Vegetarian Recipes?

[meepodeekin]

Hubby and I have decided to try being vegetarian at home.  (We'll see how this goes, but hubby is just not into eating meat anymore and I am willing to try to confine mine to eating out.) So, I am looking for quick, easy vegetarian meals to make at home.  I ordinarily don't cook much, and when I do it is either a stirfry or putting something on the

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[apintrix]

Acquire some whole cumin seeds. Use them as a base for frying up onions & potatoes & broccoli or other veg (for Indian-style, add mustard seeds at the start and curry powder at the end-- cover it as you cook so the potato gets soft. Do not stint on oil with this.), or onions & peppers & canned beans for beans & rice.

If you look through my blog's recipe tag, I'd say about 70% are vegetarian or vegetarianable recipes (particularly if you are willing to sub in veggie stock for chicken stock) and there are often great comments from better chefs than I. Most of them are summer recipes because that's when I cook.

http://apintrix.livejournal.com/tag/recipe

[meepodeekin]

Mmmm, cumin. That sounds good. I will get some. (Spice advice is particularly useful to me because I never quite know which to put with what.)

One of my favorites

[julianyap]

It has the advantage of requiring few ingredients and being very easy, from Habeas Brulee, Kalustiyan's Mujaddara recipe.

Recipe without the story is as follows:

Get a lot of onions. I used 5 large onions the last time. You could probably use more. Chop up and caramelize.

Take three cups of lentils and one cup of bulghur wheat. Add salt and cook the same way you'd cook rice (In my case this means putting it in my rice cooker) (Adding salt later works too)

Pour olive oil (I recommend extra virgin) over the rice and mix in the caramelized onions. I did this pretty much to taste.

Eat.

Re: One of my favorites

[meepodeekin]

Yum, that sounds really good.

Vegetarian, but probably not healthy

[julianyap]

Adam's family's Chicken Pecan Fettuccine is pretty much just as delicious with Quorn (vegetarian fake chicken which is surprisingly chickeny) instead of real chicken.

Re: Vegetarian, but probably not healthy

[meepodeekin]

I don't think I have that recipe. I know what Quorn is, but I'm not sure if we have it around here or not (will have to look).

Re: Vegetarian, but probably not healthy

[cerebralpaladin]

Here's the original recipe. I also think it might work subbing in portabello mushrooms for the chicken, but I've never tried that

Re: Vegetarian, but probably not healthy

[meepodeekin]

Cool, thanks!

[banana_pants]

We eat black beans, stew or chili style, all the time in our household, and can make huge batches in a slow cooker. Good with spices, molasses, chili, veggies, etc.

Indian cooking will be a good source of variety, as it's all bean/legume/lentil based proteins and very good for you.

Tofu can be repetitive, but also very receptive. Our tofu dinners do not get boring because we have a bunch of spices, sauces and spice mixtures that we use on them. Bean Supreme is one favorite, and sometimes I just go nuts on the spice rack and see what happens.

[meepodeekin]

That all sounds very yummy. I'm not good at improvising, though, and I generally try to avoid it (because of some spicing tragedies that have happened in the past). I'm going to go up to the local Indian grocery and see what I can find that is promising.