Gingham's Vegetarian Meal Planner

Ruby_Pudding

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

Fry an onion until soft, add some chopped veggie sausages and brown them. Throw in some roughly chopped and lightly steamed or boiled veg (parsnip, carrot, turnip) add half passata and half vegetable stock to cover, then allow to simmer until cooked through and thickened. I'd throw in my trademark brown sauce too.

I would either add lightly steamed or boiled chopped potato with the other veg, or add some boiled quinoa at the end. Or you can put a pastry cover over it, with a little hole to let the steam out and put it in the oven. It would be nice with dumplings too.

I just wanted to say I made this on Saturday using a slightly different method and it was absolutely delish!!!

I browned off an onion, 5 cauldren veggie sausages and loads of mushrooms (got about a lb for 30p last thing on friday night from Tesco) for roughly 10 minutes. Then I made up some bisto, enough to fully cover the veg and sausages and throw in about 2 tbsp of brown sauce. I also added a tin of borlotti beans and this stage too. Then I covered and left to simmer while I made up some veggie dumplings which I then added to the pan and left for another 20 minutes.

I'm not a huge fan of stews but this was absolutely fantastic, really autumnal and warming and my meat eating husband had 3 helpings!!!

jazzyjustlaw

What a great thread thanks Gingham

wigginsmum

Yup, excellent thread - we're looking at reducing our meat consumption (been a long time since we were completely veggie, and over the years our diet's become almost entirely meat-based) so this is a step in the right direction. Made bolognese sauce with dried soya mince tonight which was absolutely lovely.

Gingham_Ribbon

Glad my ideas have been helpful for so many of you. In fact, you've been inspiring me to experiment a little with the sausage casserole. Big hit with DH!

I have some of the recipes still to give you. I will get to it soon. The chickpea burgers are worth the minor amount of faff of making them and the eve's pudding is scrummy although I have to jiggle about with the sugar amounts before I post it as my recipe states zero oz of sugar and I've never really measured it out! (I must have copied it out while doing something else as usual!)

Roz_V

Had the 3 bean chilli last night and it was possibly one of the nicest meals I have ever cooked!

Thanks for sharing the recipe!!

**purpleprincess**

Roz_V wrote:

Had the 3 bean chilli last night and it was possibly one of the nicest meals I have ever cooked!

Thanks for sharing the recipe!!

That sounds good then!!! This is on my list of things to cook!!!

Gingham_Ribbon

Thanks, Roz. I'm glad you liked it.

Lovely to see this on the tip! Welcome to new arrivals. I hope you find this useful. x

katyk_2

All sounds great - enough to turn me veggie!!

leoflower

Wow!
I'm a newbie but have stumbled across your menu planner. Many thanks for all the lovely ideas. It is so easy to get stuck in a rut with food. I'm going to try some this weekend!!
Thanks GR for all the work that's gone in this.
Leoflower
The past is gone, the present is now, the future is whatever you make of it.

leoflower

I've not heard of chipotles, but i have used scotch bonnets and they are great. I would certainly recommend them!