Stuffing as vegetarian sausage roll filling and what main?

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So I'm planning an easy as possible Christmas dinner. I have two under 5s and having ILs over.
I want to make vegetarian sausage rolls, mil doesn't trust meat ones! Do u think a good quality stuffing mix would work as a filling?

Also any tips for an easy but impressive vegetarian main? Happy to buy ready made if nice but not quiche. TIA

[Livinginlimbo2]

I don't think stuffing on it's own would work. Years ago I used to buy Sosmix for health food store. It's dried, you add water leave it so swell and use it like ordinary sausage meat. It tastes good to.

[Redpriestandmozart]

I have done this using Linda McCartney sausages both on their own with pastry around or as a stuffing mix with onion, sage & bread crumbs then rolled in pastry both have been delicious.

[Livinginlimbo2]

Yes the Linda McCartney sausages work as they are fatty and unctuous. If you are only catering for one or two veggies, personally I'd buy something like a nut roast as it goes well with the traditional Christmas Dinner accompaniments.

[SparklyMonkeyMummy]

For a yummy veggie sausage roll I use a pack of stuffing mixed with white sauce and a pepper, leek and mushrooms softened in butter (drain the butter away), add some dried herbs and wholegrain mustard (optional) and wrap in puff pastry.

Everyone complements them, even meat eaters!

[WilsonFrickett]

I used to make a veggie stuffing roll for the table - used it as the stuffing as well as the veggie course iyswim?

Was just a made up veggie stuffing.... finely chopped onions, mushrooms, sage, leeks etc, cooked until dry. Then add breadcrumbs and egg to bind.

Then get a big bit of puff pastry. Do a line of stuffing down the middle, cover with blanched and very well dried bits of savoy cabbage, add a layer of cream cheese then another of cabbage, then finish with stuffing. Bring the pastry over, egg wash and bake. Loverly.

[MrsPnut]

I make delia's vegetarian sausage rolls, they're cheese, onion and breadcrumbs but absolutely delicious and always vanish quickly.

Main course, I'd make a mushroom wellington or nut roast.

[mistlethrush]

Much better to get a nut roast mix or similar and use that as a stuffing for a pastry that non-veggies can have too. That way the vegetarians get some protein rather than just more carbs. We'll be doing something with chestnuts this year I think.

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Thanks so much for all of your wonderful suggestions. Unfortunately I forgot to mention that one of the guests has a nut allergy so that rules out nut roast :(

[mistlethrush]

I have a friend who is allergic to nuts - but she's find on seeds. So she can eat a nutloaf as long is it is made with sunflower seeds - and these go rather nicely crunchy when in a mushroom nut loaf type thing.

[JollySantersSelectionBox]

I second Delia's cheese "sausage rolls" - they are yummy.

[ravenAK]

I use chestnut & red wine risotto as a filling for a filo tart for the veggies - still quite carby but a bit more interesting than stuffing & fine with my nut allergy.

[BaronessBomburst]

How about a casserole with tomatoes, red wine, carrots, celery, onions and chestnuts? It's a bit more festive and different. If you google you'll find plenty of veggie chestnut casserole recipes. You can also make it a few days in advance or in a slow cooker.

[GoingGoingGoth]

I usually use Granose Lincolnshire Sausage mix, it's nut free.

[Lovelybitofsquirrel]

Good Food magazine normally has lots of suggestions for veggie dishes

[exexpat]

I do a home-made take on vegetarian sausage rolls which always go down well with meat-eaters and vegetarians: they are actually mushroom, cheese and onion rolls.

Chop one small onion, brown it, then add a large pack of mushrooms, finely chopped, sauteed with some veggie stock powder and mixed herbs, then as it cools add a handful or so of grated cheese (preferably a 50:50 mix of cheddar and mozzarella) and a handful of breadcrumbs and mix well, before using it as the filling for some ready-made puff pastry.

[BaronessBomburst]

I'm noting all these sausage roll recipes as it's something I can't buy where I am. Any trip back to the UK and the first thing I do is devour a packet of Quorn sausage rolls and a packet of Quorn scotch eggs. and then I start on the ginger biscuits and fig rolls :)

[BaronessBomburst]

I have now totally outed myself to any friends or relatives on here.

[exexpat]

Baroness - I invented my version while living in Japan, well outside the vegetarian convenience food zone. But actually I much prefer mine to Quorn anyway...

[CashmereMouse]

These are amazingly good. They're not 'pretending' to be meat but are delicious in their own right.

Also Glamorgan sausage rolls here or here are seriously good!

[ouryve]

Try making a chestnut stuffing - very christmassy and should be sufficiently moist. Or you could mix caramelised onions, a good strong cheese and a little dried sage and a pinch of English mustard powder with some breadcrumbs and egg to bind into a sausagemeat texture and use that for the filling. Packet stuffing would be dry and crap, though. Basically a bread pie.

[BaronessBomburst]

Exexpat could you get cheese easily in Japan or did you have to live on tofu and eggs? < nosey>

[exexpat]

Yes, you can get cheese and milk everywhere in Japan - there are loads of dairy farms in Hokkaido, pizza is hugely popular, and Starbucks has taken over the cities with its milky coffees (and green-tea lattes).

Most home-produced supermarket cheese is very bland and processed, but as Japan is a very foodie place, you can also get all sorts of obscure French cheeses if you go to the right places and have the money...

But I'm not actually a particularly keen cheese-eater, so was very happy with the huge variety of tofu styles.

[BaronessBomburst]

I really want to visit Japan. It seems so different from everywhere else, if that makes sense.

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Thanks again everyone.

I'd love to visit Japan too, I've wanted to for years. I hope one day it will happen.