Vegetable stew - batch cooking

newbielou

Hello
I’ve recently started having a veg box delivered from a local farm shop, it’s delicious and I’m 
hoping to use some of the produce that isn’t eaten immediately in recipes to stock the freezer, initially vegetarian ones to keep the cost low and I feed a couple of vegan toddlers for half the week. 

I’m planning on making a large lentil and vegetable stew this week, then was going to add some coconut cream and curry powder to a 1/3, keep 1/3 plain to serve with mashed potatoes and I’m trying to decide what to make with the last 1/3 does anyone has any suggestions that would be brilliant please. 

Thank you 

themsthebreaks

You could try a vegetable crumble, or a vegetable hot pot, or even a vegetable lasagne 😊 You could make the white sauce using oat milk, and add some nutritional yeast if you plan on serving it to the vegan eaters 😊

WickedLady4

Maybe loosen it up a bit and have as soup. If you portion it up before freezing it would make something easy for lunch.

itsthelittlethings

If you get squash in your veg box, this is a lively curry.

http://samaithupaarkalaam.blogspot.com/2008/03/pumpkin-and-eggplant-curry.html?m=1

Brambling

I add peanut butter to vegetable stews this one is for a slow cooker but it ca n be cooked on the hob or in the oven.  I also put what veg I have rather than just sweet potato 

https://www.tamingtwins.com/sweet-potato-peanut-vegan-stew/

Pollie

Turn it into a goulash with (extra) tomatoes and peppers, garlic, paprika, cumin and bay leaves.

Brie

Topper for jacket potatoes!!  Or rice!!

Rosa_Damascena

Brie said:

Topper for jacket potatoes!!  Or rice!!

Or couscous, bulgar wheat, or quinoa - the latter is a good source of proteins for vegetarians / vegans.

@itsthelittlethings - I like a butternut squash curry but am not a huge fan of aubergine - its one of those "what is the point of this?" veggies (technically a fruit).

In my quest to cook beans from scratch in my new electric pressure cooker, I have been looking at this website: https://rainbowplantlife.com/mealplans/ . She has some really interesting ideas for non-UPF vegan food and thinks hard about the nutritional content. This is important, as my first attempt at Tuscan bean soup (a recipe from a different source) although delicious had me unsatisfied after a serving that would normally be twice what I would usually take - which I put down to its thinness, my own tend to be a lot thicker and filling. So much so that I have ended up having two (generic) Weetabix afterwards!