Burns’ Night

Felice -I’m free!
Can I come?

We don't have a Morrison's near us unfortunately.

I've given up on Burns Night.

Chinese New Year instead

Simon Howie does a brilliant g free haggis. Don't know where you are, Merlot, but I bought one in Morrison's last week.

I've been unable to get hold of a gluten free haggis this year. Postage and packing prohibits sending away for one and our local Waitrose isn't very big and hasn't got them in stock.

So....I might do something with gf black pudding, lamb mince, oatmeal, gf suet etc.

Any ideas?

Gosh felice what a spread. I hope you have some help with the preparations.

vegansrock thank you for your post. You are right, I do have some concerns with veganism, but perhaps this isn't the thread to discuss them on!

Really appreciate your approach.

We hold a Burns Supper for friends most years and include any acquaintance or neighbour who has never had the pleasure of attending such an occasion previously.
We start with smoked salmon, then haggis, neeps and tatties with a jug of whisky and peppercorn sauce. Cranachan for pudding.
All this is served by DH who dresses as the traditional Poosie Nancy, resplendent in mob cap, apron and tartan sash.
The food is less important than the company - we have great fun getting everyone to recite or sing something by Burns.
It matters not a jot how inaccurate the recitations are - everyone's usually too bloody drunk to care.

grannyticktock
I don’t want my post to turn into a vegan bashing thread, but I think you will find at least SOME of the haggis has been a sentient being!!

I don't think a haggis is, or ever has been, a sentient being. In fact, it's quite an eco-friendly dish, as the animal parts in it are those that are often rejected and wasted by the meat industry. If we're going to continue to eat animals (as most of us are), it makes sense to use up as much of the animal as possible, rather than just use the prime cuts and let the rest go to waste.

Noted Elgran
We are definitely a scotch Whisky kind of family!!!

Scentia
This is not a post from the spelling police, just from someone with an interest in accuracy - the whisky and cream sauce should be made with Scotch WHISKY not with Irish WHISKEY.
Elegran

I have 30 coming here on Saturday night, I make two vegan dishes, one with barley and one with rolled oats. I will serve a lamb gravy and a Whisky cream sauce.
It is a multinational gathering and I do a mince and haggis cottage pie with clapshot topping, I always enjoy telling those who say they do not like haggis, but really enjoy the pie what they are eating. A good introduction to haggis.
I will also offer Salmon, roasted veg and cauliflower cheese along with neeps and chappit tatties.
All tastes catered for.

We veggies can eat all the clapshot we like! (Bashed neeps and champit tatties) I've not eaten the entrail type of haggis for 30 yrs either varian and am healthier than the carnivores in my family. Just saying.

Sorry meant “sentient being” but entire thing being could work.

So do I but don’t need to eat a entire thing being to do that.

No gravy should be needed if the potatoes are mashed in butter and milk and also if the turnips are mashed in loads of butter. I love haggis as it is----no vegetarian for me thankyou.

I need to keep body and soul together with protein, iron and all the other ingredients that give vital immunity against lurgies and bugs as well as replenishing cells etc.

phoenix producing anything is not waste free, but the meat and dairy industry have far greater negative environmental impact than plant based foods. Cow milk production is much worse in terms of emissions, water and land use. Not to mention animal cruelty. Sorry to hijack this thread, but Phoenix is obviously worried about Veganism per se.
The supper sounds great but I don’t know if I could handle a whisky gravy.

I always liked haggis and when I decided, about thirty years ago, to stop eating meat, haggis was the last meat dish I ate.

At that time it was impossible, at least where I lived, to find ready made veggie haggis and so I made my own, using crushed roasted nuts, bulgar wheat, oats, soya sauce, spices and lots of onion.

Nowadays it is easy to find readymade vegan haggis in UK supermarkets.

Although I know that whisky cream sauce is traditional for Burns Night, I prefer a rich onion gravy. I only serve tatties and neeps, never any other veg on Burns Night but there is no reason not to experiment with other veg as many combinations work well with haggis or vegan haggis.

I love proper old fashioned haggis. No whisky sauce except in hotels. The neeps and tatties are a perfect consistency to go with it. Ooh I just fancy some now!

I always have a veggie haggis. Much nicer than the other one.
It shouldn't be dry if you steam it.
Any nice accompaniment would be good. Tomato and basil?
There doesn't appear to be much difference between a vegan and a veggie haggis. They are both a mix of lentils, seeds, oatmeal, mushroom, onion and spices. Maybe the veggie one has egg.
Drink the whisky separately! Enjoy your Burns supper.

dinks13 sorry to disagree, but there is a lot wrong with a vegan diet, partly in the waste it produces!

Oat milk, almond milk etc produce a lot of waste material in order to obtain the "milk" to meet the requirements of a vegan diet.

Guess what happens to the waste material?????

Theres usually a whisky sauce with it in my neck of the woods and always has been.I use a 4 " mold and layer the potatoes ,haggis and neeps in it then a small amount of the sauce around the outside once the mold has been taken off.I was vegatarian for a long time and there are some good veggie haggis available in fact I still buy a veggie one for me and ameat one for the family .

I have tried vegetarian haggis, and have to say found it rather a pointless dish, and a pale imitation of the real thing. But in any case, it's not traditional to serve gravy, as haggis doesn't create any juices. The neeps will be quite moist, and with mashed potatoes it shouldn't need any more wetness. Some friends of ours used to serve neat whiskey in a little jug and pour a little of this "gravy" over the haggis. I think cream or a creamy sauce would be horrible, it'd be like serving cream with mince or sausages.

creamed coconut mixed with oat milk can be substituted for cream.

I can definitely adapt a whiskey creamy sauce, thankyou. And I will have red cabbage too, I love that!