Vegetarian Christmas alternative?

Sambucus_Nigra

LittleMissAspie wrote: »

I'm vegetarian and do NOT like nut roast. Horrible stuff.

Me neither - bleugh.

I'd ask the people themselves - and probably get a quorn doo da....but we don't have a roasty on christmas day, we have veggie chili.

Whatever you do OP - please make sure you have veggie gravy. Nothing worse than a dry roast dinner. Nang.

seraphina

I haaaaaaaate nut roast - I've yet to find one that isn't just dry, horrible stodge. I also think the Quorn roasts are sorry looking things - I like quorn but I don't think it cuts the mustard on Christmas Day.

How about Delia's roulade or the mushroom filled choux pastry? The recipes are all online, and all qualify for the special factor which is nice to have on Christmas day.

sillyvixen

also make sure your roast potatoes are veggie (cooked in veg oil, not lard or around the turkey) as a veggie with food allergies i got ill eating roast pots at a veggie friends house (dont eat them at mums for the above reason) - apparently they always use lard to cook their roast pots, despite being "veggie"!!!!!!

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Hi,

home made veggie lasagne, baked potato, pickled onions, pickled beetroot and pickled cabbage, had it for years, have two in freezer now.

Just lay it out to defrost night before, ready for the 'ping' when I get home from pub in afternoon.

Will do same on New Years Day.

Have you guessed that I'm a home alone male? :rotfl:

Bettie

I dislike nut roast. The Quorn roast is nice, I would be happy to have that with a bit of veggie sausage meat. I don't like pastry dishes because I get bloated, it's too filling with all the other food on the plate. I'd rather eat the veg and roasties and I make a massive cauli cheese and broccoli cheese, both in the same dish but not mixed together because half of my lot won't eat broccoli. I make a big stuffing full of eggs, onions, parsley and I use baking powder so it rises and is like a cake. The cauli/broccoli cheese is _mine_ as is the stuffing, they are my "substitutes" but everyone else wants them too and it saves on the cooking.
One other thing I don't like is to have a substitute that IMO doesn't 'go' with a roast such as lasagne, curry, fake fish fingers, pasta bake, stuffed peppers - these are all things I have been offered with a roast on dining out, they don't seem to go with roast/gravy but that may be me- it could be acceptable to others.

Gigervamp

Bettie wrote: »

One other thing I don't like is to have a substitute that IMO doesn't 'go' with a roast such as lasagne, curry, fake fish fingers, pasta bake, stuffed peppers - these are all things I have been offered with a roast on dining out, they don't seem to go with roast/gravy but that may be me- it could be acceptable to others.

I agree.

Another alternative is falafal. It goes surprisingly well with roast potatoes and gravy.

ceridwen

babyshoes wrote: »

Are you sure they are simply vegetarian and not vegan? Veggie is a lot easier coz you can include things like dairy and eggs!

How about a stuffed butternut squash? Half your squash, remove the seeds, place cut side down on a baking tray, bake in a medium oven until soft, then remove, allow to cool if you like then stuff the middle with a suitable mix of veggies/rice/lentils or similar, pre cooked if they need it, and top with cheese. Bake until cheese is melted and filling is cooked. Easy to prep in advance and simply pop into oven with roast on the day.

Possible - provided the stuffing included luxury type ingredients - eg pinenuts/wild rice for instance. Reason - one of the things I notice as a vegetarian is that there are times when the meat-eaters have been given something "luxury" - but the vegetarian/s are being given something "everyday"...

PasturesNew' suggestion sounds a good one too.

I think provided you fulfil the main criteria - ie that vegetarians also get luxury ingredients and its not just the meat-eaters that are having something special thats the main thing.

So - to me that would mean - I wouldnt do quorn/lasagne/falafel - as they are "everyday".

Things like -the aforementioned pine nuts and wild rice are luxury.

Filo pastry is luxury. "Special" type vegetables are luxury - ie the type of thing that is rarely (if ever) seen in a supermarket or something that has been homegrown (but takes a lot of time and attention to grow - errrmm....asparagus for instance...but tisnt the right time of year right now for homegrown asparagus - but you get my drift...). "Special" is the keyword and beyond that pretty much anything will be fine - provided its not something they would do for themselves as an "everyday" thing (whether because it costs too much or its a lot of faff to do it...time and money are interchangeable to some extent - as long as a lot of ONE of those two factors are put in then its "special").

catkins

You coul d make a nut roast beforehand and serve it cold on Christmas Day. All the rest of the food will be hot and presumably the veggies will be eating gravy. I often have the nut roast cold.

I often have made nut roast for Christmas dinner (nut roast is lovely if you like nuts and certainly does not have to be dry or stodgy!). Other years I have made stuffed peppers, stuffed mushroomsm, vegetable strudel, caramelised red onion and goats cheese tarts (the pastry cases can be made and cooked in advance then the filling put in and cooked on the day). The vegetable strudel I made in advance and just reheated on the day.

I always make something as I do not like quorn products (I think the roasts are disgusting and would prefer to eat cardboard) however if I were eating at someone else's house I would eat whatever they gave me even if it were a quorn roast!!! I can appreciate that not everyone likes cooking as much as I do.

alec_eiffel

I don't mind nut roast occasionally but it's just a bit... obvious for me. Same with asparagus tart (in December!) and lasagne and stuff like that. We'll be having chestnut wellington if I can be bothered, curry and all the trimmings if not. I don't like quorn, does nothing for my innards - quite a few people are like that and it's not pleasant!

taplady

some nice ideas here thanks folks!:T not sure what I'm having yet but in the past I've had quorn, stuffed pepper and also a butternut squash roast type thingy(not HM though)

this year I'm working so will probably just have veggies, roasties and might do me a yorkshire pud to put it all in:)