Looking for easy, healthy, and family-approved dinner ideas? These Meatless Monday recipes are packed with veggies and flavor your family will love! From cheesy pasta dishes and flavorful curries to quick rice bowls and tasty stir-fries, there’s something for everyone. Whether you’re using the Instant Pot, air fryer, or stove top, these meals are not only simple but also perfect for meal prep. Make Monday night a breeze with these yummy, kid-friendly dishes that’ll have your family asking for seconds!
Sweet & Spicy Cauliflower and Cashews
Asian Roasted Cauliflower and Cashews with a lip-smacking sweet and spicy sriracha-soy sauce! Serve it over rice for an easy vegetarian dinner!
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Garlic butter Ramen Noodles
This Garlic Butter Ramen Noodles is so simple and easy, yet crazy good and ready in under 10 minutes. It's the perfect dish that both kids and adults will devour!
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Roasted Sweet Potato and Kale Salad
This Roasted Sweet potato and Kale Salad is a satisfying combination of vibrant flavors and texture, topped with the best honey Dijon dressing. This fall salad delivers a perfect balance of sweet, savory, and crunchy elements in every bite!
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Macaroni and Cheese Cups
Leftover Macaroni and Cheese Cups are a fun way to use your leftover mac and cheese. These baked muffins are handheld, portable, and perfect for kids for lunch boxes, snack or party appetizers.
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Spicy Potato Tacos
Spicy Potato Tacos are a quick, mega flavorful, and satisfying 30-minute vegetarian dinner. Tender, skillet-cooked potatoes seasoned with bold Mexican spices are topped with a creamy sauce and fresh pico de Gallo.
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Instant Pot Alfredo Pasta
Instant Pot Alfredo Pasta comes together with just 5 ingredients! Creamy, rich, and indulgent, this easy recipe is ready in just 30 minutes. You’ll have a restaurant-quality, luscious pasta dinner with minimal effort!
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Crispy Breaded Mushrooms
These Air Fryer Breaded Mushrooms are irresistibly crunchy on the outside, tender and juicy on the inside, and seasoned to perfection. They’re perfect as a snack or appetizer—delivering restaurant-quality flavor while being healthy with no oil!
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Vegan Tomato Soup
Vegan Tomato Soup is thick and luxuriously creamy without any cream. Made with pantry ingredients, it’s healthy, flavorful and ready in 30 minutes - No broth!
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Best Ever Baked Ravioli
Cheesy Baked Ravioli is the easiest pasta casserole for busy weeknights yet impressive enough to serve guests. With no cooking or boiling required, just layer the ingredients and bake it in the oven. Plus, there are only 5 ingredients!
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One Pot Alfredo Pasta
One Pot Alfredo Pasta is made using only 5 ingredients! In just 20 minutes, you can whip up a creamy, indulgent pasta dinner that’s lighter than traditional Alfredo—No cream!
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Garlic Fried Rice
This Garlic Fried Rice is bursting with fragrant, crispy garlic and is ready in under 20 minutes. Made using leftover rice, it makes a quick and easy side dish for any meal - Restaurant quality!
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Teriyaki Tofu Stir Fry
This Teriyaki Tofu has a crispy exterior with a creamy, tender interior. It is outrageously delicious and is ready in about 30 minutes. Plus, the homemade teriyaki sauce is better than takeout! No need to press the tofu!
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Sautéed Garlic Mushrooms
This Sautéed Garlic Mushrooms is ready in under 12 minutes! Ideal as a topping for steak or chicken, a filling for burgers, omelettes, and sandwiches, or as a quick side dish for dinner. It's easy, simple, packed with flavor and utterly addictive!
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Kale Pasta
Spicy Kale Pasta is a quick dinner in 20 minutes! This vegetarian dish is simple, healthy, and easy to make, and the fiery tomato sauce packs a punch!
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Instant Pot Pesto Pasta
This Instant Pot Pesto Pasta is made using only 5 ingredients but is shockingly flavorful and satisfying. Simply combine everything in the instant pot and cook, for a quick 20-minute dinner.
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Beet and Chickpeas Curry
This Beet Curry with chickpeas tastes so good that it will leave you amazed and craving more. It is pretty in pink, healthy and made in the instant pot in about 30 minutes.
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Pizza Pancakes
Fluffy buttermilk pancakes with all the flavors of a classic pizza! Ideal for dinner, these savory pancakes are served with marinara sauce instead of traditional maple syrup! Mix in your favorite pizza toppings to make it your own!
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Instant Pot Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
Instant Pot Spaghetti Aglio E Olio is one of the simplest pasta recipes you'll make but its shockingly flavorful and satisfying! With just 7 basic ingredients, this instant pot pasta is ready in just 20 minutes. There's no stock or broth!
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Chickpeas Rice Bowl
This Chickpeas Rice Bowl are loaded with mega-flavorful 15 minute Mexican chickpeas, cilantro lime rice, and all the best burrito bowl toppings. Skip the takeout and make these easy vegetarian burrito bowls that you’ll want to make on repeat!
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Kale Dal
This Instant Pot Dal is packed with Kale! It is full of flavor, cozy, nourishing and immensely satisfying. It is a fantastic way to incorporate a lot of kale; even kale haters won't mind eating it. Swap kale for spinach or make it on the stovetop.
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Mexican Chickpeas
This Mexican Chickpeas is an all-purpose recipe for filling tacos, topping salads, wrapping in lettuce, layering over nachos or making a vegetarian burrito bowl. Reader-beloved recipe - ready in under 15 minutes!
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Mushroom Fried Rice
This Mushroom Fried Rice is garlicky, buttery, irresistible, and ready in under 20 minutes. I take the classic fried rice recipe and enhance it with a generous dose of garlic, caramelized mushrooms, and rich buttery goodness.
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Zucchini Fritters
These Zucchini Fritters are naturally gluten-free and amazingly healthy. I swapped regular flour with almond flour and added quinoa to the mix—the result is soft, tender and absolutely tasty!
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Eggplant Stir Fry
This Eggplant Stir Fry with an irresistible ginger garlic sauce, is hands down the most delicious eggplant recipe I know. Ready in about 30 minutes, it's guaranteed to convert any eggplant hater!
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Mushroom Sandwich
This Mushroom Sandwich features sautéed mushrooms seasoned with aromatic herbs and spices, all smothered in glorious, gooey cheese. This easy vegetarian sandwich is ready in under 20 minutes!
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Air Fryer Naan Pizza
This Air Fryer Naan Pizza is ready in under 10 minutes. With a super crispy crust, these are the easiest pizzas you'll make. Customize it with your favorite pizza toppings - They are quicker than takeout!
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Chickpea and Spinach Curry
Indian Chickpea and Spinach Curry is healthy, flavorful, tastes authentic but made with shortcuts for a quick weeknight meal.
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Air Fryer Eggplant Parmesan
This Air Fryer Eggplant Parmesan has a superior crunch exterior, with a soft and tender interior - all without frying. It is exceptionally flavorful, super fast, healthy, and comes together in 30 minutes, from start to finish - Absolutely delicious!
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Butter Chickpeas (Vegetarian Butter chicken)
Butter Chickpeas is a vegetarian version of the classic Butter Chicken. An easy, loaded with flavor, butter chickpea curry will rival any butter chicken that you have ever tasted!!! A must try recipe!
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Instant Pot Penne alla Vodka
This Instant Pot Penne alla Vodka is super easy and ready in 20 minutes. Toss in some cubed chicken or shrimp for added protein. It's thick, creamy and luxurious!
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