Meat-free and vegetarian, is it good?

Meat-free and vegetarian, is it good?

Vegetarian food is hot! Just look at the world's most prestigious chef competition, where this year's theme is vegan. In the final of the Chef of the Year , the only competition step is to create five vegetarian snacks (eggs, dairy and cheese are allowed). If we look at restaurants around major cities, we focus more and more on green - take Photographic as an example where superb vegetarian food is served. There, on the other hand, they have been doing it for a while, with good looks.

Eating greens has become widely accepted. Today, there is no longer any kind of sect where you have to gnaw on roots and eat strange coal balls of old dried beans. Green is not only great - it's good and smart.

Why should you eat vegetarian?

For my own part, I do not eat green because it is a pity for the animals or because I believe in eating less meat. I just think it feels fresher in some way to eat something from time to time without meat.

I have always enjoyed challenging myself in the kitchen. In the past, for example, I snowed in on cooking that did not contain high carbohydrates in the form of bread and pasta. It was a challenge to try to get around these deeply ingrained ingredients and offer the same feeling, without missing anything. Learning how to cook good vegetarian food also proved to be a bit of a challenge. For me it was quite new.

Vegetarian inspiration

At home, we now cook more and more vegetarian. It has just become so. I always loved meat and previously thought that vegetarians were a bit flabby. When I then started to cook more meat-free dishes it just happened by itself - I never had the goal to start eating greener. I also didn't think that meatless Monday was anything to me because I don't like when you have to force things. It must come naturally.

So, how do you get started with vegetarian cooking? Try to cook your classic dinner dishes, but replace the meat with, for example, beans, carrots or some more edible vegetables. Vegetarian food is so much more than salads!

To help with the stack, I have compiled the best vegetarian recipes for 12 meatless dinners here on the blog. Simply my favorites. All recipes are ovo- and lacto-vegetarian, which means that they contain milk, eggs or both. I hope it will inspire.