Vegan recipes
Browse our vegan recipes, with practical cooking times, nutrition details and plant-forward ideas for real life.
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Lentil Spaghetti with Seitan Mince and Fresh Tomato-Carrot Sauce
Crumbled seitan is browned until crisp at the edges, then folded through lentil spaghetti and a slow-simmered sauce of fresh tomatoes, onions, and carrots. The carrot softens into the sauce, giving it body and a gentle sweetness without added sugar.
Chickpeas pasta with Silken Tofu Zucchini Sauce
Chickpeas pastas are coated in a smooth zucchini and silken tofu sauce, sharpened with lemon and rounded out with nutritional yeast. It is a generous high-protein vegan pasta with a silky finish, not a watery green purée.
Lentil Pasta with Crispy Grated Tofu and Creamy Butternut Sauce
Red lentil fusilli is coated in a silky roasted butternut and oat cream sauce, then topped with crisp-edged grated tofu. Roasting the squash with garlic brings enough sweetness and depth to keep the sauce full-bodied without cheese.
Yeasted Whole Wheat Lavash
Thin whole wheat flatbreads with a supple chew, scattered brown spots, and a faintly nutty crust. A short yeast rise makes the dough easier to roll without turning the lavash into a puffy pita.
Red Lentil Fusilli with Silken Tofu Vegetable Sauce
Silken tofu makes a glossy, lemon-bright sauce that clings to red lentil fusilli, while zucchini, carrot, and basil keep it fresh rather than heavy. Most supermarket cream sauces achieve a similar texture with dairy solids, sugar, and an industrial supply chain.
Simple Fermented Cabbage with Carrot and Garlic
This is the kind of old-school kitchen trick that turns a cheap cabbage into something sharp, crunchy, and oddly satisfying a few days later. Salt does the work, time does the magic, and modern packaged “gut health” marketing can take the evening off. The carrot softens the bite, the garlic adds depth, and the result is a bright, tangy ferment that wakes up grain bowls, soups, or a fried egg if life gets messy.
Creamy Red Lentil Dal with Tomato and Ginger
Soft red lentils, sweet onion, ginger heat, and a coconut-tomato base that turns silky. It is cheap, filling, deeply practical, and mostly built from pantry logic rather than the usual supermarket performance art of twelve packaged solutions for one human problem. High in fiber and plant protein, lighter on environmental impact than meat-heavy stews, and still generous enough that nobody asks where the "real" dinner went.
Homemade Spaghetti Spice Mix
A dry Italian-style seasoning blend for pasta nights when the sauce needs backup and the supermarket jar of "Italian seasoning" tastes like packaging dust. This one is bold on herbs, light on nonsense, and useful for spaghetti, tomato sauces, lentils, or roasted vegetables.
Homemade Vegan Enchiladas with Tex-Mex Swagger
These vegan enchiladas are the kind of weeknight comfort food that makes you feel organized. Whole wheat tortillas get filled with a smoky black bean, bell pepper, and onion mixture, then baked under a quick tomato passata sauce spiked with Tex-Mex spirit. High in fiber, rich in plant protein.
Chocolate-Yacon Almond Butter
A simple homemade almond butter blended until silky, then nudged into deeper territory with a little cocoa powder and yacon syrup at the end. It is rich, roasty, and far more interesting than another sad swipe of plain spread pretending to be a personality. Nutritionally, almonds bring healthy unsaturated fats, fiber, and plant protein, while the cocoa powder adds a darker edge and extra polyphenols. Using nuts as the star keeps the recipe plant-forward and aligned with an Eat-Lancet style way of eating: satisfying, practical, and lighter on the planet than dairy-heavy spreads.
Low-Calorie Cinnamon Apple Granola
This lighter granola keeps the cozy crunch but skips the sugar avalanche that usually turns breakfast into dessert wearing gym clothes. Unsweetened apple sauce helps the oats clump gently, while pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds bring texture, fiber, and staying power without needing a vat of oil.
Chili Sin Carne
A hearty, plant-forward chili packed with brown rice, red onion, garlic, carrots, tomato passata, tomato paste, and a warm hit of cumin, smoked paprika, oregano, lime, salt, and black pepper. It is filling, family-friendly, budget-minded, and mercifully straightforward.