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By David Leite

Published Oct 20, 2021, Updated Jun 20, 2023

Our list of meatless mains recipes includes so many delicious and satiating meals that you won't even think twice about the meat. Veggie burgers, sandwiches, lasagna, pasta dishes, and soup are just the beginning.

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Contents

  • Baked Macaroni and Cheese
  • Healthy Gado Gado Salad
  • Three-Cheese Vegetarian Lasagna
  • Fresh Tomato Tart
  • Mushroom Wellingtons with Spinach
  • Broccoli Rabe and Olive Pizza
  • Roast Winter Squash With Blue Cheese
  • Pepper and Egg Sandwich
  • Curried Cauliflower and Potato Pasties
  • Caramelized Onion Ramen with Chile

10 Meatless Mains Recipes (3)

David Leite

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Baked Macaroni and Cheese

This baked macaroni and cheese recipe is the best and easy to make. The bread crumbs on top and creamy comfort food underneath are proofthat homemade tastes infinitely better thanthat store-bought stuff in the blue box. Here’s how to make it.

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Elizabeth Cecil

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Healthy Gado Gado Salad

This healthy gado gado salad is made with brown rice, eggs, carrots, red cabbage, and mangoes. Drizzled on top is a vegetarian peanut sauce. Quick, easy, and delicious. Oh, it's kid friendly, too.

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Hirsheimer & Hamilton

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Three-Cheese Vegetarian Lasagna

Three-cheese vegetarian lasagna is easy and exceptional and even sorta elegant anytime of year BUT we especially welcome it at the Thanksgiving table when we need something vegetarian and lovely. Here’s exactly how to make it plus what kind of cheeses work best.

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Cenk Sönmezsoy

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Fresh Tomato Tart

This fresh tomato tart is laden with slices of summer tomato—preferably heirloom—on an herbed crust topped with creamy goat cheese and finished with a pesto vinaigrette. Elegant and impressive yet (shhhhh!) really quite easy.

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Nassima Rothacker

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Mushroom Wellingtons with Spinach

This mushroom wellington with spinach is essentially a meaty portobello mushroom and spinach-walnut filling in flaky puff pastry. A spectacular vegan and vegetarian option, whether for Thanksgiving or any time of year. And you can easily assemble it ahead of time and bake it at the last moment.

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Erin Kunkel

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Broccoli Rabe and Olive Pizza

We’re not saying broccoli rabe pizza is going to replace sausage pizza in your heart and appetite. But the hearty and healthy vegetarian option is drawing raves from everyone we know, especially when made with a whole-wheat crust.

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YumCreative.com

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Roast Winter Squash With Blue Cheese

This roast winter squash with blue cheese combines tangy Gorgonzola cheese and tender roasted butternut squash for an easy, elegant vegetarian main dish.

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Quentin Bacon

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Pepper and Egg Sandwich

This pepper and egg sandwich is simply (and satisfyingly) scrambled eggs along with sweet bell peppers and onions and stuffed into bread. An Italian American staple perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in between. Here’s how to make it.

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John Carey

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Curried Cauliflower and Potato Pasties

These curried cauliflower and potato pasties are classic British comfort food made with an Indian spiced tomato, potato, and cauliflower filling encased in flaky hot water pastry. Yes, please.

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David Loftus

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Caramelized Onion Ramen with Chile

This caramelized onion ramen with chile is a hybrid unlike anything else. Vegetable based ramen that takes inspiration from French onion soup, bringing together the best of both—brown miso, ramen noodles, chiles, caramelized onions, all topped off with soy eggs. East meets West, indeed.

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