Quick and Easy Meatless Recipes

Grid System

Basically what the title says. Anything you can think of would be great.

For what it's worth, the meatless component has nothing to do with vegetarianism or anything, we just don't feel like meat right now.

Armored Gorilla

Buy some linguini, alfredo sauce and broccoli. You can figure it out from there.

Doxa

edit for stupidity, i'll get you some when I get home

peterdevore

There is something about lentils that makes sauces great without needing any meat. You can make a great curry with some red curry paste, chopped fresh tomatoes, condensed coconut milk, onions, some extra veggies (like leek or capsicum) and lentils.

Qingu

This is super-easy and surprisingly delicious. For something a little more substantial, saute a handful of sliced mushrooms along with the onion.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup penne pasta
• 1/2 small onion, sliced thin
• 1 tablespoon butter
• Kettle full of boiling water
• Dry vermouth (optional)
• Parmesan cheese, grated

Melt the butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat, then add the onion and cook until browned and starting to carmelize. Add the penne to the skillet and saute until coated with butter, about 1 or 2 minutes. Add boiling water to cover, along with salt to taste, and boil over high heat until pasta absorbs water. Continue adding water (not too much at once!) and cook down until pasta is al-dente. If desired, add about 1/4 cup of vermouth at the end and let the pasta absorb it. Serve, with grated parmesan and black pepper.

WeedyGoatHorn

Morningstar Farms makes some great soy alternatives to meat. You can buy their products at most large-scale grocery stores, and they offer everything from soy "ground beef" to veggie burger patties, to soy bacon and sausage. The "ground beef" is prepared by just heating it up in a skillet, and you use it the same way you would normally use real ground beef. My favorites are spaghetti and tacos, but you can use it with hamburger helper or anything else that requires ground beef.

radroadkill

Stirfry, pasta, curries, tacos, enchiladas. Many many more. You can take just about any dish and substitute the meat for veggies or omit the meat and be good to go.

Akilae729

One pot recipe

take chopped jalapenos, onions and bell peppers and cook then in a little oil

then add two cans black beans and a can of corn

add taco spice

bomb veggie tacos

Richard_Dastardly

This site is probably the most useful site ever made my man. I use it on the occasions when I actually cook, even though everything I make ends up tasting and looking like goulash.

Willeth

There was a vegan recipes thread quite recently that had some really good recipes in there.

Doxa

Doxa wrote: »

edit for stupidity, i'll get you some when I get home

okay, now what I usually do for quick, easy, budget (did you want budget?) recipes was a staple like rice, get protein from beans like lentils and season it up. Cilantro and garlic is beautiful when its fresh, other spices like cumin and paprika are good. The key is to get familiar with spices so that you can spice your food up without having to refer to recipes.

Aside from a rice&bean combo there's always a ton of stuff to do with pasta. Have fun with sauces or go with a dry pasta and put in olives, nuts, sun dried tomatoes, olive oil. Sometimes when I'm lazy I just toss garlic salt and butter on pasta.

A well made salad is always good. Romaine + tomatoes + cucumbers + salt&pepper while hard boiled eggs and nuts optional.

There's a D&D cooking thread somewhere, it has a few good tips and recipes in there

Tofystedeth

This is one me and my wife love. It's pretty dang easy.

Couscous and squash type things with curry powder and stuff. Really good.

i n c u b u s

You can make a hell of a stir fry with all veggies that tastes great and is really simple. Grab your favorite veggies and a good tasting stirfry sauce (if you don't feel like making your own) and go at it. Its as simple as crisping up your veggies with a bit of oil in a pan and adding your sauce at the last couple of minutes. Presto, great tasting, easy to make oriental dish. You could even add some tofu or what have you if your into that kind of thing. Is seafood an option?