I’ve at all times liked vegetarian cooking as a result of it’s SO CREATIVE! Cooking with greens and taking advantage of their flavors and textures is simply so inspiring to me.
These vegetarian dinner recipes have really grow to be a few of our most-loved, most-cooked, most-repeated meals round right here.
Whether or not you’re absolutely vegetarian or simply making an attempt to work a number of extra plant-forward meals into your week, these dinners show that you simply completely don’t want meat to have one thing deeply scrumptious.
These are the 45 vegetarian recipes our readers come again to time and again (and those I make on repeat at house). In the event you’re searching for vegetarian dinners that really feel genuinely thrilling to prepare dinner, you’re in the fitting place!
Vegetarian Dinner Recipes
Miso Peanut Ramen Bowls
A candy and creamy savory broth ladled into bowls with noodles, crispy crumbled tofu, and recent veg! These ramen bowls are SO GOOD.
Crispy Buffalo Tofu with Caesar Salad
This Buffalo Tofu is SO EASY! A two-ingredient sauce tossed with air-fried crispy tofu, laid on prime of a kale caesar salad.
Creamy Vegan Pink Pepper Pasta with Blistered Tomatoes
This Creamy Vegan Pink Pepper Pasta is significantly scrumptious and significantly vegan! Completely chewy rigatoni, blistered juicy tomatoes, a creamy-but-cream-less roasted purple pepper sauce, all sprinkled with recent chives and basil.
Sticky Gochujang Tofu with Herbs and Peanuts
Crispy golden tofu bathed in a 5-ingredient peanut gochujang sauce that’s spicy, candy, tangy, and so scrumptious.
Gnocchi with Creamy Mushroom Sauce
Scrumptious pillowy gnocchi swimming in a silky creamy sauce that’s laced with thyme and loaded with little slips of garlic butter-browned mushrooms! Oh, that is so good.
Roasted Corn and Fried Egg Tacos
Roasted Corn and Fried Egg Tacos with a crispy, tacky, lacy-edged egg, corn, cotjia cheese, cilantro, pickled onions and sauce all piled right into a tortilla with refried beans.
Steph’s Chickpea Curry with Spinach and Rice
Amazingly creamy, saucy chickpea curry served over rice with a dollop of chili crisp and a facet of cucumber salad. Prepared in 20 minutes!
Sopa Tarasca (Pinto Bean Soup) with Jalapeño Corn Fritters
Let’s make Sopa Tarasca! It’s a creamy, silky Mexican-inspired soup made with pinto beans, heat chili spices, and entire tomatoes. And also you NEED an enormous pile of the jalapeño corn fritters on prime. Drooling over this one!
Pearl Couscous Skillet with Tomatoes, Chickpeas, and Feta
Steamy, saucy goodness! This Couscous Skillet is full of vibrant flavors and freshness. Pearl couscous, tomatoes, chickpeas, spices, kale, and a bunch of recent herbs and feta on prime.
7-Layer Beet Salad
This 7-Layer Beet Salad is a stunner! Studded with cooked beets, supremed oranges, chopped pistachios, creamy truffle ricotta, and a little bit of recent mint. So recent, so good!
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie
Vegetarian Shepherd’s Pie ♡ saucy mushrooms, carrots, and peas topped with creamy mashed potatoes. Actual meals meets consolation meals!
Sesame Apricot Tofu
Torn-up tofu pan-fried into crispiness and made saucy, sticky, and candy into this Sesame Apricot Tofu. A simple, easy vegetarian dinner that’s deliciously saving my life!
Crispy Black Bean Tacos with Cilantro Lime Sauce
These vegetarian tacos have a deliciously satisfying black bean filling with recent salsa and seasonings all tucked right into a golden crispy tortilla and served alongside a cool and creamy cilantro lime sauce. YUM!
Immediate Pot Wild Rice Soup
The BEST Wild Rice Soup – within the Immediate Pot! So creamy and easy and prepared in an hour. Good for fall/winter nights!
Spicy Sofritas Tofu
Spicy Sofritas Tofu, like selfmade Chipotle! Suppose spicy peppers, garlic, tomatoes, and recent cilantro in a flavorful simmer sauce in your tofu!
Tofu and Brown Rice Lettuce Wraps with Peanut Sauce
These lettuce wraps are ridiculously good! Crunchy, recent, and full of tofu, brown rice, crispy onions, plus a drizzle of peanut sauce and spicy mayo. Scrumptious!
Cauliflower Black Bean Tostadas with Queso and Pickled Onion
Tangy, creamy, crunchy, smoky, seasoned vegetarian goodness on a superbly crisp little corn tortilla disk. Cauliflower Black Bean Tostadas to the rescue!
Crunchy Roll Bowls
A block of tofu, properly browned in teriyaki sauce, served on a mattress of sticky rice with edamame, cucumber, avocado, jalapeño, and a handful of crushed-up crunchy onions, buried underneath a thick drizzle of additional teriyaki and spicy mayo.
Thai Coconut Soup with Tofu and Rice
A savory coconut creamy broth, swirls of chili oil floating on prime, lovely veg and cubes of flavor-soaked tofu, and a pile of steamy rice at your service.
Smoky Pink Lentil Soup with Spinach
This Smoky Lentil Soup is extremely creamy and completely vegan! Packed to the brim with veggies, purple lentils, coconut milk, and plenty of spices, it’s a complete win for the coziest months of the yr!
30 Minute Vegetarian Meatballs
These vegetarian meatballs are extremely straightforward and tremendous versatile! Full of cauliflower, quinoa, brown rice, garlic, and spices. Stockpile these in your freezer and your future self will thanks.
Three Cheese Baked Gnocchi with Spinach
You’re in for a deal with with this scrumptious Three Cheese Baked Gnocchi! Tender gnocchi blanketed in a creamy tomato sauce, speckled with recent spinach and bites of melty cheese. Attractive!
Spaghetti with Crispy Zucchini
This Spaghetti with Crispy Zucchini is the proper end-of-summer track! It doesn’t get significantly better than recent summer season zucchini coated in a crispy, tacky breading piled excessive on prime of spaghetti with recent herbs. YUM!
One-Pan Farro with Tomatoes and Kale
This One-Pan Farro with Tomatoes and Kale is a straight-up DREAM! Rustic farro cozied as much as cherry tomatoes, onions, garlic, and kale. So good and so healthful!
Harissa Chickpeas with Whipped Feta
Harissa Chickpeas with Whipped Feta! Completely spicy/saucy/tomato-y chickpeas smothered in creamy, garlicky whipped feta and served with naan, lemons, and cucumbers. Your subsequent weeknight marvel!
Smoky Beans & Greens Tacos with Aji Verde
Three cheers for summertime consuming! Smoky black beans sautéed with kale and garlic and spices, tucked into charred corn tortillas, and topped with the very best feisty, punchy inexperienced sauce – Aji Verde!
Black Pepper Stir Fried Udon
This Black Pepper Stir Fried Udon is the proper SOS dinner! Saucy udon noodles, darkish soy sauce, stir fry veggies, recent garlic, and plenty of freshly floor black pepper. Really easy!
Creamy Tomato Lasagna Florentine
This Creamy Tomato Lasagna Florentine is so deliciously comforting and easy. Noodles, tomato sauce, and a creamy spinach layer!
Plantain and Pinto Stew with Aji Verde
Our new favourite heat and nutritious stew crammed with pinto beans, plantains, tomatoes, kale, and plenty of cozy spices. Prime it with a swizzle of a spicy inexperienced sauce known as aji verde and also you’re in taste city.
Portobello French Dip with Horseradish Aioli
Roasty portobello strips, golden caramelized onions, melted Provolone cheese, zippy horseradish aioli, all piled on a heat, crusty roll.
Immediate Pot Pink Curry Lentils
Guess what’s for dinner? Creamy, spicy, scrumptious purple curry lentils, made within the Immediate Pot.
Lemongrass Vermicelli Salad
Lemongrass Vermicelli Salad – a summer season showstopper! A twirl of vermicelli noodles, pan-fried tofu, recent herbs and veggies, and a lime-and-lemongrass-based sauce that simply slips all around the plate.
Couscous Salad with Lime Basil French dressing
A brilliant, zippy, unexpectedly scrumptious couscous salad that’s full of candy potatoes, black beans, spinach, feta, and extra – all tossed with a life-changing lime basil French dressing!
Wonderful Mushroom Bowls with Kale Pesto
Wonderful Mushroom Bowls with Kale Pesto! Smoky, candy, salt mushrooms (or tempeh!), caramelized pineapple, peppers, and dollop of kale pesto, all served over rice.
Creamy Thai Candy Potato Curry
Creamy Thai Candy Potato Curry – full of vitamin! Our favourite straightforward, wholesome, winter consolation meals recipe.
Cauliflower Walnut Vegetarian Taco Meat
This vegetarian taco meat is made with cauliflower, walnuts, and chipotle peppers. It’s really easy: simply combine and bake. Meatless miracle!
Roasted Cauliflower Hummus Bowls
These Roasted Cauliflower Hummus Bowls are LIFE-CHANGING. A mattress of garlicky creamy hummus, piled excessive with spiced roasted cauliflower, and a speckling of recent lemony tomatoes and herbs.
Spicy Peanut Tofu Bowls
These Spicy Peanut Tofu Bowls are a meal prep / weeknight dinner life-saver! Crispy tofu, roasted veggies, fluffy rice, and a spicy candy peanut sauce throughout prime.
Greek Baked Orzo
Calmly tomato-sauced orzo baked in a skillet with purple peppers, kale, hen – or chickpeas – and a topping of feta, lemon juice, and recent dill.
Vegan Sheet Pan Fajitas with Chipotle Queso
These Vegan Sheet Pan Fajitas are SO GOOD. Roasted peppers and onions, steak-like portobello mushrooms, some mashed avocado, and a waterfall of spicy cashew queso.
Coconut Curry Ramen
Coconut Curry Ramen with a creamy golden broth, pan-fried greens, cubes of golden brown tofu, and steamy scrumptious ramen noodles.
Chipotle Tahini Bowls
Wholesome and versatile bowls that come collectively underneath a beneficiant drizzle of addictingly creamy vegan chipotle tahini sauce.
Brussels Sprouts Tacos
Savory sautéed shredded brussels sprouts tucked into charred tortillas with roasted corn, jalapeno, black bean, and cilantro chimichurri. WHOA. Sure.
Vegan Crunchwrap Supreme
This vegan crunchwrap is INSANE! Stuff this unhealthy boy with no matter you want – I made it with sofritas tofu and cashew queso – and wrap it up, fry, and devour! Favourite vegan recipe up to now.
Firecracker Vegan Lettuce Wraps
HELLO YUM. Firecracker Lettuce Wraps which can be fortunately vegan – with crispy tofu bits, saucy brown rice noodles, and a creamy sesame sauce.
