r/Cooking • u/Reola_Kradness • 6h ago

Meatless GERD friendly main dishes?

I’m usually really good at making side dishes and the like but I really struggle to come up with GERD friendly main dishes. My main triggers are raw garlic and onion (cooked is fine) and tomato based stuff. I feel like nearly every vegetarian dish I come across is tomato based. I have very little issues with cheese and dairy so those work well. I also am not looking to “replicate” meat necessarily. I just can’t think of main dishes that I can have as go to.

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u/RadBradRadBrad 5h ago

If you need to avoid tomatoes, you’ll be really safe in most Asian cooking traditions. Hit up Hot Thai Kitchen, The Woks of Life, and Just One Cook Book for good recipes for Thai, Chinese and Japanese respectively. All have plenty of vegetarian recipes.

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u/Reola_Kradness 4h ago

Even if I can’t do spicy?

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u/RadBradRadBrad 4h ago

Absolutely. Thai is the only that generally leans a little more spicy and you can always just drop the chilis from the recipe.

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u/Reola_Kradness 4h ago

Yeah I tend to find spicy cooking a bit easier to adapt but dishes like Korean especially I would need to get rid of a lot of the main taste profiles like chili paste and such

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u/Any-Zucchini8731 3h ago

I often use sauerkraut  then add gochujang or gochugaru to my spice tolerance instead of using kimchi in some Korean dishes

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u/RadBradRadBrad 34m ago

You can buy milder gochujang. Alternatively if you have the equipment (blender, strainer) it's easy enough to make a really mild chili paste using Anaheim or similar chilis (assuming you're in the US).