easy meals that satisfy vegetarian and meat-eater diets?

[Anonymous]

Examples from this week in my house:

Salad with options for beans, chicken, eggs.
Pasta with options for meat, meat substitute, or beans.
Chicken and tofu plus veggies and potatoes or whatever sides.
Burgers or black bean burgers.

Sometimes there's a meat main dish, and multiple heavier sides so the the veg has enough while skipping the meat.

We also all like veggies and bean enchiladas, falafel, bean based soups, quiche, quinoa patties.

[Anonymous]

I’m vegetarian and rest of my house are omnivores. I will cook meat, just not eat it. Often we do make your own bowls and salads as others posted, easy to make mine vegetarian while rest of the family adds chicken or meat to their bowls. Sometimes I make a vegetarian dish (like rice and beans, or veggies and pasta) and then grill fish or chicken or sausage and personally don’t eat the animal protein. Sometimes I make soup and pull off a portion for myself before adding chicken or sausage. Sometimes I make pizza and leave a section of it all veg. I also usually make a pot of veggie chili on Sundays so on nights when my family wants something like burgers (I dislike beyond meat etc) I will warm a bowl of my chili.

[Anonymous]

I just made this vegetarian posole soup that has lots of flavor (and is easy if you use the chili powder instead of toasting peppers as suggested in the notes). My meat eating family loved it. You could easily throw some chopped chicken in. This would work with tortilla soup too--or really any kind of soup.

https://cookieandkate.com/pinto-posole-recipe/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We’re omnivores but do go veggie a few times a week. These have all bee received well. I also make a lot of roasted vegetables rice bowls with a few different homeade quick pickles, adding a tahini miso sauce. You can use sweet potatoes in place of rice, quinoa, or grains; or a small portion of each as base.

Moosewood Cookbooks Mousska is delicious and filling. You can adjust the veg a bit if not into mushrooms or eggplant. https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Mushroom-Moussaka/

BBQ tofu is also really yummy. This is a sheet pan version. I use high protein extra firm tofu and find baking time sweet spot is between 25-30 mins for crispy but soft inside or 30+ mins for crispy/chewier. You can also adapt this by changing rub spices or sauce.
https://www.thekitchn.com/sheet-pan-bbq-tofu-recipe-256176#post-recipe-12562


Also super good.

https://smittenkitchen.com/2013/05/japanese-cabbage-and-vegetable-pancakes/

NP. I made the bbq tofu tonight. Can confirm that it is excellent. Thanks PP!