Please post a couple of your favourite vegetarian recipes.

A old, unhealthy favourite that I recently resurrected is vego nachos. I used to make these at uni so they are pretty cheap.

You need
Onion
Kidney beans (you can soak and cook them or use a tin)
Either a jar of salsa sauce
or
a tin of tomatoes
capsicum
cumin, ground coriander, garlic, ginger, chilli.

optional
corn
sliced mushrooms
sliced green beans

Corn chips (unflavoured)
Avocado
Sour cream
Grated cheese


Chop up the onion. Fry it a bit, add kidney beans and salsa ingredients. Heat everything through. Taste. add extra chilli, salt, pepper etc.

Put corn chips on a large plate with a thinner layer in the middle. Throw about half the cheese on (at this stage you can chuck the plate in the oven for a few minutes to semi-melt the cheese. Then layer everything else on top of the cheese. Then put more cheese on top. Cook at 200 for about 10 minutes. Check and if it isn't done cook it some more.

Put mashed or diced avocado on top and sour cream (or natural yogurt is ok too).

Eat. If you eat all the beans and veges and let your companions eat the chips and cheese it isn't quite so fattening


Nina’s Buranee Banjan

2 eggplants
1 large onion, sliced
2 medium tomatoes, peeled and diced
Salt
Cayenne pepper (optional)

Trim stem off from the eggplant. Do not peel. Quarter eggplant lengthwise (half and then in half again lengthwise). Sprinkle with a little salt and leave in a colander to drain for about 15 minutes. Rinse the eggplant and then pat dry with paper towel.

Add oil to large frying pan and fry eggplant on both sides until they begin to turn brown, about 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from frying pan and set aside.

Using the oil that stayed in the frying pan and adding more if needed, sauté onions until they start to wilt, 3 to 5 minutes. Then add the tomatoes and cook for another 10 minutes or so.

Place fried eggplant on top of the cooking onions and tomatoes, add 1 cup of hot water, salt and cayenne pepper (optional) to taste. Let cook for another 10 to 15 minutes until water has dried out and eggplant is falling apart.

Transfer eggplant to serving plate. Top with plain yogurt or garlic yogurt sauce with mint

Garlic Yogurt Sauce With Mint
This sauce also goes well served with lamb dishes or combined to diced cucumber making a delicious summer salad.

About 1/2 cup plain yogurt
Minced fresh mint to taste
About 1 garlic clove crushed or to taste
A dash of salt

Pour the yogurt into a small bowl. Mix in the crushed the garlic, mint and salt. Cover and chill.