Make The Veggieducken For Thanksgiving

By Amy Cavanaugh in Food on Nov 18, 2012 9:00PM

Just because you count down to digging into a roasted turkey on Thanksgiving doesn't mean everyone does—vegetarians don't have what Dan Pashman, host of a food podcast and writer of The Sporkful, calls "an event" dish. Over at NPR today, he shared a recipe for a veggieducken, a delightful spin on the turducken, which we covered here last week. Pashman says,

while vegetarians can make a very nice meal with all the side dishes, you can eat those sides all the time. They don't have that big centerpiece dish that makes it a special day ... They don't have that, they haven't had that — until now: I give you the Veggieducken. It's inspired by the turducken — that's a chicken inside a duck inside a turkey. And instead of the meat, it's yams inside leeks inside a banana squash, with vegetarian stuffing between each layer. And a banana squash is about 2 feet long; it's one of the largest squashes money can buy. So this thing is big. It takes a couple hours to cook — it is an event.

Here's a video of Pashman making the veggieducken. Head over to NPR for the recipe.