You don’t must be a vegan—or perhaps a vegetarian—to understand a vegan dinner. Whereas I personally eat something and all the pieces, a few of the Food52 recipes I make most frequently fall into this class. Creamy pastas! Hearty stews! Overachieving salads! Sure, please. Under 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 case you have fun—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 in your favourite twirly form, like ramen or flat rice noodles.
2. Easy Weeknight Vegetarian Curry Noodles
Crispy mushrooms, tender butternut squash, and snappy broccoli crew up within the coconut milk–primarily based 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 thought of a comfy winter evening.
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 solution 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 comfortable, 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 identify 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 principle occasion. Chickpeas guarantee it’s lots 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 clothes 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 usually hinges on some form 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 largely 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 the best way 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 thought: creamy-dreamy cashews. A squeeze of lemon provides simply the suitable 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! In the event you’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 finest buddy. On this recipe, it groups up with hummus. However we will’t wait to strive a BLT look-a-like with juicy tomatoes, lettuce, and vegan mayo.
21. Black Bean & Corn Burgers
A longtime group favourite: “Superb!!!” says Susan. “I’ve made these just a few instances and each time, they are 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. Totally Loaded Vegan Burritos
If you wish to actually showcase, make a batch of cashew queso to serve alongside these massive boys for dunking.
24. Lentil-Walnut Tacos With Cabbage-Lime Slaw
Appears meaty, tastes meaty…is definitely lentils and walnuts. If onerous 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 plenty of lush thickness to this vegan cream of broccoli soup. In the event you’re in a rush, you possibly can drop the smoky roasted chickpeas and crumble some seedy crackers on prime as a substitute.
27. Yellow Curry With Root Greens, Cashews & Basil
A cheerful, hearty curry, right here to cheer up chilly winter days. Be sure to 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 case you aren’t feeling coconut’s fruitiness.
29. Vegan Palak Paneer
I’d eat this tofu paneer each week (on daily basis?!) if I might. 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, strive cashew butter, almond butter, or tahini.
31. White Bean Soup With Garlic & Parsley
Right here’s a trick to maintain in your pocket: The subsequent 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-Type 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 assume tofu is just too smooth. These hunks are coated in almond meal, which crisps into an extra-crusty crust.
34. Tempeh Kebabs With Selfmade BBQ Sauce
In the event you’re new to tempeh (welcome!), strive pairing it with a big-personality sauce like BBQ, which underscores its inherently meaty character.
35. Tofu Breakfast Scramble
I’d very very like to pile these on a thick slice of toast.
36. Burmese Tofu (aka Chickpea Flour Tofu)
As an alternative of soybeans, this Burmese type of tofu begins with chickpeas—chickpea flour, to be precise. Which suggests in case you preserve that within the pantry, you possibly can have this everytime you need.
37. Vegetarian Mapo Tofu
“The most effective meal we have had all week,” says group member Grahampositive. Can’t ask for greater than that! (And do not let the identify journey you up, that is vegan, too.)
38. Tempeh Chili
Right here’s a intelligent solution to change the feel of tempeh totally: grate it, like cheese, then put this towards chunky chilis.
39. Twice-Baked Potatoes With Creamy Chive Pesto
Baked potatoes might be dinner, too. These are full of greens and plopped on prime of a cashew-creamy chive pesto.
40. Coconut Milk–Braised Eggplant With Shiitakes & Scallions
Robust 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 not likely positive what prompted me to place the flavors of kung pao hen 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 whenever you’re feeling like treating your self. Which I hope is usually!
43. Stuffed Zucchini With Freekeh Pilaf & Currants
Just a few plan-ahead ideas: You’ll be able to par-cook the zucchini, prepare dinner the freekeh, and assemble the stuffing just a few days prematurely.
44. Spaghetti Squash & White Bean Ragout
Similar to spaghetti and pork ragu, but it surely’s squash and beans! Throw in a bottle of pink and a few olive-oily garlic bread and also you’ve acquired a date evening to brush me off my ft.
This text was up to date in January 2024.
Extra from Food52
