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Vegetable Dishes for Carnivores

By Food & Wine
Updated January 09, 2017
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From roast beef summer rolls to lentils with smoked sausage and carrots, here are some delicious vegetable dishes for carnivores.
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Crunchy Asian Pea Salad with Honeyed Bacon

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Meat lovers like superstar chef Mario Batali have recently turned pro-vegetable, favoring meat in smaller amounts—and in some dishes as a flavoring agent rather than the central component. Here, seven vegetable dishes that call for less than three ounces of meat per serving like a crunchy Asian pea salad with crunchy honeyed bacon.

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Sweet Corn Succotash

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Birmingham, Alabama, chef Chris Hastings of Hot and Hot Fish Club uses fresh field peas, like black-eyed peas, in his succotash, but green peas are nicely sweet. Finely diced thick-cut bacon give the succotash extra flavor.

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Lentils with Smoked Sausage and Carrots

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A good-quality, at least slightly hot mustard from France, Germany, or England is the perfect accompaniment for this. Put a dollop on your plate and dip each forkful into it.

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Warm Escarole Salad with Snow Peas and Sausage

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This savory, sausage-accented main-course salad is as satisfying as it is restorative. "According to Thai belief, both peas and pea shoots are revitalizing, as well as good for digestion," Su-Mei Yu says. "And escarole strengthens muscles and bones."

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Roast Beef Summer Rolls

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Vietnamese summer rolls are often filled with chicken or shrimp, but Grace Parisi makes hers with roast beef from the deli.

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Spicy Green Beans with Bacon and Tomatoes

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Notoriously bland green beans get an upgrade with this spicy take.

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Giardiniera with Ham and White Beans

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This recipe is a nod to the pickled vegetables (giardiniera) in the Gramercy Tavern salad. Grace Parisi quickly soaks baby cauliflower in vinegar and sugar, then combines it with snap peas, white beans, ham and sunflower seeds to create a unique main-course dish.

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Farro Salad with Fried Cauliflower and Prosciutto

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Cooks in Italy fry cauliflower to bring out its nuttiness. Here, Ethan Stowell deep-fries it for a salad with salty prosciutto and nubby farro (a variety of whole-grain wheat).

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1 of 8 Crunchy Asian Pea Salad with Honeyed Bacon
2 of 8 Sweet Corn Succotash
3 of 8 Lentils with Smoked Sausage and Carrots
4 of 8 Warm Escarole Salad with Snow Peas and Sausage
5 of 8 Roast Beef Summer Rolls
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8 of 8 Farro Salad with Fried Cauliflower and Prosciutto

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