There's more to life than Nut roast!

fairy_lights

Can anyone recommend any ideas for a Vegetarian Christmas dinner main course?
It's for about 10 adults so needs to be something fairly substantial but I really can't face another nut roast...there must be more options?
Oh, and one family member absolutely loathes parsnips so anything with even a trace of parsnip is off the table

Oakdene

A friend of mine made a beetroot & squash wellington last year which fed 5 but I guess you could make two or three.

prosaver

Could use musrooms and garlic onions instead of bacon.
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/food_and_recipes/1323714-Cauliflower-cheese-as-a-main-meal

Frogletina

No nut roast for Christmas!

I've had one every year since I was weaned as a baby and can't imagine a Christmas without a nut roast. My Christmas ones always contain chestnuts.

Every year I have to make extra for my two daughters too if we don't spend Christmas together, and now I get asked to do a gluten free one for one of my granddaughters.

frogletina

fairy_lights

A wellington of some sort is an option, I'd ruled it out because there are so many of us but I suppose we could make two or three, or maybe even mini ones. Would single person wellingtons work?


I love Cauliflower cheese but we all eat it fairly often so it doesn't feel quite special enough for Christmas.

fairy_lights

Frogletina wrote: »

No nut roast for Christmas!

I've had one every year since I was weaned as a baby and can't imagine a Christmas without a nut roast. My Christmas ones always contain chestnuts.

Every year I have to make extra for my two daughters too if we don't spend Christmas together, and now I get asked to do a gluten free one for one of my granddaughters.

frogletina

I do like nut roast but I get so fed up of it at this time of year. Every Christmas party or meal it's the same (the rest of the year, the standard vegetarian option is goats cheese or mushroom risotto, but at Christmas everyone wheels out the nut roast :rotfl: )
Maybe I could make a nut roast with a twist somehow?

Frogletina

fairy_lights wrote: »

I do like nut roast but I get so fed up of it at this time of year. Every Christmas party or meal it's the same (the rest of the year, the standard vegetarian option is goats cheese or mushroom risotto, but at Christmas everyone wheels out the nut roast :rotfl: )
Maybe I could make a nut roast with a twist somehow?

How about making a nut roast wellington? Small portion of nut roast individual pastry parcels with a mushroom sauce.

frogletina

twohooter_2

This is something a bit different and absolutely gorgeous. No one in my family is vegetarian so turkey for us all the way on Christmas day. However, we do enjoy this at other times.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2295/moroccan-spiced-pie

Pollycat

Anything here takw your fancy?

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/vegetarian-christmas

As a dyed-in-the-wool carnivore, I have to admit that the savoy cabbage, red onion and egg pie sounds pretty good - but maybe not dramatic enough for a Christmas Day table.

MrsTinks

My vegetarian friends are fed up with "vegetarian versions" of ANYTHING! They honestly prefer if I just do them lots of yummy veg instead. SO a really good mix of potatoes, carrots, parsnips (ok keep them in a separate tray!), cabbage or sprouts, vegetarian stuffing balls (mine are anyway but maybe not everyones are?) and I do peas and sweetcorn too...

They look pained whenever someone wants to make them a vegetarian roast or wellington or frankly any dish that was designed to focus on meat... Just a thought

clairesilverspar

I wonder if you can scale up something along the lines of stuffed peppers/mushrooms/tomatoes. I usually use quorn mince in a Bolognese-style sauce, but if you'd rather avoid the fake meat stuff, I've done it before with a kind of cooked lentils mix which worked quite nicely. Served with a big pile of Christmas/roasted veg, I think it could be quite nice?