You don’t should be a vegan—or perhaps a vegetarian—to understand a vegan dinner. Whereas I personally eat something and every part, a number of the Food52 recipes I make most frequently fall into this class. Creamy pastas! Hearty stews! Overachieving salads! Sure, please. Beneath are 44 of my favourite dinner recipes on our web site that simply so occur to be vegan. Add these to your menu plan for Veganuary in the event you have a good time—or simply as a result of.
1. Gingery Noodle Salad
No matter greens are midway to mush in your crisper drawer would like to hop into this gingery noodle salad. Don’t hesitate to swap out the whole-wheat angel hair to your favourite twirly form, like ramen or flat rice noodles.
2. Easy Weeknight Vegetarian Curry Noodles
Crispy mushrooms, tender butternut squash, and snappy broccoli staff up within the coconut milk–based mostly curry. Extremely suggest with a chilly beer.
3. Indian Peanutty Noodles
The key to those chubby noodles? A cumin-spiced, chile-laced peanut chutney.
4. Cauliflower Alfredo Bake
Cauliflower works a double shift right here—each as a creamy sauce and savory nuggets. That is my excellent concept of a comfortable winter night time.
5. My Favourite Vegan Mac & Cheese
This mac and cheese has no scarcity of tips up its sleeves. Soaked cashews, cannellini beans, floor turmeric, white miso, and dietary yeast, all add as much as an totally cheddar-y taste.
6. Lentil Bolognese With Cashew Parmesan
A brand new option to bolognese: Floor meat, make method for nubby lentils and savory mushrooms. When stewed with pink wine, tomato paste, chile flakes, and herbs, this sauce has all the comfy, hearty vibes of the unique.
7. Easy Vegan Pesto
No cheese? Who knew? Fatty nuts (walnuts are my favourite) and some spoonfuls of magical dietary yeast make this vegan pesto a favourite for pasta nights and roasted vegetable sandwiches.
8. Penne Vodka
As its title suggests, vodka sauce is tomato sauce plus vodka and cream—cashew cream, that’s.
9. Rice Pilaf With Chickpeas & Cashews
A rice pilaf worthy of the primary occasion. Chickpeas guarantee it’s a lot filling, whereas cashews add crunch-crunch and bitter cherries, a wink of sweetness.
10. Coconut Dal With Turmeric Rice
Impressed by the meals she ate at her grandmother’s dwelling in southern India, Chitra Agrawal’s dal is creamy from coconut, with a refined sticky tanginess from tamarind.
11. Creamy Polenta With Tempeh Sausage & Tomatoes
Tempeh attire up as sausage and we will’t inform what’s what anymore. The trick to the creamy polenta is stirring in a splash of non-dairy milk, like soy, almond, and even oat.
12. Tofu Scramble Fried Rice
Freezing, then thawing, the tofu offers it a chewy texture, an ideal sub for scrambled eggs in fried rice.
13. Vegan Hoppin’ John
Hoppin’ John typically hinges on some type of pork, be it bacon, fatback, or a ham hock. The trick right here is to…go away it out. Sure, it’s that straightforward. And sure, it’s simply as nice.
14. Lentil Meatballs With Indian Fenugreek Sauce
Whereas Italian meatballs are principally floor meat and bread crumbs, this vegan recipe has neither. As an alternative: lentils, tofu, and quinoa—with fennel seeds and garlic for A+ taste.
15. Spicy Miso Eggplant Broccoli Salad
This miso dressing, with rice vinegar and lime juice, is aware of learn how to make any roasted vegetable really feel particular. Heck, it makes me really feel particular, too.
16. Buffalo Chickpea Salad With Vegan Ranch
Ranch dressing was dreamed up with buttermilk in thoughts. This vegan model has one other concept: creamy-dreamy cashews. A squeeze of lemon provides simply the proper twang.
17. Conventional Vegan Caesar Salad
Don’t skimp on the black pepper right here. It offers the salad its Caesar-y vibes, even with out the standard suspects, like anchovies, egg yolks, and cheese.
18. French Lentil & Arugula Salad With Herbed Cashew Cheese
Herbed cashew cheese, you by no means allow us to down! If you happen to’re sensible, you’ll double the amount and save the additional for some tacky toast tomorrow.
19. Indian-Spiced Vegan Potato Burger
Many veggie burgers are bean-based, however not this one: Right here, russet potatoes flip right into a hearty patty with a fluffy texture.
20. Smoky Tempeh & Hummus Sandwiches
This bacon-esque tempeh is a sandwich’s greatest pal. On this recipe, it groups up with hummus. However we will’t wait to attempt a BLT look-a-like with juicy tomatoes, lettuce, and vegan mayo.
21. Black Bean & Corn Burgers
A longtime neighborhood favourite: “Superb!!!” says Susan. “I’ve made these a number of occasions and each time, they seem to be a hit,” says Sylvia.
22. Zucchini-Quinoa Burgers
These grainy patties are chock-full of chickpeas (you should use canned to hurry issues up), pumpkin seeds, Dijon, and dill.
23. Absolutely Loaded Vegan Burritos
If you wish to actually showcase, make a batch of cashew queso to serve alongside these huge boys for dunking.
24. Lentil-Walnut Tacos With Cabbage-Lime Slaw
Seems to be meaty, tastes meaty…is definitely lentils and walnuts. If laborious shells aren’t your factor, swap in heat corn or flour tortillas.
25. One-Pot Coconut Water ABC Soup
The key to a full-flavored vegan inventory? Not tahini, non-dairy milk, or different creamy issues—however coconut water.
26. Tacky Cream of Broccoli With Smoky Roasted Chickpeas
Potatoes add numerous lush thickness to this vegan cream of broccoli soup. If you happen to’re in a rush, you’ll be able to drop the smoky roasted chickpeas and crumble some seedy crackers on high as a substitute.
27. Yellow Curry With Root Greens, Cashews & Basil
A contented, hearty curry, right here to cheer up chilly winter days. Ensure you get unsweetened coconut milk, ideally full-fat for the most effective taste.
28. Vegan Cream of Mushroom & Wild Rice Soup
Due to wild rice, this chunky-brothy soup is a meal in itself. Further-creamy cashew milk or oat milk would make good substitutes in the event you aren’t feeling coconut’s fruitiness.
29. Vegan Palak Paneer
I’d eat this tofu paneer each week (day-after-day?!) if I may. It’s tacky due to dietary yeast with a funky-tanginess from lemon juice.
30. Yam & Peanut Stew With Kale
This stew is ripe for riffing. As an alternative of creamy peanut butter, attempt cashew butter, almond butter, or tahini.
31. White Bean Soup With Garlic & Parsley
Right here’s a trick to maintain in your pocket: The following time you’re making a soup with inventory and beans, mix the 2 in a blender to thicken the remainder of the broth.
32. Chorizo-Model Seitan Tacos
It took me a minute to return round to seitan—however now that I’ve seen the sunshine, it’s at all times in my fridge. This recipe reveals you the way to boost a plain selection, impressed by chorizo.
33. Baked Almond-Crusted Tofu Triangles
Tofu for individuals who suppose tofu is simply too mushy. These hunks are coated in almond meal, which crisps into an extra-crusty crust.
34. Tempeh Kebabs With Selfmade BBQ Sauce
If you happen to’re new to tempeh (welcome!), attempt pairing it with a big-personality sauce like BBQ, which underscores its inherently meaty character.
35. Tofu Breakfast Scramble
I’d very very similar to to pile these on a thick slice of toast.
36. Burmese Tofu (aka Chickpea Flour Tofu)
As an alternative of soybeans, this Burmese model of tofu begins with chickpeas—chickpea flour, to be actual. Which implies in the event you hold that within the pantry, you’ll be able to have this everytime you need.
37. Vegetarian Mapo Tofu
“The perfect meal we have had all week,” says neighborhood member Grahampositive. Can’t ask for greater than that! (And do not let the title journey you up, that is vegan, too.)
38. Tempeh Chili
Right here’s a intelligent option to change the feel of tempeh fully: grate it, like cheese, then put this towards chunky chilis.
39. Twice-Baked Potatoes With Creamy Chive Pesto
Baked potatoes will be dinner, too. These are filled with greens and plopped on high of a cashew-creamy chive pesto.
40. Coconut Milk–Braised Eggplant With Shiitakes & Scallions
Powerful meat braises, like brisket and pork shoulder, take hours. However tender vegetable ones, like eggplant and mushrooms, come collectively like that.
41. Kung Pao Potatoes
“I’m probably not positive what prompted me to place the flavors of kung pao rooster and potatoes collectively,” writes Pat Tanumihardja. “However I’m glad I did!” Me too.
42. Baked Candy Potatoes With Spiced Lentil Salad & Lemon-Tahini Dressing
An all-in-one dish to roll out for firm—or simply if you’re feeling like treating your self. Which I hope is commonly!
43. Stuffed Zucchini With Freekeh Pilaf & Currants
Just a few plan-ahead suggestions: You may par-cook the zucchini, prepare dinner the freekeh, and assemble the stuffing a number of days upfront.
44. Spaghetti Squash & White Bean Ragout
Identical to spaghetti and pork ragu, nevertheless it’s squash and beans! Throw in a bottle of pink and a few olive-oily garlic bread and also you’ve received a date night time to brush me off my toes.
This text was up to date in January 2024.
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