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70 vegetarian dishes for your Christmas menu

Whether you're hosting vego family or just want to go meat-free this year, this collection of vegetable-led dishes will satisfy even the biggest Christmas ham fan.

71 recipes
Baked spiced ricotta cake with a central layer of jammy tomatoes.

Baked spiced ricotta with slow-roasted tomatoes

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
A showstopping vegetarian centrepiece.

Vegetarian Wellington with roasted spiced pumpkin, feta and grains

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Neil Perry's seasonal, Christmas-coloured salad.

Neil Perry's asparagus, capsicum and avocado salad with herb-yoghurt dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
This salad will get you back on the roasted cauliflower bandwagon.
EASY

Roasted cauliflower, chickpea and herb salad with harissa and honey dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Roasted sweet potato and brussels sprouts.

Charred spiced sweet potato and brussels sprouts with labne, lemons and crunchy bits

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
Charred corn kernels coated in creamy, cheesy dressing.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Charred corn salad with creamy parmesan dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Nagi Maehashi
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Eggplant, brown rice and quinoa salad with caramel dressing.

Eggplant, brown rice and quinoa salad with quick pickled onion and a date and ras el hanout dressing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Smushed potato salad with honey mustard dressing.
EASY

RecipeTin Eats x Good Food: Smushed potato salad

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Nagi Maehashi
Slow-roasted onions, toasted sourdough, fresh figs and goat's cheese intermingle in this sweet and shiny salad.
EASY

Fig, roasted onion and sourdough salad with apple dressing

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

Roasted pumpkin with black garlic, samphire and burrata

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Hellenic Republic's popular Cypriot grain salad is packed with protein-packed lentils.
EASY

Hellenic Republic’s Cypriot grain salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Travis McAuley
The melted smoked mozzarella will be stringy and delicious.

Smoky eggplant parmigiana

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Neil Perry's goat's curd tartlets with heirloom tomato salad.

Goat's curd tart with heirloom tomato salad

  • 2 hrs +
  • Neil Perry
Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard dressing.
EASY

Whole roasted cauliflower with lemon and mustard

  • 1-2 hrs
Butternut pumpkin wedges with cous cous and parmesan crust.
EASY

Cheesy hasselback pumpkin with cous cous

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rachel Khoo
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Ridiculously tasty AND ridiculously good looking: Pumpkin, green bean and black rice salad with lemon thyme dressing.

Pumpkin, green bean and black rice salad with lemon thyme dressing

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Katrina Meynink
These seed crackers are great with cheese.

Helen Goh's seven seed crackers

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Helen Goh
Figs, blue cheese, honeycomb and pecans.
EASY

Figs, blue cheese, honeycomb and pecans

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Matt La Brooy
Brown butter and citrus roasted carrots on a bed of labna.
EASY

Brown butter and citrus roasted carrots

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Danielle Alvarez
Asparagus, pea and buttermilk quiche.
EASY

Asparagus, pea and buttermilk quiche recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Adam Liaw's vegetable terrine on Turkish toast with whipped ricotta.

Vegetarian terrine recipe on toast with whipped ricotta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
Honey roasted jerusalem artichokes.
EASY

Jerusalem artichoke chips with honey and rosemary

  • Andrew McConnell
Dan Lepard's vegan pea, basil and eggplant tart.

Dan Lepard's pea, basil and eggplant vegan tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Dan Lepard
Roast pumpkin with macadamia and chilli.
EASY

Roast pumpkin with macadamia and chilli

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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This savoury tart is inspired by the pantry staple pasta sauce.

Helen Goh's puttanesca tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Helen Goh
Jill Dupleix's kale colcannon.
EASY

Kale colcannon (mashed potato)

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Strained yoghurt (labna), zaatar and aleppo pepper add a Middle Eastern twist to vegetarian lasagne.

Spiced sweet potato, labna and zaatar lasagne

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Katrina Meynink
Large field mushrooms remain extra juicy when baked in a parcel.
EASY

Foil-baked field mushrooms with garlic, butter and thyme

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Broad beans, green olives and yoghurt
EASY

Broad beans, green olives and yoghurt

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Moussaka meets gratin (hold the meat).

Vegetarian eggplant moussaka gratin

  • 2 hrs +
  • Katrina Meynink
Roast brussels sprouts with hazelnuts.
EASY

Neil Perry's roast brussels sprouts with hazelnuts

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Grilled corn puree to serve alongside turkey.
EASY

Grilled corn puree with parmesan and basil

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Carrots are sweeter with char (and feta).
EASY

Adam Liaw's honey-roasted carrots with feta

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Neil Perry's '80s feast
EASY

NeilPerry's creamed spinach

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Kale
EASY

Three-ingredient kale chips

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Jalapeno adds a kick to this cornbread.

Jalapeno and aged-cheddar corn bread

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
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