5 warming vegetarian recipes for winter

Winter food...

without meat can be delicious, warming and aromatic. A perfect example of this is tasty and filling pumpkin cream soup with coconut milk, ginger, garlic, coriander and hot pepper, which will warm us up pleasantly, even on the coldest day!

The ingredients:

• 1 kg of pumpkin
• 1 carrot
• 1 small onion
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 spoons of oil
• 1 teaspoonful of fresh ginger
• 1 teaspoonful of coriander seeds
• 1 teaspoonful of hot peppers
• 500 ml of vegetable broth
• 200 ml of coconut milk
• salt and pepper
• bunch of pumpkin seeds

Preparation:

• Peel the pumpkin, carrot, onion and garlic, and then dice them.
• In the big pot, heat 2 tablespoons of oil, add chopped vegetables and fry it for about 5 minutes. Add grated ginger, coriander seeds crushed in the herbs and spices mortar and hot peppers.
• Pour the broth over the fried vegetables and cook for about 20-30 minutes - until soft.
• Add coconut milk and cook for another 5 minutes.
• Mix the finished soup with the hand blender. Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour pumpkin cream soup into the deep porcelain plates or soup bowls and decorate it with pumpkin seeds.

Chili sin carne is a vegetarian or even vegan version of the world-famous Mexican dish, i.e. chili con carne. Among the ingredients used in the chili sin carne we can find red beans, corn, braised vegetables and warming spices. Chili sin carne is a great idea for a winter vegetarian dinner!

The ingredients:

• 2 red peppers
• 1 yellow pepper
• 2 red onions
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 3 spoons of oil
• 600 g of canned sliced tomatoes
• 400 g of canned red beans
• 250 g of canned corn
• 3 tablespoons of soya sauce
• 0.5 teaspoon of cane sugar
• ¾ teaspoon of ground cumin
• ¾ spoonfuls of hot peppers
• 0.5 teaspoons of sweet pepper
• 0.5 teaspoons of smoked pepper
• salt and pepper
• a handful of chopped parsley

Preparation:

• Peel the onion and garlic and chop them finely.
• Clean the peppers and cut them into small cubes.
• In a pot with a thick bottom, heat 3 tablespoons of oil, add the chopped vegetables, all the spices and mix. Stew it on a small burner for about 10 minutes.
• After the above time, add canned tomatoes, soya sauce and cane sugar. Mix it. Cover the pot with a lid and simmer the vegetables over low heat for about 20 minutes until the sauce becomes thick and the vegetables are soft.
• Finally, add the beans and corn, mix and cook for about 5 minutes more.
• Put the chili sin carne into the deep square plates or bowls. Sprinkle with chopped parsley before serving. Serve with rice or your favourite bread.

Winter vegetarian dishes are not just aromatic and filling soups or lunch dishes. The delicious dessert, i.e. baked apples with nuts with the addition of aromatic spices and oat flakes will pleasantly warm up and sweeten even the most gloomy and freezing day.

The ingredients:

• 4 large apples
• 50 g of butter
• 1 little lemon
• 1 tbsp of chopped walnuts
• 1 tbsp of chopped hazelnuts
• 3 pieces of dates
• 5 pieces of dried apricots
• 2 spoonfuls of instant oatmeal
• 3 spoons of liquid honey
• spices: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg

Preparation:

• Melt butter in the pot. Grate the lemon zest on a grater. Squeeze the lemon juice with a fruit squeezer. Add lemon peel, squeezed lemon juice, walnuts, hazelnuts, dates and dried apricots to the pot. Season the whole thing with spices and boil it.
• Take the dried fruit filling off the stove, add oat flakes and honey, mix it up with a spatula.
• Prepare the apples. Using a knife cut off the top of each apple and hollow out the seed nest. Fill the apple centres with the prepared stuffing and cover it with the previously cut apple tops.
• Put the apples prepared this way into the heat-resistant pan. Pour a little water on the bottom of the dish. Place the apple tin in the oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius and bake for 25 minutes.
• Serve baked apples and nuts on a colourful dessert plate together with a dessert spoon.

Meatless recipes are easy to prepare and full of flavour and aroma. Just look at the recipe for harira soup, which contains a lot of healthy ingredients and strong spices. Harira is a Moroccan soup, which is traditionally prepared with lamb, but there is nothing to prevent it from being prepared in a vegetarian version. Warming up and filling Harira is a great idea for a vegetarian dinner!

The ingredients:

• 2.5 litres of vegetable broth
• 1 glass of chickpeas
• 1 glass of red lentils
• 6 tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 2 stems of celery
• 2 spoons of olive oil
• 0.5 glasses of tomato puree
• 1 tablespoon of cumin seeds
• 1 spoonful of cinnamon
• 1 spoonful of ginger
• 1 tbsp of sweet pepper
• 0.5 tbsp of turmeric
• 1 bunch of coriander
• plus: salt and pepper

Preparation:

• Toss lentils and chickpeas in separate bowls, pour cold water and soak it for several hours, preferably all night long.
• Boil the drained lentils in plenty of water for 20 minutes and the chickpeas for 80 minutes. Drain off and set aside.
• Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, peel them off and cut into cubes.
• Cut celery into slices. Chop the onions and garlic finely.
• Warm up 2 tablespoons of olive oil on a cast iron pan. Throw in the onion and garlic and fry for about 3 minutes. Season with the seeds of cumin, cinnamon, ginger, sweet pepper, and turmeric crushed in a mortar. Mix it. Add tomato puree, tomatoes and pour over 1 glass of broth. Stew on low heat for about 10 minutes.
• Boil the broth in a pot, add boiled lentils and chickpeas. Cook for about 10 minutes. Add the tomatoes from the pan and the celery. Season the soup with salt, pepper and chopped coriander.

Ratatuoille is a kind of French vegetable goulash, which is characterized by an intense taste and aroma. The basic ingredients of this dish are aubergines, courgettes, tomatoes and peppers, which are first fried in olive oil on a frying pan and then boiled until soft with plenty of aromatic spices. Winter vegetable recipes, e.g. ratatouille recipe, will warm up the body perfectly on cold days.

The ingredients:

• 1 kg of fresh tomatoes
• 2 courgettes
• 1 aubergine
• 1 red pepper
• 1 yellow pepper
• 2 onions
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 6 spoons of olive oil
• 1 teaspoonful of thyme
• 6 spoons of chopped basil
• salt and pepper

Preparation:

• Scald the tomatoes with boiling water, peel them off and cut into cubes.
• Cut the courgette into slices and the aubergine into semi-slices on the chopping board.
• Cut the pepper into rather big cubes.
• Chop the onion and garlic finely.
• On a large pan, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil, add the aubergines, fry to browning for about 4 minutes on each side. Put it in a pot.
• Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil to the pan again, add the courgettes, fry for about 4 minutes on each side. Put it in the pot with the aubergines.
• Pour another tablespoon of oil into the pan, put the peppers in and fry for 3 minutes. Put it in the pot with the other vegetables.
• Pour the remaining spoon of olive oil into the pan, add garlic and onion. Fry for about 5 minutes until the onion is sautéd. Add chopped tomatoes and thyme. Fry for about 10 more minutes. Put the contents of the pan into a pot and boil it. Stir it, then cover the pot with a lid and cook on a small burner for about 10 minutes - until the vegetables are soft.
• Take the pot off the stove. Add chopped basil, salt and pepper. Mix gently.
• Put Ratatouille in bowls and decorate with fresh basil. Serve with a fresh, crispy baguette.

Test the vegetarian recipes we present for the winter, which are nutritious, warming, aromatic, simply delicious! Enjoy!