Best vegetarian recipes for non-vegetarians?

Butterfly_Brain

Vegetable pasties with either a nice cheese sauce or gravy
Macaroni Cheese with peppers
Quiche
Pasta with lemon and peas
Pasta with mozzarella and tomatoes
Pizza
Calzone
Stromboli
Gnocchi and tomato bake, or try any pesto we like lemon and spinach pesto (Garlic, juice of a lemon, chives, use pine nuts, cashew nuts or walnuts (I use cashew nuts) plus parmesan or try with ricotta cheese and spinach
Sweetcorn, pea or courgette fritters with salad and poached or boiled eggs
Vegetable curry
Egg and chips......most men like that
quesidillas
Vegetable lasagne
Mushroom risotto
Mushrooms stuffed with rice serve with an omelet and salad

newlywed

OH is a meat lover and yet has accepted that vegetarian chilli is completely acceptable and he doesn't even miss the meat.

I fry up onions, finely chopped carrots, and whatever veg is looking sad, add all the usual chilli spices, passata or tinned tomato etc and then enough tins of beans and sometimes a tin of sweetcorn.

samsil

Hiya, we're not veggie but For budgeting and health I am aiming to have at least one night per week meat free.

If you can get the book from the library, there is a recipe by tana ramsay called butternut squash spaghetti lasagne,it takes a lot of prep and a few different veggies but it's gorgeous and my fella prefers it to regular meat lasagne.

A quick tea we sometimes do is a very simple tweak of a carluccios recipe called penne giardinera, basically, heat up some butter and a bit of garlic and chilli, then throw in grated courgettes - about 2 - then add to pasta.we add a bit of Parmesan. it's soooo yummy, and handy for a late in the week standby.

I hear Hugh fearnley whittingstalls river cottage veg everyday book is amazing, check out some reviews, it's on my wish list

BitterAndTwisted

Anyone looking for inspiration for veggie recipes should snap up one of Rose Elliot's books.

What's unhealthy about that Veggie Pasta Bake you're serving?

Leif

I eat fish but I've not eaten meat for about 30 years. Recently the works canteen did quesadilla with quorn and it was so like meat I felt ill at ease eating it.:D

Personally I dislike Quorn, it is rather dry and unappetising. It seems odd to me to not eat meat, and then eat something intended to look and taste like meat.

Some suggestions:

Pasta with tomato sauce (whizz up Italian plum tomatoes in liquidiser, throw in pan with some olive oil, black pepper, chilli, and Japanese olive oil, and some water, simmer 15 minutes).

Pasta with veg sauce. Sweat down chopped onions, when transparent throw in balsamic vinegar, drive off acid (careful of eyes), then add Japanese soya sauce, water tomato puree, black pepper, peas, soya beans, green beans, simmer 15 minutes.

Pasta with veg sauce. Sweat down some onion. Add dollop creme fraiche, and a dollop almond butter, pepper, chili, simmer till thick. Cook pasta with peas and soya beans. Drain. Add to sauce.

Pasta with coconut and paprika. Sweat down some onion, add some coconut milk (not cream), black pepper, peas, paprika, Japanese soya sauce, simmer.

Pasta with cheese sauce. You can make the sauce with creme fraiche and grated parmesan instead of makng a roux.

Veg pizza. A recent thread gives some recipes for dough.

Veg omelette. Sweat down some onions and pepper. Add balsamic vinegar and drive off the acid. Add spinach, or Chinese cabbage, peas, Japanese soya sauce, a little water. Simmer, serve on omelette. (Grate some parmesan into the omelette for more flavour).

Bean burritos. Sweat down some chopped onion till soft, add kidney beans, stir and break up, add salt and black pepper. Wrap in bread 'wrap', with some grated parmesan, place on hot pan, cook till browned on both side. Serve with tomato sauce. See earlier.

And so on.

Veggie food can be boring, especially if cooked by carnivores who are used to meat in food. You need to use things like Japanese soya sauce (adds salt and a meaty background flavour known as umami), Parmesan cheese (adds salt and umami), chilli, almond butter and so on to perk it up.

catkins

Me and OH have been veggie for over 20 years. Neither of us are that keen on quorn although we do eat quorn sausages. Some of my meals are:

Spinach and mushroom lasagne
Roasted veg lasagne
Spaghetti bolognaise made with lentils
Egg and lentil curry
Shepherds pie made with lentils and loads of veg
vegetable chilli made either with just veg or veg and lentils
Chickpea curry
Spicy chickpea pasties (chickpeas, potato and onion fried with cumin, coriander and garam masala) and then made into pasties
Red onion and goats cheese tarts
Pizza
Beanburgers made with chickpeas and kidney beans
Sausage hash (sausages cut up with onions and baked beans and covered with mashed potatoes and grated cheese)
Sweet potato and peanut gratin (a Hugh Fearnley whatsit recipe)
Mushroom risotto
Mushroom and onion suet pudding
Sausage casserole
Veggie fajitas
Pasta with basil, pine nuts and a small amount of olive oil
Panneer tikka (cubes of panneer marinated in yoghurt and tandoori paste overnight and then dry fried)

Lizling

I saw that lots of the recipes on this thread use Parmesan and I wanted to point out that it isn't strictly vegetarian. It contains rennet made from calves' stomachs.

Luckily the basics/value/smart price type equivalents with names like hard Italian pasta cheese are fine.

meg72

My fvourite veggie meal are

HM veg soup, using any sad and lonely veg in fridge.

Egg and chips

Beans on Toast

A big plate of salad with grated cheese.

Pizza