Vegetarian Chatter #2

I am not a vegetarian, but have been having some serious vegetable cravings this pregnancy! So I have been dabbling a bit in vegetarian cooking and came across a recipe that I just had to share with you lovely ladies (you can leave out the anchovies and cheese if you are vegan):

PASTA WITH SIMPLE ZUCCHINI SAUCE

Serves 2

Ingredients

* 200 g orecchiette pasta
* 3 large Zucchinis
* Extra Virgin Olive Oil for cooking
* 6 Whole Anchovies
* 3 Garlic Cloves
* sea salt
* freshly Ground black Pepper
* fried Chilli Flake
* fresh Parmesan to serve

Method

1. Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Add the pasta and cook “al dente”.
2. Meanwhile, grate the zucchinis and place aside.
3. In a large frying pan, heat plenty of olive oil and add the anchovies, crushed garlic and sea salt.
4. Fry for about 3 minutes, stirring continuously until the anchovies start to soften.
5. Sprinkle in the chilli flakes and freshly ground pepper, followed by the grated zucchinis and a dash more olive oil.
6. Stir for a further 2 minutes.
7. When the pasta is cooked (it should take 10 minutes), drain well and add to the sauce.
8. Toss the pasta through the sauce and spoon onto plates.
9. Grate fresh Parmesan over the top and finish with freshly ground pepper.

Mel, there's heaps on my blog with how to convert to GF. Frittata is a great option for that!

Sibbie - Cannelloni OR the good old vegie stack. Usually for $24. Vegan stuff is even harder. I ordered what looked like a vegan meal today on the menu and it came out loaded with cheese. LOADED. Mum was ordering for me, so didn't check - can't blame her, she's not really used to it. And heck, any meal I don't have to cook is a winner.

We're going out tonight, because Mum's in town. I have requested Thai, so that I can have a see-through-time-fifteen-chilli-hot Tom Yum. Come on baby!

Audax can you believe i was almost disappointed to see you had mad a post this afternoon..... Cause I want you to have your BABY already!!!! LOL :D I remember having thai the night before bub was born so maybe you'll have bub tomorrow????? Now where is this blog you speak of?

I don't think the Thai worked. But good lord the tom yum was the best thing in the world. Our power went out, so it was pretty good that we'd made plans to go out anyway!

My blog is here

No more grated beetroot for a while. Mum is staying, and she's on a low Vit K diet (due to DVT) so it's kind of out, because I can barely be bothered to make one meal, let alone two.

Exciting thing #1: I'm posting with a baby strapped to me :D A 4kg one. No scrawny vegan babies here!

Exciting thing #2: I'm having a go at quinoa sausage rolls again. If they're awesome, I will post the recipe. Fingers crossed!

Woo hoo for chubby vegan babies! She is gorgeous. How is life on Planet Parenthood?
Yay for quinoa sausage rolls!

I love Planet Parenthood!

here goes:

1/2 cup quinoa, soaked then boiled in 3/4 cup water
While it's still hot, add 3-4 cubes frozen spinach.
1 tbsp tahini
2 tbsp tomato paste
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ground oregano
1/2 tsp ground fennel seed
1/2 tsp sweet paprika
salt and pepper

3 x frozen puff pastry sheets, each cut into 4 squares. Put an egg sized dollop of quinoa mix on each pastry square and spread it out sausage style across the middle. Fold the two sides over, and place on baking tray.
Bake at 210 for about 25 minutes - there was a massive storm coming when we did it, so I didn't really notice the time as we were running around closing windows and moving cars

What's everyone's plans for Christmas? I'm just doing a menu now - it seems to be 50% dessert :D I've just got a few family members coming, but they're staying here, so they can do the hard work while I sit on the couch and feed and bark orders at them all.

Thanks for the sausage roll recipe!

We're going to my SILs place for xmas lunch. She's a decent cook and used to be vego (I never understand how people go back to eating animals??) so she always makes us good food :D I always make a decadant summer fruit salad on xmas eve for breakfast the next day too.

Hi! We are having lunch with my parents- so it will be a totally vegan Xmas! I won't have to watch people eating turkeys or prawns. And more importantly, my children won't have to watch it. So far we have:
Nutroast with lemon and garlic stuffing
baked vegie salad
garden salad
trifle- sponge cake, raspberry jelly (gelatine free), fruit and soy cream.
Plum pudding with soy cream/ soy icecream
dark choc rocky road.
So, we are about 50% dessert too!
Fruit salad for brekkie sounds like a good way to start the day meow, and I totally agree- I can't understand why someone would start to eat animals again either. How can you forget or deny all the knowledge you have about suffering?

I think we're doing:

Baked BBQ tofu
Focaccia
Panzanella with chickpeas
Pumpkin and rocket bean salad
Baked mushrooms
Grilled asparagus

Trifle (snap!)
Peppermint choc ripple cake
Butterscotch fruit cake

Boozy woozy Kahlua rum balls

It's my sister's first vegetarian Christmas - She might bring something non-vegan, but unlikely. So hopefully that's not all too hard. Will get started tomorrow, and it should be good.

Fruit salad is a lovely idea for Chrissy breakfast! How do you make it decadent?

Yum, I am loving the sound of your lunch Audax! With the Kahlua rum balls, do you use Kahlua instead of rum, or both?
One day, I will have to get your Peppermint choc ripple cake recipe. You make them into cupcakes too, don't you?

I hope your gorgeous girl has a lovely first Xmas, and I hope you enjoy sitting on the couch feeding and snuggling her, while others do the hard work. And I hope your sister enjoys her first vego Xmas.

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Fruit salad is a lovely idea for Chrissy breakfast! How do you make it decadent?

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Just by spending a lot of money and buying all the 'just in season' stones fruits etc. :lol:

Your lunches sound wonderful! I've never had a fully veggie, special xmas lunch as we're always surrounded by family and ham, chicken etc etc. Last year we were on our own in NZ so we made our own lunch- but cooking in the campervan it was pretty basic!

Holey Moley, look at all the excitement Ive been missing out on! Firstly OMG


Huge congratulations Audax!!!!!!!!!
Oh My goodness I am so excited for you! I cant believe you have your little Spawn finally! YIPPEEEEEE! And a little girl too, Im so happy for you :)

How is everyone else going? Ash, how are you? Can you please post your nut roast recipe? I made one for the first time last week and it was so awful I threw most of it out and I NEVER do that with a meal. Also just wondering, when you weaned your Bubs did you put them onto extra soy milk or just more food? DD is only having 1-1 1/2 boob feeds a day now and Im concerned about her diet(I have no idea why I second guess myself, she's monstrous)

Cherished, how are you gorgeous lady? how is your little man? WHat have you been getting up to? I miss chatting to you!

Meow- I understand what you mean. I do find sometimes I crave the taste but Its the cruelty thing for sure that reminds me why I went vego. I was reading a rubbish article the other day about this woman who was wondering how to explain to her kids why they ate meat and she began by saying how she used to be vego and then just *had* to eat a bbq chicken when she was pregnant., urgh it was so annoying to read! ANyhow Im rambling on here...

Sibbie, I hope you find some good vego options around your place soon :)
Arimeh, How are you ? SOunds like you have been making heaps of delicious meals!

Everyones Xmas menu's sound great, mine is not so exciting. This year for the first time ever mine and DP's family are celebrating together...and its at our place. We are the only people who can manage a meal without a slaughtered animal so DP's folks are bringing their own meat and Ive got disposable plates and cutlery for them to use. I feel really bad at the waste but I dont want meaty residue on my plates.. Selfish I know.
SO everyone is pretty much bringing a plate and I am making

Trifle (double snap!) found cottee's jelly is vego and way cheaper than the one in the health food section I had used before.

Rice paper rolls(I love them haha)
Rocket walnut salad
coleslaw
easy stuff really that will be quick to make so I can enjoy plenty of festive wines :)
Last month I made a new meal almost everyday from a few recipe books I have, a few duds but I got a few great recipes, the best by far was moroccan tagine, SO good! Just sucks that its more of a wintery meal I think.

Hope everyone is going well, and has a great christmas :)

Hi everyone!

This thread makes me sooo hungry... everyones festive foods sound soooo tasty :lol:
I'm soooo craving trifle... mmmm. I love trifle.

We aren't big on the xmas front here... I did go to Mum's place for late lunch/early dinner yesterday and she made a pretty big effort to make interesting food for me :)

We had:

Byriani Rice (I can't spell, and it's late... Indian style rice)
Cinnamon-ey spiced sweet potato
Baby Spinach, Parmesan salad w/ caramelised balsamic dressing (yum!)
Coleslaw
and everyone else ate the usual bbq meat (which in my family involves about 4 different kinds of meat)

Doesn't sound that interesting but it was a huge stretch for my mum who usually only makes one pot wonder recipes :lol: So it was nice.

How many of you guys are vegan? I feel kinda half hearted only being vego, but at the same time I don't know if I can be vegan just yet kwim? I don't think I can go the whole hog (pardon the expression :lol: ) in one go... did you do it gradually? I am thinking of starting at home, and just eating vego if I'm out or at someone else's place... do you think that sounds like a reasonable way to go about it? I don't want to overwhelm myself as I am only new to this... but as I said, I feel really half hearted being vego but not going all out and being vegan..

Anyways, I've just moved into my own place so I'm hoping I'll be motivated to post more as I'll be cooking for myself... Maybe we could start off with a "what's for dinner?" in this thread to keep it moving a bit more?

I'll go first... I won't go with tonight's dinner (because I was slack and didn't eat properly) But the other night I made myself Burritos with a beans instead of the usual mince, and had a LOAD of veggies on it. I didn't have sour cream so I used natural yogurt and it was way tasty, I was surprised. I had it two nights in a row so I used up the left overs lol the perils of being single *rolls eyes*

Hope everyone is well not feeling too horrible from eating too much over the last few days :P

Hi Sibbie and Everyone else :)
Urgh, I am SO SICK of christmas over eating! That is the bad thing about having xmas at ours(apart from my house being trashed) is all the leftovers being in my fridge and pantry. All the stuff I never eat and I havnt stopped in days and days. I sent DP to work today with the last of it all to share around so I wouldnt be tempted.
Anyhow the day went well and along with what I had on my menu I also made a roast vegetable and brown rice salad and Pumpkin, spinach and pine nut salad. Almost everyone ate the rice paper rolls(suprisingly) but man, there was just too much food.

How was Everyone's day? Apart from Sibbie I mean :) It sounds like your Mum did well. To answer your question Im not vegan but we dont drink milk, have rennet free cheese occasionally and buy free-range eggs, so the animal products we buy we try to be as ethical as possible with. There are meals I think are easy to be vegan with though, for example with burrtios we have guacamole instead of sour cream, etc..
Are you enjoying living by yourself? I was soo slack when I lived on my own-with cooking I mean. I can barely remember cooking myself a single dinner! I guess the good thing is when you do cook there is leftovers.

Dinner tonight, not to make you all envious with the sheer gourmet-ness of it all.... baked beans cold from the tin with a fried egg on top. Was still hungry so had brown rice with a splash of soy haha I am definately the lazy one in this thread :)

Hi Sibbie! I will type out my cherry cake recipe and post it here soon. It is yummy, but I have found an even better cake. One of the best cakes I have ever eaten. It is called chocolate and nut struesel cake (vegan) - it has walnuts (or pecans), non-dairy choc chips, cinnamon, brown sugar....It is awesome. My DH and I and our kids are vegan. I have been a vegan for almost 15 years. My kids are life vegans. I was a vego first, and I gave myself a few months to transition. I found the hardest food to give up was cheese, it is almost addictive, I think. But now, 15 years later, there is a much larger range of vegan foods available.We sometimes buy a brand of soy cheese called Cheezly. But, in all honesty, we just got used to eating foods without added cheese. Your mum sounds awesome. We used to frequent an Indian restaurant in eastern Sydney that made the best vego biryani rice. My mum nearly had a heart attack when I told her -at 16- that I was going to become a vego. Now, years later, my sister, mother and father are all vegan! Never underestimate the positive influence that you can have on people just by role modelling a healthy existence and cooking delicious food!

Hi gorgeous Peach! I will post my nut roast recipe too. I know I have an electronic copy somewhere, so I will track that down...I can relate to your comments about excess food. We went to a Xmas eve party and one of my friends went to such an amazing effort to make vegan desserts for my family, then gave us all the leftovers! She made Almond and Fresh Raspberry torte, Panforte and Turkish Delight. By boxing day we had also indulged in the gingerbread that the kids and I made, the choc and nut struesel (BEST cake ever), the pudding my mum made, and trifle, plus my rocky road....Argh, too much sugar! I even indulged in a few liquer choccies! I ended up throwing some of the leftover sweets out. I saw that you have signed up for the 30 day 'no junk' challenge too.....I definitely need it now...

For dinner tonight (good idea Sibbie), My DD and DS1 helped me make pizzas. Even DS2 helped out. They were quite simple - capsicum, mushroom, tomato, red onion, avocado, kalamata olives, japanese tofu (cut in thin strips), with Cheezly grated on top....They were very yummy actually.

Good night! :D

I totally agree with what you said about cheese being addictive Ash, I find its way easier to go completely cold turkey with some foods or its just tooo easy to over eat. If I start grating cheese on pasta for example I just keep going and going, then eat it and grate more! Hence 30 days junk free. I joined the gym too almost two months ago so there is no point working out hard core and still eating rubbish!

Ash I dont think I will be able to even look at your recipes for the next 30 days, they sound too tempting and delicious lol :)
Tonight for dinner Im making a chickpea and veg tikka masala and am going to attempt flatbreads for the first time, will let you all know how it turns out :)
Hope everyone is well!

Hi Peach. I love tikka masala curry. We make ours with vegies- of course!- and a legume, usually red lentils or chickpeas. I'd love to know how the flatbreads go. We are having take away from one of our local Japanese Restsurants tonight- I'm thinking endamame, curry, nori rolls (for the kids), tempura vegies (so naughty!). The last hurrah before '30 days no junk'. Oh, and I have a block of dark choc for DH and I to share. It's going to be a looooong 30 days without my beloved dark choc. I might have a glass or two of sparking white tonight. Found an awesome organic, vegan one called Temple Bruer (from Sth Aus). What are your plans?

Happy New Year everyone!

Just jumping in here will have a proper look when I get home ... I'm not strictly a vegetarian but can't eat any meats or anything this pregnancy so maybe what you would call a pregnant vegetarian but I'd like to make it more of a lifestyle


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My DH made awesome flatbreads last night with our curries. It was his first attempt and they were sooooo good.

Tonight we're having a BBQ, with adzuki bean burgers and rolls, maybe some corn cobs, barbecued miso potatoes and a crunchy noodle salad. Yum.

We went very gradually into vegetarianism, and then vegan. We dropped all legged animals first, then fish, then about two years later dropped butter, then milk, then all other dairy, then about four months after that we gave up eggs. Cheese was hardest for us to give up too, but after a while just stopped missing it altogether. At the end of the day, it just adds saturated fat and salt to your diet that you don't really need. Which is, of course, why it's so delicious.

We got some stunning chocolate vegan treats for Christmas, but I can't partake because chocolate makes Tiny Vegan very cranky. Booooooo.

Oh Audax, that's a shame about the choccies. I couldn't eat dark choc when my tiniest vegan was a little bub. He wouldn't sleep. I assume the caffeine charged him up! But I can eat it now and it doesn't affect his sleep. What is the use-by date for your choccies?!

Hi MrsS!

Chocolate and baby sleep is a catch 22... I'm too sleep deprived to survive without the chocolate and see if it makes baby sleep more :lol:

We're having mac cheese for dinner :hide:

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What is the use-by date for your choccies?!

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Try and get in before DH eats them all! I have hidden some in my craft cupboard, because with him it's definitely a case of out of sight out of mind, so I might get a look in. I'll try again when she's a bit older, maybe have a fortnightly treat.

Dinner last night was really yummy, I made my aduki bean burgers sort of off the top of my head, but mum insists I have to blog them, she loved them so much. Tonight is probably rice paper rolls preceded by tom yum soup.

Happy New Year to all!

Happy new year ladies :)
Ash- How was your japanese? It sounds like you went out with a bang before your 30 day challenge!
Mrs S- Welcome :)
Audax- That bbq food sounds amazing! It sucks you cant do chocolate atm, Im sure its worth it though :)
Meow, no need to hide :)

Tonight we had leftovers from last night and DP made The Spawn fried rice which was sooo delicious we both scabbed out of her bowl lol. She wont do hot curries so we make her a side meal if we have something she wont eat.
So the wholemeal flatbreads were AMAZING!! Omg Im making them everytime we have curry now they were soooo good. I had the pan a bit high at one point and had to put the fan on as I smoked out the kitchen but all worked out in the end. The rest of NYE was quiet, watched a b-grade movie and was in bed by ten, yawn. Today we drove to the beach and of course it was windy as hell and pouring down by the time we got there so we went to the nearby shop that has a cheap sushi train and had a feast. I love the weekend when we can have meals together as a family(DP works nights so we only get lunch together during the week)
Hope everyone is having a great new year :)

Hi Peach! I'm glad the flatbreads were a success! Did you set off your smoke alarm?!
The Japanese was divine. There was one problem - the kids loved it too and got stuck in to the dishes that DH and I wanted to save for ourselves!
We went to a kids birthday party this arvo, and the host had made about a hundred teeny weeny vegan cupcakes and had bought a vegan cake. Damn you 30 days no junk! I don't know how I resisted! I just scoffed on watermelons and cherries instead. DH made carrot, apple and celery juice this morn, and we had salad rolls and soup for lunch so I am feeling really healthy today! There is choc in my fridge and I have resisted, yay!

Good for you Ash!

Have a tiny vegan asleep in my lap, so not much to say.

Dinner last night was out at favourite Chinese restaurant, lunch today was at Loving Hut. Brekkie in between was avocado on toast :D

AND I managed to blog the adzuki bean burgers.

Woo hoo, I'll be checking out your blog tomorrow. I can't believe Tiny Vegan is nearly 4 weeks old!
Argh, the choc is still in the fridge. My DH isn't a choc fiend. I will have to give it to my mum.

Send it up here! My resolve hardens by the day. Every day that Tiny Vegan has a shocker (I'm increasingly thinking it's not chocolate) I get more and more stubborn in my quest. I can babysit your chocolate for you.

Dinner lastnight was pasta with capsicum, mushroom and black eye beans.

Tonight, probably pizza??

Ash you are an inspiration Woman! I lasted 4 days junk free :( And yes I did manage to smoke out the house with my flat breads lol, is there a secret tip to prevent it happening? We took the battery out of the smoke alarm and blasted the fan :)
Are any of you ladies into Harry Potter? DP and I managed to get out to the movies last nightfor the first time since we were pregnant(!) and saw 'The deathly hallows' it was amaaaaaazing!

Ooo- will have to try the adzuki bean burgers. Yum!

I LOVE Harry Potter. Saw it the day it came out seeing my baby wasn't born... wasn't game to wait another day in case he arrived before I could see it at the cinema :lol:

We had an unsettled night last night and it was because today was poo day (he only does then every 4-5 days). I don't find foods play a bit part in unsettled-ness.

Dinner tonight was lentil & tofu burgers with vegies stirfried in salsa and homemade ovenbaked wedges. Was delish!

Dinner at your house sounds delish Meow. What burger patties do you use, or do you make them? Ok how wicked good was that movie seriously?! When it ended I could not believe it had been two and a half hours! Poor DP though, he only read the first few books so he had no idea who anyone was(neither of us have seen the movies apart from chamber of secrets). He still enjoyed it though. Cant wait for the next installment.

Tomorrow is 9 days without poo here. I thought today would be the day, but just a boatload of toxic farts. But let's not talk about that in a food thread!

Dinner tonight was rice noodles with stirfried tofu, eggplant, celery, mushrooms and capsicum.

Lunch was an awesome salad with cos lettuce, capsicum, cucumber, tomato, snow peas, olives, avocado, toasted pita bread bits, aussie bush spice dukkah, white balsamic, olive oil and some LSA.

I made the burgers Peach... recipe is in this thread somewhere!

Dinner: Red curry with vegies, tofu & lentils and brown rice

I apologise for not keeping up with this thread :redface: I'm hopeless. I've just started back at work this week, so I'm a bit everywhere at the moment! (really i'm just an absent-minded procrastinator, but I'm sticking with my 'back at work' excuse pmsl)

I'll just do a quick post of what I had for tea last night: yummo veggie thai style curry with rice made in my fancy schmancy rice cooker - I never really saw the need for one, I got given one and it's really good!!

Will try and post properly tonight at home when im not on my phone.

Hope everyone in this thread from QLD is ok :hugs: xx

hhmmm im stuck!! im trying to do a fortnightly meal plan as we are doing shopping tomorrow and i have a mental blank!! whats everyone else having this week?

I havent done all of next week's plan yet so some of this weeks and next weeks plan:
Fajitas
Burgers, chips & salad
Lasagne
Falafels
Pasta, veggies & haloumi with creamy pesto sauce
Tofu stirfry with udon noodles
Nachos
Potato & leek soup
Quiche
Pizza

Hi all!

Our meal plan for the next week:
Tacos - salad vegies, white beans, chilli sauce, avocado;
Tempeh curry with pappadams and brown rice;
Pasta sauce made with lentils and vegies, with wholemeal penne and garlic bread;
Pumpkin soup with a side plate of steamed vegies, toast for dipping
Felafels, hommus, Lebanese bread and salad;
Cous cous with baked vegies, tofu and diced salad vegies;
Tikka Masala vegetable and chickpea curry with basmati rice;
Mini pizzas ( the kids make their own) - toppings incl. Mushies, tomatoes, red capsicum, olives, baked pumpkin, avocado, red onion, tofu, parsley.

Your curry sounds yummy Sibbie. Sorry to hear you are back at work.
Meow, I'm going to plaigarise some of your meal plan! I hope you are well.

Holy Guacamole this thread makes me HUNGRY.

I want to do meal plans but it's just me here so I tend to end up living on left-overs. I'm still eating that thai curry... I missed the "you're a single woman" memo and made more than enought to feed a family for two days... hooray for freezers is all I can say.
Oh and after my rant about spinach and ricotta canelloni being the only thing on offer at resturaunts - I caved and made some myself - and by golly it was GOOD. So much better than the junk you get given when your out.

*Ash* - How do you make Felafels? I see the packet mix box things but I am kinda to scared just in case they aren't nice.

Audax - hope you & the fam are ok in the floods.

Going out for Yum Cha tomorrow with friends... here's hoping theres lots of vego meals I can eat :lol: wish me luck.

ETA: I bet you can all guess what I'm having for dinner tonight - yes, curry :rofl:

i have to share this recipe we had these for dinner and for the first time DH didn't grumble about no meat!!

Sweet corn and bean enchiladas
Ingredients (serves 4)
12 enchilada tortillas
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small red onion, chopped
1 red capsicum, diced
1 zucchini, grated
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 large tomato, diced
310g can corn kernels, drained
400g can red kidney beans, rinsed, drained
200g jar taco sauce
3/4 cup grated tasty cheese

Method
Preheat oven to 180°C. Wrap tortillas in foil. Warm in oven for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, heat oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Add onion, capsicum and zucchini. Cook for 3 minutes. Add chilli powder and cook, stirring, for a further 2 minutes. Add tomato and cook, stirring, for 2 to 3 minutes or until soft. Add corn, beans and salt and pepper. Remove from heat and stir to combine.

Grease a large baking dish. Place 1/4 cup filling on 1 warm tortilla (keep remainder wrapped in foil as you work). Roll up. Place, seam side down, in baking dish. Repeat with remaining tortillas and filling.

Spoon taco sauce over tortillas. Sprinkle with cheese. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes or until cheese melts. Serve immediately.

also we are having this tonight and i reckon it sounds really good!

Bean patties with aioli
Ingredients (serves 4)
400g can cannellini beans, drained, rinsed
1 garlic clove, crushed
2 spring onions, finely chopped
4 tbs grated parmesan cheese
1 tbs chopped fresh basil
2 tsp grated lemon zest
1 tbs lemon juice
1 tsp mild paprika
2 tbs plain flour
1 large egg, beaten
2 cups packet breadcrumbs
250ml (1 cup) oil, to fry
Lemon wedges and salad leaves, to serve
Aioli
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1 egg yolk
1 tsp sea salt
2 tsp lemon juice
175ml extra virgin olive oil

Method
To make the aioli, crush garlic into a bowl and add egg yolk, salt and lemon juice. Whisk lightly to combine. Add oil drop by drop at first, then in a slow steady stream, whisking until you have a smooth emulsion. This will keep, covered, in the fridge for 3-4 days.

Process the beans, garlic, onion, parmesan, basil, lemon zest and juice and paprika in a food processor until smooth, then mould into 4 patties. Refrigerate for 15 minutes to firm.

Place the flour in a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Place the egg and breadcrumbs in separate bowls. Roll patties in flour, then dip in the egg and roll in the breadcrumbs. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.

Place oil in a frying pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add patties and fry for 2 minutes each side. Drain on paper towel. Serve with aioli, lemon and salad.

might do wedges instead of salad though, oohhh veggie curries does anyone have some recipes?