33 Vegan Roast Dinners and Sunday Lunch Recipes (2024)

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A collection of 33 of the best ideas for vegan roast dinner and Sunday lunches, perfect for serving alongside roast potatoes, gravy and all the trimmings.

Catering for a vegan can be daunting if its not something you do often, but I hope the 33 recipes below will provide some ideas and inspiration for vegan roast dinners and Sunday lunches, ranging from the simplest of throw-together meals to recipes for more confident cooks.

These are all delicious vegan dinners which could be served alongside roast potatoes, gravy, lots of veg and all the trimmings, or perhaps a centrepiece for a big family meal.

So here goes.... 33 Vegan Roast Dinner and Sunday Lunch Recipes you NEED to know about!

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  • Perfect Vegan Pies
  • Stuffed Vegetables: Vegan Roast Dinner Ideas
  • Vegan Roasts and Nut Roasts
  • Vegan Pasties
  • Vegan Baked Pasta Recipes
  • ....and some more Vegan Roast Dinner Ideas
  • 💬 Comments and Reviews

Perfect Vegan Pies

Pastry-Topped Pies

Vegan Puff Pastry Pie with Tenderstem and creamy lentils

This creamy vegan puff pastry pie is so simple to make and a crowd-pleasing meal. Tenderstem broccoli, mushrooms and lentils in a rich and creamy sauce.

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Vegan Picnic Pies with Crisp Hot Water Crust Pastry | Thinly Spread

Vegan Picnic Pies made with a hot water pastry crust and filled with leeks, sweet potatoes, mushrooms, almonds and brazil nuts seasoned with thyme & chilli.

Check out this recipe

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Vegetable Pie with asparagus and Tenderstem broccoli

This creamy spring vegetable pie is so easy to make using ready-made puff pastry. An impressive centrepiece for a cosy dinner, using your choice of green vegetables.

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Quorn Pie with a rich red wine sauce

This easy Quorn Pie uses vegan 'chicken' pieces with button mushrooms, shallots and baby carrots in a red wine gravy. A rich and hearty pie with your choice or shortcrust or puff pastry.

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Vegan Sausage & Stuffing Pie | The Veg Space

A juicy vegan Christmas Pie packed with vegan sausagemeat, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mushrooms and even roasted sprouts! Just bursting with festive flavours.

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Vegan Mushroom Pie with ale & lentils

This hearty vegan mushroom pie is a crowd-pleaser - a rich beery gravy with thickly cut chestnut mushrooms and nutty puy lentils.

Check out this recipe

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Potato-Topped Pies

Vegan Hotpot with sausage & lentils

This easy vegan hotpot is a plant-based version of the traditional British classic, with a hearty base of vegan sausage, lentil and mushrooms.

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Creamy Mushroom and Sweet Potato Pie | Poppy Bakes

There’s not much moretantalizing than a crisp pastry pie filled with a rich, creamy filling. This recipe is no exception.

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Vegan Jacket Potato Shepherds' Pie

These Vegan Jacket Potato Shepherds' Pies are a vegan twist on the British classic, with a red wine, puy lentil & mushroom gravy filling.

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Borlotti & Red Wine Pie topped with kale mash

A rich and boozy pie packed with flavour and topped with kale mash.

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Vegan Moussaka

This vegan moussaka is every bit as good as the 'real' thing - a rich lentil and red wine ragu, layered with roasted aubergine and topped with sliced potato and a creamy vegan béchamel.

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Stuffed Vegetables: Vegan Roast Dinner Ideas

Stuffed Onions with sun-dried tomato & hazelnuts

These juicy stuffed onions with giant cous-cous, hazelnuts and sun-dried tomatoes are just bursting with flavour - a delicious vegan main course or side dish.

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Oven baked Portobello mushrooms with cranberry & pistachio | Riverford Organics

This elegant stuffed mushroom recipes makes a good vegan starter, or a light lunch with a crisp green salad and some couscous or quinoa.

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Festive Butternut Roast

This Christmassy butternut roast is jam-packed with festive flavours - pistachios, cranberries, red wine, puy lentils, rosemary and thyme. It can be made ahead and reheated on the big day, so no last minute rush!

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Vegan Haggis Stuffed Pepper Recipe | Planet Veggie

A vegan haggis stuffed pepper recipe from the blog Planet Veggie.

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Cider & Barley Stuffed Tomatoes

These delicious baked tomatoes stuffed with cider-braised barley are a delicious centrepiece for a Sunday dinner or cosy weeknight supper.

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Vegan Roasts and Nut Roasts

Chestnut Roast with porcini & cranberries

This juicy and delicious chestnut roast makes a stunning vegan centrepiece for your Christmas dinner. Moist, juicy and deeply delicious - perfect with gravy and all the trimmings!

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Lentil Roast with Balsamic Onion Gravy | Wallflower Kitchen

A delicious and easy-to-make lentil loaf, for a meat-free but “meat-y” alternative, great for roast dinners, Sunday lunch and Christmas main. It’s also naturally gluten-free!

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Chestnut and Cashew Vegan Christmas Roast | Thinly Spread

This Vegan Chestnut Roast is a moist, savoury chestnut, cashew and butternut squash roast. It is rich and fulfilling, perfect for Christmas dinner.

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Butternut Squash, Carrot & Quinoa Nut Roast | Gluten Free SCD and Veggie

This delicious nut roast is packed full of protein from quinoa and nuts, and is easy to make too.

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Lentil Nut Roast with Brazils, Sage & Onion Stuffing and Red Wine Gravy | Tin & Thyme

Lentils and Brazil nuts are enhanced by a layer of sage & onion stuffing and served with rich wine gravy.

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Vegan nut roast recipe | Jamie Oliver

This vegan nut roast recipe is full of festive flavours. Veganism doesn’t mean compromising on taste: try Jamie’s delicious Christmas nut roast recipe.

Check out this recipe

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Vegan Pasties

Vegetarian Haggis and Potato Pasties | Tinned Tomatoes

These haggis and potato pasties are made with shortcrust pastry. Perfect for Burns Night or just for packed lunches.

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Vegan Pasties with mushrooms, lentils & red wine

These Vegan Pasties are rich and packed with flavour, perfect for picnics or even a Sunday Roast dinner!

Check out this recipe

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Veggie pot pie pasties | Amuse Your Bouche

These veggie pot pie pasties are the perfect picnic-friendly alternative to the traditional veggie pot pie - pick them up and eat them with your hands!

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Cheese and Onion Pasties

These more-ish cheese and onion pasties are just so easy to make and taste better than any shop-bought version! Perfect for picnics or a weekend lunch.

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Steamed & Savoury Puddings

Vegan Mushroom and Stout Pudding | Suma Wholefoods

Based on the traditional beef suet pudding, this vegan version will sit nicely on a plate with some chips and steamed greens.

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Savoury Mushroom and Leek Pudding | Allotment2Kitchen

A deeply savoury steamed pudding filled with mushroom and leek.

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Vegetable Bread Pudding | Veg Kitchen

Vegetable bread pudding provides a tasty way to use up the last few pieces of bread in a loaf and vegetables that are getting a bit tired.

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Vegan Baked Pasta Recipes

Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese | Veggie Inspired Journey

A great vegan butternut squash mac and cheese! No soy, fake cheese or nutritional yeast. Just whole foods! Creamy & delicious!

Check out this recipe

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Vegan Butternut Squash Lasagne | The Veg Space

A creamy vegan lasagne with roasted squash, tomatoes and creamy pesto sauce. Perfect for a crowd-pleasing family meal or portioning up for the freezer.

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One-Pot Veggie Sausage Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes

A creamy and delicious 20 minute one-pot veggie sausage pasta with a sun-dried tomato sauce. All ingredients cook together in the same pot.

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....and some more Vegan Roast Dinner Ideas

Vegan Toad in the Hole

This vegan toad in the hole is traditional British comfort food. Juicy vegan sausages cooked in a crisp Yorkshire pudding batter - perfect with rich onion gravy!

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Celeriac Steak

Roasted celeriac steak has a wonderful ‘meaty’ texture and a deep, mellow flavour. These easy marinated steaks make a delicious main served with mash and gravy.

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Vegan Stew with ale & pearl barley

This hearty vegan stew is easy and delicious - make it in a slow cooker or on the stovetop. Chestnut mushrooms, vegetables and pearl barley in a thick, beery gravy.

Check out this recipe

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Vegan Dumplings

Deliciously fluffy vegan dumplings to cook with your favourite stew or casserole. Quick and easy to make, they steam-cook in the pot. No comfort-food stew is complete without them!

Check out this recipe

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That's it! I hope you've found some ideas or inspiration for your next vegan roast dinner.... let me know your favourites in the comments below!

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  1. Beth says

    What a great collection of some really delicious recipes. I have tried the vegetable pie and it is really tasty. Now which one to try next. Do you have any suggestions because I can not decide?

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33 Vegan Roast Dinners and Sunday Lunch Recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is a vegan roast made of? ›

A delicious, easy and healthy vegan roast beef recipe made with chickpeas, vital wheat gluten, and beet powder. You won't believe it's plant-based! If I had a penny for every time someone asks me why vegans try to replicate meat, I would never have to work again!

What goes on a Sunday roast? ›

It consists of roasted meat, roasted potatoes, mashed potatoes and accompaniments such as Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, gravy, and condiments such as apple sauce, mint sauce, or redcurrant sauce.

Why do vegans not like meat? ›

They avoid meat for various reasons such as taste preferences, religion, animal welfare, the environmental impact of meat production (environmental vegetarianism), health considerations, and antimicrobial resistance.

What makes vegan meat taste like meat? ›

Some manufacturers will use what you might call an “umami bomb” to give plant-based applications the hearty, meaty taste consumers want from traditional meat. However, they're just adding a high level of non-declarable MSG source to the product to give it more intense flavour, versus an authentic taste experience.

Do vegans eat spaghetti? ›

Do vegans eat pasta? Most packaged pasta—including spaghetti, penne, and more—is vegan. It's worth checking the label to be sure, as some pasta contains eggs, but most of the pasta you see on the supermarket shelves is 100% vegan!

What is the most eaten vegan food? ›

Some of the most widely enjoyed vegan foods are legumes, nuts and seeds, chickpeas, and black beans. Nuts and nut butters are packed with nutrients. Airheads, Cracker Jack, Cinnamon Life Cereal, Fritos, and Fruit By the Foot are also vegan foods that are widely enjoyed.

What does 100% vegan eat? ›

A vegan diet is based on plants (such as vegetables, grains, nuts and fruits) and foods made from plants. Vegans do not eat foods that come from animals, including dairy products and eggs.

What is the most popular Sunday roast? ›

Brits are heavily split on the ideal centrepiece meat for their roast. The most popular option is beef, at 33%, followed by chicken on 27% and lamb on 20%.

What are the essentials for Sunday roast? ›

There are only four essential components of a roast, protein, roast potatoes, vegetables and gravy. Yorkshire puddings are another roast staple, but these may be harder to obtain for vegans unless you're willing to go the extra mile and make them yourself.

What is a typical vegan meal? ›

Breakfast: whole-grain toast with avocado and nutritional yeast alongside a vegan protein shake. Lunch: lentil chili with grilled asparagus and baked potato. Dinner: vegetable paella with brown rice, onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, artichoke, and chickpeas. Snacks: almonds, fruit salad, and carrots with hummus Summary.

What's vegan meat made out of? ›

Soy protein isolates or soybean flour and gluten are usually used as foundation for most meat substitutes that are available on the market. Soy protein isolate is a highly pure form of soy protein with a minimum protein content of 90%.

What is a good vegan substitute for beef? ›

Vegetarian Meat Alternatives Ranked From Best to Worst
  • Texturized Soy Protein. This is a no-brainer – texturized vegetable protein, also known as texturized soy protein, wins in overall meat-like texture and taste. ...
  • Tofu. ...
  • King Oyster Mushrooms. ...
  • Seitan. ...
  • Jackfruit. ...
  • Tempeh. ...
  • Cauliflower. ...
  • Beans and legumes.
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What are vegan cold cuts made of? ›

Naturally, each maker of vegan meat has their own recipe, but sources of protein commonly used in these products include soy, vital wheat gluten, chickpeas, pea protein flour, beans, and rice.

What is the difference between vegan meat and regular meat? ›

While the protein content was similar in both categories, plant-based meat analogues on average had significantly less saturated fat and sodium, as well as more fibre than meat products.

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