Here you’ll find easy vegan recipes for making basic breakfasts, brunches, lunches, dinners, snacks, desserts, baked goods, and more.
Basic Vegan Pancakes (or Waffles)
Your basic breakfast, brunch, or breakfast for dinner. Anyone can make pancakes – all it takes is a skillet, a mixing bowl, and a few simple ingredients. For waffles, just sub a waffle iron in for the skillet. This recipe makes two large waffles or four small pancakes.
Basic Vegan Fruity Muffins
You can put basically any fruit you want into these muffins. You can use fresh fruit or dried fruit or frozen fruit. Apples, blueberries, cranberries, dates, mangoes…anything goes.
Basic Vegan Biscuits
Does it get any more basic than biscuits? You can spread them with jam, smother them in gravy, or build them into breakfast sandwiches. Biscuits are easy to make and easy to devour!
Basic Vegan Tofu Scramble
Meet tofu scramble, your basic breakfast and the first thing every vegan learns to do with tofu. Serve with toast and jam, basic biscuits, or roll into a breakfast burrito.
Basic Vegan Avocado Toast
This is about as basic as a vegan breakfast gets. Just mash half an avocado onto a slice of toast and sprinkle with salt and pepper. If you like pretty food, you can get as fancy as you want with your knife work and toppings. Either way, it’s an easy breakfast.
Basic Vegan Pie Crust
You can use this basic pie crust recipe for fruit pies, pot pies, and quiches. It also works for tarts, turnovers, hand pies, pasties, empanadas, samosas, and more. All you need is a rolling pin and a few basic ingredients. If you don’t have a rolling pin, you can always use a wine bottle to…
Basic Vegan Tofu Quiche
This basic tofu quiche recipe is a little more involved, but it’s worth the trouble! If you want to impress a guest or enjoy an extravagant brunch (with mimosas) this quiche recipe will do the trick. With endless options for fillings and flavors, you can use this recipe any time of year.
Basic Vegan Macaroni Salad—Summertime Version
Macaroni salad is quick and easy meal for hot summer days, and it’s also one of my favorite ways to eat fresh veggies. This “party size” recipe is perfect for sharing at picnics or family gatherings.
Basic Vegan Quinoa Salad
This classic vegan quinoa salad is packed with protein and can feature any seasonal fruits and veggies you like. In the summertime, I like to use fresh cherry tomatoes, tomatillos, and sweet corn. In the winter, I’ll add fried sweet potatoes or roasted butternut squash. Just like basic macaroni salad, this dish makes a great…
Basic Vegan Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Who doesn’t love a soft batch chocolate chip cookie? This tried and true recipe always comes out perfectly. It uses only brown sugar, which makes the cookies extra soft. Eat some while they’re still warm so you get all that chewy, melty, chocolatey goodness.
Basic Vegan Banana Bread
Got brown bananas? Never fear—just squish them up and make them into banana bread with this easy vegan recipe.
Basic Vegan Sausage Jambalaya
This easy, one-pot meal will spice up your weeknight. All it takes is a little bit of chopping and a large skillet or pot with a lid. This recipe will feed about 6 people, or make leftovers for lunches later in the week. Depending on how spicy your Cajun seasoning is, and how spicy you…
Basic Vegan Potato Salad
This potato salad is the “real dill.” It goes great with picnics and grilling out in the summertime. Serve it with sandwiches, burgers, brats, etc. To make this basic vegan potato salad recipe, you’ll need potatoes, a few condiments, a couple of spices and some fresh dill. Basic Vegan Potato Salad Serves 6-8 Ingredients: 6…
Basic Vegan Zucchini Bread
This basic vegan zucchini bread is definitely the best thing that ever happened to a zucchini. It takes an ordinary vegetable and transforms it into a treat to eat for breakfast or a snack with afternoon coffee. I based this recipe on Betty Crocker, because I’m pretty sure that’s the recipe my mama and my grandma…
Basic Vegan Mushroom Risotto
Risotto is deceptively simple to make, and has very few ingredients, but it does take a little time. If you can commit to at least 30 minutes of constant stirring, you’re in for the ultimate comfort food. If you don’t like mushrooms, it’s easy to adapt this basic risotto to use different seasonal ingredients like…
Basic Vegan Double Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Basic Vegan Double Chocolate Cherry Cookie Recipe Dark chocolate chunks and tart cherries embedded in a chewy chocolate cookie…what’s not to love? Chewy, chocolatey, and everything a cookie should be. These double-chocolate cherry cookies will pair perfectly with your favorite latte. Makes 24 cookies Ingredients Directions
Basic Vegan Tofu “Egg Salad”
Vegan egg salad is one of the easiest things to do with tofu, if you’re wondering how to use it. And it makes great sandwiches—it’s especially good on some lightly toasted sourdough. Here’s how to make a basic tofu egg salad (for sandwiches).
Basic Vegan Lo Mein
Spaghetti doesn’t always have to be spaghetti. Sometimes it can be a home-cooked version of Chinese takeout. This basic vegan lo mein recipe only takes 20 minutes to prepare, so it’s perfect for a quick lunch or dinner.
Basic Vegan Soup Stock
Don’t waste your money buying vegetable broth at the store! Making your own vegetable stock is easy, and it doesn’t cost a thing
Basic Vegan Guacamole
This basic guac is a great snack any time. It’s good on tacos, too. I like to eat mine with chips and salsa and a beer, while watching a Sunday football game.
Basic Vegan Taco Salad
I don’t know about you, but I like my salads loaded with lots of toppings and extra dressing. And even if you’re not a salad person, I’ll bet you wouldn’t mind a yummy taco salad once in a while. This basic vegan taco salad is made with ingredients you can find at any grocery store.…
Basic Vegan Tempeh Tacos
If you’re new to tempeh, tacos are a great way to try it. This easy vegan recipe will have you coming back for more!
Basic Vegan Cheesecake with Fruit Topping
Dairy allergy? Now you can have your cheesecake and eat it, too! Here’s my recipe for basic vegan cheesecake..
Basic Vegan Lunchmeat Sandwiches
This sandwich is a super nostalgic one for me… When I was a kid, my grandpa used to make me pickle-and-bologna sandwiches on white bread with mayo, and I thought they were the best sandwiches ever. I also spent a lot of time playing The Sims 2 back then, so making lunchmeat sandwiches brings up…
Basic Vegan Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich
I’ve got to admit, the kid in me loves a peanut butter banana sandwich. And it’s an easy sandwich for a kid to make, too. As far as sandwiches go, this is about as basic as it gets. Do we even need a recipe? Maybe not, but I feel like this classic deserves a place…
Basic Vegan Hummus Sandwich
Here’s another classic vegan sandwich for your lunchbox rotation. You can use any flavor of hummus you like, whether it’s roasted red pepper or “everything bagel” or a classic lemon-garlic. The apple adds a little sweetness and some extra crunch, and the sprouts are full of vitamins and phytonutrients. So it’s both tasty AND good…
Basic Vegan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
This is another very nostalgic sandwich for me…it conjures cozy memories of snow falling outside and a nice hot bowl of tomato soup to dip the sandwich in. (Or maybe that’s a Campbell’s Soup commercial…) At any rate, my Sims definitely ate a lot of grilled cheese sandwiches. If you didn’t already know, the secret…
Basic Chickpea of the Sea (Vegan Tuna Salad) Sandwiches
If you’re looking for an easy, tasty vegan tuna salad recipe, you found it. And I’ll tell you the secret ingredient right away: seaweed snacks. That’s what gives this chickpea salad its “taste of the sea.” I like to serve this recipe as an open-faced sandwich on toasted sourdough bread, with sprouts or micro greens.…
Basic Vegan Mashed Potatoes and Gravy
Here’s how to make some easy vegan mashed potatoes and a simple vegan brown gravy.
Basic Vegan Skillet Cornbread (or Corn Muffins)
I’ve been making this vegan cornbread recipe since at least 2010, and it comes out perfect every single time.
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