Recipe ideas for a vegetarian or vegan menu

Here are our ideas for preparing vegetarian and vegan meals to try to eat healthy and balanced.

What is it meal preparationOr batch cooking ? It is the act of preparing a meal for a week in advance. A reflex that should be adopted to make our everyday life easier! To help you out, here are some easy and delicious vegetarian recipes to take to the office.

Batch cooking: recipes for healthy eating, vegetarian and vegan ideas

There are many good reasons to adopt meal preparation : we don’t need to think every day about what we will buy or prepare to eat noon or evening; we eat better, more economically and more balanced. Finally go down to batch cooking two hours on the weekend saves time for the week!

Prepare your vegan meals in advance ©Elena Veselova

You are vegetarian, vegan Or flexitarian ? Want recipe ideas? vegan meal preparation ? These are our favorite recipes!

Preparing a vegan meal: the basics

First of all, some basic reflexes for a meal preparation successful. Weekend, we prepare several dishes in advance for the rest of the week: large family meals, but also pre-cooked or pre-sliced ​​ingredients that we will still have to put together on the big day for extra freshness.

Recipe: vegetarian lasagna

For example, here’s an idea about prepare a large meal in advance : THE Vegetarian lasagna ! A recipe that pleases young and old alike easy to carry or reheat. We can eat some of that on the weekends, frozen part and take the other to the office. For this, we first cut and stew seasonal vegetables (onions, squash, mushrooms, carrots, in winter, for example, cabbage), with soy proteins, tomato sauce and spices. Then it is possible to make béchamel (which can also be in a vegan version), and arrange your dish with homemade or store-bought lasagna sheets. Let everything turn yellow with cheese (ie false magic THE vegan vegetable cheese) and leave for 3/4 hour in the oven. That’s it !

Vegetarian lasagna ©Nedim Bajramovic

To diversify the pleasures, you can reuse the vegetable base for lasagna and eat it stewed with rice or in a pie. In this case, plan large quantities of vegetables.

For all your recipes preparing a vegetarian mealyou can cook large quantities of starchy foods in advance: rice, pasta, quinoa, etc. You can use them for:

• Make French fries with legumes and seasonal vegetables.
• You can also make salads complete and matched with legumes, raw vegetables, diced tofu or hard-boiled eggs.
• Make pancakes or croquettes, which are easy to take and allow you to reuse leftovers.

Recipe for rice croquettes

Here is our recipe for rice croquettes : we take a small bowl of leftover rice, onions, carrots, garlic, sesame, lentils and an egg (for non-vegans). Then we brown the vegetables in a pan and mix the ingredients into croquettes, which we simply cook for 10 minutes in the pan. AND super simple recipe as an addition to raw vegetable salad in yours bento !

Vegan or vegetarian wraps

Last idea easy to transport vegan recipe : we make chapati (cake like a tortilla) in a bowl with flour and water. We are filling this wraps from homemade hummus or lentil caviar prepared in advance, or bought ready-made if you don’t have time. At the end, add sticks of carrot, cucumber, celery, chopped salad and spices of your choice (pickles, seaweed, dried tomatoes, etc.)

Our advice for simple preparation of a vegetarian meal : when you don’t eat meat, you rely on legumes for a good protein intake. To make your task easier, we soak the beans over the weekend for our preparations for the week. You can even pre-cook them for chickpeas or white beans. These legumes keep very well in the refrigerator, in water, and you can easily add them to your salads or hot preparations.

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