Cheap low-fat veggie dinner party

jamanda

Thank you very much JillD - much appreciated. Will get me out of my rut.

Silver_Lilly

The thing that always goes down well at my dinner parties are:

jamie olivers; chocolate pots
my own; savoury tarts ie tomato or red onion made with puff pastry with salad ,tangine and cous cous,Tortilla.

suep

Gingham ribbon had some lovely vegetarian recipes on her meal planner. The 3 bean chilli is really nice and I would imagine it's quite low fat. I don't know how to do links to it, but I'm sure someone clever will be able to help if you fancy it.

Mariel

This website is pretty good - all veggie and low fat - http://www.fatfree.com/

Gingham_Ribbon

Here's the veggie menu planner. Glad people are still finding it useful.

And here's the 3 bean chilli. It's a favourite in our house and the fresh coriander really finishes it off nicely.

JillD_2

Think I will do stuffed peppers. We were at other friend's for dinner on Sat and they did stuffed peppers and they were yummy. with couscous. qwuite cheap and whats not to like ?

Will do baked peaches for dessert, I posted that on John's dinner party thread.

Still undecided as to starter. Maybe soup with homemade bread.

Will post back after the weekend and let you all know what I did in the end.

Thanks for all the suggestions
Jill

JillD_2

So the final menu is:
Starter: homemade butternut and carrot soup (bit experimental ...)
with homemade bread

Main: stuffed peppers with couscous and pinenuts, and salad

Dessert: sweet mince and apple filo strudels (recipe from my WW handot this week)

Yum!

piglet6

Sounds lovely, Jill - if you're short of a couple to make up numbers, just say the word and Mr P and I will be round!!

I hope you have a lovely evening...

Piglet

tryhard_2

that sounds yummy, jill; please could you post the strudel recipe

JillD_2

it all went down a treat.
The soup was AMAZING. Hubby said its the best soup he's ever had, he said it was better than Covent Garden stuff you buy which is unlike him.
Recipe was this:
chop an onion,a small butternut squash and 3 carrots and fry in spary oil til softened a bit.
Pour in about a pint of stock, a quarter teaspoon nutmeg, a quarter teapoon ground black pepper and leave to simmer very gently for about 45 minutes. Whizz up with blender.
I then left it to cool and when we ready to heat I warmed it through and stirred in about 2 fl oz milk. It was fab. Served with HM bread, still warm as I timed it to be ready jst before we ate.

Stuffed peppers good too, served with salad and couscous with pinenuts ad topped with feta cheese

The pudding recipe was something like this:
peel core and chop a couple of apples
mix in with a small jar of sweet mincemeat
lay out a sheet of filo pastry and dollop a line of apple/mince along the end
Roll up like a swiss roll and chop into 3 mittle sausages.
Repeat for as many as you need
Bake at 150 oC for about 20 minutes or til they loko cripsy and golden.
Oh I think yu were supposed to spray the filo before rolling it up
Served with creme fraiche (the remainder of which was used n pasta sauce on Monday)

And then a cup of tea

Thanks for all your help