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veggie option for roast dinner which is not a nut roast

Been a veggie for 18 years, xmas/roasts are no problem. Summat you might like to try is a 'quorn wellington'.

Pretty simple really

Puff pastry
mushrooms
onion
garlic
3 peppers (red, yellow, green)
pesto

Chop the mushrooms and onions very very finely, ie a duxelle, and fry off, place into a bowl and lave til later. De-seed the peppers and cut into 4 pieces. Fry the peppers very slowly in small amount of olive opil and 2 tsps of pesto. Once cooked and soft remove from heat. Fry 2 quorn breasts in a tiny drop of oil to colour and flavour.

Roll out puff pastry to preferred thickness. Use 1 egg yolk to 'wash' upside of pastry, Spread duxelle mixture over half the pastry, place the 2 breasts atop the duxelle then layer over peppers. Fold over pastry (like a pasty) and seal edges.

Bake and enjoy with all the usual roast accompaniements suitable for a veggie.
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You can't have the same as the rest though - too of the key components of a roast, the roasties and gravy, are immeasurably better using animal fats and meat juices respectively imo. I just get too hung up on the compromises I guess - it's just not as nice for anybody. I can take not using beef dripping on the yorkshire puddings, but duck or goose fat on decent King Edward potatoes is near essential imo
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I had a similar dilemma a few weeks ago.,I shelved the classic roast and did a big chunk of pork belly for the carnivores, a (crown prince) squash risotto and some italian style roasties in their skins with rosemary, lemon and garlic, roasted veg and a dish of roasted squash in breadcrumbs and parmesan as a side.
 
My mum always cooks a kind of chestnut and mushroom in puff pastry. We used to have it instead of turkey or whatever... now were all back eating meat we have it as well as

Its a nut roasty type thing but definitely not like your standard nut roast( heavy, nutty and so on). I can get the recipe if you like
 
I think the best veggie food is that which stands on it's own and doesn't try to copy a meat dish. I never understand the "Veggie Roast Dinner" thing. It doesn't exist. 80% of a roast dinner is meat, with gravy made from it's juices.
 
Filo pastry (or puff, if you can't be arsed with the layers). Bought, obviously.
Chunk of cheese in the middle. Dollop of sauce/something to go with cheese. Make into parcel. Bake.

Filling choices:

Brie and cranberry sauce
Stilton and chopped walnuts and pear
Dolcelatte and fresh fig
goat's cheese and pesto and pine nuts
Gorgonzola with walnuts and honey
Fontina with chilli marmalade
 
Oh, it's a Layered Cashew and Mushroom nut roast. Works well with all the other Sunday roast stuff - cabbage, roast potatoes etc.
 
BigPhil said:
Oh, it's a Layered Cashew and Mushroom nut roast. Works well with all the other Sunday roast stuff - cabbage, roast potatoes etc.
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BP - that looks lush and I could even serve it to the Boy if I replace the butter with something vegan. my word :cool: this is awesome!
 
Mr Retro said:
I think the best veggie food is that which stands on it's own and doesn't try to copy a meat dish. I never understand the "Veggie Roast Dinner" thing. It doesn't exist. 80% of a roast dinner is meat, with gravy made from it's juices.
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I generally agree with you - that "now what can I swap the meat for?" thing looks to this veggie like tackling the issue from completely the wrong end.

But a roast dinner is a bit of a fixture in many people's lives, and it is inevitable that a veggie is going to appear at quite a lot of these, so it makes sense to do something compatible, even if it's a bit bass-ackwards compared to "proper" veggie cooking.

I like the sound of weltweit's option - essentially, you're using the same ingredients and cooking methods, just doing the veggie stuff separately. It's bound to be more faff than doing a pure meat roast, but lots less than if you'd decided to do a stirfry for the veggie(s) instead of roast.

We have to be pragmatic :)
 
When we have christmas dinner in the MIL's I always have the veggie option.

She is veggie herself and therefore the meat she serves is... well... if I am being polite, lacking, if am not being polite, shit.
Her veggie stuff, on the other hand, is lush!
 
agnes - it's difficult to be pragmatic when you've only limited oven space though. It's difficult to do another tray of (non meat fat) roasted potatoes in an already stuffed oven, particularly as the fact that you're unable to roast some veggies in underneath the meat (on rack) already cuts down on my miserably small 2 shelf oven.
 
[masterchef mode] Why not make a macaroni tower as seen on masterchef recently using veggie stock and layered vegetables and stuff [/masterchef mode]
 
Yes, but one of the joys of a roast is its simple integrity. It's a simple feast based around a joint of meat and a sauce made out of its juices, surrounded by potatoes cooked in fats, preferably animal fats from a previous roast,

Whatever way you cut it, it does affect the flavour and culinary approach to make a veggie variation
 
we sometimes have veggie haggis instead of nut roast
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can be a bit dry so nice with a mushroom and onion sauce (with a bit of tamari)
 
tarannau said:
agnes - it's difficult to be pragmatic when you've only limited oven space though. It's difficult to do another tray of (non meat fat) roasted potatoes in an already stuffed oven, particularly as the fact that you're unable to roast some veggies in underneath the meat (on rack) already cuts down on my miserably small 2 shelf oven.
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Yeah. This causes particular grief at Christmas, even if you've got lots of oven.

Personally, I'd go for a full veggie option and just sling a token meat dish on the table (after all, I know that such an approach is survivable - I've had it happen to me often enough as a veggie :) ), but I would probably get lynched by the goose fat wing of the Potato Party for it...
 
fractionMan said:
Most veggies I know want all the stuff you usually get with a roast minus meat. If you served them something completely different (like curry) when everyone else was tucking into roasties they'd kill you.
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Agreed (although killing them is a bit extreme)

A veggie roast to me is loads of veg (roasted spuds, parsnips, carrots, swede etc, and sprouts, cabbage, peas, beans... whatever is in season), stuffing, yorkshire puds, maybe a pie, perhaps some lentil loaf and onion gravy - it's a veggie meal in it's own right, not just a meat one with a replacement


tarannau said:
You can't have the same as the rest though - too of the key components of a roast, the roasties and gravy, are immeasurably better using animal fats and meat juices respectively imo.
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So just because you like meaty gravy and think that spuds are better roasted in goose fat you should deny a veggie lovely roasted spuds with fresh herbs and onion gravy? :p
 
Mr Retro said:
I never understand the "Veggie Roast Dinner" thing. It doesn't exist. 80% of a roast dinner is meat, with gravy made from it's juices.
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80%? That's a pretty crap roast dinner (as my meat-eating gf agrees!) Unless you're idea of a decent roast is a huge platefull of meat and a couple of veggies - surely there should be more to it than that?

Cooking a veggie roast just requires looking at it from a different angle. There are so many vegetables, and so many ways you can cook them, loads of stuffings and loaves, pies and pastries etc, it doesn't have to a slab of dead chicken as a center-peice :)
 
mr steev said:
80%? That's a pretty crap roast dinner (as my meat-eating gf agrees!) Unless you're idea of a decent roast is a huge platefull of meat and a couple of veggies - surely there should be more to it than that?
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Thats exactly what my idea of a roast is. 80% of the pleasure, taste, smell, effort is the meat and the gravy that goes with it. The trimmings are 20% max of the whole.

mr steev said:
Cooking a veggie roast just requires looking at it from a different angle. There are so many vegetables, and so many ways you can cook them, loads of stuffings and loaves, pies and pastries etc, it doesn't have to a slab of dead chicken as a center-peice :)
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But you're not talking about a roast dinner there. Your talking about different veg and the different ways to cook them. When is pie/pastry anything at all to do with a roast dinner?
 
Mr Retro said:
Thats exactly what my idea of a roast is. 80% of the pleasure, taste, smell, effort is the meat and the gravy that goes with it. The trimmings are 20% max of the whole.
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Each to their own I guess. Personally, I'd say that's not so much a roast dinner as just some roasted meat

Mr Retro said:
But you're not talking about a roast dinner there. Your talking about different veg and the different ways to cook them. When is pie/pastry anything at all to do with a roast dinner?
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I'm talking about a veggie roast - with roasted potatoes, roasted carrots, roasted parsnips etc... of course there will be no roasted meat there, IT'S VEGGIE! :facepalm::D
 
crustychick said:
BP - that looks lush and I could even serve it to the Boy if I replace the butter with something vegan. my word :cool: this is awesome!
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I picked up the recepie book after a recommendation from Urban. 1p second hand from Amazon! It was written 20 years ago and I think you can tell by some of the ingredients suggested for the recipes.
 
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