Save time in the kitchen with these quick and easy vegan dishes so you can spend more time with family and friends. All of these quick vegan dishes take 30 minutes or less to prepare!
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1. Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri
Source: Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri
For this daiquiri, use as much rum as you like in yours – this Frozen Strawberry Daiquiri by From time to time by Tessa Kiros It’s wonderful even without rum!
2. 10-Minute Apple Pancakes
Source: Apple pancakes in 10 minutes
These Apple pancakes in 10 minutes by Ella Woodward prepare a wonderful breakfast for a week or a weekend! Not only are the apples perfectly caramelized, but they add wonderful flavor!
3. Coconut Frozen Yogurt Bark
Source: Coconut Frozen Yogurt Bark
This Coconut Frozen Yogurt Bark by Teri Macovei is the quickest breakfast you can have, all ready for you in the freezer. And the best part is that you can also eat it as an “emergency” dessert. On days when you have a craving, this healthy treat will fully satisfy your sweet tooth. So, frozen yogurt bark is one of those very satisfying cold treats. The only downside is that it melts quickly, so you need to keep it refrigerated or in the freezer.
4. Rapide Sev Tamātar
Source: Quick Sev Tamātar
Sev (gram flour/gram flour – fried salty noodles) is something you should always and forever have in your snack cupboard. Apart from chat or any other type of street food, I often use it to make this twenty minute sauce. My mother would make several versions of this for my after-school lunch, sometimes with a pinch of jaggery in the sauce, other times with a different type of namkeen (savory, crunchy snacks). It is Quick Sev Tamātar by Anusha Moorthy Santosh whisk for a while
Credit: Reprinted with permission from Vegan Treasures of India by Anusha Moorthy Santosh. Page Street Publishing Co. 2023. Photo credit: Anusha Moorthy Santosh.
5. Fruit-Sweet Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins
Source: Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins Sweetened with Fruit
These Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins Sweetened with Fruit by Caroline Doucet and they are perfect for breakfast or midday snack! These muffins are sweetened with bananas and jelly and are made with whole wheat flour for a nutritious snack!
6. Quesadillas
Source: quesadillas
These quesadillas by Robin Browne are a vegan version of a classic dish. Black beans, fresh vegetables and creamy homemade cashew cheese.
7. Spicy Sriracha Buttermilk Biscuits
Source: Spicy Sriracha Buttermilk Biscuits
What’s better than a warm, buttered biscuit for Sunday morning breakfast or a hearty dinner? We can’t think of anything. These Spicy Sriracha Buttermilk Biscuits by Emily Brees are soft and moist, thanks to the vegetable milk, and nicely golden and flaky after just 20 minutes in the oven. Pair them with a tasty Sriracha compound butter and enjoy!
8. High-Protein Caramel Cappuccino
Source: High Protein Caramel Cappuccino
Creamy, frothy, caramel-packed and just like your favorite coffee shop! This High Protein Caramel Cappuccino by Logan Dunn and Lexus Osman is perfect for warming up on cold fall mornings and is secretly loaded with high-quality vegan protein to help you recover after even the toughest workouts.
9. Ginger Molasses Cookies
Source: Ginger Molasses Cookies
Warming, sweet, crunchy, soft and delicious, these Ginger Molasses Cookies by Ed Tatton are our favorites when the weather starts to change in the fall. I think it’s the delicious, complex flavor that comes from molasses, a syrup derived from brown sugar used in making rum. Excerpt from BReD by Edward Tatton and Natasha Tatton. Copyright © 2023 Edward Tatton and Natasha Tatton. Photograph by Janis Nicolay. Published by Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced in agreement with the publisher. All rights reserved.
10. Orange Glazed Tofu
Source: Orange Glazed Tofu by Meatless Monday
This delicious meal makes an easy weekday lunch or dinner!
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