--- title: "Forget nut roast! A vegetarian Christmas feast from The Loveliest Food" url: https://darlinglovelylife.com/2013/12/forget-nut-roast-a-vegetarian-christmas-feast-from-the-loveliest-food/ description: "Happy Thursday Darling Lovely readers! As a vegetarian, I have to say that I find traditional Christmas food particularly awful. What can you give a veggie for Christmas." published: 2013-12-19 updated: 2013-12-19 --- # Forget nut roast! A vegetarian Christmas feast from The Loveliest Food Published 2013-12-19 [Making & baking](https://darlinglovelylife.com/category/making-baking/) 19 December 2013 · by Sara - Darling Lovely Life editor · filed under [Chloe Adlington](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [cous cous vegetable dish](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [Darling Lovely Life](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [Mediterranean food](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [squash roast vegetable feta cous cous](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/), [The Loveliest Food](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/) Happy Thursday Darling Lovely readers! As a vegetarian, I have to say that I find traditional Christmas food particularly awful. What can you give a veggie for Christmas lunch except for nut roast, not my favourite food in the world, or the side dishes that come with the meat eaters’ main meals? Luckily, we have a very marvellous food blogger, [Chloe Adlington of The Loveliest Food](http://www.theloveliestfood.com/), on hand with a delicious vegetarian feast with a Mediterranean edge that will blow tradition out of the water. Of course, this dish is wonderful year-round, but I wanted to put it up just before Christmas in case any of you have a veggie coming for Christmas dinner and wanted to whip them up something easy and special. Thank you so much, Chloe, for your wonderful recipe – I will hand over to our guest chef now! ## Squash, roast vegetable and feta cous cous Chloe here from [The Loveliest Food](http://www.theloveliestfood.com/) popping in to say hello… I know it’s customary for guests to bring sweet treats (maybe next time) but instead I’ve got an easy, healthy and very tasty mid-week dish for you. It’s one of our favourite suppers at the moment, I concocted it a few weeks ago and now it’s become a weekly staple. You can use whatever vegetables you have in the fridge and goat’s cheese works too if you’re all out of feta! ## You will need ♥ Half a butternut squash, peeled, cored and cubed ♥ 1 yellow pepper, roughly chopped ♥ 1 courgette, sliced ♥ 1 red onion, sliced ♥ 2 cloves of garlic, crushed ♥ Fresh thyme leaves ♥ 1 block of Feta, cubed ♥ 3 tbsp balsamic vinegar ♥ 5 tbsp olive oil plus extra for drizzling ♥ 1 tbsp mixed dried herbs ♥ 400ml cous cous ♥ 3 heaped tsp of Swiss Bouillon powder made up to 700ml of stock ## Step one Preheat your oven to 200’c then in a small bowl mix the crushed garlic, olive oil, mixed herbs and balsamic vinegar together. ## Step two Pour this dressing over the cubed squash in an ovenproof dish / tin and roast for 30mins or until soft and golden at the edges. ## Step three In a separate dish drizzle olive oil over the chopped onion, courgette and pepper. Sprinkle over some fresh (or dried) thyme leaves and roast for 20mins, or until soft and browning slightly. ## Step four Around 10 minutes before the all the roast vegetables are ready make up the vegetable stock and pour over the cous cous in a pan. Simmer with a lid on for a few minutes or until all the stock has been absorbed. Turn off the pan and leave for a further five minutes. ## Step five Fluff up the cous cous with a fork then stir in the roasted squash, vegetables and cubed feta. ## Step six Serve with a drizzle of olive oil and a few extra thyme leaves. **It will make enough for four, or two suppers and two office lunches. I hope you enjoy and you’re very welcome to [pop over to TLF](http://www.theloveliestfood.com/) for more lovely food any time… Chloe x** --- [Back to December 2013 in the archive](https://darlinglovelylife.com/archives/#m-2013-12)