Easy Plant-Based Recipes

Vegan Chocolate Silk Pie (Secret veggie ingredient!)

Looking for easy plant based diet recipes? You’re in the right place!

All Veggie Quest recipes are vegan (though omnivores like them too) and most are low in (or free from) added salt, oil, and sugar. Recipes are also 100% gluten-free, since many people are gluten intolerant—me included. Whether you’re trying to lose weight, manage a health condition, or just enjoy vibrant good health, these recipes will help you get where you want to go!

Many are Eat to Live friendly and/or McDougall friendly as well. (They are currently listed all together here, but I will be creating quick-reference links by diet plan soon!)

Appetizers and Snacks

• 5-Minute Pumpkin Hummus
• Apple Slices with Pumpkin Pie Dip
• Basil and Lemon White Bean Dip
• Better-Than-Fried Green Tomatoes (Oil Free)
• Easy White Bean Dip
• Guacamole with Chile-Lime Jicama Chips

Breakfast and Brunch

• 39-cent Banana Bread Oatmeal
• 5-Minute Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Pie Breakfast Parfait
• Quick & Easy Chocolate Zucchini Bake for One
• Skinny Cinnamon Roll Muffins

Desserts

• Beachin’ Cucumber Mint Popsicles with Cantaloupe
• Chocolate Silk Pie (You won’t believe the secret veggie ingredient!)
• Chocolate Zucchini Truffles
• Healthy Chocolate Frosting
• Skinny No-Bake Red Velvet Cookies
• Weird and Wonderful Chocolate Avocado Peanut Butter Pudding

Drinks and Smoothies

• 42-Calorie Almond Milk Hot Chocolate
• Blueberry Muffin Protein Smoothie
• Energizing Kale Smoothie with Orange and Pear
• Honeydew Mango Green Smoothie
• Pumpkin Chai Latte (Sugar Free, Caffeine Free)
• Ridiculously Simple Green Smoothie Formula
• Strawberry Shortcake Smoothie (with Cauliflower)

Entrees

• Busy Bowls
• Easy BBQ Black Bean Burgers
• Protein-Packed Loaded Veggie Chili
• Quinoa Loaf with Clove-Spiced Date Sauce
• Scandalously Good Grits N’ Greens Casserole
• Summer Rolls with Cashew Dipping Sauce
• Ten-Minute Black Bean Tacos
• Mini “Meat” Loaves with Sweet Spiced Sauce
• Veganized Obama Family Chili
• Vegetable Pot Pie (Low Fat, Gluten Free)

Holiday

• Banana Ghosts with Chocolate Sweet Potato Dip
• Easy Red, White and Blue Salad
• Frightful Halloween Frankendip
• Healthy Homemade Cadbury Creme Eggs

Salads and Dressings

• 5-Minute Sweet Ginger Salad Dressing
• Chopped Vegetable Salad with Sweet Corn
• Copycat Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
• Easy Kale, Mango, and Ginger Salad
• Jicama, Pineapple and Fresh Mint Salad
• Lemon-Tahini Dressing
• Mexican Jicama and Orange Salad
• Peanutty Vegan Pad Thai Salad
• Roasted Butternut Squash Salad with Creamy Cashew Dressing
• Smashed Tomato Salad
• Strawberry and Jicama Salad
• Surprisingly Addictive Butternut Squash Salad
• Sweet and Crunchy Mango-Jicama Chopped Salad
• Warm Herbed Lentil Salad with Seared Radicchio and Glazed Walnuts

Sides

• Broccolini with Balsamic Vinaigrette
• Celery Root-Potato Mash
• Delicata Squash Rings with Cinnamon Apples
• Easy Sauteed Carrots with Onions and Rosemary
• Fast, Low-Fat Vegan Creamed Spinach
• Healthy Mashed Sweet Potatoes
• Herbed Green Beans with Lemon Zest
• Maple-Roasted Brussels Sprouts
• Melt-In-Your-Mouth Roasted Garlic (Good on Everything!)
• Mushrooms with Garlic and Wilted Spinach
• Pizza Pasta Salad
• Quick Barbecued Vegetable Kebabs
• Roasted Butternut Squash with Cumin
• Roasted Purple Fingerling Potatoes with Rosemary
• Sauteed Kale with Garlic and Onions
• Sauteed Swiss Chard with Raisins and Pine Nuts
• Superfast Hoisin Collard Greens
• Zucchini Pizza Boats

Soups and Stews

• Crazy Easy Zucchini Basil Soup
• Curried Split Pea Soup
• Easy Spiced Eggplant and Sweet Potato Stew
• Green Zucchini Gazpacho
• Low-Fat Leek and Sweet Potato Bisque
• Peanut and Sweet Potato Stew
• Quick and Easy Coconut Pumpkin Soup
• Turban Squash Soup (Served in the Squash!)
• Slow Cooker Sweet Potato Chili

A few Veggie Quest recipes, especially those from the blog’s early days, contain more salt, oil, and sugar than I use now. Forgive me if you come across one of those! Some of my earlier recipes also included dairy and eggs; I have omitted those from this index, although I have left them in the archive.