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50 fresh, fuss-free vegetarian feeds

Plant-based cooking doesn't need to be complex. Here are 50 simple meat-free dinners and sides you'll want to cook again and again.

50 recipes
Super green pantry pasta.
EASY

Super green pantry pasta

  • Jessica Brook
This kale and cauliflower salad is salty, sweet, crunchy and bright.
EASY

Danielle Alvarez's kale and cauliflower salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Laksa butter eggs with coconut chilli sambal.
EASY

Laksa butter eggs and coconut chilli sambal

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos.
EASY

Smoky mushroom and pineapple tacos

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Warm zaatar roasted broccolini and witlof salad.
EASY

Warm zaatar roasted broccolini and witlof salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Cheese and greens galette.

Vegetarian cheese and greens galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Jill Dupleix
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Syracuse salt potatoes.
EASY

Adam Liaw's Syracuse salt potatoes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Crispy curry leaves and coriander seeds add zing to this curried chickpea stew.
EASY

Indian spiced chickpea and coriander stew

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Chilled silken tofu dressed with ginger and crispy chilli sauce.
EASY

Karen Martini's chilled silken tofu

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Green vegetable fried rice.
EASY

Adam Liaw's green vegetable fried rice

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Spring onion omelette.
EASY

Adam Liaw's spring onion omelette

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Fresh mozzarella salad with tomato dressing.
EASY

Mozzarella treccia with croutons and tomatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
An edible hug: Ricotta gnocchi with creamy tomato sauce.

Ricotta gnocchi with creamy tomato sugo

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Serve this sugo-laden pasta with a heft of excellent cheese.
EASY

Pasta all'arrabbiata with slow-cooked sugo

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Mushroom and spinach frittata.
EASY

Adam Liaw's mushroom, spinach and zucchini frittata

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
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Serve this spiced ratatouille with flatbead.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: North African spiced ratatouille with crispy chickpeas

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Briefly steaming the charred broccoli helps retain its green colour.
EASY

Charred broccoli pesto

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Pan-fried gnocchi meets patatas bravas.
EASY

Pan-fried potato bravas gnocchi

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata.
EASY

Blistered zucchini pasta with garlic and burrata

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Roasted mushroom toad in the hole with gorgonzola.
EASY

Roasted mushroom toad in the hole with gorgonzola

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
This ricotta gnocchi with fennel and tomato sauce is both light and comforting.
EASY

Easy ricotta gnocchi with fennel tomato sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
This substantial salad is a study in contrasts.
EASY

Roasted pumpkin and chickpea salad with herby yoghurt tahini dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Italian-style stuffed cabbage in tomato sauce.

Italian stuffed cabbage rolls

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Greek spinach rice with tomatoes and feta

Greek spinach rice with tomatoes and feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
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Potato and pumpkin vegetable tian.
EASY

Potato and pumpkin tian

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Vanessa Gordon
Tomatoes and capsicums stuffed with spiced rice, dried mint and halloumi.

Karen Martini's baked stuffed tomatoes and capsicums

  • 2 hrs +
  • Karen Martini
Crispy pasta nests with chickpeas and kale.
EASY

Katrina Meynink's one-pan tagliatelle with chickpeas, greens and lemon

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Soba noodles with cheat's crunchy chilli oil and avocado.
EASY

Crunchy chilli oil soba noodles with avocado

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Haloumi, zucchini, Israeli cous cous salad.
EASY

Haloumi, zucchini and cous cous salad with tomato chutney dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Sweet and spicy sprouts.

Roasted sweet 'n' spicy sprouts with lime cashews

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche.
EASY

Potato and asparagus pizza with sauce gribiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
No soggy bottom: Spanakopita with puff pastry and haloumi.

Haloumi spanakopita

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Zucchini caprese.
EASY

Adam Liaw's zucchini caprese

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Green herb risotto with parmesan.

Green herb risotto

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Zaatar spiced cous cous, nuts and green bean salad with date dressing.

Zaatar spiced cous cous, nuts and green bean salad with feta and date dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Tomato and spiced feta tart.

Keep-things-spicy tomato and feta slab tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
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