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20 vegetarian dinner recipes everyone will love

Family meals are sorted with our best meat-free recipes. - by Better Homes and Gardens
  • 19 May 2022

Have you recently decided to try cooking more vegetarian meals? Or are you needing to cater for a vegetarian guest for an upcoming party?

WATCH: Flash-roasted puttanesca with garden herbs

The idea that vegetarian dinners are boring, tasteless and not filling is a thing of the past. There's salads, tray-bakes, fritters, pies, risotto and more. The options are endless.

If you're needing to cut down on the poultry. Power up the plant factor with these meat-free recipes that are bursting with flavour.

Whether your vegan, vegetarian or just want to up your vegie intake, we've rounded up BHG's top 20 best vegetarian dinners.

1. Chickpea and zucchini fritters

Chickpea and zucchini fritters

Fry up a fritter for a light and zesty snack with garden-fresh flavour.

2. Green vegetable bake

Green vegetable bake

Featuring layers of fresh produce, like capsicum, zucchini, potato and spinach, this amazing vegetable bake will thrill the table and make the whole house smell amazing. 

3. Tofu, lemongrass and Vietnamese mint stir-fry

Tofu stir-fry

Vegetarian or not, you'll love this zingy noodle dish with healthy tofu and nuts, topped with fragrant fresh herbs.

4. Cauliflower tabouli

Cauliflower tabouli

This gluten-free vegetarian dish works well as a healthy meal or as a side. Fast, fresh and flavourful!

5. Winter vegetable fritters

Vegetable fritters

Crunchy, delicious and – best of all – inexpensive, these fritters are made using the season’s best winter vegies. Go green and gold!

6. Vegetarian cottage pie

Vegetarian cottage pie

Full of good-for-you veg, spinach and lentils, and topped with a creamy, cheesy potato mash, these individual pies are half comfort food, half wholesome weeknight dinner – ideal for your meat-free Mondays.

7. Pea, zucchini and artichoke barley risotto

Pea zucchini artichoke barley risotto

Hello healthy! Add barley to your pantry staples - it's healthy and filling with a nutty flavour!

8. Free-form Mediterranean pie

Free-form Mediterraean pie

Super-simple and fast enough to throw together in 10 minutes for a mid-week dinner.

9. Coconut dhal

Coconut dhal

Light yet rich, one-pan vegetarian dhal is the ideal way to feed your family. This aromatic recipe uses yellow split peas and is so filling you don't need any extra protein.

10. Spicy zucchini and ricotta pasta shells

Spicy zucchini and ricotta pasta shells

Just four easy steps to warming vegetarian pasta tray bake!

11. Pumpkin filo pie

Pumpkin filo pie

A tasty meat-free tray-bake that's a guaranteed crowd-pleaser.

12. Flash-roasted puttanesca with garden herbs

Puttanesca

This is a whole new way of thinking about pasta sauce. The result is stellar, but the work involved is far easier than you might expect. It's really just you and a good heavy roasting pan. 

13. Baby tomato and herbed cheese tart

Baby tomato and herbed cheese tart

Fresh, vibrant and a real show-stopper. A super-simple recipe with ready-made pastry and a medley of tomatoes.

14. Zucchini feta fritters

Zucchini feta fritters

Greek feta and the tangy lemony flavour of sumac - a spice derived from Middle Eastern berries - lift these fritters to divine heights.

15. Roasted vegetable pasta wraps

Vegetable pasta wraps

Mamma mia! Rolled lasagne or giant cannelloni? We can’t decide but, either way, it makes veg-ing out so in!

16. Vegetable and lentil curry

Vegetable and lentil curry
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Prepped in 20 minutes and cooked in 15 minutes, this hearty veg and lentil curry is great for when you're in a hurry.

17. Green goddess dressing

Green goddess dressing

This rich, light, creamy and delicate dressing is tasty over almost anything. Try it over a leady salad or even cooked pasta.

18. Sweet potato, leek and maple galette

Sweet potato, leek and maple galette

For an elegant pastry that's not a pie, a French galette does the trick. Drizzled in a delicious ginger-lime cream, this recipe is perfect for a festive lunch or dinner.

19. Roast vegetable salad with curry dressing

Roast vegetable salad with curry dressing

Take your tray bake of roasted vegetables to another level in a salad with a gorgeous homemade yoghurt dressing.

20. Pumpkin, carrot, lentil and ginger soup

https://www.bhg.com.au/pumpkin-carrot-lentil-and-ginger-soup

Take the pumpkin soup you know and love to healthy new heights with superfoods garlic, ginger, turmeric, yoghurt and crunchy dry-roasted almonds.

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