Try making Dhal. But it looks like you could do with a vegetarian cook book. What types of vegetarian dishes are easy to make?
I find most veggie meals to be easy and tasty. It's easy to wind up with too many carbs is you rely on pasta.
Try stir fries, soups, and stews. You can't get much easier. For the most part, these dishes only dirty one pan, a knife, a cutting board, and maybe a spoon.
These dishes can be pretty low in carbs... the only carbs come from the veggies/fruit you use, plus whatever you add in the sauce. If you want to serve them over something, use whole grains (brown rice, etc) to get more fiber.
I specifically enjoy chilis and bean-based soups. I recently had a great lima bean soup. If you're a fan of chili, put it on top of a sweet potato. Yeah, there are carbs, but they're not from refined sugar and starch.
Stir-fries are also manna from heaven. Buy a lot of whatever is on sale at the supermarket and build your stir fry around that. The seasoning can be as simple as olive oil and garlic and as complex as made-from-scratch curry or teriyaki. Basically, you get to be in charge of the carb count.
Lastly, try to avoid getting too caught up in carb/protein/fat counts. If you're eating a wide variety of food and trying to focus on whole foods (rather than highly processed ones), you're doing a good job. What types of vegetarian dishes are easy to make?
THIS IS THE BEST DISHES IN THE WOLD
Yield 6 servings
Time 2 hours
Tools
* saucepan
* wooden spoon
* Dutch oven with lid
Ingredients
* 1 c dry white beans
* several c water
* 2 T olive oil
* 1录 c onion, chopped
* 1 stalk celery, diced
* 1 medium carrot, diced
* 1 t salt
* 1 t oregano or marjoram
* 1陆 t basil
* small or 陆 medium zucchini, diced
* small bell pepper, chopped
* 3-4 cloves garlic, minced
* 3 oz tomato paste
* 4 c vegetable stock or water
* 录 c dry red wine (optional)
* black pepper
* 1 c Kalamata or black olives, sliced
* 1 T lemon juice
* medium tomato, diced
* handful parsley, minced
Directions Sort and wash the beans, place in saucepan with plenty of water, bring to a simmer, and cook until tender (about 1h15 minutes).
After about an hour, heat oil in Dutch oven over medium heat. Saut茅 onion, celery, carrot, salt, and herbs, stirring occasionally, until tender, 8-10 minutes.
Add zucchini, bell pepper, and garlic, saut茅 5 minutes.
Stir the tomato paste into the veggie stock and add to vegetables along with optional wine, pepper, olives, and lemon juice.
Lower heat, cover, and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes. Top with tomato and parsley and serve.
Notes Adapted from Molly Katzen's New Moosewood Cookbook, in which it's called White Bean and Black Olive Soup.
How about a nice big spinach salad?
Fresh baby spinach, grated carrot, cherry tomatoes.
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Vegetarians end up eating more grains than most people I think. If you make those grains whole grains, then they will be more healthy and burn more slowly in your body.
I like to make VEGETARIAN SPANISH RICE with long-grain brown basmati rice. It's very filling and flavorful.
2 T. olive oil
1/2 small onion diced
1/2 diced green pepper
1 T. minced garlic
1 C. rice
1 small can tomato sauce
1 1/2 c. hot water
1 T. cumin (don't leave this out--it's a key ingredient)
1 t. salt (or less)
In a good sized skillet with a tight fitting lid, saute the onion and pepper in the oil, adding the garlic after the onion is almost done (so it won't burn). Add the rice to the onion/pepper/garlic mix and saute until the rice starts to turn opaque. Add the tomato sauce to the hot water, mix together, and pour into the skillet, add the salt and combine well. Bring the mixture to a boil, lower the heat to simmer and cover with lid. Leave for about 50 minutes (brown rice takes a while to cook).
This is even better the second day.
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