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The chart-toppers: Top 40 new vegetarian dishes of 2025

From pasta-with-a-twist to wholesome salads, the meat-free hits kept coming. Here are the vegie recipes you loved the most in 2025.

40 recipes
Romesco pasta with ricotta.
EASY

40. Jessica Brook’s romesco pasta with ricotta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Cardamom and cloves are used to finish this turmeric chaaman dish.

39. Sarina Kamini’s paneer (and three ways to use it)

  • Sarina Kamini
Poor man’s potatoes.
EASY

38. Adam Liaw’s poor man’s potatoes

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Serve with rice and green.
EASY

37. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s Japanese miso-glazed eggplant rice bowl

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Serve with a little preserved lemon and toasted pistachios.
EASY

36. Helen Goh’s zucchini and green bean salad with preserved lemon and pistachios

  • < 30 mins
  • Helen Goh
Level up midweek dinners with this mushroom-packed version of Japan’s favourite savoury pancake.
EASY

35. Jessica Brook’s Mushroom okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake)

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
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Grilled broccolini with ‘everything bagel’ chilli oil.

34. Rosheen Kaul’s grilled broccolini with ‘everything bagel’ chilli oil

  • Rosheen Kaul
Serve up with some dressed leaves.
EASY

33. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s zucchini and ricotta tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Asparagus tempura.
EASY

32. Adam Liaw’s asparagus tempura

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Pasta shells with zucchini and corn.
EASY

31. Adam Liaw’s pasta shells with zucchini and corn

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Danielle Alvarez’s asparagus with gribiche, peas and radish.
EASY

30. Danielle Alvarez’s asparagus salad with sauce gribiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
The Italian-American classic of pasta alla vodka gets a shake up with fudgy roasted eggplant.
EASY

29. Jessica Brook’s eggplant pasta alla vodka

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jessica Brook
Springtime pea galette with herby goat’s cheese.
EASY

28. Emelia Jackson’s herby goat’s cheese, leek and pea tart

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Emelia Jackson
Danielle Alvarez’s lemony spinach, dill and feta rice pilaf.
EASY

27. Danielle Alvarez’s Greek spanakorizo (spinach rice)

  • < 30 mins
  • Danielle Alvarez
Kimchi fried rice always comes to the rescue.

26. Billy Law’s kimchi bokkeum bap (kimchi fried rice)

  • Billy Law
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Baked chickpeas with eggplant.
EASY

25. Carolina Doriti’s baked chickpeas with eggplant

  • 2 hrs +
  • Carolina Doriti
Potato and root vegetable tray bake.
EASY

24. Adam Liaw’s potato and root vegetable tray bake

  • 2 hrs +
  • Adam Liaw
15-minute preserved lemon and tomato pasta.
EASY

23. Jessica Brook’s 15-minute preserved lemon and tomato pasta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Grill-striped oyster mushroom “steaks” are served with sauce au poivre.

22. Rosheen Kaul’s oyster mushroom ‘steak’ au poivre

  • Rosheen Kaul
Serve with a greek salad on the side.
EASY

21. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s tiropita (Greek cheese pie)

  • 1-2 hrs
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
Cos salad with tahini and molasses.
EASY

20. Adam Liaw’s cos lettuce salad with tahini and pomegranate molasses dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Greek salad with honey-baked feta.
EASY

19. Jessica Brook’s Greek salad with honey-baked feta

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Cauliflower replaces meat in this Lao-inspired dish, which can be served as a salad or a meal.

18. Hetty McKinnon’s cauliflower larb (plus two more vegetarian dishes)

  • Hetty McKinnon
This dish, like a cross between succotash and shakshuka, is equally good for breakfast, lunch or dinner.

17. The Good Farm’s corn and chilli (plus two more vegetarian dishes)

  • Scott Gooding and Matilda Brown
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Bombay cheese toast.

16. Mehak Kansal’s Bombay cheese toast

  • Mehak Kansal
Super green mac and cheese.
EASY

15. Jessica Brook’s super green mac and cheese

  • < 30 mins
  • Jessica Brook
Picnic pie and green tomato relish (foreground).

14. Florian cafe’s picnic pie and green tomato chutney

  • Dom Gattermayr and Rose Richards
Make this Puy lentil and pearl barley salad your own by adding extras such as soft-boiled eggs or green chilli.

13. Kepos Kitchen’s Puy lentil and pearl barley salad with goat’s feta

  • Michael Rantissi and Kristy Frawley
Spicy stir-fried mashed potato and fennel is loosely based on colcannon.
EASY

12. Rosheen Kaul’s spicy stir-fried mashed potato and fennel

  • < 30 mins
  • Rosheen Kaul
Katrina Meynink’s marry me chickpeas.
EASY

11. Katrina Meynink’s creamy marry me chickpeas

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
You can toss through rocket or basil at the end, or add an egg to enrich the sauce.
EASY

10. Julia Busuttil Nishimura’s spaghetti al limone

  • < 30 mins
  • Julia Busuttil Nishimura
This colourful vegetarian balance bowl is ideal for lunch al desko or a light dinner.
EASY

9. Sarah Pound’s golden halloumi bowl with summer vegetables and risoni

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound
Ricotta, pea and pesto tart from The Frozen Peas Cookbook by Samuel Goldsmith

8. Samuel Goldsmith’s ricotta, pea and pesto tart

  • Samuel Goldsmith
Veg-packed frittata makes a quick lunch or dinner.

7. Giorgio Linguanti’s burrata frittata (plus two more burrata recipes)

  • Giorgio Linguanti
This creamy mayo is made with low-fat yoghurt.

6. Siobhan Wightman’s loaded sriracha fries

  • Siobhan Wightman
Simple ingredients star in this salad, which tops pearl couscous, zucchini and almonds with golden halloumi.
EASY

5. Pearl cous cous with golden halloumi, zucchini and almonds

  • < 30 mins
  • Sarah Pound