🫑Vegan and 🐔Kosher Dinner Ideas 🍽

A kosher butcher will have beef and poultry that has been drained. Roast chicken or steak. (How observant your household it will determine if you use non kosher pans etc…)

If I were cooking for a vegan friend.. I would make a ratatouille.

Terminology quibble: If eating butter, honey, and eggs, that would technically be ovo-lacto vegetarian, not vegan. Knowing that might help with recipe search.

I know nothing about kosher, so can't help you there.

As a vegetarian, if we're talking a holiday mean or some other special event, I'm usually looking for either a casserole-type thing that would be a nice veggie side dish for others, but a main dish for the vegetarian; or something that's visually somewhat dramatic.

Examples: A casserole-ish main might be something like a veggie moussaka in which you'd substitute plant milk for dairy milk in the bechamel, if you don't eat dairy other than butter.

For regular meals, some other things that can work are enchiladas (bean for the veggies), hearty pasta dishes (with beans, using higher-protein pasta, can even sneakily blend in some soft tofu if it's a white sauce), creamy soups (with beans or tofu blended in, but actual cream is optional if you don't eat dairy - I'm talking about soups based on squash, sweet potatoes, white potatoes or some other such thing, with the protein blended in. Nuts or seeds (like pumpkin or sunflower) can also be blended in or toasted and sprinkled on top. Veggie stews or chili (red or white) are also good.

On the go or prepped: Egg muffins, regular muffins, veggie breakfast burritos, baked oatmeal, wrap sandwiches, hard-boiled or deviled eggs (I use plain nonfat Greek yogurt instead of mayo in the latter, just enough to bind the yolks - if you eat dairy).

Pretty much the only thing I ever prep is dried beans or other legumes (cook in batches and freeze in suitable portions for later use) and Winter squash (because I can only get my favorite kind in Fall, and it's not a good keeper).