Vegetarian Thanksgiving?

Question

I am a full blown vegeterian. I don't eat fish either, like some other vegies do. What is a good suggestion for me to have on thanks giving? I have heard of a tofu turkey, but I don't know how to make it. Any advice? Much appriciated.

Answer 1

buy one tofurky

wrap it in foil loosely and put it in a bread pan
1. squeeze the juice of 3 fresh oranges
2. 1/4 to 1/2 cup of soy sauce
3. one cup or more of dried cranberries
4. one cup of more of pecans (i like candied pecans)
5. 3 apples, thinly sliced
6. 1/2 cup of apricot preserves

bake at about 350 for 3 hours. enjoy

Answer 2

I'm a full blown vegetarian too. Even though tofu is yummy, you don't want to over do it. Try making a nice dinner with meatless beef spaghetti sauce, a nice eggplant, zucchini, and cut okra fry-up. You can crumble up some firm tofu, olive oil, and spices of your choice, roll it up like they would a meatloaf and put it in the oven. It tastes delicious over some spinach and lettuce salad with olive oil and lemon juice. There are sooo many things you can do. I get hungry just thinking about them!

Answer 3

There are quite a few things that you can make for a vegetarian thanksgiving. This thanksgiving I am making spiced pumpkin soup, stuffed acorn squash for my main dish, green bean casserole as a side dish., as well as other traditional sides.

I like the idea of having pumpkin apart of the meal, as well as squash as a main course since these are veggies often associated with the fall and keep the dinner traditional looking.

Here are some more ideas:
http://vegkitchen.com/recipes/vegetarian-thanksgiving.htm
http://www.theveggietable.com/recipes/thanksgiving.html
http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?categ=vegan%2Cthanksgiving

Answer 4

While a tofurky is easy to make- just baste, wrap, and stick in the oven- they are really gross. A wonderful website where I have got most of my thanksgiving recipes (including many for tofurky) is:

They have a ton of regular year-round recipes, and many specifically for the holiday season.

Seriously, I've been a vegan for 3 years, and I've never had a palatable tofurky. But, the vegan-jerky that it made by the same company is delicious!

Answer 5

You can buy a Tofurkey or a Quorn roast and just heat them up according to the package. Then just make sure you have some gravy and stuffing made without meat juices and enjoy all the side dishes.

Answer 6

There are a lot of vegetarian side dishes on Thanksgiving. Cranberry sauce, many vegetables, bread, sometimes stuffing can be vegetarian. My mouth is watering just thinking about what I will be having on Thanksgiving.

Answer 7

I'm not really into the tofurky thing. Instead, we get our protein from a nice bean salad.
Since we don't have the turkey, we make the stuffing the main course. We make it ourselves, using veggie broth (instead of chicken or turkey broth), adding veggies (onion, celery, carrot), whole wheat bread crumbs, and lots of seasoning (salt, pepper, garlic, rosemary, tarragon, thyme, sage).
We also have garlic mashed potatoes, corn & lima bean succotash with okra, green bean casserole, and steamed carrots.

Answer 8

It's a heck of a lot easier to buy a Tofurkey pre-made. You can find a recipe for a seitan "turkey" online, but it's pretty involved. Making seitan is kind of a pain.

Answer 9

Just get fancy on Vegetable and Stuffing and Fruit...

Forget the meat.

Or get a book on Veggie Thanksgiving.
http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Times-Complete-Thanksgiving-Cookbook/dp/0028625676

Answer 10

Will depend on the context really. Which is better as a snack - fruits personally. It's tastier and gives you that little bit of sweetness. Which can be better as a snack if you are trying hard to slice back on sugar and lose weight vegetables