I’m sure a lot of you can cook beautifully, but I’m also sure that some of you are a little more lacking in your cooking abilities. If you can’t even fry an egg or toast a slice of bread, this is the place for you. When I was first learning to cook, I would have loved a collection of recipes like this – easy vegetarian dinners that are pretty much impossible to get wrong, so you can feel like you’ve cooked something a little bit special without actually needing to have any skill whatsoever.

So, I thought I’d put together this list for those of you who aren’t particularly confident cooks. These recipes involve chopping vegetables, putting them in the oven, maybe stirring things a bit… things that anyone can manage. Since you newbie cooks probably don’t have a kitchen stocked with dozens of weird appliances, I’ve also tried to make sure that you won’t need any fancy equipment – the most you’ll need is a blender or food processor, but a lot of the recipes don’t even need that.

So, here goes! The motherlode: 51 crazy easy vegetarian dinners. Enjoy!

Soups

(‘veg + liquid = food’ type dinners)

15 minute tomato soup with basil pine nut crumb (pictured above)

Thai green curry spinach soup [vegan]

Minestrone soup from Supergolden Bakes

Green veggies minestrone from Jen’s Food [vegan]

Tuscan bean soup from The Wanderlust Kitchen [vegan]

Italian orzo tomato spinach soup from Little Spice Jar [vegan]

Butternut squash and sweet potato soup from Making Thyme For Health [vegan]

Kale and cannellini bean soup from May I Have That Recipe? [vegan]

Stove-top dinners

(‘just throw some stuff in a pan’ type dinners)

Cheater’s 15 minute mushroom risotto (pictured above)

Butternut squash and black bean skillet

Sticky honey soy aubergine

Veggie chow mein [vegan]

Restaurant-style black beans [vegan]

Puy lentils with cannellini beans and garlicky leeks [vegan]

Quorn, broccoli and noodle stir fry from A Mummy Too

Easy vegetarian chilli from The Endless Meal [vegan]

Curries

(‘cook some veggies in a pan with spices and sauce’ type dinners)

Easy Sri Lankan curry with toasted chickpeas (pictured above) [vegan]

Aubergine red Thai curry noodle bowls [vegan]

Weeknight tikka masala

Peanut butter chickpea curry [vegan]

Mushroom, spinach and chickpea curry from Fab Food 4 All [vegan]

Chickpea and potato curry from Franglais Kitchen [vegan]

Lentil, sweet potato and coconut curry from Detoxinista [vegan]

Pasta

(‘pasta + anything’ type dinners)

Lemon and artichoke pasta (pictured above)

15 minute creamy pasta primavera

Easy macaroni cheese with brown butter leeks

Veggie pasta with asparagus and artichokes [vegan]

Garlic and wild rocket pasta from Recipes From A Pantry [vegan]

Greek spaghetti with roasted tomatoes, feta and olives from Hungry Healthy Happy

Red pepper and chard pesto pasta from Baking Queen 74 [vegan]

Tomato and basil pasta from Lovely Appetite [vegan]

Salads

(‘just mix some yummy bits together’ type dinners)

Black bean and walnut taco-style lettuce wraps (pictured above) [vegan]

Artichoke and feta quinoa salad

Tortellini Caesar salad

Brazilian-style black bean salad from Food To Glow [vegan]

Sautéed chickpea salad with roasted peppers and mint from Kalyn’s Kitchen [vegan]

Sweet potato, rocket and pomegranate salad from Natural Kitchen Adventures [vegan]

Oven bakes

(‘throw some stuff in the oven’ type dinners)

Pizza baked gnocchi (pictured above)

Easy roasted vegetable ratatouille with chickpeas [vegan]

Vegetarian enchiladas for one

Pizza roasted chickpeas

Butternut squash and blue cheese bake from Kavey Eats

Roast vegetable, sausage and chickpea bake from Tinned Tomatoes [vegan]

Garlic bread and tomato bake from Farmersgirl Kitchen

Other easy vegetarian dinners

(…basically anything that didn’t fit nicely into a category)

Kale and avocado burritos (pictured above) [vegan]

Crock-Pot mushroom stroganoff

Low-carb cauliflower pizza

Slow cooker veggie fajitas

Slow cooker saag aloo [vegan]

Creamy courgette puff pastry tart from Family Friends Food

Greek quesadillas from A Couple Cooks

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