BBQ for vegetarians...Ideas please?
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I'm doing a BBQ for a crowd next weekend, two of our guests are veggies..apart from salads and coleslaw any ideas what else I could give them?
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Stuffed portabello mushrooms
Vegetable & halloumi kebabs
Asparagus if there is any still around
Aubergines
Veggie Burgers
Thanks...I actually hadn't thought of that!
The courgette and halloumi skewers look quite easy. And I quite like the look of the carrot and sesame burgers.
I also like to make kebabs with onion,mushrooms,peppers and any other veggies you have in the house.
I usually keep it simple, if it gets too fussy you end up spending too much time in prep and cooking.
Oh and I ALWAYS make banana parcels for afters, make a boat of foil, put in a peeled banana, a large spoonful of golden syrup, and the juice from an orange with a bit of grated orange peel over the top, roll and seal the foil and pop on the BBQ after everyone has finished their savouries, a few minutes and you have a lovely pudding
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2955/devilled-tofu-kebabs
Cut into cubes (not too small)
Marinate it in a spicy tikka sauce (treat as if it were chicken) and then skewer and BBQ- yum!
We are going to buy one of those disposable ones for the veggie stuff..:)
Think I'll do the banana thing for everyone, sound lovely!
One of my veggie friends always moans about being given rabbit food when he'd rather just have the 'same' thing as everyone else.
I must admit I take his point. I would become a vegetarian but until I can go into Subway and get 'vegetarian ham' or go into McDonalds and get a 'vegetarian big-mac' I'm not interested. I don't want some sort of weird substitute.
I know that might sound hypocritical but a Linda-McCartney burger in a nice bun with cheese and ketchup tastes the same to me as a beef-burger. They're both highly processed, but one is more ethical than the other!
Admittedly I also have lamb in mine but the veggie version is nice too:)
Lol, they even get a 2nd rate bbq then
Sounds like a hypocrite. More ethical? What a load of bull.
In Mexico they coat the corn in mayo and queso fresco but you can use finely grated feta
or just slather it in melted butter
Some people like it. As long as it's not made with meat, who cares?
I agree. I'm not particularly fond of the fake meat stuff, it's quite bland and unappealing to me. I don't eat meat, so I'm not interested in eating something that tastes like it. But Quorn is ok I guess.
I would recommend roasted vegetable kebabs, do a couscous salad or some rice with it and it's lovely. Some supermarkets also do fresh vegetable burgers, made of mushrooms or beans etc that tasted lovely when BBQed. Or a baked potato/sweet potato with some salad. The BBC Good Food website has some nice ideas.
Most of my friends do the Quorn burgers or LM sausages when doing BBQs, they taste ok as well.
Well one reason people give for eating meat is they like the taste/texture etc of it.
The fake meat stuff supposedly lets you have those benefits without the downside of killing an animal.
Let's not forget animals also don't naturally come in sausage or burger form, they are processed into those shapes, no reason not to process other things into those shapes.
Personally, I do like the Tesoc meat-free burgers.