Vegetarian Tortilla Pie Casserole

A layered vegetarian Mexican-inspired tortilla pie or Mexican casserole, made with black beans, flour tortillas, corn, and lots of cheese.

Recipe and photo courtesy of Bush's Beans.

Ingredients:

• 1 15-ounce can black beans, rinsed, drained, and gently patted dry
• 1 cup corn kernels
• 1 cup chopped green onion
• 1 1/2 cups white Cheddar cheese, grated
• 1 1/2 cups Monterey Jack cheese, grated
• 12 6-inch flour tortillas
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Combine the beans, corn and green onion. In a separate bowl, gently combine the two cheeses.

Place 3 tortillas on a lightly-greased baking sheeet and sprinkle each with about 1/3 cup bean mixture and about 1/3 cup cheese mixture, then top with a second tortilla.

Make 2 more layers on each tortilla in same manner with remaining bean mixture, cheeses, and tortillas, gently pressing each layer down and ending with a fourth tortilla on top of each.

Tortilla pies may be prepared up to this point 6 hours ahead and chilled, wrapped well in plastic wrap.

In a small bowl stir together oil and cayenne and lightly brush mixture over top of each tortilla pie casserole.

Bake cakes in middle of oven until golden, about 12 to 15 minutes.

Allow to cool for a few minutes, and then cut each tortilla pie casserole into wedges and serve immediately.

This Mexican tortilla pie casserole recipe makes six generous servings.

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 521
Protein 24g

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Vegetarian Casseroles

Vegetarian casseroles are great for busy nights. The dog is barking, the kids are screaming and dinner still isn't ready. Sound familiar? Time to try some of these easy one-dish vegetarian casserole recipes. Just turn on the oven, put a few ingredients into a casserole dish and set the timer. Vegetarian and vegan casseroles can be either a main dish or a side dish, depending on the recipe and the size of your appetite. If you're not sure what's for dinner tonight, try one of these easy vegetarian casserole recipes.

1. Quick and Easy Cheesy Pasta and Bean Casserole

Vegetarian pasta casserole photo courtesy of Bush's Beans.

This vegetarian casserole is a great way to use up any leftover cooked pasta you have lying around. Just "dump" a few ingredients into a dish and bake. Although you do have to cook the pasta beforehand, this vegetarian pasta casserole only has five ingredients, so it really can be a time saver on a busy night. A main dish vegetarian casserole.

2. Vegetarian Chili and Cornbread Casserole

With beans and mock meat for plenty of protein, this easy vegetarian and vegan chili casserole can be prepared in just a few minutes. If you like corn bread, you'll like this recipe. You could also make this chili casserole using leftover homemade chili or canned vegetarian chili. if you like this recipe, you might also want to try this similar recipe for vegetarian chili and polenta casserole

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3. Black Bean Tortilla Casserole

A layered vegetarian Mexican-inspired tortilla pie or Mexican casserole, made with black beans, flour tortillas, corn, and lots of cheese.

4. Crockpot Spinach Casserole

If you can't get your family to eat their spinach, try this creamy, cheesy and vegetarian crock pot spinach casserole recipe with lots of ricotta cheese. If you want to turn this vegetarian vegetable casserole into a main dish, add in some fried tofu

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5. Vegetarian Egg Casserole with Mock Meat Sausage

Egg casserole is a popular brunch or buffet breakfast dish, and this vegetarian breakfast casserole recipe retains all the traditional flavors and textures by using a vegetarian sausage substitute. This is a great recipe to start your day with an extra protein boost at 21 grams of protein per serving. If you need a vegetarian breakfast or brunch casserole recipe, this is the one to try.

6. Vegan Macaroni and "Cheese" Casserole

Vegan macaroni and "cheese" casserole is perfect for your vegan kids! You can sneak in some diced vegetables or even some sauteed or fried tofu for some extra nutrition. This vegetarian pasta casserole recipe is simple enough to make any night of the week.

7. Vegetarian Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd's pie is a casserole dish traditionally made from meat and mashed potatoes, but this vegetarian recipe uses lots of healthy vegetables instead of meat. The recipe also includes vegan substitutions, so you can still make this shepherd's pie if you need a vegan recipe. A reviewer gave this vegetarian shepherd's pie recipe 4 out of 5 stars and said, "This was quite good, consisting of vegetables we all like. I think this will become a staple comfort food with us." You could also try this vegetarian shepherd's pie with TVP for a more meat-like dish, or, try this vegetarian shepherd's pie with lentils

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8. Vegetarian Enchilada Casserole Bake

You can get this Mexican-inspired casserole into the oven in just a few minutes, so it makes a great meal for a busy day. Kids love this casserole recipe too, but you may want to cut the amount of chilies in half. This vegetarian recipe could easily be made vegan by using a vegan soy cheese instead of regular cheese. This is my most popular vegetarian casserole recipe.

9. Green Bean Casserole

Green bean casserole was always a Thanksgiving staple at my house growing up. You can try this easy crock pot green bean casserole recipe, which uses pre-made soup and is ready to cook in your crock pot in just a few minutes, or, for a dairy-free and egg-free vegan version, try this recipe for vegan green bean casserole, which uses vegan margarine and nutritional yeast to create a rich and creamy sauce.

10. More vegetarian recipes

Looking for more healthy vegetarian recipes? Scroll through this complete collection of meatless eaturing everything from meatless breakfast ideas to exotic Asian curries and all-American vegetarian favorites. If you like vegetarian food, this is the only recipe collection you'll ever need.

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Macaroni and cheese with avocado

Can't get enough of these late-summer avocados? Here's another unusual way to enjoy them - in America's favorite childhood meal, macaroni and cheese! It's received five stars when reviewed by readers, and I have to agree. This one's a keeper!

Recipe link: Avocado mac and cheese

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Nature's Burger Loaf

Nature's Burger Vegetarian "Meat" Loaf Recipe courtesy of Fantastic Foods. If you're looking for a super quick and easy vegetarian loaf recipe, then this is the vegetarian meatloaf one to try. You can get this easy vegetarian meatloaf into the oven in just a few minutes, leaving you plenty of time to cook up an impressive side dish or dessert!

Nature's burger is usually used to prepare quick veggie burger patties, but it makes an excellent easy vegetarian meat-loaf base too.

Ingredients:

• 1 box Nature's Burger veggie burger mix (about 1 1/4 cups)
• 1 egg
• 1 cup water
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 1/2 green pepper, chopped
• dash vegetarian Worchestershire sauce (optional)

Preparation:

Mix together all ingredients including Nature's Burger mix and press gently into a lightly greased loaf pan.

Bake for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.

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Quinoa-stuffed acorn squash

Quinoa topped with pecans tops a roasted acorn squash. If you can boil water and cut a squash in half - you can make this easy recipe. Add this quinoa-stuffed acorn squash to your thanksgiving dinner menu to serve your vegetarian or vegan guests - they'll love it!

Ingredients:

• 2 acorn squash
• approximately 1 tbsp vegan margarine
• 1 cup quinoa
• 2 cups vegetable broth or water
• 1/4 cup minced onion
• 2 Tbsp minced fresh parsley
• 1/4 cup raisins
• 1/4 cup candied or regular pecans
• 2 Tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp nutritional yeast (optional)
• sea salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste

Preparation:

Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees.

Slice acorn squash in half and remove the seeds. Spread a bit of vegan margarine on the inside of the squash, then place on a baking sheet, cut-side down, and bake for 20-25 minutes, or until soft.

Simmer quinoa, covered, in vegetable broth or water for 12-14 minutes, or until quinoa is cooked and liquid is absorbed. Add diced onion during the final 5 minutes of cooking time.

Remove quinoa from heat and mix in the raisins, pecans, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and optional nutritional yeast. Season generously with sea salt and fresh ground pepper, to taste.

Divide the quinoa stuffing amongst the four squash halves, gently spooning in.

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Portobello burgers with avocado sauce

Still loving learning about avocados? I'm still loving eating them! Here's one classic way just about everybody loves avocados: on a veggie burger! This recipe takes a grilled portobello mushroom and adds a creamy avocado sauce for a delicious vegetarian sandwich. Isn't it beautiful? This recipe has consistently received five out of five stars when reviewed by readers who try it out. I bet you'll agree!

Link: Portabella burgers with avocados

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Dominion over animals?

Question: God gaves us animals to eat. The Bible says we have "dominion" over them.

God gave us animals to eat. The Bible says we have "dominion" over them, so why shouldn't we eat them? This is a very complex question, about which much can be said. Entire books have been written on the subject.

Answer: "Dominion" doesn’t mean "exploitation", "decapitation" and "domination", but rather a responsibility for stewardship. All the world’s prominent religions teach the importance of both compassion and mercy as important values to cultivate. The choice to eat meat, dairy products, and eggs is a violent one—it supports abuse.

Most people would agree that God opposes unnecessary cruelty to animals, and would not condone beating cats and dogs to death. Many Christians and Jews are vegetarians because they're horrified by how God's animals are treated in industrialized farms. From their perspective, God designed chickens to build nests and raise their chicks; God designed pigs to root in the soil; God designed all animals to breathe fresh air, to play with one another, and so on. But today, animals are denied everything that God designed them to be and to do when confined and exploited by the meat production industry.

Even if religious beliefs allow people to eat factory-farmed meat, they certainly don’t require them to do so. Aside from the environmental and human consequences of eating animals, which are reason enough for faith-based people to adopt a vegan diet, God certainly created animals with needs, desires, and species-specific behaviors, and all these things are denied the animals who are turned into food by the modern farmed-animal industries. God also created animals with a well-developed capacity for pain, which causes extreme suffering in a factory-farm setting. Industrialized farms today bear little in common with the family-based agriculture of Biblical, Vedic and Quranic times.

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