Spec me extremely tasty Vegitarian food

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I am going to be cooking for the gf next weekend and I want to try a very tasty vegitarian dish. She will hardly touch most meat, also eggs are out too. But she does eat like peperonie style meat.. Its all down to texture apparently, normal meat makes her feel sick.

I was wondering if anyone here had some ideas as to what to make? I dont want this being too expensive either, or take more than an hour or two.

Help me please :D!
 
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Spicy beanburgers
By: Ainsley Harriott From: Ainsley's Meals in Minutes

Ingredients
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1 small red chilli, finely chopped
100 g chopped frozen spinach, thawed
400 g can cannellini beans
50 g freshwhite breadcrumbs
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tbsp coriander, chopped
salt and black pepper
burger buns, relish and salad, to serve


Method
1. Heat the oil in a small saucepan and cook the onion, garlic and chilli for 5 minutes until softened. Squeeze the excess moisture out of the spinach and place in a large bowl.

2. Mash the beans well and mix with the spinach, breadcrumbs, cumin and coriander. Add the fried onion mixture and stir well together.

3. Season to taste and shape into four round burgers. Grill or shallow fry for a few minutes on each side until crisp and golden. Serve in burger buns with relish and salad.


I don't know if my dad has modified this at all but they're damn tasty.
 
There is an egg yolk in this but if she doesn't like egg you could just leave it out.

Runner Bean, Pea and Buffalo Mozzarella Risotto


This is for one generous portion but you can just scale it up if you want more:

Knob of butter
Half an onion or a whole echalion shallot
2-3oz Risotto Rice (2oz is fine, 3oz if you want a huge portion)
Generous glug of wine
350-450ml hot stock
Half a cup of peas
Half a cup of sliced green runner beans
Mozzarella (Buffalo is best but whatever you have is fine)
1 egg yolk
Seasoning - salt, pepper and whatever herb you like (I used Moffatt Meadows - http://www.uncleroys.co.uk/Moffat_Meadows.htm)


Melt the butter and fry the onion/shallot for a few minutes (just to soften not to brown).
Add the rice and cook for a few minutes over a medium heat.
Add the wine and a tiny bit of stock, cook until most of the liquid is absorbed.
Add the peas, seasoning and another small ladle of stock.
Keep repeating the process of waiting until the stock is absorbed and then adding another ladle full.
When you have about half the stock left add the beans.
Continue adding stock until the rice is cooked (you may not need all the stock or if the rice is not quite cooked when you have used the stock then use boiling water)
Once cooked add half of the mozarella torn/cut into pieces then put a lid on the pan and leave off the heat for 4-5 minutes.
Remove the lid, add the egg yolk and stir in to the risotto which will now be all lovely and gooey.
Serve and top with torn/cut up pieces of the remaining mozarella.

risotto.jpg
 
Try this YUM Easy and super tasty- every non- veggie that has tried it loves it too. I'd say use half the amount of pepper and less chilli than the recipe calls for unless you smoke 200 cigarettes a day thus have no sense of taste :)
 
I had this for lunch:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2577/spicy-vegetable-and-quinoa-laksa

It was pretty tasty. If I were to make it again I would add some coconut milk instead of some of the milk and also add some fresh chilli (I like my food quite spicy though). Also 750g is a lot of veg, if it's for two people for one meal I would probably halve it!

Good man, Quinoa...very high in protein. I like Millet (popular in Asia), and have found that similar to Quinoa in the past for making dishes like these. :)
 
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