Vegetarian recipes
 

So i've been a Vegetarian for 2 months now and being that im not that creative in the kitchen, (my bf is the cook here and he eats meat still) , i was wondering if anyone has any good vegetarian recipes for me to try to make, besides salads lol I'm open to trying anything, though im not the best cook:rolleyes: So if anyone has recipes please shoot:cool:

I'm not a vegetarian, so not much help but this recipe did come to mind.
It is more of a side dish and tastes sooooo good.

Fresh Corn Salsa recipe at Kraftfoods.com

See if you can get your hands on any of the Moosewood cookbooks---- borrow from the library even.

Simple yummy stuff.

mm sounds good, thank you!:thumbup:

is it just vegetarian recipes? thanks!

Here are a few soups that are always a hit around my house. These are just a few I have on my computer but I'll post a few other recipes later. You can also get lots of yummy recipes here:
Fatfree Vegan Recipes
Recipes for the Vegan / Vegetarian Diet

Green Minestrone

1 onion
2 celery rib
2 garlic cloves
1 zucchini
1 bay leaf, whole
1 can white beans, canned
8 cups vegetable broth
1 cup ditalini
1/2 pound green beans
10 ounces spinach leaves
12 basil leaves

1. Sautee onion, celery, garlic, zucchini and bay, salt and pepper
2. Add broth, bring to a boil add beans and pasta and green beans, bring to a boil, 8 min.
3. Stir in spinach basil


Baked Potato Soup

2 1/2 pounds baking potatoes
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
6 cups skim milk
1 cup reduced fat cheddar cheese, extra sharp
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1 cup sour supreme (or sour cream)
3/4 cup green onion (optional)
6 slices veggie bacon (Morning Star)

1. Bake potatoes in oven, cool, discard skin and coursly chop
2. In pot, add flour, gradually add milk, cook over med. till thick and bubbly, at least 8 min.
3. Add potatoes, cheese salt and pepper
4. Stir in sour supreme and 1/2 c onions
5. Cook till heated through
6. Serve topped with veggie bacon

Try the Moosewood Restaurants cookbooks. The low-fat cookbook is great and has lots of easy recipes that use common kitchen ingredients (you don't have to go out and buy all kind of stuff you've never heard of before.) :)

Also, try beans - black beans, garbanzo beans, pinto beans are all good and work really well in most salads. Beans are high in protein and fiber, so they keep you full without lots of fat.

Quorn brand makes some really yummy chicken substitutes. You can usually find Quorn at co-ops or Whole Foods. The chick'n cutlets with gruyere (sp?) are to die for! Yum. Morningstar makes really yummy breakfast "sausages" and buffalo "wings" if you're craving meat-y things without the meat.

Good luck! :) (This is from Sophie's Mom's daughter)

For a really quick and easy meal you can make tacos (however you usually do- a kit or whatever) using Boca Crumbles instead of ground beef. My husband eats meat and he'll eat these. Also soft tacos with vegetarian refried beans, a mixture of corn and black beans and whatever else you like (salsa, cheese, lettuce, tomato, whatever) is good. I also make spaghetti from jarred sauce and my husband will grill italian sausage to add to his or I'll split the jar and put meatballs in half and leave half plain. I also do the same with fettucini and alfredo sauce adding broccoli to the sauce and my husband grills some chicken for his.

These are some of my lazy night meals.:D

I second Quorn "chicken"! It is so yummy! I've heard many long time vegetarians can't eat it because it is so chicken like it grosses them out. It is the only fake chicken I like actually. The gruyere one is so good! A half of one on a hamburger bun with dijon is one of my favorite things.

I LOVE Quorn!!!!! It is SOOOO good! I've been a pescetarian/pescatarian for 15 years or so and I generally love all the fake meat stuff! The taste/thought of meat never really grossed me out in the first place though - it was more the cruelty in the slaughterhouses :(. I like the Facon-type products too, lol! :D

omg i love soup!:D:thumbup:

I've got plenty of beans, i love them!:p Thanks i will look for the moosewood cookbooks, and that sounds good too because i always get these recipes where i have to go to the supermarket and get all these ingredients that i don't have, and sometimes i have to go to diff. supermarkets lol it get's expensive. I have never heard of Quorn..what is gruyere? it sounds good, im gonna look around for it. i dont know if any supermarkets near me will have it tho

Ok my brother made chili with some type of 'fake meat' and i swear it tasted just like the real thing! it was so good! i forgot to ask him what it was called but it might be boca crumbles. Your lazy night meals sound good, i love tacos! i never thought of doing a bean one. i am so hungry right now, i feel like going to make all of these meals but its not time to eat yet lol

The Morning Star crumbles are good too- I think both brands taste pretty similar. I prefer the Boca crumbles just for the packaging. There are 3 packages per box and each package equals 1/2 pound of ground meat. Since meat cooks down so much and the crumbles are already cooked and stay the same size it just makes it easier for me to figure out how much to use. For tacos for my family of 3 I use 2 packages and it's the about the same amount as when I used to buy 1 pound of meat.:)

Yves Ground "meat" also excellent! Can find them in any grocery store--the produce section where they have veg/tofu products.

I make burritos with them and NO one ever knows they're not eating meat. So you could share with your BF.;)

I can't use Boca Burgers because they contain soy and I try to avoid soy. I make my meat out of nuts mostly. This is a DELICIOUS raw vegan taco recipe that I make all the time and my hubby loves it! Smells and tastes like real ground beef but it's walnuts lol :D

By the way, this salsa is AMAZING! I make it when I'm going over to someone's house and they dip chips it in (I use carrots instead) and EVERYONE loves it and always asks me for the recipe!

Ground Walnut Meat

1 1/2 Cups Raw Walnuts, Ground in a Food Processor
1 1/2 TSP Ground Cumin
3/4 TSP Ground Coriander
2 TBSP Nama Shoyu (Raw, Organic Soy Sauce)

In a small mixing bowl, combine the walnuts, cumin, and coriander and mix well. Add the nama shoyu (soy sauce) and mix well. Spread approximately 1/3 cup of the walnut mixture along the center stem of each collard green leaf, then add a layer of shredded lettuce. Top with approximately 1/3 cup of the salsa just before serving.

Fresh Tomato Salsa

2 Cups Tomatoes, Chopped
3/4 Cup Fresh Cilantro, Chopped
1/2 Cup Scallions, Chopped
2 TBSP Fresh Lemon Juice
1 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 Cloves Garlic, Minced
1/8 to 1/4 TSP Cayenne Pepper
3/4 TSP Sea Salt
1 1/2 TSP Ground Cumin
3/4 TSP Ground Coriander

Combine all of the ingredients in a medium mixing bowl, mix well, and serve.

I always make sure to use different tomatoes -- like cherry, grape, plum and beefsteak for a nice variety and it also looks so much prettier! :p

Then as your taco shell, you use COLLARD GREEN LEAVES w/ the stems cut off. I also shred about 1 cup of ROMAINE LETTUCE and put that in my taco. This is really a delicious meal and totally vegan!

Hubby isn't a vegan -- so he shreds some cheddar cheese and puts it on his tacos but I don't. If you want the "illusion" of cheese, you can finely shred some carrots ... but it's totally for show!

Enjoy!! :D

I have been vegetarian for almost 4 months now and I will substitute Morning Star Meal Starter Giller Crumbles for the ground beef for any foods that call for ground beef. I have made chilli, stuffed Shells, and shepherds pie, My 4 boy's and Husband will eat it and they say it is good! It's nice that you still have the same texture as the ground beef but 80% less fat!

I'm going to be on the look out for Quorn chicken substitutes. How are they price wise (inexpensive, comparable to actual chicken, etc.)?

They are kind of pricey. I think the gruyere are maybe $5.50 for 2 patties. I also get unbreaded patties to grill and the nuggets for Lauren but I can't remember how much they cost. I would say they are more but not a lot more than boneless chicken breasts.

edit to add- they also aren't soy based for those who try to stear clear. I eat soy products in moderation but I know there are a lot of theories on that.

That's not to bad. That's comparable to what I pay for boneless chicken breasts at the market.

Oh weird- I'm online but my light was off. It's strange to see your own light off.

Anyway- to keep OT :D- You should definitely try them- they are really good. The first few times I bought it I caught Lauren reading the label because she was afraid I was serving her real meat.:rolleyes:

I can't wait to try them! I think I'm going to get a few of the unbreaded ones.

So i just got back from the supermarket, this supermarket here is not really good, so they don't have the 'fake meat' or anything but i did buy some vegetarian cage free eggs, at first i was like, wait how are they vegatarian?? lol but my bf explained to me that they are fed a vegetable diet, im slow. im going to have to go to fairway or whole foods later on. tonight im going to eat some beans with quinoa and veggies. and i stocked up on nuts, but damn it's hard to stop eating them!:rolleyes: A reminder for next time: don't go to the supermarket hungry...i wanted to buy everything there including my fav. icecream lol but i MADE myself put it back after i walked around the supermarket with it:p

yes that's what i am! i forgot the name of it, but i eat seafood still and dairy just not meat..meat

Thanks!!:D I'm writing all these things down for when i go to fairway:thumbup: you bet im going to give them to my bf, he won't know. im telling you that chili my brother made, omg i could not believe it was fake meat! i mean it tastes identical to the real thing! i have to ask him still for the name of it lol

I'm a fellow veggie too...about 5 years now..I have a recipe for a mixed bean chilli? I'm not a very adventurous cook either..but this is easy..and really tasty..it's one of my favourites!:)

Do you mean the Fairway in Brooklyn? I LOVE Fairway! I'm going there Thursday after work. They have such a wide variety. I also shop at Whole Foods a lot.

That sounds really good, and i just bought some walnuts too. The other day i bought a veggie burger at this diner and it was okay but it was pretty fattening, the bun was huge and then it came with all this sauce all over it, i was like well what's the point of that if its like 1000 cal. :rolleyes: I'd rather learn to make them myself and know what im eating.
btw why don't you eat much soy? The reason i ask is because i love soy milk, and soy yogurt, tofu but my bf told me he heard soy is not so good for women cause of something with cancer, do you know anything about that cause i don't want to risk anything lol but i love soy

I use to eat Boca Burgers all the time and a lot of other veggie/soy burgers but I had to give them up. I did a ton of research and soy is really bad for you. I can send you some articles if you like but if you google soy, you will see what I mean.

Also, there are veggie burgers out there with NO soy and they taste yummy! I can send you some links if you'd be interested in buying them. I also love raw burgers (like I just had for lunch a spinach salad and a raw sunflower seed/veggie burger. It looks JUST LIKE a real beef burger and tastes sooo similar (it even SMELLS like a burger lololol) but it's soy and gluten free and all veggies and seeds. SOOOO DELICIOUS, you would love it!!!

Without getting into too much detail, I use to have a lot of problems w/ my menstral cycle. Once it stopped all together and I went to a whole bunch of doctors and specialists and it was determind that the soy was doing it. So now I avoid soy and diet soda all together (diet soda is bad for weightloss -- makes you hungry). Again, this is just me. I know a lot of people love diet soda (I personally use to be addicted to Diet Coke, no joke) but I gave it all up and what a huge difference it has made!

If you ever want to talk about this in more detail, just PM me. I've been doing a lot of research on this subject lolol Make sure you are getting enough protein. I eat more raw vegan than I do vegetarian because vegetarians eat dairy and bread and too much bread it just fattening. I still have some bread once in a while and dairy too but only once in a while. I do about 85% vegan and 15% vegetarian because once in a while I want some fresh mozzarella in my salad or I will be in the mood for a bowl of cereal.

For example, if I want a burger on a roll, I will have a whole wheat pita (they are only 70 calories) and put a raw sunflower burger on it w/ lettuce, tomato, sliced pickles and red onion and it's amazing -- better than any other burger I ever had!

Same for me. It was never the taste of meat that made me give it up (I enjoyed a steak once in a while and I also liked grilling chicken breasts). But it's the slaughterhouses and how brutally the animals are killed. Just watch a few videos on PETA's website and you'll never eat meat again. So heart breaking!