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[Jancee]

I was wondering if anyone had any favourite vegetarian recipes to share. I get really fed up of eating the same things and am looking for inspiration. I 'm on a low saturated fat diet so I can't eat a lot of cheese. Thank you in anticipation

[Graham1]

Hi Jancee. I cook only healthy meals from fresh ingredients and some of them dont have meat or cheese so here is one for now:=
Its Penne with broccoli and chilli
Ingredients:- (For 4 portions so adjust as necessary)
450g broccoli florets, 2 tbsp stock, 1 crushed clove of garlic, small red chilli sliced, 4 tbsp natural low fat yoghurt, 2tbsp toasted pine nuts or cashews, 350g penne pasta, seasoning.
Add the pasta to a large pan of salted boiling water and return to the boil.
Put the broccoli in a steamer basket ove the top, cover and simmer for 8-10 minutes, then drain.
Heat the stock and add the crushed garlic and the chilli and stir over a low heat for 2 or 3 minutes.
Stir in the broccoli, pasta and yoghurt, season, sprinkle with the nuts and serve.

I have plenty more recipes if you want any!
Graham

[Jancee]

Thanks Graham , your recipe is simple and sounds really good. My daughter's coming over for dinner this coming week, she's also a veggie and loves pine nuts so a great reason for trying it out then.

[Graham1]

Here's another veggie recipe for you Jancee:
SWEET POTATO STEW(4 person serving)
Ingredients:- Low-fat cooking spray, large onion roughly chopped, 3 mixed peppers, deseeded and roughly chopped, 2 tbsp medium curry powder, 500g sweet potatoes, peeled & diced, 60g reduced fat peanut butter and 2 tbsp chopped coriander.
Use non stick wide frying pan with lid. Spray pan with low-fat spray, add onion and peppers and stir fry 5 minutes until browned. Stir in curry powder and sweet potato and toss to coat. Add 400ml boiling water, stir in the peanut butter and bring to a simmer. Season, cover and cook for 12 minutes until tender. Stir in coriander just before serving and ladle into warm bowls.

[Jancee]

Thanks Graham I'll certainly give that a try

[Graham1]

Your'e welcome Jancee. Let me know if you want any more!

[Earthsong]

My favourite veggie recipe has cheese sauce - but it's very easy to make & I would be happy to share it with you, if you would like it.. It might be possible to adapt it with a tomato "pasta" sauce, but it works so well with the cheese that I have never tried!
I have never found anyone who doesn't like this one.

[hippychris]

Try one of my favourites which is enchilados. Make a stuffing from onions, tomatoes, mushrooms and a good sprinkling of cayenne pepper and roll it into tortilla wraps. Then make a tomato sauce (standard roux sauce with cream and tomato pureee) that is mild and sweet. Pour over the tortilla wraps and sprinkle with sunflower seeds and/or poppy seeds. Bake for 15 minutes. The heat of the filling is beautifully set off by the sweetness of the tomato sauce.

[GentleDove]

Thanks, Graham for that Sweet Potato Stew. I will certainly try it! I have been a vegetarian since I was a little child, as my meat-eating mother (and her meat-eating family), married into a vegetarian only family.

After her marriage, she was told that she could never cook meat in our home (a directive that came from my vegetarian father!). The only way she could satisfy her urge for meat, fish, poultry was to take us children to another town for shopping and "lunch out" where she would then be able to enjoy her meat! Life like this was not easy for her!

In the beginning we lived with our vegetarian grandparents, so we were never given meat out of respect to her inlaws! Only when we moved away from the grandparents influence, did my mother (bless her soul), find the courage to introduce meat to her children, despite my father's overt protests! I was the only sibling who could not tolerate meat/flesh of any kind.

Out of us 3 siblings, two became meat eaters, and I became a lacto-ovo vegetarian as was my father and his family. In later years, and with more wisdom under my belt, I gave up the dairy side, and now use almond and oat milk instead.

Over the years, I have also been passionate about following the organic, whole foods cooked at home, farmer's market, complimentary/alternative health lifestyle. Not a hippy tho, but have always enjoyed reading about them and admired them for their choice of living, tho not always agreeing to all they did or thought. My two children, because of their late father's insistence are meat eaters. I seldom talk about my vegetarian lifestyle, but hopefully "teach" by example! Didn't work with my own kids tho, sadly.

I submitted a bit of history about myself because I thought maybe someone out there would find it a bit interesting and inspirational.