Easy, cheap Vegetarian recipes?

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Hi SavvyStudent,

We have things like, quiche, omelettes, pasta with sauce, pasta bakes, vegetarian lasagne, stir fries, mushroom risotto, soup or salads with crusty bread etc.

These threads have lots of delicious recipes that may help:

Easy, cheap Vegetarian recipes?

Gingham's Vegetarian Meal Planner

Gingham's vegetarian meal planner - SUMMER

Gingham's vegetarian menu planner SPRING

Vegan and vegetarian food on the cheap

A vegetarian meal planner, please

Vegetarian OSers

Cooking for the freezer - vegetarian


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catkins

Both me and OH are vegetarian and some of our favourite meals are:

Vegetable shepherds pie - either made with all veg or veg and lentils. I usually use both ordinary potatoes and sweet potatoes for the topping.

Risottos - mushroom is a regular but I also make broad bean, asparagus, beetroot (yummy but makes the rice go pink!).

Vegetable stir fry

Vegetable chilli

Spicy beanburgers

Lentil patties

Spicy chickpea and potato pasties

Caramelized red onion and goats cheese tarts

Cauliflower souffles

Quiche

Pizza (a favourite is spinach and egg!)

Curry - Vegetable or chickpea and spinach or egg and lentil

Tortilla

Vegetable lasagne - I often put lentils in as well as different veg

Veg stew and dumplings

Falafels and salad

Veggie sausage toad in the hole

Tandoori quorn and rice - just buy quorn pieces and marinate in yoghurt and tandoori spice

Veggie fajitas

Stuffed mushrooms

There are loads of good veggie recipes if you search the internet - I use the BBC food site a lot.

randomer

roast veg on a naan bread with feta cheese crumbled on top.

Rice and pine nuts stuffed in peppers or other veg.

Winchelsea

SavvyStudent, Here's a really easy pastry recipe:

8ozs plain flour
5 fl ozs cooking oil (cheapest is fine)
2 fl ozs cold water
A bit of salt if you use it

Mix it together with a fork just until it all hangs together. If needed, (usually not) add a few more drops of cold water as you mix - or flour if it's too sticky. Done !

(This is enough for my big 10 inch quiche dish.)

If you dread rolling out, stick a rough square of greaseproof paper in your greased dish, tip in the dough, and use your fingers to gradually push and stretch it into shape. Press around the edge with the prongs of a fork at the end and no-one will know the difference!

Bake as usual. Never fails, and is the quickest method I know.

(Sorry it's in not in metric, but I'm of the age that "thinks" in imperial!)

Baglady_2

I'm in a similar position to the OP and we just did 3 days on the trot with veggie menus.
1. Aduki bean/barley/diced veg pie with oaty crumble topping
2. Spicy lentil bake (recipe adapted to what I had lurking veg-wise) cheesey topping.
3. Chick pea and potato curry, recipe from the frugal living site.
I also made made veggy fritters which were fab. I used to do this lovely 3-layered dinner from the Cranks book, a bit faffy, but worth it. The OM always shovels in what I put in front of him so I'll be doing more of the same.

taplady

Baglady wrote: »

I'm in a similar position to the OP and we just did 3 days on the trot with veggie menus.
1. Aduki bean/barley/diced veg pie with oaty crumble topping
2. Spicy lentil bake (recipe adapted to what I had lurking veg-wise) cheesey topping.
3. Chick pea and potato curry, recipe from the frugal living site.
I also made made veggy fritters which were fab. I used to do this lovely 3-layered dinner from the Cranks book, a bit faffy, but worth it. The OM always shovels in what I put in front of him so I'll be doing more of the same.

your recipes sound nice:T how did you make the aduki bean pie? and the spicy lentil bake?

lickylonglips

i've just cooked some cannellini beans that i soaked overnight in some plain water. once they were cooked, i've drained most of the remaining cooking water off, stirred through some chopped garlic, a little butter, some dried basil, a vegetable stock cube and a dried chilli torn into piece. it tastes amazing. i've got it chilling in the fridge right now. i might have it as a sort of hummous-style dip with pitta bread, or with some quorn fillets hot as a sort of alternative to mashed potato... whole thing must have cost pennies

20p for dried beans
<1p for dried chilli (from thai supermarket. huge bag for £1)
2p for dried basil
2p for small piece of butter
3p for garlic (from jar - home bargains)
3p for value stock cube

Baglady_2

The aduki bean menu I adapted from a recipe in Sarah Brown's Vegetarian Kitchen book: For 4:

Rinse and soak 4 oz aduki beans and 2 oz wheat or rice or barley overnight or soak in boiling water for an hour if you forget (!)

Drain, rinse, cook for 50 mins in fresh water till soft. Drain, but reserve the stock.

Fry medley of veg whatever you're using, typically onions, garlic, diced carrot or parsnip, celery etc. till soft. Add the drained beans and grains.

Mix 1-2 TBS of soy sauce, 2 TBS tomato puree, tsp mixed herbs and half pint of the reserved aduki stock, pour over the above mix. Taste, and be spontaneous with anything else you might fancy.

Bring to boil and simmer for about 20-30 mins. Add more of the stock to keep it moist. Season.

Transfer to a greased casserole. The author tops it with mashed potato. I've done it with mashed Swede, or a mixed mash of various root veg. Or a crumble topping. My crumble toppings are different every time. This one was Rye flour and marge rubbed in, oats added, spread over the casserole. I've even used breadcrumbs and cheese.

The lentil bake was in a student cook book:

Fry onion for 5 mins, add garlic, diced root veg, celery, stir round, then add 100g red lentils, 900 ml stock, and 2 tsp tomato puree.

Bring to boil, simmer uncovered, stir now and again for 30 mins or until lentils are soft. I added a tsp of curry paste for a bit of bite.

Tip into casserole, top with mash etc as in previous recipe. This time I did breadcrumbs and grated cheese. Bake for about 20 mins.

Sorry about the mix of imperial and metric. I think in imperial but couldn't type out the instructions easily for the 2nd recipe.

Hope it works ok for you.

zippychick

Hi Savvy

As this has dropped off the front page, I've merged it to help future users.

I now have a vegetarian boyfriend, so am having to try new things - I'm not a huge meat eater anyway but am currently experimenting with chickpeas and quorn - quorn is my new bessie mate

Last night i made Jamies Rogan josh with a bag of quorn chicken (300g i think), and loads of veg and chickpeas and it was delicious . I made up the rest of the quantity of meat using veg and peas. I dread to think how much 800g of lamb would have cost!

I also made quorn chilli the other night which was pretty yummy too.

Just one more link for you - the complete vegetarian collection

Let us know how you get on! I;ve no idea why i was so scared of trying veggie food - it's awesome!:j

Zip:)

trixietoes

We eat a lot of veggie meals probably more than meat ones now just because it feels healthier but have the problem of being stuck in a rut with them. We've just been having the usual suspects of .. veg chilli, veg curry, veg enchilladas, bottom of the fridge soup, celery soup, leek & pot soup.

I have been through all the veggie thread.. it has taken me a whole day LOL (how sad am I!). My plan is to make the following within the next 4 weeks (I finish my contract in 2 wks so will be free as a bird after that so there is no excuse not to try them)

HM seeded bread. I make normal HM bread by hand now, so not too much of a chore.
Chickpea and spinich Tagine and Couscous
Cabbage Galette (desperate to try this .. as per Gingham's Veggie thread the Spring one I think)
Veggie Pasties (HM pastry)
Squash Bread
Falafels - I keep saying this but never make them for some reason even though I love them.
Tabouleh
Moroccan Roast veggies and Couscous - this is tonight to use up last shops veg that won't last another day.
Carrot burgers
Bean Burgers.
Veggie pitta pizzas.

OH doesn't like eggs, mushrooms, cheese or pasta so it makes veggie cooking a bit limited.. oh and doesn't really like creamy sauces either Grrrrrr.