Comments on: A truly revolting vegetarian haggis

By: Burns Night supper: vegetarian haggis | Nur, was da steht

Burns Night supper: vegetarian haggis | Nur, was da steht — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:19:37 +0000

[...] website even uses VegSoc photographs. Responses to the parent recipe are, it’s fair to say, mixed, so I’ve picked from it quite carefully and combined it with some flourishes from passable [...]

By: veggie-non-bland

veggie-non-bland — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:01:37 +0000

@lis0r you obviously know very little about taste. What nonsense of a sweeping statement you make about veggie palates. I can only imagine by increasing the salt content you are trying to kill all veggies! You’ve gotta laugh at some meat eaters – must be the lard blocking their brain cells working! Lol!

By: lis0r

lis0r — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:46:46 +0000

From my experience, vegetarians have blander palates than meat eaters. When I make this, I dramatically increase the salt contents, and add in the spices from some proper haggis recipes.

By: Not Delia

Not Delia — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:12:52 +0000

Hi veggie girl – each to their own, I suppose. I tried making up a new recipe from scratch and thought it was much better. The inclusion of pearl barley seemed to help the texture a lot.

If you give my recipe a go sometime, please do report back about what you thought of it – even if you didn’t like it.

http://www.notdelia.co.uk/a-delicious-vegetarian-haggis/

By: veggie girl

veggie girl — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:20:09 +0000

Funny really, I just googled this recipe to make this year as can’t find my copy and found both the original recipe and this site. I’ve made this recipe for a good few years and we no longer buy a traditional haggis for my carnivore husband to eat as he thinks this recipe is fantastic.

Not sure why everyone thinks it’s bland – it’s great!

By: Not Delia

Not Delia — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:22:52 +0000

I think it was all the fine chopping and very fine chopping that removed the texture and made it quite weird. It turned like like a sort of “not meat loaf”.

It didn’t taste very good either.

Never mind, I’ll have another go starting from scratch without a recipe. A Scottish peasant like me should probably make a better job of it.

By: Mr Not Delia

Mr Not Delia — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:48:54 +0000

Mr Not Delia (not a Scot but he likes haggis) tactfully said that he preferred the real thing.

It’s true. This stuff was pretty unpalatable even in spite of ND’s best efforts – and before she added her magic ingredients it was atrocious.

It was as if the recipe had been devised by a non-vegetarian who assumed that vegetarians were denying themselves meat as some kind of culinary self-flagellation, and that any food they ate should be eaten in a spirit of penance and renunciation of earthly pleasures.

But it doesn’t have to be like that. For all that I prefer the real thing, I too enjoyed Macsween’s veggie haggis. I was quite shocked to find out that this recipe was created by a vegetarian organisation.