Australia So Much to See
A few meat free meals
Vegetable Fritters
Ingredients
2 eggs, lightly beaten
½ onion, finely chopped
¼ cup finely chopped broccoli
(or cauliflower)
2 cups grated vegetables (zucchini, carrot, sweet potato, pumpkin, parsnip or potato)
¼ cup self raising flour
2 teaspoon curry powder
Yoghurt, salsa, chutney or tomato sauce, to serve
Method
Combine the eggs, onion, broccoli and grated
vegetables in a large bowl. Add the flour, curry powder, salt and pepper and mix until well combined.
Cooking
Heat a little olive
oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add heaped tablespoonfuls of the mixture to the pan and cook in batches for several
minutes each side or until golden brown. Serve fritters with minted yoghurt, salsa, chutney or tomato sauce.
Zucchini Cheese Puffs
Ingredients
One grated zucchini
One cup of grated cheese
One cup of self raising flour
Two eggs (beaten)
Pepper
and salt to your taste
Method
Mix all ingredients together
Cooking
Using a large spoon, place as patties on an oiled oven
tray or a heated oiled stove top frypan or barbecue hotplate. Bake in oven at 200° for twenty minutes or turn during cooking
in pan or on hotplate until browned and cooked through.
Corn Fritters
Ingredients
1 cup Self Raising Flour
2 dessertspoons milk powder – low fat preferred
A little pepper and salt
½ cup water
2 eggs
1 can corn kernels 400 – 500 grams, drained
Method
Mix flour, milk powder and seasoning in a bowl.
Whisk
eggs in water. Stir into flour from the centre to make a soft batter, adding more water if necessary. Fold in corn kernels.
Cooking
Place
tablespoonfuls of the batter onto a hot lightly oiled non-stick frypan over moderate heat. Cook for a few minutes, turning,
until golden brown on each side.
Serve with salad and chutney.
This recipe can be made without eggs if you have no
refrigeration.
Non meat meals make it even easier if travelling without refrigeration. Many of the previous recipes can be used or adapted to meat free meals with or without additional of substitutes such as legumes, nuts or seeds.
Cheese & Lentil Loaf
170 gms (6 oz) lentils
250 mls water
170 gms (6 oz) grated cheese
1 onion finely chopped
1 tbsn chopped parsley (optional)
¼ tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
A little lemon juice
1 egg
60 mls milk or cream
Seasoning to taste; I use two heaped teaspoons of curry powder and a dash of soy sauce.
Cook lentils in covered pan for 10 to 15 minutes until a stiff puree
Mix in half the cheese, onion, parsley, cayenne pepper, lemon juice & any other seasoning you want.
Beat egg and milk or cream together and combine with the above mix.
Place into ovenproof loaf tin and top with remaining cheese.
Bake in a moderate for 45 to 50 minutes.
Serve with a homemade tomato and onion sauce (or any tangy sauce of your choice).
It needs the sauce, can be a bit dry without, the cheese topping is important too.
The above recipe was adapted from one given to me
by a contributor to Nuttycake's Camp Kitchen on the Caravanners Forum