to marry the flavors, about 1 minute. Fold in the chopped spinach and give everything a good toss. Shut off the heat and stir the buttermilk and yogurt into the spinach to incorporate. The mixture should be creamy and somewhat thick. Gently fold in the fried paneer cubes, season with salt, to taste, and serve with steamed basmati rice and/or flat bread.
Ghee:
1 pound unsalted butter
Put the butter in a heavy saucepan over moderate heat, swirl the pot around to ensure that it melts slowly and does not sizzle or brown. Increase the heat and bring the butter to a boil. When the surface is covered with foam, stir gently and reduce the heat to the lowest possible setting. Gently simmer, uncovered, and undisturbed for 45 minutes, until the milk solids in the bottom of the pan have turned golden brown and the butter on top is transparent. Strain the ghee through a sieve lined with several layers of cheesecloth. The ghee should be perfectly clear and smell nutty; pour into a glass jar and seal tightly.
Yield: 1 1/2 cups
Curry Powder:
2 tablespoons coriander seeds
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon fennel seeds
1/2 teaspoon whole cloves
1/2 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 tablespoon cardamom seeds
1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns
2 dried red chiles, broken in pieces, seeds discarded
1 tablespoon turmeric
Toast the whole spices (coriander, cumin, fennel, cloves, mustard, cardamom and peppercorns) and the chiles in a small dry skillet over medium-low heat, shaking the pan often to prevent them from burning. Toast for a couple of minutes until the spices smell fragrant. In a clean coffee grinder, grind the toasted spices together to a fine powder. Add the turmeric and give it another quick buzz to combine. Use the spice blend immediately, or store in a sealed jar for as long as 1 month.
try subway
I'm going to suggest a cookbook that you'll find INVALUABLE. I use this cookbook at least once per week. Some of the best recipes are the Painted Desert Salad (with roasted red peppers, avocado and aged white cheddar), Eggplant Rolatini (with two cheeses and herbs) and Sante Fe Lasagne (with cilantro pesto and smoky tomato sauce). Whenever I'm in Victoria BC I ALWAYS eat at this restaurant, and I was soooo happy when they came out with a cookbook!
SALAD WITH NO MEAT
MorningStar Farms makes Veggie crumbles which can be used just like ground ham burger. I use it in the hamburger helper meals. Morning star farms is available at most super walmart centers and even in some grrociery stores.
Loma Linda also makes veggie "Fake" meats. They can be found online. My recipe:
Potato Dumplings
10 medium potatoes
5 eggs
1 tbs salt
Enough flour to stick it all together.
Peel and boil potatoes till almost done but not quite (should still be firm in the middle). Grate the potatoes. Mix all the ingredients together. Knead into balls. Boil big pan of water. Place balls in water exactly fourteen minutes, no more, no less. Remove from water and place in a bowl with a small plate upside down on the bottom of it. Eat immediately. Left-overs are good diced up and fried in butter till lightly browned.
Anything can be a vegetarian dinner, just leave out the meat and get your full protein requirements from beans & rice (must be eaten together) or fish if you eat it. Tofu has to be firm if eaten for dinner leave the soft stuff for deserts like pie or custurd. Squeeze the water out of it by making a press with paper towels. Marinate it in teriyaki sauce then put in oven and bake for 30 minutes. Or, the best way to have it is pan fried w/ soy sauce added after its cooked. Even eat it raw with ginger and soy sauce. There are also many other alternitives.... temphe, seitan, and Quorn just to name a few.
I never liked tofu but the only time i did was when it was cut into cubes and fried in oil, added to stir-fried veggies and put into a tortilla. Real good stuff!
My favorite recipes are Mexican foods. Check out their vegetarian stuff.
Love Indian foods. You can make anything into a curry dish just add your favorite veggies in.
Pasta is easy.
I love eating stuff from different places. Check out some recipe books from different countries. They always have a vegetarian section. The ingredients you can't get just minus it out or substitute it with something you have. Have made some nice stuff that way ;)
Then I usually make lots of junk food (pizzas,burgers, nougats etc) but know that's not what you want.
Oh Massiha !! Im gona try out that baked corn recipe !Thanks !!!