I live in a primarily meat eating household, with a couple of veg days every month. (and my mom makes some Michelin star tier non-veg...strong bias applies) Ev

I live in a primarily meat eating household, with a couple of veg days every month. (and my mom makes some Michelin star tier non-veg...strong bias applies) Everyone in the house looks forward to the veg day, because we know it will be special. The techniques needed to cook good vegetarian food are fundamentally different, in a way that meat can't take advantage of it. You would never want to eat a parmesan beef or a chicken pastrami. It just won't work. Similarly some dishes only work as veg dishes. There are many indian veg dishes (daal-baati-churma, Undio, garlic-tomato sabji, misal, usal, chat) which simply do not have any non-veg equivalent. And all of these are main courses with the vegetable being the highlight.