A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

SIL is a vegetarian, she used to eat chicken and fish but now is 'full vegetarian' as she says, we are hosting 10 people and she is the only vegetarian, is there a dish i can make for her that isn't too complicated??

Re: A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

maybe make her a simple pasta dish of penne with broccoli, garlic EVOO and fresh grated romano.

And maybe as a side, Caprese salad (fresh mozz and tomato/basil)

Or Eggplant Rolatini is pretty easy and delicious too, and everyone can eat that.

Re: A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

What are you serving? You are prob already making a few vegetarian side dishes. I wouldn't make an individual dish just for her. I think that would make me feel funny if somoeone did that for me. I would add a filling vegetarian dish that everyone likes. Like another poster suggested eggplant rollotini or pasta primavera.

Message edited 12/18/2010 2:28:33 PM.

Re: A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

Eggplant rollintini is delicious. I'm not a veghead, but often get this at events when it's served. Everyone loves this!

Re: A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

I'm a vegetarian and there is always a pasta dish. I've made eggplant rollatini, but I personally DON'T find it easy to make b/c of the sweating of the eggplant and such. I will make baked ziti, lasagna, stuffed shells, whatever.

As another poster said, I'm sure you have lots of other meat free dishes, so a pasta dish is great!

My MIL is great. If we have a holiday and she is making a meat soup, she'll pick up a soup from trader joes for me. All she has to do is heat it up. So I don't know if you are serving soup, but most are made with beef or chicken broth, so its just a thought to have one for her.

Re: A vegetarian dish for Christmas menu?

As an aside there is one veggie that comes to my ILs on Xmas eve. She won't eat any of the fish, so MIL makes a small pot of plain marinara sauce to serve instead of clam. She also makes a bunch of sides such as rice with noodles, some kind of glazed carrot, an asian veggie salad with edamame and I believe some kind of broccoli. Many of the appetizers are also veggie.