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Vegetarian doesn't have to mean bland and tasteless. Vegetarian recipes have come a long way from the days when veggie chefs served up hunks of tofu slathered with a mysterious brown sauce. Here are a few vegetarian recipes even meat eaters will love.
Vegetarian Chili
Chili is a winter food staple. Easy to cook, lots of leftovers, and great for parties. This vegetarian recipe for Bold Vegan Chili calls for crumbled veggie burgers, buckets of kidney beans, and some molasses for a sweet extra kick.
Veggie Burgers
When is a veggie burger not a veggie burger? That's not one of those college philosophy questions you pondered on the quad back in the day. That's Fit points out that sometimes veggie burgers are nothing more than "a mix of soy, eggs and wheat gluten." That may not be meat, but it's not exactly veggie either. The best way to make sure that your veggie burger is full of healthy vegetable goodness is to make it yourself. When you try vegetarian recipes for burgers, you'll be surprised at all the different flavors you can create. Check out these veggie burger recipes, including burgers made with portabella mushrooms, avocado, black beans and variety of vegelicious ingredients. For the pizza lovers in your house, try these Vegetarian Sloppy Joe Pizza Burgers. Starch-oholics should sample Siddhi's Potato Veggie Burgers, and folks who keep Kosher can check out Edith Rothschild's Chickpea Patties.
Veggie Cutlets
One way to convince meat eaters that going veg is a good thing is with spices. Your carnivores will be too busy gulping down glasses of water to notice that they aren't eating meat. Most veggie cutlets are made with seitan, aka "the vegetarian white meat," according to the Vegetarian Resource Group. Here are a couple of suggestions to get you started.
Carmelized Tofu
Tofu has gotten a bad rap from many meat eaters. Maybe that's because they never had it prepared properly. This vegetarian recipe for Caramelized Tofu features healthy dollops of brown sugar and cilantro, both of which are 100% vegetarian and will help make that bland hunk of wobbly white stuff into a tasty main dish.
Check out more great vegetarian recipes from AOL:
Vegetarian and Vegan on Slashfood
Vegetarian Recipes at Kitchen Daily
Vegan Wine Guide on Slashfood
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Vegetarian doesn't have to mean bland and tasteless. Vegetarian recipes have come a long way from the days when veggie chefs served up hunks of tofu slathered with a mysterious brown sauce. Here are a few vegetarian recipes even meat eaters will love.Vegetarian Chili
Chili is a winter food staple. Easy to cook, lots of leftovers, and great for parties. This vegetarian recipe for Bold Vegan Chili calls for crumbled veggie burgers, buckets of kidney beans, and some molasses for a sweet extra kick.
Veggie Burgers
When is a veggie burger not a veggie burger? That's not one of those college philosophy questions you pondered on the quad back in the day. That's Fit points out that sometimes veggie burgers are nothing more than "a mix of soy, eggs and wheat gluten." That may not be meat, but it's not exactly veggie either. The best way to make sure that your veggie burger is full of healthy vegetable goodness is to make it yourself. When you try vegetarian recipes for burgers, you'll be surprised at all the different flavors you can create. Check out these veggie burger recipes, including burgers made with portabella mushrooms, avocado, black beans and variety of vegelicious ingredients. For the pizza lovers in your house, try these Vegetarian Sloppy Joe Pizza Burgers. Starch-oholics should sample Siddhi's Potato Veggie Burgers, and folks who keep Kosher can check out Edith Rothschild's Chickpea Patties.
Veggie Cutlets
One way to convince meat eaters that going veg is a good thing is with spices. Your carnivores will be too busy gulping down glasses of water to notice that they aren't eating meat. Most veggie cutlets are made with seitan, aka "the vegetarian white meat," according to the Vegetarian Resource Group. Here are a couple of suggestions to get you started.
- Spicy Indian Vegetable Cutlets: Indian food lovers like it hot, and this vegetarian recipe has tons of hot and spicy red chilies.
- Southern Seitan Cutlets: For a vegan taste of the South, try Southern Seitan Cutlets. This vegetarian recipe combines mashed up beans, bean broth, and spices from Tony Chachere's Original Creole Seasoning, which shows that you can go vegan without giving up on flavor.
- Fried Un-Chicken: The name may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but it's deep-fried, so the odds are good that your family will wolf it down no matter what you call it. This vegetarian recipe calls for salt, pepper, onion and garlic powder, flour, mustard -- everything you need to turn the totally vegetarian seitan into a substance that could even fool Colonel Sanders.
Carmelized Tofu
Tofu has gotten a bad rap from many meat eaters. Maybe that's because they never had it prepared properly. This vegetarian recipe for Caramelized Tofu features healthy dollops of brown sugar and cilantro, both of which are 100% vegetarian and will help make that bland hunk of wobbly white stuff into a tasty main dish.
Check out more great vegetarian recipes from AOL:
Vegetarian and Vegan on Slashfood
Vegetarian Recipes at Kitchen Daily
Vegan Wine Guide on Slashfood