Vegan Christmas Recipes

Stuck on what to feed your guests for Christmas?

Need some vegan Christmas recipes to make a good impression on sceptical omnivores? These vegan Christmas recipes will work a treat, catering to all sorts of tastes.

Vegan Christmas Recipe #1: Pancakes

Many vegans don’t eat pancakes, as they don’t know how easily they can be veganised. Forget the long list of ingredients; this recipe will knock your socks off! Pancakes work well on their own, served with ice-cream, or as a side to a main dessert.

 Ingredients

• Self-raising flour 
• Rice milk 
• Syrup (optional, choose your own type of syrup) 
• Anything you want to put in the pancakes (such as banana) 

1. Preheat a stove; you want it hot, 180-200 degrees is a good setting. Oil a frying pan. 
2. Blend the self-raising flour and rice milk in a blender. How much rice milk you’ll need depends on the texture of the milk, but aim for approximately 1/3 milk, 2/3 self-raising flour, and then tweak the measurements to your preferences. The mixture should be thick, but runny enough to come off a spoon easily enough. 
3. Add syrup (or sugar) to taste, and blend again. Make sure anything else you want to add is diced into small enough pieces so that the pancakes do not lose their shape, and add them to the mixture. Don’t blend again as these pieces will be blended away. Pour the mixture into the pan in pancake sizes, and flip each pancake once bubbles start to form. Pancakes should be a light golden-brown colour. 

Vegan Christmas Recipe #2: Silverbeet salad

Some people will find this salad to be too strong for their liking, but for those who love their lemon; this recipe will go down a treat.

Ingredients

• 1 silverbeet bunch 
• 1-2 lemons 
• Salt (optional) 

Boil the silverbeet on a stove, and chop lemons in half. Strain the silverbeet and place in a large bowl. Pour the lemon juice all over the silverbeet; excess lemon juice doesn’t matter, it can sit at the bottom of the bowl. Refrigerate until just before serving time. Sprinkle salt to taste for extra flavour if desired.

Vegan Christmas Recipe #3: Christmas coloured pasta salad

This salad works as a fantastic main meal, and can also be used as a small side dish. Cold pasta is often frowned upon, but in this case, be daring enough to try it!

Ingredients

• Pasta (preferably spirals) 
• 1 cup Green peas 
• 1 cup diced red capsicum 
• ½ cup finely chopped spinach 
• ½ cup tomato 
• Green herbs of choice (optional) 
• Vegan mayonnaise (Praise 97% fat free mayonnaise is vegan) 
• Tomato sauce (optional) 
• Lemon juice (optional) 

1. Boil pasta on the stove. Once boiled, strain the pasta and place in large bowl. 
2. Add mayonnaise and tomato sauce (if using) to taste and mix well. Don’t go overboard or else the mayonnaise will be too dominant; for a large bowl, use half a cup of mayonnaise. 
3. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon (if using) into the pasta. Add green peas, red capsicum, spinach and tomato and mix well. Sprinkle herbs over top when finished. Refrigerate.  

Vegan Christmas Recipe #4: Pumpkin/vegetable soup

Served with a nice bread, this recipe works as a nice entrée before the beautiful main meal.

Ingredients

• Half of medium pumpkin, no skin (doesn’t matter
  what type of pumpkin) 
• 2 medium potatoes 
• 1 medium/large tomato 
• 1 medium carrot 
• 1 cup mushrooms 
• Soy milk 
• Vegetable stock 

1. Boil pumpkin and potatoes until soft. Blend with as much soy milk is needed until desired consistency is achieved. 
2. Chop carrot, tomato and mushrooms into smaller pieces and blend with pumpkin, potatoes and soy milk. 
3. Add vegetable stock to taste; as a guide, use half a teaspoon of vegetable stock per cup of soup. 

These vegan Christmas recipes should help ensure variety in your Christmas feast. Don’t forget; you can experiment as much as you like and add all sorts of ingredients to recipes to achieve exactly what you want and make sure your guests are satisfied.