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Vegetarian Christmas Dinner Recipes
Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes are rapidly gaining in popularity. Vegetarians have many reasons for not eating meat so vegetarian options for Christmas dinner make a lot of sense. You are bound to have someone visiting over Christmas who will appreciate the availability of vegetarian Christmas food. By providing a vegetarian Christmas dinner option you are also giving the meat eaters an opportunity to see that vegetarian food can match meat options any day. In fact, a vegetarian Christmas dinner will cost less and make a statement about the cruel conditions in which many animals are killed to provide food.
Vegetarian Christmas Dinner Main - Parsnip Cranberry & Chestnut Loaf
Ingredients for vegetarian Christmas dinner main
550g long narrow parsnips
500g cranberries
200g cooked chestnuts
2 tbs coconut oil (butter if preferred)
3 chopped onions
Bunch of sage
100g mixed chopped buts
100g breadcrumbs
½ tsp cinnamon
1 beaten egg
175g muscovado sugar
Seasoning to taste
Method for preparing vegetarian Christmas dinner main
Preheat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
Fry onions and sage until soft in a little of the coconut oil and turn into a mixing bowl. Add chopped chestnuts, mixed nuts, breadcrumbs, cinnamon, beaten egg and seasoning and mix together.
Cook the cranberries and sugar in a saucepan till sticky – about 10 mins, and allow to cool.
Line with tin foil and grease a 900g loaf tin.
Peel, halve and boil parsnips for 10 mins. Cut into strips and line the base of the tin. Chop leftover parsnip into the nut mixture.
Spread 1 Tbsp coconut oil and maple syrup over the parsnips. Place the nut mixture on top and pack it down well. Place half the cranberry mixture on this and smooth the surface. Cover with foil then bake for 1 hr.
Serve this vegetarian Christmas dinner option hot or cold in slices with the remaining cranberry mixture.
Vegetarian Christmas dinner main – stuffed butternut squash
Ingredients for vegetarian Christmas dinner main
1 large butternut squash (about 1.5kg)
Coconut/Olive oil
1 garlic clove, minced
50g margarine/butter
75g chopped walnut halves
200g cambozola cheese
2 tsp chopped fresh basil
1tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp rosemary
Salt & Pepper
1 tbsp maple syrup or honey
2 tbs crème fraiche
Method for baking vegetarian Christmas dinner main
Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/gas mark 5.
Clean the outside of the butternut squash. Cut in half lengthways and remove seeds and soft fibres. Coat insides with margarine and garlic and bake in an ovenproof dish until tender – approx 1 hr.
Scoop out the flesh and juice into a bowl, leaving a 1cm-thick layer of flesh attached to the skin, Keeping back a little of the nuts and cheese, mash the flesh, walnuts, cheese, herbs, crème fraiche and seasoning and place back into the squash halves. Spread the reserved cheese and nuts over the filling. Drizzle the maple syrup on top, and bake for 15 minutes.
These vegetarian Christmas dinner options are delicious.