Vegetarian recipes

The Roman-style pizza base in this recipe is easy to make and can be jazzed up with vegetarian toppings like beetroot and goat's cheese.

Looking for vegetarian pizza topping ideas? How about this restaurant-level vegetarian combination of spinach, pine nuts and fontina cheese?

This healthy and filling curried lentil soup is full of goodness and a real depth of flavour via korma spices and coconut yogurt.

This quick and easy vegetarian toad in the hole uses heritage carrots instead of bangers and a touch of chilli and spice for heat and colour.

This luxurious vegetarian truffade recipe made with potatoes and lashings of cheese is a perfect comfort-food dish for cold winter days.

If you're on the lookout for the ultimate classic soup recipe, this cream of mushroom soup hits the spot every time.

These pear and apple muffins are packed with fruit for a true autumnal flavour, and a good dash of cider keeps them moist.

This banana and chocolate loaf uses tahini, cardamom and sesame seeds to bring a Middle Eastern slant to a classic teatime treat.

This delicious and simple lentil and roasted vegetable dish makes a healthy and satisfying vegetarian evening meal. Make extra for lunch the next day!

Donal Skehan's full-flavoured vegan tofu stir-fry is covered in homemade General Tso sauce, a staple of Chinese restaurants in North America.

Give your shop-bought tortellini a gourmet twist via this classic combination of brown butter, crisp sage and sweet pumpkin.

This fun cheese Christmas bake is indulgent, comforting and equally delicious served as a snack with drinks or with a hearty bowl of soup.

This refreshingly zingy miso ginger coleslaw is delicious as part of a barbecue in summer, or with leftover Christmas turkey in winter.

These Middle Eastern inspired roasted root vegetables combine dukkah, hazelnuts and maple syrup for crunch, sweetness and depth of flavour.

These bay-garnished roast hasselback potatoes will look pretty as a picture on your Christmas dinner table.

These super-simple sweet chilli spring rolls nail the 'dirty vegan' trend – even avowed meat eaters will be reaching for more...

This camembert bread bowl works as a hearty starter, informal tear and share lunch, or perhaps as part of a vegetarian Christmas buffet.

These easy, Indian-style gunpowder potato puffs are almost too good to share... but they do make fab Christmas canapés.

Looking for a quick pick me up? This Biscoff microwave mug cake takes about 5 minutes to make and is the ultimate in comfort food...

Forget those uninspiring veggie offerings of Christmases past – this updated porcini mushoom and vegetable nut roast is so satisfying.

Chetna Makan shows us how to make Bengali khichdi - a tasty veggie dish comprising of pulses and rice, which she discovered at a khichdi takeaway in Delhi.

Donal Skehan's incredible one-pan vegetable lasagne ticks all the right boxes and can be made in a pan, instead of in the oven, in just 30 minutes. 

The oven does the hard work with this no-stir baked risotto packed with spring vegetables. Serve it at the table during the Easter weekend.

This luscious pasta with its tomato vodka sauce is the just-about-perfect simple supper, requiring just 20 minutes of prep and a long, low-effort simmer.