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Healthy Vegan Dinner Recipes

11 of our favorite plant-based dinner options. They're healthy, filling and vegan - most can also be made gluten-free.

Jeanine Donofrio
Phoebe Moore
Updated Nov 28, 2022

Healthy Vegan Dinner Recipes

Raise your hand if you may have had a little too much chocolate and red wine yesterday while celebrating Valentine’s Day. Suffice it to say, I’m getting a slow start to my week, but I plan to recover by catching up on my vegetable intake over the next few days. Here are a few delicious vegan dinners that are favorites in our house. I hope you love them too!

Pictured above: Spicy Sweet Potato Avocado Tostadas (if you don’t have cherry tomatoes, use jarred salsa instead)

Millet Cakes with Carrots & Spinach / Sesame Broccoli Shiitake Stir Fry

Healthy Vegan Dinner Recipes

Pictured above: Cauliflower Steaks with Romesco Sauce

Chili-Orange Veggie Bowl / Vegan Spinach Mac & Cheese

Butternut Squash Walnut & Sage Pasta / Butternut Squash Stuffed Shells

Healthy Vegan Dinner Recipes

Pictured above: Curried Red Lentil Sweet Potato Stew

Spiced Cauliflower “Cous Cous” / Chickpea & Cauliflower Minestrone

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  1. Amanda Renny from wildsunflowerchef.com
    06.19.2017

    Really yummy recipe and anyone can make it instantly. I tried it and it was amazing. Very delicious. Share some more recipes like it.
    Vegan recipes

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  2. Gemma from cinnamongirldelights.blogspot.com
    02.28.2016

    This post is great! So many good ideas to try this week, thanks a lot! I will try the millet cakes with carrots and spinachs tomorrow. It’s gonna be a great way to beat the monday blues! 🙂

    xoxo

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  3. Eden Passante from sugarandcharm.com
    02.22.2016

    Love this! So great to see so many different vegan options

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  4. Amy | Lemon and Coconut from lemonandcoconut.com
    02.20.2016

    That is the most wonderful vegan feast you’ve put together there I love it! 🙂

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  5. Lola Byatt from vanilladaze.com
    02.19.2016

    I definitely had way too much! I’m actually considering trying vegan for a short while to see how I feel 🙂 I love trying the recipes here anyway so at least I know I’m going to be eating delicious food!

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  6. Katie @ Whole Nourishment from wholenourishment.net
    02.17.2016

    I have to admit, I get overwhelmed when you do these recipe lineups because I literally want to make everything, usually. 😉 Guess that’s a good problem to have though. And I can vouch for how good that spinach mac & cheese is!!

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    • Jeanine Donofrio
      02.17.2016

      Ha 🙂 I’m so glad you’ve loved the spinach mac & cheese!

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  7. Poshnessary from poshnessary.com
    02.17.2016

    Looks amazing!

    Kisses from http://poshnessary.com ❤

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  8. Taste of France from francetaste.wordpress.com
    02.17.2016

    These all look delicious! We try to eat meat-free at least twice a week, despite the protests of the resident carnivore.

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  9. Garnetfleuri
    02.16.2016

    Great suggestions …. love the chickpea and cauli minestrone

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  10. Kari from sweetteasweetie.com
    02.16.2016

    I’m not vegan, but its really nice to see so many delicious options!
    Kari
    http://www.sweetteasweetie.com

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  11. LoveCompassionateLee
    02.16.2016

    All of these recipes look amazing; however, I think I will love the spinach mac & cheese and the butternut stuffed shells. Thanks for sharing!

    Happy Tuesday
    http://www.lovecompassionatelee.com/thinkoutloud

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  12. G Woltmann
    02.16.2016

    Gustavo Woltmann loves this post. Gustavo Woltmann should eat more veggies!

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  13. Amy from thenoiseinwonderland.blogspot.com.au
    02.16.2016

    Love this post! Definitely going to be trying a few of these.

    Amy
    thenoiseinwonderland.blogspot.com.au

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  14. Gaby Dalkin from whatsgabycooking.com
    02.16.2016

    The butternut squash stuffed shells is a recipe I’m dying to try!

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  15. Ryan Flowers Smith from apolishedpalate.com
    02.15.2016

    I definitely need to eat a few extra vegetables to make up for the poor choices this past weekend. Thanks for sharing these recipes. They all look great!

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  16. Kenzie from SimplyJandK.com
    02.15.2016

    I’ve been wanting to put some more vegan recipes into my diet and those cauliflower steaks are calling me name!

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