Being a recent vegetarian of a few years, I still find that I am finding my feet, still adapting some dishes and discarding others totally. Given that my wife and daughters are gluten free as well, I thought that there must be other people out there with the same problems so it seemed like a good idea to share the things I come across, menus, restaurants, recipes etc.
I recently invented a dish and my daughters have named "spaghetti and stuff" and it is meal that stems from the foods that we all like. It started with my wife liking fried courgettes and I thought the meal needed a "meat" element and as I am not a fan of the diced Quorn, but do like the Quorn fillets, I cube a few of them. My eldest daughter loves cheese and we all love garlic butter and it all seemed to be a perfect topping for spaghetti, a train of thought that translated into a dish that is simple, tasty, vegetarian and gluten free.
Ingredients: Spaghetti
Quorn fillets
Courgettes
Butter
Garlic
Soft cheese
Put the spaghetti on to boil and simmer
Fry the courgettes and the cubed Quorn fillets (chicken or pork would work), until they all start to brown nicely
Melt a good quantity of butter in a pan. Don't let it boil. Finely chop 4 or 5 cloves of garlic and add those to the melted butter. You are not looking to brown the garlic, you simply need it to caramelize it and flavour the butter.
Put the spaghetti into the bowls, top with the courgette and Quorn mixture. Sprinkle with small cubed pieces of soft cheese. I usually use Camembert and Brie.
Pour the hot garlic butter over the whole lot and the cheese will start to melt into the mixture. It is truly a comfort meal and whilst I am sure that someone must have something similar, I've not come across it.
I will add some avocado to it next time or maybe a pinch of dried chilli or smoked paprika, little twists to personalise it even more, I am sure you can think of somethings to improve it further.



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