Vegetarian Haggis Recipe

Screegor · Vegetarian Haggis Recipe

Okay, I have agreed to cook Haggis for my US flatmates. They are both vegetarian to add complexity to making it.

So does anyone have a good vegetaian recipe that I can use, that will produce a good tasting haggis?

azzuri

Moved to the 'general banter' section. Wink

Babygael

Mechty Me screegor, a vegetarian Huggis! Shocked

Try this

http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jofish/food/haggis.htm

Screegor

I thought the Haggis was very much part of Scottish life....

Certainly all the US people imagine that is all you eat every day anyway. Oh and pigs blood.

I'm doing my bit to ensure it is what they believe too.

Interesting recipe:-

"ginger.... a piece about a third the size of your hand" Shocked

Okay so I'm reaconing (some adaptions for the fact I felt like it):-
2 onions
4 cloves garlic
15 mushrooms
1 - 2 aubergine
1 - 2 apple (type unknown (guessing a cooking apple...))
Ton of Oatmeal
4000000 lbs ginger Wink

Red wine and white wine (extra goes to cook).
Sage
Bit of chilli powder
Cumin
Black Pepper
Salt

(maybe even a carrot - to hold the structure????)

What do you think of that? Do you think it will work?

Babygael

As a carnivorous Scot, I prefer tae track doon ma prey, in this case a sheep, pinched after a night of wild carousing and border raiding. Mince well, then add to other ingredients. Serve with copious amounts of chilled pigs blood. Where traditionally, a hearty toast is raised to the sheep Farmer and other sasannach in general. The toast is given in Gaelic as follows "Pog mo thon!"

However,I liked your recipe except you need more onions and apples. Mix n' stuff it all in to mock sheep gut, Yum ! Yum!

Holebender

http://www.vegsoc.org/news/2001/burns.html

http://www.vegsoc.org/nvw/2006/recipes/haggis.html

More at Vegetarian Society

kathyv

So if the flatmates are vegetarian, can you cook the haggis in the sheep's stomach of won't they eat it then?

That recipe sounds lovely, especially the wine! LOL

Holebender

Kathy, veggie haggis is made in an inedible plastic skin which is discarded after cooking.

kathyv

Ahhh (and ugh!) I guess that makes sense, I never thought about alternative 'bags'!

Screegor

Thanks for the advice, I came to the conclusion I needed to experiment before tainting US views on the haggis.
When I return - I'll return with the best recipe ever (and I'll post it on here for others to try).

cymrofawr

Veggie haggis, ok! Does it contain Quorn?

Holebender

No. See the links earlier in the thread for recipes.

Blackadder

Vegetarian haggis?? Heretical plebs!!!

mairead

BG, you naughty BG. I understood that. Very Happy

Celtic Indian

Blackadder

Haggis is very much a plebeian dish. It was probably created by the clanswomen during a time of famine, so that what little meat, oatmeal and preservatives they had, when mixed together, managed to feed a whole community. In other countries, oats was fed to their animals ... but in Scotland it fed the people. And you wonder why we were a nation of warriors?

This is part of a song that celebrates the value of Haggis to the people. It comes from a musical play that was written and performed to save a well-known Scots community from having its entire budget slashed in the late 70s ... and it won after this show was toured, and the city council deeply embarrassed! It is copyright and cannot be re-used elsewhere without permission.

Take the paunch of a sheep
Take its heart, lungs and liver
All these things you must keep not waste
Take some meal from your store
Onions, suet and spices, to give taste

Pepper palate to unsettle
Onion appetite to whet'll
Tempt you to a dish that's rare
Gravy mixing altogether
Helps each part flavour the other
Share its riches everywhere

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Haggis!