20 Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes

Vegetarian recipes to die for

Are you a vegetarian or do you just want to reduce your consumption of meat and fish? Well, write down these recipes full of delicious and easy-to-make vegetables.

Zucchini spaghetti with red pesto

If you don't eat pasta for any intolerance or other reasons, you can try zucchini noodles, a delicious vegetarian recipe. They always succeed and help you add fiber to your diet without adding calories, which is why it is one of the recipes to lose weight … easy and appetizing! We have accompanied them with a red pesto, but they combine well with any sauce that is usually accompanied by traditional pasta. See recipe step by step.

Rice with tofu onions and vegetables

To make this recipe in a last minute plan, you can throw in a glass of pre-cooked rice and a bag of washed and sliced vegetables and mushrooms. Saute the veggies on one side. And for another saute onion and, when it is golden brown, add some cubes of tofu and sauté them together with a little soy sauce. Then, you just have to mix everything in a bowl and that's it. Tofu, made from soybeans (a legume), is one of the classic ingredients in vegetarian cuisine to replace meat and fish.

Broccoli couscous with sprouts

Broccoli is not only eaten boiled, it can also be eaten raw as in this vegetarian recipe and thus preserves all its properties. Wash some broccoli saplings and blend them with the mixer until they are sandy. Blanch the resulting couscous for about 30 seconds in boiling salted water, strain and set aside. Cut some vegetables (tomato, cucumber, pepper, onion, sweet corn, pineapple, mango …) into small cubes. Mix them with the broccoli couscous. Season and top with fresh mint and sprouts. Discover more recipes with broccoli.

Spirals with mushrooms and vegetables

Here's proof that a vegetarian recipe can be easy, light, and delicious. You only have to cook a few spirals of pasta (it doesn't have to get fat if you make the right amount and don't add a bomb sauce). While cooking, sauté some vegetables and mushrooms. And you mix it up and season it with soy sauce. To compensate for the lack of animal protein, add some frozen peas to the cooking or use lentil paste instead of regular. As it does not contain eggs or dairy products, in addition to being vegetarian, it is a vegan recipe.

Asparagus and cottage cheese salad

As you can see in this salad of asparagus, tomatoes and cottage cheese, salads do not always have to include lettuce or other green leaves. In this case, the tender asparagus are the base, and result in a vegetarian recipe that you can have ready in 20 minutes at most, without having to scratch your pocket, very light because neither asparagus nor cottage cheese have many calories, and nutritious thanks to the cheese, the nuts and the pipes. See recipe step by step.

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Vegetable omelet

Sauté the vegetables that you have on hand in the fridge, drain them to eliminate excess liquid, mix them with beaten egg and set in a non-stick frying pan as you do with the potato omelette. And if you are not good at making tortillas, try our step by step to make a prize potato omelette. The egg provides you with proteins of high biological value and, in addition, it satisfies you for much longer. That is why it is one of the healthy dinners that are easy to make and delicious!

Light vegetable lasagna

If you like lasagna but you had given up on it because it is too heavy or because it contains meat, do not miss this light vegetable lasagna without a trace of meat. As it has 200 fewer calories than a lifetime, it is one of our favorite light pasta recipes. Discover how to do it with our step by step.

Light mushroom risotto

Risotto is one of those bomb dishes that disappears immediately from almost all diets unless you have a secret formula to lighten it. Well, in Clara we have it. Our light mushroom risotto is a recipe with more than 200 calories less than in the traditional recipe so that you can insert your tooth from time to time. And, in addition, it is 100% vegetarian. See recipe step by step.

Quinoa stuffed artichokes

Cut off the tops of the artichokes and the stems. Removes surface leaves and lint and leaves from the inside. Drizzle with a few drops of lemon juice. Steam them for about 20 min. Fill them with a mixture of pre-cooked quinoa, sauteed vegetables, and spices. Arrange them on a baking tray, sprinkle Parmesan on top, and bake for 10 minutes at 200º. Here are more recipes with artichokes that give a lot of play.

Light lentil stew

Who said that stews are heavy and only suitable for carnivores? Our light lentil stew is 100% guilt-free, super easy to make, vegetarian and 100% vegan because it does not contain any ingredients of animal origin, and it fits in any time of the year. Do you want to try it? See recipe.

Stuffed courgettes

Stuffed vegetables fit super well as a vegetarian recipe. You just have to cut the zucchini, wash them, cut them in half lengthwise and empty them. Then, you cook them for 3 minutes, cool them and drain them well. While the oven is preheated to 180 ^or prepares a sofrito with the pulp of zucchini and other vegetables, and use it to stop filling it . To make it more complete, add some cooked peas and sprinkle cheese on top. And bake 15 minutes. To save time, you can use a ratatouille that is already made in a "safe food" plan.

Chickpea stew with spinach

You can also make the classic recipe for chickpeas with spinach in a vegetarian version, easy and ultra-fast. You just have to sauté some ajitos in a large skillet, add a bag of washed spinach and sauté them too. Finally add half a pot of cooked chickpeas and mix well. Yes Yes. It is done. Discover more recipes with spinach that are irresistible and easy to make.

Tagliatelle with asparagus and pine nut pesto

An irresistible pasta dish with the typical pine nut and basil pesto enriched with asparagus. So you have a recipe that incorporates the benefits of nuts and the extra fiber of asparagus, very nutritious and suitable as a vegetarian recipe. And if you also decorate it with some Parmesan discs (like the ones we taught you to make in Clara), it goes from being a simple daily dish to a real party dish. See recipe step by step.

Vegetarian hamburger

A very widespread question is whether you can take burgers while on a diet and the answer is yes as long as they are light like this one, which is also vegetarian. For this recipe, cook potato and carrot, drain and mash with a fork. Mix it with a sauce of garlic, onion and chopped red pepper. Salt and pepper and add chopped parsley. Let stand, form hamburgers, brown them on a very hot griddle with a thread of oil. And it serves with whole wheat bread and lettuce leaves.

Eggplant stuffed rice

To make them, we have cut some aubergines in half, we have made some cuts in the pulp and we have baked them for 20 min at 180 °. Then we have let them cool a little, we have emptied them with the help of a spoon, and we have mixed this pulp with a basmati rice with vegetables that we had left over from a meal. Finally, we have filled the aubergines with the mixture, we have baked them for 5 min at 180 ° and that's it. In addition to being a vegan recipe, it does not contain eggs or dairy, it is one of the easy and irresistible dinner ideas.

Brown rice with seasonal vegetables

There are infinite rice dishes but we love this brown rice with seasonal vegetables because it is delicious, easy, inexpensive and … it only has 220 calories !, which is why it is 100% guilt-free. In addition, since it only contains rice, vegetables and nuts, it works as a vegetarian recipe, and also vegan, since it does not have a single ingredient of animal origin. And also, thanks to this combination of nutrients, it works as a single dish. See recipe step by step.

Green bean and rice salad

Just mix in some green beans and some boiled or steamed carrots, along with sweet corn and cooked rice. To dress it, mix a teaspoon of mustard with a little honey and olive oil. And if you want to turn it into a complete and balanced unique dish, you can add a handful of cooked chickpeas and three or four chopped pistachios. Besides being delicious, this vegetarian recipe is one of the best meals to take to work.

Quinoa stir fry with broccoli and vegetables

Sauté leek or onion in a large skillet. Add carrot and sauté again. Add a few sprigs of broccoli and sauté until they take on an intense color. Add cooked and drained corn and precooked quinoa. Mix everything together and dress with whipped soy sauce along with honey and lemon juice. Serve with sesame seeds and chopped chives on top. It is one of the easy recipes with quinoa to prepare.

Eggplant meatballs with tomato sauce

To make the dough, roast a couple of aubergines or take advantage of the one they sell already roasted or roasted. Mix the pulp with a garlic and a tablespoon of chopped parsley, 60 g of grated cheese, 1 beaten egg, salt and pepper. Mix well and form balls of similar size. Flour them, pass them through beaten egg and breadcrumbs, and fry in hot oil for 2 or 3 minutes, until golden brown. Accompany them with the tomato sauce and a little chopped parsley on top.

Rice cakes with cheese and eggplant

Cook 150 g of rice. Meanwhile, roast some slices of aubergine. And on the other hand, poach 1 onion and 1 leek, and mix it with the drained rice, 2 eggs and 40 g of cornstarch. Form some pancakes with the dough. Place a slice of roasted eggplant and a slice of light cheese on half of them. Top with remaining rice cakes. Flour them in cornstarch, fry them in oil and serve. To make them lighter, you can heat them in the oven without flour or frying. Discover more recipes with rice and pasta.

The rise of movements against animal abuse, environmentalism together with the defense of sustainability and new food trends have made vegetarian recipes gain ground to become the coolest thing in gastronomy. But, beyond being delicious, what exactly do they consist of and what are the keys to vegetarian diets?

Types of vegetarian diets

All vegetarian diets are based on foods of plant origin, dispense with the consumption of meat and fish, and substitute other foods. But, depending on whether or not they include eggs and dairy, there are several types of diets.

Ovolácteovegetariana. There is no meat or fish, but there are eggs and dairy.
Lacteovegetariana. There is no meat or fish or eggs, but there is dairy.
Ovovegetarian. There is no meat or fish or dairy, but there are eggs.
Vegan There is no food of animal origin, not even dairy or eggs.

And the flexiterian diet?

The so-called flexiterian diet, or also semi-vegetarian, is not strictly vegetarian because it continues to admit the occasional consumption of meat and fish. However, unlike conventional diets in which meat and fish are omnipresent, it reduces their presence to a minimum for health reasons, mainly, and ecology, in some cases as well.

On this diet, you can limit the consumption of meat and fish to one or two days a week, for example. And in some streams meat is completely dispensed with but fish is tolerated.

Keys to vegetarian diets

They are based on foods of plant origin, and depending on the types of vegetarian diet they allow eggs and dairy.
They compensate for the lack of animal protein with protein-rich plant foods such as legumes, which combined with cereals, such as rice, are nutritionally equivalent to meat and fish.
In recipes, they substitute meat and fish for products such as tofu (based on soy) and seitan (based on wheat gluten), which are very rich in protein and can be sautéed, braised, battered …
They prevent the decrease in the diet of healthy fats, such as the beneficial omega 3 fats from oily fish, enriching their dishes with nuts, seeds and vegetable fats that also contain them: walnuts, flax, avocado, olive oil …

And if you want to get into this world but don't know how, don't miss the keys to making a more vegetarian diet, even without being a fan of vegetables, from our nutritionist M.ª Isabel Beltrán.