Lazy Vegan Recipes: 12 Delicious and Tasty Dishes

Craving something quick, nutritious, and delicious? These 12 lazy vegan recipes will satisfy your taste buds. Moreover, these are so healthy and relishing that you would crave more of them.

These recipes will not take more than 15 minutes to 30 minutes. But, they taste as good as a meal cooked for hours. Even for those who want to try something different with easily accessible ingredients, these recipes are for all.

From busy weeknights to having the blues, these amazing lazy vegan meals will make your day.

Pasta Recipes

Most of us love eating pasta. If you are lazy and broke, these two easy-to-cook recipes can make you drool for them from time to time.

1. Pasta with Readymade Pasta Sauce and Beans

The ones who are new to cooking can check this recipe out. The ingredients you need are:

• Vegan pasta of your choice;
• Store-bought pasta sauce;
• Chickpeas; and
• Spinach and other veggies of your choice.

First, boil the pasta and after draining it, add pasta sauce, chickpeas, and veggies into the same pot and mix well for 5 minutes. Serve hot. That’s the easiest lazy vegan recipe you could think of!

2. Pasta With Vegan Alfredo Sauce

For this creamy dish, you need to soak half a cup of cashews for 20 minutes to 30 minutes and then blend them into a blender till they become nice and smooth. Then, cook this paste on medium-high heat until the desired consistency has been reached.

This sauce tastes very similar to the real Alfredo sauce¹. You can also use it with baked potatoes or with pizzas. You can store it for a week.

Given everything is in place, this lazy vegan recipe is ideal for busy weeknights.

Sweet Potato Recipes

This starchy vegetable is a delight for many, especially those who want to find an alternative to meat. This sweet potato lazy vegan recipe² is just the thing for you!

3. Stuffed Sweet Potato With Nacho Cheese

It is one of the lazy vegan recipes that are full of tanginess. This recipe requires:

• Two Sweet Potatoes;
• 25 g Black Beans;
• Two cups of Corn Kernels;
• Two finely chopped onions;
• Vegetable oil;
• Seasonings (salt and pepper);
• 1/2 teaspoon Taco Seasoning; and
• Salsa, Nacho Cheese, and Chives for garnish.

First, wash the sweet potatoes thoroughly and poke their surface with a fork. Heat them for 5-7 minutes in the microwave. Rub the seasonings on them with your hands before putting them into it.

While the sweet potatoes are heated, take a pan, heat some oil and then add the onions, corn kernels, and black beans. Please take out the potatoes, slice them in half and open them up on a dish.

Put the stuffings on them and top the whole thing up with nacho cheese and chives. This lazy vegan recipe requires some effort, but it is worth it.

Stir fried Recipes

Stir fry is the perfect dish you need if you are not in a cooking mood. These delicious vegan recipes have a lot of nutrition. Take a glance at these lazy vegan recipes.

4. 20-Minute Tofu Stir Fry

This is a gluten-free Asian recipe.

First, marinate the tofu with chilly sauce. Then, cook the tofu well in a pan. After frying them, add veggies of your choice to the same pan. You can add pre-cooked grains as well.

Add any sauce or flavored oil of your choice, and voila! It hardly takes more than 20 minutes. You can even add cauliflower rice. Get the recipe for cauliflower rice by clicking here.

You can get the detailed recipe here.

5. Ginger Veggie Stir Fry

At times, you may not have a lot of ingredients. This lazy vegan recipe is not just ideal for such situations but also a highly relishing one.

In a bowl, take a tablespoon of cornflour and add a teaspoon of ginger and two teaspoons of oil and mix them until the cornflour dissolves. Then add the veggies and mix them with the mixture thoroughly.

Then, heat some oil in a skillet or wok, add the veggies, and stir them constantly for 2 minutes. Then, add the seasonings and the soy sauce and cook until they are crunchy yet tender from the inside.

You can check the proportion of the ingredients needed in this link here.

Instant Pot Recipes

The beauty of these lazy vegan recipes is that they are delicious and easy and a threshold of the nutrition a person would need. Instant Pot provides all the taste and nutrition you need in one place without any hassle.

Have a look at these recipes.

6. Instant Pot Mushroom Risotto

First, saute the mushrooms and onions in the instant pot until they soften. Then, add the rice and stir it for 30 seconds before adding wine to it. Cook it until the wine is absorbed.

Add vegetable broth to the rice and let it cook under pressure for 6-10 minutes. Garnish with vegan cheese and chives if needed.

Mushroom Risotto is one of the lazy vegan recipes that will surely make a nice dinner. For tips and tricks on making this recipe, click here to know more about this.

7. Vegan Curried Cauliflower Soup with Lentils

This is maybe one of the most comforting lazy vegan recipes.

Start by sauteing onion and garlic in the instant pot for two minutes. Then add chopped cauliflower, carrots, and potatoes and continue.

Then add salt, lentils, vegetable broth, and spices and stir before putting the instant pot under high pressure. After being boiled, use a hand blender to make it into a paste of your desired consistency. Then add coconut cream and seasonings and cook thoroughly.

Serve it with garlic bread or Indian flatbread. Check out this link for the detailed recipe.

Black Beans Recipes

Like any other lentils, black beans are full of proteins and taste good if prepared the right way.

8. Black Bean Dip

Are you bored with the usual dips? Black bean dips may help you fill the void. Not only is it easy to make, but it also goes with any snacks you could think of, like fries, bread, nachos, and more.

It would help if you had black beans, onion, lime juice, red wine vinegar, yeast, water, seasonings, and cumin powder. Simmer them for about 5 minutes and blend them after cooling it for a couple of minutes.

Fried Rice

If you have leftover brown rice or quinoa,  this is one of the lazy vegan recipes you should try to make your curbs more hearty and relishable.

9. Vegan Fried Rice

Fancy some fried rice? One of the lazy vegan recipes is a must-try, especially when you have some rice leftover from yesterday’s meal. Follow the steps given in the link here and enjoy!

You can alter the said recipe according to your wish and tastes and try out something different.

Salads

Many of us find salads boring. But, with the help of these lazy vegan recipes, you can turn them interesting! If you have guests for dinner, try these delectable salads to win their hearts.

10. Vegan BLT Salad

This plant-based treat will make you love greens. For the dressing, you need:

• 150 g of non-dairy Yogurt;
• 1/2 tablespoon chopped Dill;
• 1/2 tablespoon chopped Parsley;
• 1 tablespoon Apple Cider Vinegar;
• 1/4 teaspoon Garlic powder;
• 1/4 teaspoon Onion powder;
• 1/4 teaspoon dried Chive; and
• Seasoning as per taste.

Mix all the ingredients as mentioned earlier in a dish. Then, in a large bowl, toss a generous amount of lettuce, tomatoes, pieces of vegan bacon, and croutons, and add the dressing, and it should evenly coat the veggies.

Vegan BLT Salad is one of the lazy vegan recipes that hardly takes more than 10 minutes. You can go through the full detailed recipe here as well.

11. Lentil and Hummus Salad

Lentil and Hummus Salad is yet another simple and delicious salad recipe. For this, you need:

• 150 g Lentils;
• Three diced Carrots;
• Three chopped stalks of Celery;
• 1/2 diced onion;
• One tablespoon Olive Oil; and
• Three tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar.

Mix all these above ingredients well, and you will have a nice salad for your next meal! It is one of the lazy vegan recipes that is an instant fix for your protein requirements.

Desserts

Desserts are ideal to finish off your meal or, for that matter, the day. Even many times, savory dishes do not satisfy our taste buds. Some sweet lazy vegan recipes would do so.

12. Vegan Mug Muffin

For this recipe, you need:

• One tablespoon of Peanut Butter;
• Two tablespoons Non-Dairy Milk;
• Two tablespoons Honey or Maple Syrup;
• 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla Extract;
• 35 g fine Oat Flour;
• 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon;
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
• A pinch of salt.

The first step is to mix all the dry ingredients, except for salt, in a mug thoroughly. Then, add milk, honey, vanilla extract, and salt to it. Do make sure that you see no lumps in the mixture.

Then, put the mug into the microwave and heat it until the mixture rises, which will take approximately 50 to 60 seconds, depending on the microwave. Let it rest for about a minute.

Vegan Mug Muffin is a good after-school or after-work snack.

Lazy Vegan Recipes

We have tried to cover as many recipes as possible, but you can watch the video given below if you still want more lazy vegan recipes.

If you want to turn vegan, click on this link to get a heads-up about how to go about it.

You can even check this link to know some interesting facts about the vegan food pyramid.

Well, to sum it up for you, there is no shortage of lazy vegan recipes. Interestingly, these recipes can be tried by all, irrespective of being a vegan. They are as delightful as they sound and appear in the pictures.

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1. Tebben, Maryann. Sauces: A Global History. Reaktion Books, 2014. ↩︎
2. Lanza, Amy. Nourishing Vegan Every Day: Simple, Plant-Based Recipes Filled with Color and Flavor. Fair Winds Press (MA), 2023. ↩︎

Last Updated on May 3, 2024 by ayeshayusuf