A vegan dinner for meat eaters

This is our dinner from Tuesday, when we spent the afternoon at Agnes cooking. I think it was like seven o'clock, if not more, when we realized that 'oh, maybe we should start dinner'... And even though the potatoes took a little while in the oven, I think we both agree that this was a quite simple dinner to make. Above all, it's not very vegan! I'm not saying it it was meat but it gets pretty close. I served this to a friend once, who is about as anti-vegetarian as it gets, and definitely anti-vegan, and even he liked it. One thing you have to think about though is that you have to multi-task a bit; read through the recipe and figure out what you can do while other things are cooking, baking, etc.

Lentil patties with sweet potato and cherry tomato compote
For two hungry happy people (or at least soon to be happy, after they taste this)

Lentil patties
1 dl green lentils
¼ dl water to mix with
½ yellow onion, chopped
¼ dl salted sunflower seeds of cashew nuts
¼ dl potato flour
½ tsp. herb salt
1 krm pepper
1 tbsp. oil for frying
Rinse the lentils and cook fro 15 minutes until soft but still al dente. Pour of the water and put them in a mixer. Mix while adding water until an almost smooth paste. Add the other ingredients and mix a bit more. Form small patties and fry for about 3 minutes on each side.

Tomato compote
1 shallot
125 g cherry tomatoes
Some olive oil
1 ¼ dl cream for cooking
½ tsp. mild vinegar
½ tbsp. brown sugar
¼ tsp. salt
Pepper
Cut the tomatoes in half and slice and peel the onion. Fry the onion until almost soft in oil. Add everything but the tomatoes and let it simmer on low heat until its creamy and nice. Add the tomatoes and let simmer for 3 more minutes.

Sweet potato gratin
1 bit sweet potato, ½ kg
1 cm ginger
1 ¼ dl cream for cooking
½ clove of garlic
¾ tsp. herb salt
Heat the oven to 225 degree
Peel and slice the sweet potato, ½ cm thick. Peel and chop the ginger. Mix the potato and ginger in an ovenproof dish. Mix the cream and pressed garlic and salt, and pour over the potatoes. Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes until the sweet potato is soft.

Enjoy!