🫑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).

I don't overcomplicate the meal prep. In my opinion, people waste a lot of time searching for recipes instead of setting up their kitchen to actually work for their family.

I cook up a batches of Kasha (buckwheat, onion and broth), brown rice and boiled baby potatoes to have on hand for quick meal warm-ups. Those things are all pareve, so they can be kept in smaller glass pyrex dishes and used for both meat and dairy meals, depending on how observant you are. Having the pareve items pre-cooked and ready for meals and snacks will make food prep and clean up a lot faster and easier.

I prepare plain ground turkey and ground beef also to have on hand, but that's not going to be an option for you, although it'll be good for the meat-eaters in your house. Having plain food cooked and ready to combine is how the restaurants do it and it makes things much easier. Cooked ground beef makes tacos easy. Also, rice/ground beef/spaghetti sauce is great plain or baked in a green pepper. And ground beef and spaghetti sauce make an easy pasta topping or sloppy joe.

Red lentils are my favorite vegetarian food. They cook in 15 minutes and they taste great. Again, I don't get bogged down searching for recipes. I just cook the lentils in water and have them on hand. The plainer the better and more versatile.

I pick 2-3 things and warm them up in my skillet and throw in a handful of spinach or other cooked vegetable in there. Add some parsley, salt and pepper or red pepper flakes to taste.