Vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes (2024)

FAQs

What is the most popular veg at Christmas? ›

Nut Roast. The most popular Christmas meal for vegetarians and vegans is the nut roast. This typically describes a mixture of nuts, breadcrumbs, leeks, onions, broth and either oil or butter. However, this recipe is malleable and offers the opportunity for many alterations according to personal preference.

A single serving of vegetables should be around 80g, so just buy what you'll need on the day. For example if you're having 10 people for dinner just buy 800g – 1kg of vegetables.

Discover the perfect amounts of potatoes, carrots, parsnips, sprouts, peas and red cabbage to serve with your roast turkey. Need help planning your Christmas dinner?

Try one of our best-ever vegetarian Christmas dinner recipes, from roasted butternut squash with butterbean and goat's cheese mash to spinach and ricotta lasagne roll-ups – or an impressive spiral vegetable tart. Serve up plenty of greens on the side, and it will be a merry Christmas all round.

If you really want to serve something that is a nearly seamless substitute for Thanksgiving turkey, there's always Field Roast, a plant-based meat and cheese company that sells soy-free holiday roasts. They are wheat-based vegan stuffed roasts with a sage, rosemary, and bread filling.

Well, the short answer is yes! Unless they are vegan (meaning they don't eat dairy products, eggs, or any other products which are derived from animals), some vegetarians do eat eggs and belong to a group known as lacto-ovo-vegetarians which according to the Vegetarian Society is the most common type of meatless diet.

Prep your veg the night before

This will save you a lot of faff and additional mess on Christmas morning. If you've got lots of space in your fridge (unlikely), you could even pre-cook your potatoes and parsnips on Christmas Eve to save even more time.

'Looking at the respective shelf lives of your Christmas Dinner staples, it appears as though you may want to plan on completing your Christmas food shop around the 23rd December (two days before Christmas) to ensure that all produce is fresh in time for the festive celebrations,' says Jamie Griffin from InSinkErator.

Do you have peas with Christmas dinner? ›

Yorkshire puddings, despite being a traditional pairing for beef rather than turkey, are also a common choice (50%). Less common sides at Christmas include broccoli (44%), peas (38%), the infamously non-traditional cauliflower (34%) and mashed potatoes (30%).

Potatoes. A staple vegetable that can be served in various forms at Christmas, such as roasted, mashed, or in a gratin.

Getting these prepped and lined up in a tray on Christmas Eve will make Christmas morning so much more enjoyable. Get your potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage and Brussels ready, then simply cover with foil and pop in the fridge, ready to cook tomorrow.

Here are our top Christmas dinner side dishes, from brussels sprouts to red cabbage and roast parsnips. Plus, winter greens and some indulgent gratin recipes.

Not far behind Brussels sprouts are roasted parsnips and carrots when you think of traditional Christmas vegetables. Roasted root vegetables can be delicious but perhaps always suffer from being shovelled onto your plate alongside roast potatoes, which are of course one of the highlights of Christmas day dinner.