These Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes Are Super Comforting (2024)

This easy side is the most delicious way to use up your summer vegetables.

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Grilled courgette and aubergine make this pasta into a hearty meal.

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This classic French countryside dish is chock full of healthy vegetables.

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A great addition to your Sunday roast dinner. The dried cranberries add a tartness while the pecans add an extra crunch for a perfect side dish. We use Brussels sprouts and carrots in our medley, but feel free to add extra vegetables or swap in some of your favourites.

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Mushrooms can get sidelined at a barbecue as the lame side dish for vegetarians, but when tossed in a balsamic-soy glaze, they'll get all the attention.

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This hearty soup is infinitely adaptable. Don't love white beans? Add chickpeas instead! Not into celery? Leeks would be great here, too.

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White beans are a great blank canvas, especially for bright, assertive flavours like lemon and fresh herbs. Perfect as a side, or as a meal topped with a poached egg, these beans prove from-scratch really does make a difference.

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There is no need to think ahead with the Instant Pot. You can cook dried beans in 35 minutes, meaning you can still use them in that Nacho Soup you were planning on making tonight. Easy peasy.

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We love lentil soup for its versatility. We add onion, carrot, celery, and garlic as a base, plus canned tomatoes and fresh thyme. Lentil soup of course also needs lentils. The 18 minute wait is the time the lentils take to cook.

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This super versatile lentil salad is a meal-preppers dream. It's healthy, it's flexible, it keeps for a full week, and it tastes better the longer it sits! Have we convinced you yet?!

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Quick-cooking pak choi is one of our favourite veggie sides. Here we pair it with ginger and sesame oil for a light but flavourful plate of greens.

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This hearty soup might be vegetarian, but it's super filling thanks to quinoa, white beans, kale, carrots, and celery.

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We love this salad warm, straight from the oven. But it's also very good at room temperature one (two or three) days later. You can bulk it up with leafy greens like baby spinach, put it in a wrap, or even top it with a fried egg. The sweet potato salad is your oyster?

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Aloo Gobi is a very classic Indian dish of potatoes and cauliflower. It's a one pot, super simple, comforting dish that's ready in 30 minutes flat. Full of flavour, you'll be making it every night. If you're looking for even more easy Indian dishes, this Chicken Curry will be your go-to.

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Cauliflower rice is all the rage these days as it's the healthier alternative without all of the carbs that regular rice offers. Luckily, a cauliflower is super easy to break down and turn into rice. A food processor is the quickest way, but if you don't have one a box grater works just as well!

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Courgette is one of our favourite vegetables to grill in the summer. Why? It's healthy, it's easy, and it cooks SO FAST.

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No Indian takeaway is complete without onion bhajis, but they're actually realllly easy to make at home, too. Made with gram flour, onions and spices most amateur cooks are guaranteed to have in their cupboard, you'll be thankful for the extra 20 minutes spent on dinner.

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Don't get us wrong, good ol' boiled rice is nice and all that, but the vibrant colour of pilau rice just adds a bit of something something to our plates. Plus, it's a versatile dish, and you can add a variety of veggies or protein to bulk it out a bit.

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Tarka daal, is one of our favourite soul-warming, stomach-filling, store-cupboard dinner wins. We love this Indian dish because a) it's damn right delicious, and b) we often have all the ingredients in our cupboard and fridge already.

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