Top Vegetarian recipes 2024

Vegetarians are spread across the globe. Would you believe, about 40 percent of Indian population is vegetarian? Even in the Mediterranean diet, immense emphasis is laid on ingredients like chickpeas, olive oil, nuts and leafy greens for a wholesome balanced diet. While meat is important for protein and a host of other nutrients, but there are many effective vegetarian substitutes as well.  

Vegetarian Recipes For Breakfast

‘Eat breakfast like a king and dinner like a pauper’, you may have heard the popular saying. And it is indeed one incredible way to lead your life. For breakfast provides you nourishment when the body is most famished (after nightful of sleep). Thankfully there are enough recipes to keep you satiated. If you are a fan of south Indian veg recipes, you find a gamut of options in idli, vada, dosa, upma, utthappam, etc. Even up North, the options do not seem to cease, from parathas, cheelas to chole bhature, you can rustle up anything you want if you have time in your hands. If you are really pressed for time, you can always turned to veg club sandwich and poha.  

Vegetarian Recipes For Lunch

Moving on to lunch, there absolutely no need to miss meat, if you have a handful of soya chunks in your pantry, just with a packet you can make soya chaap, soya biryani and so much more. Then there’s paneer that can cover half your plate in for of Paneer Makhani, Matar Paneer, Paneer Kofta, Paneer Pulao. In a vegetarian diet, you must also pay equal attention to local and seasonal vegetables. For instance, summers are a nice time to relish recipes made with gourd vegetables like Lauki Kofta and Bharwa Karela, similarly in winter, you can go all out with winter greens and fix yourself something as luscious as Sarso Ka Saag and Makki ki Roti.  

Vegetarian Recipes For Dinner

With dinner, it is a good idea to mix and match, keep it light an array of soup like mixed corn soup or manchow soup. A range of dal preparations like dal tadka, dal makhani, chana dal can enter your table at this point with rice dishes such as matar pulao. Even in sides, you have many options like pakodas, pudina chutney and papad, all of which can be made without an ounce of meat.