Any ideas for a vegetarian Christmas dinner?

Question

Hi everyone! Do any of you have any ideas/recipes for a vegetarian Christmas dinner? I need some ideas for something to replace the meat with!! Thank you muchly :-)

Answer 1

I am giving you the same answer I gave two people and they really liked the suggestions.
As you know when it comes to Veg/Vegan Christmas the recipes are quite similar to Thanksgiving. I am giving you few of my favorite websites hoping it will help.
You can always accommodate the non vegans by making some of their dishes with butter and milk such as mashed potatoes and add butter to the veggies... You can also make them a dairy dessert with egg relpacer. My Christmas is not the same without Noel Nog. It is really delicious.
Merry Christmas.

http://www.adoptaturkey.org/resources_re...

http://vegkitchen.com/recipes/vegetarian...

http://www.vegcooking.com/holiday.asp......

http://www.sonice-soyganic.com/english/f...

Answer 2

You can do a nut roast, or you could get a book from the local library. I also go on the website bbcfood you can type in a chef and vegetarian christmas dinner they will give you a recipe to print off they have starters, dinners, desserts and puddings Hope this helps it's what i use Good Luck.

Answer 3

Chestnut Nut Roast

200g Chestnuts
2 medium onions
1 teaspoon mixed herbs
1 teaspoon vegan bouillon (or vegan stock) powder
vegetable oil
vegan margarine
salt
black pepper

I use the vacuum packed chestnuts. Put them into a blender and blend until they are powdered - although some more courser pieces could be left in to provide a nice texture. Finely chop the onions and fry in 2 tablespoons oil until see through. Then add the chestnuts, herbs, bouillon powder and a pinch of salt and pepper. Cook for a further 5 minutes and the chestnuts should start to soften. Grease a small oven proof dish and pres the mixture into it. Bake at 200 degrees for 30 minutes until the top is golden brown.

Delicious served with either mushroom sauce or gravy.

Answer 4

When I was vegetarian I was fed up of seeing all this wonderful food being prepared and then being presented with some pasta dish on its own. I wasn't able to share with the others passing plates around and it was quite lonely.

I would recommend that you do a meat-free cutlet of some kind (quorn?) with veggie gravy (make it from veggie stock cubes and some flour). Then make sure you do your roast potatoes in a separate container from the turkey and baste them with veggie oil instead of goose fat or whatever. That way the vegetarian can share in the plates of food because to be honest a plate with sprouts, parsnips, yorkshire pudding, bread sauce, gravy and potatoes is a meal in itself anyway. Even if they don't like the veggie cutlet (because some of them are nasty) they will have plenty to eat.

Answer 5

My family are vegan and for the past few years we've eaten a Redwoods Cheatin Roast Beef, or Celebration Roast Turkey with the Christmas dinner. They are really good and easy to cook - wrap in tinfoil and bake for 45 minutes. We serve them with typical roast potatoes, brussel sprouts, bolied chestnuts, peas, carrots and onion gravy made with Bisto which is also vegan. They are available from Holland and Barret's and othe health shops.
Before Redwoods brought this out we used to make Soxmix rissoles and slow baked them.

Answer 6

Here are 3 different full Christmas meal ideas:

You will have to click on each link to view the recipes for each one. It would have been too long to post all of them. Hope they help you. The recipes looked delicious and I'm sure they'll even make non vegetarian guests happy. :)

All American Christmas Dinner
http://www.vegsource.com/xmas1.htm

An English Christmas
http://www.vegsource.com/xmas2.htm

Christmas Eve in Southern Italy
http://www.vegsource.com/xmas3.htm

Another note: I found these delicious vegetarian holiday drinks at the store the other day.

Vitasoy has two soy drinks... Holly Nog [Veggie Egg Nog Clone] and Chocolate Peppermint.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Start with avocados dressed with olive oil, lemon juice pepper and salt.

Vegetable consommé with or without a dash of sherry - you can use vegetable stock cubes.

A nut roast. Grind nuts, potatoes, Italian herbs together. Gently fry onions and garlic in vegetable oil, add to nut mix, bind with tinned tomatoes, put in a loaf tin and bake in a moderate oven for about half an hour. Serve with mixed veg and rice, noodles or bulgur wheat.

For desert a fruit salad or a fruit sorbet with or without added alcohol. Or a mock rumtopf, made of dried fruits soaked in the spirit of you choice.

If your guests are not vegans, you can add an egg to the nut loaf and whipped cream to the desert..

Happy Christmas!

Answer 9

Chrstmas dinner is the easiest for vegetarians.

Think of all the great local winter veggies we have at this time of year. Some roasted, fried, boiled, steamed.....herbs, stuffing etc...

There is no need for a central item on a dinner plate, thats just a meat-centric view.

Answer 10

Try making lots of dishes like salads and soups or try different casserole dishes without the meat. Whatever you cook or make just leave the meat out. Use a recipe and if it contains to use meat, well just don't include the meat part.