Any suggestions for quick, easy, healthy vegetarian meals?!
Any suggestions for quick, easy, healthy vegetarian meals?
Answers:
* Jacket potato topped with something - baked beans, hummus, cheddar/cream cheese etc.
* Veggie sausages, beans & mash.
* Veggie burger & oven chips/potato wedges
* Roasted vegetables and cous cous.
* Spaghetti veggienese (using quorn or soya mince)
* Pasta dish (there are plenty of tasty sauces usually available in supermakets - i.e. Asda's tomato & roasted red pepper brand)
* Spicy tofu stir-fry
* Tortilla wrap with falafels (spicy chickpea balls)
* Instant rice & vegetable curry or casserole (can both be bought as canned ready-meals)
egg plant parm
spinach lasagna
grilled vegetable sandwich
mushroom kebabs grilled and over rice of choice
red beans and rice
garlic macaronie and broccoli with olive oil
a carrot.
i dont no? a veggie burger??
Black bean burritos. Just heat up a can of fat free black beans, top with whatever you like.
A nice green salad topped with aliced almonds and madarin oranges, with balsamic dressing.
Veggie sandwiches with cucumber, spinach, tomato, lettuce, dressing, cheese on wheat bread. Or pita stuffed with these ingredients and slathered with hummus and tabouleh.
I have to stop now, I'm getting hungry!
what about Quorn mince with pasta, Baked potato with filling of your choice and red, green yellow pepper and lettuce salad. i also always use dried parsley for decorating. Or you could make soup, cube potatoes, carrots. and cook for about five mins then had some green peas and "parsley" vege stock and have that with toast. Enjoy x
look on google for vegetarian meals. there should be many tips and idears on there :)
For HEALTHY vegetarian meals, it is necessary to eat live plants.
"Healthy" means "in good health/free from disease or parasites." It applies only to living organisms.
The adjective meaning "promoting good health" is HEALTHFUL.
Example: A botanist examines a tomato plant and the tomatoes growing thereon. He finds no disease or pests. The tomato plant and tomatoes are healthy.
Once the tomatoes are harvested, they can provide essential nutrients to diners who eat them. The tomatoes are healthful.
Tuscan Bean soup
Ingredients:
1 onion, chopped
8 oz. (225g) rice and wholegrain mix, rinsed
4 0z. (100g) peas
12 oz. (300g) can Mexican sweetcorn, drained
4 oz. (100g) Edam cheese, diced
one and a half teaspoons of mild curry powder
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 tablespoon of sunflower oil
4 sticks of celery, chopped
one and a quarter pints (700ml) boiling water
Cooking Instructions:
Gently heat the oil then fry the garlic, onion and curry powder for 5 minutes
Add the celery and rice mix then fry for a further 2-3 minutes
Add the water, bring to the boil, stirring twice
Cover and simmer for 20 minutes
Add the peas, corn and cheese
Cover and cook for 5 minutes till the liquid is absorbed
Serve immediately
Spend a day cooking and then portion off what you've made and freeze it. That way you know exactly whats in your food and not relying on convenience stuff!
Some suggestions these are all recipes i made up myself but plugged into a website to give calories etc
Butternut Squash Crumble - Recipe makes 5 servings
Cooking Time: 175.4 calories per serving
Ingredients
250g Squash, Butternut, Raw, Unprepared, Average
600 g Tomatoes, Chopped, Value, Tesco*
2 Med Onion/360g Onions, Raw, Average
1 Tbsp/5.3g Basil, Fresh
1 Cube/6g Stock Cubes, Vegetable, Dry, As Sold, Oxo*
1 Teaspoon/?g Chillies, Crushed, Schwartz*
160 g Bread, Best of Both, White with Wheatgerm, Medium Sliced, Hovis*
50g Cheese, Cheddar, Grated, Cathedral City*
Fry the veg, add all but last 2 ingrediants into a pan and simmer for an hour.
Whizz up the bread with a stick blender and stir in the cheese
Pour the mix into a casserole dish and sprinkle the cheese and breadcrumbs over the top. Bake in the oven until golden brown.
Bean Chilli
Recipe makes 5 servings
Cooking Time: 240.0 calories per serving
Ingredients
1 Can/415g Beans, Baked, in Tomato Sauce, Heinz*
2lb/908g Tomatoes, Chopped, Value, Tesco*
2 Med Onion/360g Onions, Raw, Average
3 Pepper/375g Peppers, Red Pepper, *
2 Tin Drained/400g Beans, Mixed, Asda*
2 Teaspoon/1g Chillies, Crushed, Schwartz*
1oz/28g Chocolate, Dark, with 70% Cocoa Solids, Organic, Green & Black's*
Per Serving/80g Jalapenos, Red, in Sweet Vinegar, iscovery*
Fry the veg and then add the rest of the ingrediants. Simmer for an hour - taste the mix to check it does not need an more chilli etc. Serve with rice.
Other things i can think of - fry up your fave veggies in soy sauce, serve in a warmed pitta with houmous.
Homemade curry can be very healthy as long as it is tomato based and not cream/coconut based so check some websites for recipes.
Homemade soup is easy and very filling. Just boil up what ever veg you have in the fridge with a couple of stock cubes - root veg works the best and always make sure you use stock and an onion!
Happy Cooking!
A veg and tofu stir-fry is quick, easy and healthy. Pepper, onion and chilli pepper fajitas with tomato salsa are also a classic and really simple to make.
For a bit of comfort food, you can't beat a rich, mushroom lasagne...you can use soya milk and vegan parmesan-style cheese for the vegans too.
Butternut squash soup:
One large or two small butternut squash cubed and boiled until soft; one large or two small onions; fry the onion until soft with lots of garlic and ginger root; mix together the cooked squash and the cooked onions and blend until smooth. Its really really easy and nice. Thin it with vegetable stock in hot water.
Vegetable stir fry is great, you can put whatever vegetables you like in and cubes of tofu (which can be marinaded in advance if you prefer) and it only takes a few minutes, serve with rice or noodles. You can even get stir in sauces if you're feeling lazy.
Vegetable lasagne is one of my favourites, it takes a bit longer though, just fry up onions and garlic, courgettes, peppers, mushrooms (or whatever vegetables you prefer) throw in a couple of tins of chopped tomatoes, season with shredded fresh basil or dried it doesn't matter. Then make a cheese sauce and layer the sauces alternately between pasta sheets in a deep dish and oven bake until the pasta is soft. Good served with garlic bread and a green salad.
Greek salad served with crusty bread is really nice in the summer.
Falafels, cous cous, humous, pitta bread is also quick and easy. You can get packets of falafel mix or ready made ones, or you can make them yourself from scratch. You can make humous by blending chickpeas with lemon juice, garlic, a little olive oil and some tahini, and paprika if you want. Dress with yoghurt and mint dressing or chilli dressing or a squeeze of lemon.
I would really recommend the Cranks recipe books and also the World Cafe Cookbooks 1 and 2 they are brilliant.
halumi bake.
just onion garlic pepper sweet potato normal potato and any other things you can think of really
bake in the oven until nearly done then lay slabs of halumi cheese on it and let it cook for a few more minutes
sorry i couldnt be more precise but its only a rough recipe make it what you want!
also because of the goats cheese this is also suitable for people who don't eat dairy