Vegetarian Ideas, Please

[Barmaid]

Helping with the catering at an event in a few weeks.  The carnivores are having pulled meat in a bun.  I'm doing the veggie stuff.  Has to be something that can be prepared in advance and just stuck in the oven or quickly cooked off.

I was originally going with vegetable lasagne but did a trial run last night as was not desperately impressed.  Other possibles are a wild mushroom risotto or a courgette and feta quiche with salad.

If you are a vegetarian what would you really like to eat?

[DDIL]

How about the jubilee quiche?

Even himself loves it.

[DDIL]

Apologies coronation quiche

Ingredients

Pastry

125g plain flour

Pinch of salt

25g cold butter, diced

25g lard

2 tablespoons milk

Or 1 x 250g block of ready-made shortcrust pastry

 

Filling

125ml milk

175ml double cream

2 medium eggs

1 tablespoon chopped fresh tarragon, 

Salt and pepper

100g grated cheddar cheese,

180g cooked spinach, lightly chopped

60g cooked broad beans or soya beans

 

Method

To make the pastry…

Sieve the flour and salt into a bowl; add the fats and rub the mixture together using your finger tips until you get a sandy, breadcrumb like texture.

Add the milk a little at a time and bring the ingredients together into a dough.

Cover and allow to rest in the fridge for 30-45 minutes

Lightly flour the work surface and roll out the pastry to a circle a little larger than the top of the tin and approximately 5mm thick.

Line the tin with the pastry, taking care not to have any holes or the mixture could leak. Cover and rest for a further 30 minutes in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 190°C.

Line the pastry case with greaseproof paper, add baking beans and bake blind for 15 minutes, before removing the greaseproof paper and baking beans.

Reduce the oven temperature to 160°C.

Beat together the milk, cream, eggs, herbs and seasoning.

Scatter 1/2 of the grated cheese in the blind-baked base, top with the chopped spinach and beans and herbs, then pour over the liquid mixture.

If required gently give the mixture a delicate stir to ensure the filling is evenly dispersed but be careful not to damage the pastry case.

Sprinkle over the remaining cheese. Place into the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes until set and lightly golden.

[calmck]

Is it Vegan or Vegetarian? You could do Shepherds pie using quorn meat, seasoning, veggie Bisto gravy granules for sauce with some red wine or sweet vermouth. Peas and butter beans and onions in the pie mix

[calmck]

You have to be sure all the vegetarians eat dairy, some might not

[barry1010]

How about something in a bun as that's what everyone else will be eating?

[237SJ]

I`d get one of those Old El Paso Fajita packs and substitute the chicken strips for haloumi.

[puzzled54]

If you are making the quiche, please do not use lard in the pastry

[Buenchico]

The BBC Good Food website is always a good place to start when searching for recipes.  There are star ratings (often averaged from hundreds of reviews) from people who've actually tried them and (when you click through from the list to the actual recipes) often hundreds of comments and suggestions too:
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/vegetarian-recipes

Falafel burgers, maybe?
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/falafel-burgers-0

. . . or, if you want to stick with your original idea of a lasagne, how about this one?
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/creamy-courgette-lasagne

[Atheist]

Quiche is a good idea; can be eaten hot or cold. Dhal is ok (indian and spicy) and easily heated up and served with flat bread. Salad is not too appealing, as it can be a bit dodgy, as is anything (like dips) that omnivores can dip into with their pitta bread and re-dip and re-dip, between sticking it into their mouths. Same with carrot and celery sticks. For a veggie, I prefer stuff that omnivores avoid.

[Old_Geezer]

Of course you were not desperately impressed, it's vegetarian !

 

Are there not veggie websites with suggestions ?  Maybe pulled carrot in a bun ?

[Rosetta]

Vegetarian chilli and rice or potato wedges,  frittata (I use feta) can be hot or cold, vegetable curry with naan bread cut in strips. I am recently into red cabbage in a coleslaw mix made with honey greek yoghurt instead of mayo which I loathe

[Maydup]

At an event I attended where they served pulled meat in a bun, we had pulled jackfruit in our bun. OMG it was delicious! Make a marinade or sauce, not too spicy or too sweet, something like this:

https://www.loveandlemons.com/bbq-jackfruit-recipes/
Its vegan too, which helps and people can all have a similar style food as each other with same sides.

[Netty7]

What about crispy crumb halloumi burgers? I had one in a restaurant the other day, it was with hummus, roasted red peppers, red onion, tomato and chipotle chilli jam. I'm not vegetarian but it was absolutely delicious.

[Vagus]

Some sort of nut loaf which can be made and cooked in advance then sliced up and served in a bun like a burger, with all the usual salad accompaniments.