55+ Healthy Vegetarian Dinner Ideas

These wonderful Buffalo Cauliflower Tacos are family-friendly and packed with flavor. You can adjust the spice level to make them as spicy—or as little spicy—as you want. These tasty tacos are easy to make and come together in only half an hour!

These Vegan Lettuce Wraps are packed with amazing, good-for-you ingredients. Enjoy black beans, sweet corn, lime, and avocado all wrapped together in a crisp, green piece of lettuce. This wonderful vegetarian dinner doesn’t require any cooking and is ready to eat in just fifteen minutes! Though these wraps are very low in calories, they are also very filling.

Brown rice dances with warm, smokey spices in this delightful rice dish. It's packed with protein and many vitamins. Spanish Rice and Beans is a bright, bold dish that makes for a healthy, hearty vegetarian dinner.

This Baked Vegan Mac & Cheese is comfort food at its finest! It's rich, creamy, and packed with ooey-gooey melted cheese. This mac and cheese is topped with a crunchy bread topping. With 10 grams of protein, this dish makes for a filling, hearty dinner.

Soup is always a comforting and cozy dinner and this Vegan Carrot Ginger Soup is bright, bold, creamy, and super tasty. Carrots, ginger, garlic, and more are all mixed together to make a flavor-packed soup. This soup is very low calorie and will keep you energized!

This Red Lentil Curry is made with simple ingredients that you probably already have on hand. It takes less than thirty minutes to cook, which makes it awesome for the busy work-week. This curry is packed with curry-flavor and is gluten-free. Using coconut cream to thicken, this Red Lentil Curry has the most heavenly texture imaginable!

Coated in a sticky glaze, this Sticky Sesame Cauliflower is an awesome vegetarian dinner idea. A homemade soy and brown sugar sauce gives this cauliflower amazing flavor. Serve this cauliflower dish with your favorite side to complete the meal!

This meatless recipe is similar to a butter chicken dish—but without the chicken of course. Indian Butter Chickpeas only take thirty minutes to make and can be easily stored in the fridge. These chickpeas can be served with quinoa or rice to make a wonderful, entirely meatless meal.

This Mushroom Curry is a combination of mushrooms, onion, garlic, and more. It has a warm flavor to it and is best served over rice. This curry is ready in less than half an hour and packed with delicious curry taste.

This easy 25-minute Pineapple Curry tastes sweet and smoky and pairs extraordinarily well with rice. The recipe includes several variations so you can explore different ways to make this divine curry that you’ll want to have again and again.

This healthy dinner is vegetarian and loaded with incredible vitamins and nutrients. Healthy Stuffed Zucchini is delicious! The zucchini is stuffed with fluffy quinoa, walnuts, raisins, and more. This plant-based meal is hearty and light.

Packed with fresh, bold, Moroccan flavor, this Spicy Chickpea Stew is mouthwateringly good and effortless to prepare. It's ready in under 30 minutes and packed with spinach, chickpeas, and onion. This dish is super healthy, filling, and delicious.

Top this Freezer-Friendly Vegetarian Chili with your favorite toppings such as sour cream, crumbled tortilla chips, or shredded cheese to create a delicious meal. This recipe is freezer-friendly and perfect for those who love to make ahead. Zucchini, squash, red pepper, tomato, and more are packed into this chili, making it very hearty and filling.

Butternut Squash and Caramelized Onion Flatbread is a light, healthy dinner that everyone at your table is sure to love. It’s very easy to make and tastes awesome!

This fun, simple, and kid-friendly meal is vegetarian while still having a nice meat-like texture. Portobello mushroom caps are filled with a pizza-inspired filling. Enjoy cheesy pizza goodness inside these Pizza Quinoa Stuffed Portobello Mushrooms.

Stuffed with juicy flavor from summer grilled vegetables, this Grilled Vegetarian Bahn Mi Sandwich is a delight. Hearty and simple to make, this delicious meatless recipe is awesome and makes a great dinner!

This Panera-Style Tomato and Mozzarella Panini is light and tasty. It’s made with layers of tomatoes and mozzarella cheese and can be served grilled or cold. Made with both sun-dried tomatoes and Roma tomatoes, this panini sandwich is bursting with tangy flavor and loaded with gooey melted mozzarella!

Smothered with a green curry marinade, these Vegan Green Curry Veggie Kabobs are delicious. These kabobs are quite mild and can be spiced with sriracha to kick up the heat. They're easy to make and fun to eat!

This light Fresh Corn Soup with Herbed Croutons is filling and made with delicious, sweet, fresh corn. It’s packed with a multitude of fresh herbs and topped with crunchy homemade croutons.

This meatless Jamaican Chickpea Stew is hearty, filling, and super healthy. It’s flavorful and filled with amazing, good-for-you ingredients. Easy to make, this stew also requires very little effort and time.

These Vegan Caprese Sandwiches with Garlic Cashew Cheese begin with some crusty baguettes. Each baguette is smeared with a homemade garlic cashew cheese and layered with tomatoes, crunchy sprouts, and more. These sandwiches are quick to make and make for a light, delicious vegetarian dinner.

These Vegan Lentil Mushroom Burgers are divine. Squeezed between two buns you'll find tomatoes, a lentil mushroom burger patty, and your favorite burger toppings. With only 300 calories and a bucketload of nutrients and vitamins, each burger is filling and delicious!

These meatless Vegetarian Thai Veggie Burgers are juicy and scrumptious! They're packed with protein and make for a great tasting vegetarian dinner!

This vegetarian Smoked Cheddar Mac & Cheese with Baked BBQ Tofu is rich and creamy with wonderful, chewy pieces of baked bbq tofu. Though this meal has all the fixings to be cozy, comforting, and something you want to indulge in, you don’t need to feel guilty! It has 30 grams of protein and is an awesome, healthy meal you can enjoy.

These delicious little Bean, Pesto, and Quinoa Cakes with Roasted Tomatoes are packed with flavor and healthy nutrients. They're made with cannellini beans, quinoa, zucchini, pesto and a few other good-for-you ingredients. Don’t let these small cakes fool you! They are super low calorie, loaded with 7 grams of protein, and huge in flavor!

These delightful burgers are smothered with a mint tzatziki sauce and are made with healthy cauliflower, greek yogurt, and chickpeas. They are packed with protein and perfect for serving to anyone. These Cauliflower Hummus Burgers with Mint Tzatziki are kid-friendly and tasty.

For this dish, pesto-roasted vegetables are packed between grilled sourdough bread slices. These Pesto-Roasted Veggie Sandwiches are made with parmesan cheese, squash, zucchini, and more!

These Sweet Potato Quesadillas are a great vegetarian dinner idea. They are made with healthy black beans, sweet caramelized onions, and kale. These quesadillas are very low calorie and packed with protein.

These Classy Open-Faced Veggie Sandwiches are layered with healthy vegetables. They are easy to make and contain tons of healthy nutrients and vitamins.

Sweet Potato and Kale Wraps are filling, hearty, and healthy. They are filled with smokey black beans, brown rice, and a few other things. The wraps are then wrapped in a light whole wheat tortilla and have a spicy, smoky taste to them.

This healthy Vegan Chopped Power Salad with Almond-Miso Dressing is bright and colorful. It's made with oven-baked tofu, hemp hearts, cashews, and a few other nutritious ingredients. Packed with super healthy stuff, this salad is very low in calories and loaded with protein. 

This Vegan Coconut Lime Tofu Soup is rich, filling, and full of flavor. It's made with coconut milk, tofu, mushrooms, lime juice, and limes. This soup is made from a diverse range of tasty ingredients making the overall flavor extra delicious.

This delicious Vegetarian Vegetable Baked Ziti is made with a ton of vegetables and a creamy sauce. It's very low in calories and is layered with melted cheese. This healthy vegetarian dinner is cozy, comforting, and very filling.

Portobello Pizza with Roasted Garlic Sauce and Kale is healthy and topped with awesome ingredients. It's very easy to make and ready to enjoy in very little time! This pizza is under 500 calories and high in protein. A slice or two of this pizza is sure to keep you satisfied!

This Creamy Vegetarian Pasta takes less than half an hour to make. But even though this pasta is super simple to make, it looks like a gourmet dish!

Marinated tomatoes, sweet corn, and crisp green vegetables combine to make this delightful Grilled Salad with Creamy Avocado-Basil Dressing. It’s low calorie, which makes it an awesome weeknight dinner.

This Vegetarian Chickpea and Veggie Burger only takes 15 minutes to prepare and 10 minutes to cook. Each burger contains less than three hundred calories and is packed with vegetables. These veggie burgers are filling and can be dressed with all your favorite burger toppings!

This exotic Savory Moroccan Couscous is full of smokey-sweet flavors. Green olives, feta cheese, onion, and more come together to make this delicious meal. This couscous is filling and perfect to serve as an entree!

These Mushroom and Zucchini Quesadillas with Cilantro Pesto are light and delicious. They're easy to prepare and require just a handful of ingredients to make. Smothered in a wonderful cilantro pesto, layered with zucchini, and packed with so many delicious flavors, these quesadillas make for a great dinner. Each quesadilla contains 12 grams of protein and is filled with healthy vitamins and nutrients.

This Thai Red Curry with Asparagus and Tofu is delicious served over rice or rice noodles. It has a bit of spice and a great texture. Garnish the dish with lime wedges and cilantro for best taste and flavors.

These Curried Red Lentil & Quinoa Bowls with Chutney are packed with protein and will keep everyone satisfied! Delicious flavors from yellow onion, ginger, and hot curry powder combine in thihs spicy dish. It’s very healthy and full of vitamins and nutrients. 

This bold pasta dish is bursting with fresh vegetable flavors and offers a great texture thanks to the rotini! It only takes 10 minutes to toss together and 15 minutes to cook, making this Rotini with Broccolini and Sun-Dried Tomatoes a great work week dinner. It’s very low in calories and has 6 grams of protein.

The Ultimate Vegan Taco Salad is a bright, bold, and exciting dinner dish! It has a great meaty texture with many vegetables hiding in each bite. Even better, this taco salad is tossed in a creamy lime dressing that gives it a wonderful flavor.

Roasted butternut squash makes a great filling for these sandwiches. This mouthwatering Roasted Butternut Squash Panini is packed with 9 grams of protein and contains less than 300 calories.

Brussel Sprouts Pasta is a refreshing vegetarian dinner. It’s quick to put together and packed to the brim with healthy vegetables. The pine nuts and fresh parsley in this pasta dish give it a fresh, unique flavor.

This Cauliflower and Chickpea Coconut Curry is packed with flavor. It's made with healthy cauliflower, creamy coconut milk, and chopped cilantro. Very low in calories, this curry makes for a cozy dinner when paired with your favorite rice.

Not only does this Crunchy Cauliflower Salad taste awesome, it also has a texture that is both satisfying and addicting. Every forkful brings crunch and delicious flavors from cauliflower, cherry tomatoes, red onion, and more.

Squash, zucchini, and Roma tomatoes combine to make this healthy Zucchini Vegetables Delight. It's topped with delicious melted cheese and baked to perfection.

This Veggie Spaghetti is a great way to indulge in pasta without any guilt or heaviness that comes along with carbs. Zucchini and carrot make wonderful strings of pasta and are seasoned to perfection with salt and pepper. This dinner comes together in just 20 minutes!

These colorful Roasted Brussels Sprout Tacos with Chipotle Aioli are packed with healthy nutrients and vitamins. You’ll find beautiful vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, red cabbage, shredded carrots, and more in these tacos. They are very low in calories and make for a great dinner!

This wonderful curry is made with garlic, curry powder, fire-roasted tomatoes, chickpeas, and more. Curry with Apples, Kale, Chickpeas, & Cashews is a comforting, aromatic vegetarian dinner option.

These Zucchini Parmesan Sandwiches are layered with zucchini, melted cheese and marinara. They only take 15 minutes to prepare and are bursting with healthy nutrients. Each sandwich has a whopping 25 grams of protein, making them a wonderful dinner idea.

Cauliflower Rice Sushi Bowls with Tofu is a very colorful dish. It is made with perfectly baked tofu, avocado slices, a dash of maple syrup, and fresh crisp vegetables. These sushi bowls are packed with delicious, healthy ingredients!

This bright green Herbed Fresh Pea Soup with Garlic Croutons is packed with healthy nutrients and vitamins. It’s made with peas, fresh parsley, mint, and a handful of other simple ingredients. Top the soup with homemade garlic croutons to add a crunchy texture.

Thai Red Curry with Pineapple & Sweet Potatoes is a wonderful dish to add to your weekly dinner menu. It has a creamy delicious flavor thanks to the coconut milk, ginger, garlic, and a touch of lime. It’s healthy and tastes even better than take-out.

Barbecue Lentil Bowls are a healthy, filling vegetarian dinner idea. These bowls only takes 15 minutes to prepare, and each one has 19 grams of protein. It's delicious and packed to the brim with vegetables!

Healthy cauliflower is smothered in a savory mushroom gravy in this recipe. These Cauliflower Steaks with Mushroom Gravy are easy, simple, and delicious!

These Pulled Spaghetti Squash Tacos with Avocado Slaw are colorful and bold in flavor. They're filled with spaghetti squash, onion, garlic, tomato paste, and a few other ingredients. With a touch of sweetness—thanks to the maple syrup—and some smokey taste, these tacos are awesome.

This Kale Pesto Pasta with Burst Cherry Tomatoes is bursting with flavors from juicy cherry tomatoes and fresh basil. It's easy to put together and absolutely delicious!