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30 flavoursome vegetarian Christmas recipes

Show off your culinary skills with these tasty and impressive dishes.
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Christmas is fast approaching, which means there’s a whole lot of feasting in sight. Who said vegetarian meals had to be limited to plain salads or boiled veg? Spice things up for vegetarians during the festive season with a pumpkin roulade, sweet potato galette or caramelised onion tarts.

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Show off your culinary skills on December 25 with BHG’s best vegetarian Christmas recipes.

Vegetarian Christmas starters

Spinach, feta and lemon pasties served for a Vegetarian Christmas feast
(Credit: Pablo Martin)

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Spinach, feta and lemon pasties

Crispy parcels of goodness

For effortless entertaining, serve these middle-Eastern-inspired nibbles as part of a mezze platter (with everything else bought at the store).

Caramelised onion tarts are perfect for a vegetarian Christmas lunch

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Caramelised onion tarts

Moreish bites

The sweetness of caramelised onions alongside crumbled goat’s cheese makes these mini tartlets a delicious moreish bite that you need to serve at your next party.

Olive and goat’s cheese bites are a delicious Vegetarian Christmas recipe

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Olive and goat’s cheese bites

Featuring Aussie cheese

Use delicious Australian cheeses and a generous dash of spice to entertain the vegetarian way.

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Christmas tree damper with tomato relish
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Christmas tree damper with tomato relish

Show-stopping pull-apart

Ditch basic bread rolls for this tasty damper-style pull-apart cheesy tree.

Vegetarian Christmas mains

Pumpkin roulade

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Pumpkin roulade

Generous yet budget-friendly

This vegetarian showstopper – a cheese-and-spinach pumpkin roulade with parmesan crust – will have your guests oohing and aahing over your kitchen skills, but is secretly easy to make and also easy on the wallet!

Baked cauliflower with haloumi, dukkah and honey

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Baked cauliflower with haloumi, dukkah and honey

The ultimate vegie side dish

Revamp cauliflower cheese to bring a taste of North Africa to your table! Roast the heart veg with sumac and fennel, then serve with a spice-and-nut mix.

Roast vegetable tray bake

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Roast vegetable tray bake

Vegies made easy

This all-in-one dish of pumpkin, sweet potato, red onion, capsicum and eggplant has a topping of pistachios, feta and pomegranate arils!

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Chargrilled kipler and sweet potato with green goddess dressing

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Char-grilled kipler and sweet potato salad

Served with green goddess dressing

Meet potato salad’s more glamorous friend, featuring grilled spuds and a creamy, tangy, herby dressing.

Sweet potato, leek and maple galette

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Sweet potato, leek and maple galette

Great to share!

Pies are filling, but try a galette for something a little more elegant for the Christmas table. It’s drizzled in a delicious ginger-lime cream.

Pumpkin pine nut and chilli pesto tart

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Pumpkin, pine nut and chilli pesto tart

Featuring homemade pesto

Homemade pesto makes this tart sing! You’ll make more pesto than needed for the recipe, so put the extra in an airtight container, drizzle the top with olive oil (to prevent it browning) and keep it in the fridge for up to five days to use with pasta, pizza or anything else.

Vegetarian tart

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Vegetarian tart

(Shhh, it uses store-bought pastry)

Raid and roast your vegie patch and herb garden for this vibrant ‘work of tart’, which packs in all the flavours – pumpkin, mushies, cheese, even mustard. Bonus: the pastry is store-bought!

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Cheddar pastry roast pumpkin and broccolini tart

With cheddar pastry

Plate up the most addictive pastry ever for your vegetarian Christmas guests!

Airfyer roast cauliflower

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Roast cauliflower

Made in the air fryer

Vegetarians and meat lovers alike will be back for seconds of this dish! Air frying the cauliflower gives it fab flavour, and topped with creamy tahini sauce and pomegranates, it’s a stunner to serve up as your meat-free main or side.

Vegetarian Christmas sides

Vertical potato bake

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Vertical potato bake

Crispy and creamy

With its crispy top and creamy base, this vertical potato bake is the ultimate balance of cheese and herb flavours. The perfect side dish and one of our most popular recipes.

Carrots with ginger glaze

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Carrots with ginger glaze

Vegies… but make them glam

This quick and easy side of carrots offers a flavour alternative to the popular maple glaze.

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Smashed potatoes with chimichurri

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Steamed potatoes with chimichurri

A healthy alternative to roast potatoes

Boil, smash and roast your way to crispy spuds, then top with a classic Argentinian sauce – here used as a salsa. Yum!

Sprouts with butter and parmesan

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Sprouts with butter and parmesan

Green goodness

Easy, cheesy and delicious, baby brussels sprouts shine in this classic vegie side.

Roasted pumpkin with lentils, kale and honey glaze

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Roast pumpkin with lentils and kale

Finished with a honey glaze

Sticky roasted pumpkin is a side that takes centre stage! The honey-mustard glaze teams with crunchy hazelnuts and tart craisins for a fab flavour combo. P.S. you can also use flaked or slivered almonds or pepitas.

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Christmas loaded potatoes

Served with feta

Made from two types of potato and layered with crunchy, herby and cheesy toppings, this Christmas loaded potatoes side is almost a meal in itself.

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Vegetarian Christmas salads

Watermelon and grilled haloumi salad

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Watermelon and grilled haloumi salad

Salty ‘n’ sweet

Not all salads are green! Combine sweet fruit with salty cheese for a flavour journey across the world.

Peach and walnut salad

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Candied carrot salad

With yoghurt, herb and tahini dressing

You don’t need any special ingredients to make this colourful salad – you’ll already have most of what you need in the fridge and pantry. The glazed carrots are combined with cranberries and mint for a Christmassy salad served with not one but three creamy dressings: yoghurt, tahini and herb sauce.

Easy beetroot, rocket and walnut summer salad
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Easy beetroot, rocket and walnut salad

Ideal for summer

Add freshness and colour to your Christmas table with this deliciously easy salad and dressing. With only four ingredients, you’ll have this salad ready in minutes!

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Quinoa, lentil and sweet potato salad

With pan-fried haloumi

Mix grains, seeds and nuts with aromatic spices and herbs for a substantial and exciting side.

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healthy summer salad with avocado tomato feeta

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Epic summer salad

You’ll make friends with this salad

A diabetic-friendly show stopper that will take centre stage on Christmas day. Drizzled with a herby dressing, this epic salad is packed full of flavour. Everyone will be asking for the recipe!

The new green salad

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The new green salad

Drizzled with zesty lemon

Want a refreshing take on greens? Use the Greek-inspired flavours of zesty lemon and fragrant fresh mint.

Citrus, fennel salad

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Fennel, orange and zucchini salad

Finished with crunchy pine nuts

Set down a platter piled with this beautiful side and it will brighten your table! Its citrusy flavours will complement your seafood mains.

Peach and walnut salad perfect for a Vegetarian Christmas

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Peach and walnut salad

The ultimate side for a Christmas barbecue

This fruity beauty with nuts for crunch and a tangy dressing will go beautifully with anything you cook up on the barbie.

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Roasted pumpkin salad with candied chilli pecans

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Roast pumpkin salad

Topped with candied chilli pecans

It’s roast veg and a summer salad in one as Christmas colours and crunch combine on the plate.

Panzanella salad with heirloom tomatoes

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Colourful Christmas slaw

Served with a light and tangy dressing

Full of crunch veg, this salad doesn’t rely on dressing for taste – just a bit of garlic, oil, mustard and lemon, plus mint and coriander for freshness.

watermelon salad

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Watermelon and feta salad

With figs and pomegranate

This light and summery salad will bring all the colour to your table.

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