vegan pancake fillings - any ideas?

bellsbells

I was just wondering if you clever folks had any ideas. I am having a selection of vegans, vegatarians and meat eaters around to lunch tomorrow. I am going to make pancakes (flour, soya milk and egg replacer) then serve with various toppings, both sweet and savoury. Sweet is fine - lemons, jam, sugar, golden syrup all vegan friendly of course, but what about the savoury?
We usually have pancakes with cheese and ham. These will be on offer but I need something nice for the vegans and veggies to have. So far all I have come up with is roasted veg.
Any ideas? And no, sorry the solution is not just to have sweet pancakes!:rotfl:The rule in our house is that everyone must have at least one savoury before starting on the sweet ones:rotfl:

Thanks for your help!

bells x

juliapenguin

Make some veggie chilli - with onions, peppers, tomatoes, perhaps mushrooms plus some lentils and kidney beans. Everyone can have that - the meat eaters and vegetarians can eat it with some melted cheese if they like, but the vegans are unlikely to feel hard done by!

What about something with nuts and mushrooms (I like that combination of textures)? You could fry onions until caramelised (actually those on their own would be popular with vegans as a pancake filling) and mix with well-fried chopped mushrooms (so they're not too soggy) and some chopped nuts.

Sun-dried tomatoes? A friend of mines makes a wonderful pasta sauce with just fried onions and sun-dried tomatoes chopped fine and cooked for ages with just salt and pepper and enough water to stop it sticking. It doesn't sound very exciting, but if the flavour is really intense it will be delicious.

Mrs_Thrify

roasted veg = peppers, onions,carrots & mushrooms.

Iwould pick some free blackberries to use in the pud

Julie

meerkatgirl

Wilt some spinach, add some sweetcorn and some chopped and fried garlic and onions and bob's your uncle. If you wanted to make it a bit more saucy (you know what I mean!) you could even add soya cream for a bit of luxury, or make a cheap white sauce using vegetable oil instead of butter.

Or why not make scrambled tofu as a filling - there are a couple of recipes on the boards, I think.

Or what about grated carrot, poppy seed and a squeeze of lemon juice, maybe with some kind of nut for good measure?

Hope that helps!

bellsbells

Wow - you lot are quick:jFantastic ideas everyone, many thanks! They all sound yummy.

Juliapenguin - i like the onion and nut combo you suggested!
Julie_d - good idea re the blackberries!
meerkatgirl - yum to the spinich idea!

thanks again,

bells

juliapenguin

To be honest, I tend to make things up as I go along - I think that with vegan food the important thing is to get the flavours as intense as possible (I loathe bland things) so I would fry the onions for ages on a low heat in either olive or sunflower oil - you could do loads and loads and then freeze the leftovers in portions for another time. The onions will then be really soft, so you would combine them with some nuts which are chopped up but not too tiny, so that you would get a good texture combo. I would use whatever nuts you already had or were cheap - I would probably go for something like chopped toasted hazelnuts, but walnuts would be lovely and even just something ordinary like salted peanuts would probably be nice.

I love fried onions... One of my Rose Elliott books (Cheap and Easy - what a title) suggests just well-fried onions as a pasta topping and it's surprisingly satisfying.

Hope you have a really good party.

jfdi

I'd do a veggie curry one - chick peas n spinach would be yummy.