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Meat-free vegetarian dinner recipes

Vegetarian cuisine has arrived. No longer is the meat-free option the poor-cousin. Think curries, vegetable braises and non-meat protein sources such as nuts, eggs, tofu, pulses, legumes and cheese. And spice, spice, spice.

85 recipes
Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter.
EASY

Spaghetti with pumpkin, thyme and brown butter recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Kylie Kwong's home-style eggs with chilli sauce.
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Home-style fried eggs with chilli sauce

  • Kylie Kwong
Jill Dupleix's really basic giant cheese souffle.
EASY

Savoury souffle recipe: Giant cheese souffle

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice.
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Kylie Kwong's everyday fried rice recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Kylie Kwong
Avocado toast with roast tomatatoes and herb salad.
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Three Blue Ducks' classic avocado on toast recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Adam Liaw's vegetable terrine on Turkish toast with whipped ricotta.

Vegetarian terrine recipe on toast with whipped ricotta

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Adam Liaw
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Spice Temple's fish-fragrant eggplant dish.

Broccoli salad and other cult vegetarian recipes

  • Jane Holroyd
Ester's popular roasted cauliflower with almond sauce and mint.

Vegetarian recipe: Ester's roasted cauliflower with almond sauce

  • Mat Lindsay
Smoky eggplant with tonkatsu sauce.
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Smoky eggplant with tonkatsu sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Frank Camorra
Lentil shepherd's pie.

Lentil shepherd's pie

  • 1-2 hrs
Strozzapretti pasta with pumpkin, pine nuts and feta

Strozzapreti pasta with roast pumpkin, feta and pine nuts

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Pasta all a Norma
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Pasta all a Norma

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Rosa Mitchell
Neil Perry's vegetable paella.

Vegetable paella

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
Spear carrier: Celebrate asparagus season with this simple tart.

Leek and asparagus galette

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Frank Camorra
Chickpea and smoked paprika burger with kimchi salad.
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Chickpea and smoked paprika patties with kimchi salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Frank Camorra
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Lentil dhal with mint, haloumi and okra.

Red lentil dhal with curry leaves, mint and haloumi

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Zuchinni parmigiana.

Zucchini parmigiana

  • 1-2 hrs
Sweet potato, chilli and lime soup.
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Sweet potato, chilli and lime soup with tortilla crisps

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Frank Camorra: Nachos with feta and pepita sauce.
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Nachos with feta and pepita and chipotle sauce

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Roast eggplant

Roast eggplant with pine nuts, basil and saffron garlic yoghurt

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
A simple, healthy salad.

Brown rice and puy lentils with pine nuts and spinach

  • 1-2 hrs
The Blue Ducks' mixed-grain dhal is a convenient and healthy mid-week dinner recipe.
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Mixed grain dhal recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Spice Temple chefs share their popular vegetarian recipe for fish-fragrant eggplant.

Vegetarian recipe: Spice Temple's fish fragrant eggplant chips

  • Neil Perry
Make a meal of it! Pumpkin fatteh as served at The Potting Shed, Sydney.

Vegetarian recipe: Pumpkin fatteh from Grounds of Alexandria

  • Paul McGrath
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Ricotta gnocchi with spring vegetables and Burnt butter.

Ricotta gnocchi with spring vegetables and burnt butter

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Pasta with zucchini, peas, mint and ricotta

Spring pasta with zucchini, peas, mint and ricotta recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Soft polenta with mushrooms.
EASY

Soft polenta with mushrooms

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Frank Camorra
Eggplant rolls with pasta.

Vegetarian eggplant rolls with fettucine

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
Broccoli stem noodles.
EASY

Broccoli stem noodles with snow peas and Japanese dressing

  • < 30 mins
Lentil dhal

Lentil dhal

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Stephanie Alexander
Ricotta gnocchi. Caroline Velik PASTA recipes for Epicure and Good Living. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Food preparation and styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed April 2, 2012. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

Ricotta gnocchi

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Frank Camorra's pumpkin and washed-rind cheese tart.

Pumpkin and taleggio cheese tart

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Frank Camorra
Wakame and miso soup.
EASY

Miso and wakame soup

  • < 30 mins
SPINACH-AND-FETA-CAKES-THUM
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Spinach and feta cakes

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Neil Perry
bubble-n-squeak
EASY

Frank Camorra's bubble and squeak

  • < 30 mins
Roasted vegie and whipped ricotta pizza.
EASY

Roasted vegie and whipped ricotta pizza

  • 1-2 hrs

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