This is my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian, anyone have any recipes to share?

Question

This is my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian, anyone have any recipes to share?

Answer 1

Congrats on going vego, here you go ...http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/thanksgiving.html

Answer 2

I LOVE this site. Ok most of the recipes are actually vegan but just use cheese where you would use the tofu cream etc.



I love making a pumpkin and brazil nut roast- stuffed into a pumpkin shells and with cheese, and caramelised onnions.



Very basically it is this:

get a Turban, or Kabocha squash ( the Turban is the coloured one, and the Kabocha is the sweetest one- very dark green and knobbly on the outside.-= I never use normal orange pumpkins, and the hubbard is so pretty and bowl sized for your meal)

Cut the top off the turban and take out the flesh.

Chop the flesh and roast, on a greased tray with olive oil, salt, pepper, and some drained chickpeas in the same pan.



After ten minutes, place the emptied squash half at the bottom of the oven, to soften it- you should have left about one half inch of flesh inside the shell.



Meanwhile caramelise some red chopped onion in pan with oil, add minced garlic- lots, chopped rosemary, some sage and some enoki mushrooms, or any chopped mushroom and some big pieces of brazil nuts.

Stiry fry gently til the onion starts to caramelize- about 15 minuites.

Add a dash of soysauce while it is cooking and keep moist by adding a spoon of water if it dries out.

Add some baby sweetcorn-= the small thai canned corns, you get, or regular drain sweetcorn.

Stir to coat the ingredientsand add some bean sprouts.

Cook a few more minutes. then add the roasted pumpkin pieces from the oven, make sure they are cooked.

Stuff all this into the empty turban squash and top with grated cheese,

and bake til the cheese is bubbling.



Add soysauce to the finished dish and servbe with a fresh green dish of green peas- frozen are fine



You don't have to use the pumpkin to bake it. a tray in the oven is good enough- use the same roasted tin is it's deep.



I love to make stuffed raosted tofu aswell- marinade in ginger soy and honey for an hour, then dip in egg, then seasoned breadcrumbs. Shallow fry til tofsu is very crispy.

Make thinck steaks with this, and stuff with walnuts and enoki mushrooms.





Bake a lentil, tomato , fava bean lasagna- fava beans are brilliant.

So fuill of iron and very tasty.



I make a fava bean casserole with artichoke hearts- green beans, peas ( frozen not canned) and chopped leeks.Add chopped green leaves, like kale, and collards, Spinach is OK to use.

The main thing is the artichoke hearts and the fava beans and green frozen peas- they are so good!

Drain the favas ( but in cans, or boil yourself)

and add to a pan mixing them amongst the other ingredients. with some cloves of garlic and sprigs of rosemary.



Drizzle with olive oil and lenmon jiuce, salt, and a spoon of sugar.

Then place in a hot oven and bake for an hour.

You can also top this with sliced potatoes, and add parmesan to it, it's a wonderful dish.

Answer 3

See the awesome thing about being a vegetarian is that you don't have to give up most deserts and sweets, since there's no meat in those :D Vegans, on the other hand, have to, but there's a lot of delicious Vegan substitutes. Check out these chocolate dipped oreos at Clever Cookie.com (the link is in the sources) you can enjoy those as a vegetarian...or even if you're not for that matter! haha

Answer 4

Sweet potatoes, cheesy casseroles, spicy rice, and macaroni and cheese.



(You're not vegan, so milk is okay, I'm assuming.)



The foods above may not be prime examples of vegetarian food, but they are the ones that seem to go over best with omnivore family members. Which is good at Thanksgiving, because nobody wants to hear a lecture from you about their diets on that day :)



Sweet potatoes are pretty American (as in, from this continent) and can vary in flavor and purpose. I make mine as a side dish similar to mashed potatoes, but with a dash of sugar and cinnamon instead of salt. Nutmeg too. My mother makes them as almost a dessert, with a row of crushed pecans and marshmallows that turn golden in the ven on top. These *always* disappear at our holiday.



As far as vegetables go, Thanksgivng is a great time to enjoy them cooked, with a light amount of butter to flavor. But if that's not enough, throwing it into a cheesy casserole is the best way to get even vegetable haters to eat them. (Actually, last year I stir-fried veggies, and those went over really well too- yay for international food! In that same vein, Mexican style rice is a good veg choice. Nobody turns it down.)



And for the less adventurous, or those who have kids around, macaroni and cheese is a safe, comforting bet.



The thing for vegetarians in a mixed family, on Thanksgiving, is to not put up too huge a fuss, and make a great meal from veggie sides. This is a holiday to celebrate having enough food- complaining about what there is (even if the thought of turkey dsgusts you) doesn't often go over well.

Answer 5

Congratulations!



Check out www.vegweb.com. They have a section of holiday recipes and some Thanksgiving recipes.

Answer 6

I live with meat eaters so we compromise. The meal is still vegetarian but appeals to the picky kids too! I cook up quorn tenders in prepared vegetarian turkey gravy. I also make roasted potatoes or mashed potatoes (made with broth instead of butter and milk), garlic green beans and for dessert, I made chunky crock pot apple sauce with cinnamon that tastes like apple pie!

Answer 7

i thought thanks giving was over but apparently you can get turkeys made out of tofu and they come stuffed and everything all you do is put them in the oven everything else you eat on thanksgivving is icky vegetalbes anyways