Vegan and vegetarian recipes

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Please feel free to add any good ones!

[Gemini]

I love this recipe. It is easy and delicious! I have cooked it for vegetarian and vegan guests, but we sometime just cook it for ourselves.



Mushroom Stroganoff

Ingredients 1 tbsp olive oil 1 onion, diced 1 clove garlic, crushed half a yellow pepper, diced 250g button mushrooms, sliced 1 tsp dried coriander 1 tsp mixed spice 400ml tin of coconut milk Notes This is lovely with a mix of white and brown mushrooms too. Serve with boiled rice, salad tossed in vinaigrette and garlic bread (made with vegan marg or olive oil). Yum!

Method Gently fry the onion, garlic and yellow pepper in the olive oil for a couple of mins until starting to soften. Add the mushrooms, turn the heat up and cook until starting to brown. Add the rest of the ingredients, stir well, season to taste and reduce the heat so that it bubbles gently for 20 tp 30 mins, stirring occasionally. (The sauce should reduce and thicken to a lovely creamy consistency.) That's it!

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Daisy's Angelsey Eggs:

Hardboil 2 - 4 eggs (depending on how hungry you are), peel and place sunny-side up in a buttered casserole dish.

Boil and drain potatoes. Ditto with the leeks and mash together with plenty of seasoning and a dollop of butter if you fancy it.

Top with home-made cheese sauce. I usually decorate with a few thin slices of tomato. Pop in the oven on about gas 5 until it's bubbly on top and hot right through

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SPICY ROOT AND LENTIL CASSEROLE
(for curry lovers!)

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp sunflower or vegetable oil
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 700g potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks
• 4 carrots, thickly sliced
• 2 parsnips, thickly sliced
• 2 tbsp curry paste or powder
• 1 litre/1¾ pints vegetable stock
• 100g red lentils
• a small bunch of fresh coriander, roughly chopped
• low-fat yogurt and naan bread, to serve
• Method
  • Heat the oil in a large pan and cook the onion and garlic over a medium heat for 3-4 minutes until softened, stirring occasionally. Tip in the potatoes, carrots and parsnips, turn up the heat and cook for 6-7 minutes, stirring, until the vegetables are golden.
  • Stir in the curry paste or powder, pour in the stock and then bring to the boil. Reduce the heat, add the lentils, cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes until the lentils and vegetables are tender and the sauce has thickened.
  • Stir in most of the coriander, season and heat for a minute or so.
  • Top with yogurt and the rest of the coriander. Serve with naan bread.

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Cheesy veggie pasta

I made this last night for vegetarian friends. Simple but tasty!

Ingredients
Vegetables (I used 2 types of mushroom, red, green and yellow peppers, mange tout, grated carrot, broccoli, red onion and a little garlic. You could use any vegetables)
I pint of cheese sauce
Small jar of tomato and mascarpone sauce (optional, but I like to add it)
Pasta
Grated cheese

Method
Roast chopped peppers, onion and garlic with a little olive oil in a medium hot oven.. Meanwhile panfry all the other vegetables in a little olive oil, adding the mange tout and grated carrot at the end of the cooking time.
Make cheese sauce. Cook pasta.
Mix all the vegetables together. Stir in cheese sauce and the small jar of sauce. Add to the cooked pasta in an ovenproof dish. Season to taste.
Top with grated cheese and heat until the cheese bubbles.


I served this with honey and sunflower bread, made in my breadmaker. It all went down well

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As a couple of the recipes call for cheese sauce, I have added one here. Cheese sauce

Ingredients

• 25g/1oz butter
• 25g/1oz plain flour
• 600ml/1 pint milk
• salt and pepper
• 80g/3oz cheese, grated (e.g. mature cheddar, gouda, gruyere
  
  
  Preparation method
  
  
• Melt the butter in a saucepan.
• Stir in the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes.
• Take the pan off the heat and gradually stir in the milk to get a smooth sauce. Return to the heat and, stirring all the time, bring to the boil.
• Simmer gently for 8-10 minutes and season with salt and white pepper.
• Stir in cheese and allow to melt. Don't re-boil the sauce or it will become stringy