Delicious Vegetarian Dinner Recipes: 15 Easy & Flavorful Ideas

So you are a vegan and you find it an extremely boring affair. Well, being a vegetarian does not mean that your taste buds will be deprived of savory foods.

Top 15 Vegetarian Dinner Recipes:

Here, we have provided 15 quick vegetarian recipes for dinner that will make you completely forget about savory meat items:

1. Lentil-Barley Burgers With Fiery Fruit Salsa:

Let us start with a main dish, burger, which contains lentils, leftover pearl barley, many vegetables, tangy seasoning and surprisingly no bun! The recipe has become popular worldwide and you can even make more flavorful with a topping of sweet and zesty fruit salsa.

Ingredients:

For Burger:

1. Dried lentils
2. Leftover pearl barley
3. Egg
4. Canola oil
5. Carrot, onion
6. Garlic
7. Tomato paste
8. Cumin powder
9. Dried oregano
10. Chili powder
11. Black pepper powder
12. Japanese bread crumbs (panko)
13. Salt, fresh parsley
14. Water and cooking spray

For Salsa:

1. Mango,
2. Pineapple,
3. Tomatillo,
4. Grape tomato,
5. Fresh lime juice and Serrano chile

Method:

1. Boil the lentils and make a smooth paste of half of them.
2. Mix both processed and unprocessed lentils in a bowl.
3. Saute barley and all veggies in the oil with the spices.
4. Meantime, prepare the salsa by combining all its ingredients.
5. Make 8 equal patties from the vegetable mixture and fry them until each side gets brown.
6. Finally, serve with chilled salsa.

2. Tuscan White Bean Soup With Escarole:

What is a dinner without a warm and nourishing soup? This Italian soup recipe comprises soft vegetables that melt in the mouth and boost your protein intake too.

Ingredients:

1. Great Northern beans (with no salt)
2. Olive oil
3. Onion
4. Carrot
5. Clove
6. Red pepper
7. Black pepper
8. Escarole
9. Fresh rosemary
10. Fresh thyme sprigs
11. Fresh Parmesan cheese
12. Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese rind
13. Salt
14. White wine
15. Vinegar
16. Organic vegetable broth and water

Method:

1. Saute onion and garlic in the oil.
2. Add the remainder of the ingredients to it through the Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese rind and allow the whole thing boil.
3. When everything gets tender, add the spices and stir for some time.
4. Lastly, remove the rind out of the pan and top the hot soup with shredded Parmesan cheese.

3. Vegetable ‘Meat’ Loaf:

This vegetable version of the famous ‘meat loaf’ is popular among the Americans. It is regarded as one of the best vegetarian dinner recipes as well.

Ingredients:

For Meat Loaf:

1. Japanese bread crumbs (panko)
2. Olive oil
3. Egg
4. Red and green bell peppers
5. Red onion
6. Asparagus
7. Cremini mushrooms
8. Ketchup
9. Walnut
10. Dijon mustard
11. Black pepper powder
12. Kosher salt
13. Fresh basil
14. Fresh Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
15. Cooking spray

For Topping:

1. Vegetable broth
2. Ketchup
3. Dijon mustard

Method:

1. Broil peeled, deseeded and halved bell peppers in a preheated broiler with skin sides up.
2. Remove their blackened skin and chop them finely after keeping them in a paper bag for 10 minutes.
3. Saute the shredded mushrooms in oil until the water disappears and mix them with the bell peppers.
4. Also, sauté asparagus and onion and combine it with the previous mixture.
5. Now, bake the breadcrumbs until golden brown and add it along with other ingredients to the mushroom mixture.
6. Blend well and fill a loaf pan with it evenly.
7. Bake it after spritzing some cooking spray.
8. Prepare the topping by mixing all its ingredients and brush it over the baked loaf.
9. Bake for another 10 minutes.

4. Rösti Casserole With Baked Eggs:

This Swedish vegetarian delicacy is an ingenious twist to the traditional rösti. This is a low-calorie meal, which you can serve with a savory green salad.

Ingredients:

1. All-purpose flour
2. Frozen hash brown potatoes
3. Turnip
4. Egg
5. Butter
6. Greek-style yogurt (fat-free)
7. Whole nutmeg
8. Black pepper powder
9. Salt
10. Fresh chives
11. Gruyère cheese
12. Cooking spray

Method:

1. Mix the all-purpose flour and Greek-style yogurt by stirring well.
2. Add all other ingredients except the eggs to it and blend properly.
3. Spread it uniformly on a baking dish and bake in a preheated oven until the whole thing gets bubbly.
4. Create 8 notches on its top by using the backside of a spoon and add 1 egg to each of them.
5. Bake until the eggs become hard.
6. Serve hot with black pepper powder and shredded cheese.

5. Fall Vegetable Curry:

If you are a pure vegetarian who loves to please her taste buds with delicious Indian foods, this fall vegetable curry is perfect for you. It is super easy and can be made within half an hour.

Ingredients:

1. Sweet potato
2. Cauliflower florets
3. Yellow onion
4. Garbanzo beans
5. Tomato (with no salt)
6. Olive oil
7. Greek yogurt (reduced-fat)
8. Vegetable broth
9. Fresh cilantro
10. Madras curry powder
11. Salt

Method:

1. Sauté the sweet potatoes in the olive oil for 3 to 4 minutes.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients to it one by one and let the entire thing boil nicely.
3. Once all the veggies become tender enough, spread some fresh chopped cilantro over it
4. Serve with the Greek-style yogurt.

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