42 Vegetarian Recipes with a Healthy Dose of Protein (2024)

Bored of porridge and granola but stuck for ideas for alternative plant-based breakfasts? You're in the right place. Keep scrolling for the best vegetarian breakfast recipes, plus ideas for lunch and dinner too. Tasty.

Complete with black beans, scrambled tofu or egg, avocado and spring onion. This breakfast meal is seriously tasty, and guaranteed to keep you full until lunchtime.

You can't go wrong with a breakfast bagel, especially when it's packed full of protein-rich eggs, pesto, rocket and avocado. Need we say more?

Savoury pancakes, we hear you cry? Try before you shrug off—these are good. Topped with tenderstem broccoli, radish, avocado and beetroot houmous is so full of flavour you'll be baking for brunch on repeat.

Vegetarian and gluten free, these bitesize breakfast tostadas are a fun option for cooking with company or, alternative, making your work colleagues seriously jealous when you whip out your Tupperwear container come 10am. Enjoy.

In need of a breakfast you can whip up in ten minutes that is packed full of protein and healthy fats and counts towards your five a day? You'll love this simple green omelette—simple, nutrient dense and delicious.

Porridge recipes are generally veggie but not all are that tasty - but, this one is. Combining three types of berries with banana and a sprinkling of nuts it's a winner.

Sounds like they'd take an awful lot of effort, in reality provide a tasty and nutrient dense breakfast option that'll stave off hunger pangs and keep your blood sugar levels stable all morning. You can even get inventive and mix up what veggies you include to chuck in your favourites.

Another savoury take on a sweet classic is these simple spinach pancakes that you'll want to make all year round.

Fan of eggs and toast but looking for a way to spruce up your dough? Enter stage right, the breakfast crostini—add basil for a seriously tasty weekend brunch dish, or try our soft boiled egg hack to perfect your egg game in the office (yes, really).

Dreaming of sunnier shores but not quite reached your summer holiday? Huevos Rancheros will take you straight to the windswept beaches of Mexico, with avocado offering healthy fats, black beans slow release carbs and poached eggs protein. Enjoy.

Eggs, tomatoes and bread—you can't go wrong, really.

Whip up a vegetarian storm in the kitchen with flatbreads, stuffed sweet potatoes, enchiladas and more. Meat free does not mean less tasty—far from it.

This plant-based meal is tasty, gluten free and a serious winner, even amongst meat eaters. Plus, the quinoa stuffing provides a healthy 4g of protein per 100g. Not bad.

Do away with pepperoni for slow roasted courgette, black olives and sun-dried tomatoes. This recipe is vegan but you can always add cheese.

Halloumi is to vegetarianism what the Queen is to the UK—pretty darn important. Pair with roast carrot and chickpea cous cous for a delicious (and easy) mid-week meal.

A quinoa casserole is the Mediterranean dish is that you'll want to bookmark in your 'favourite vegetarian recipes'. It's a one-pot wonder.

All the fun, half the mess. This vegetarian burrito bowl is bursting with flavours and textures, meaning the last thing you'll be thinking about is the lack of pulled pork. Promise.

The concept of a buddha bowl is to chuck in all the ingredients from your fridge and store cupboard and marry flavours that may usually be left unpaired. This vegan buddha bowl is no exception, but you'll be pleasantly surprised at how well the sprouts and tahini go together.

The idea of courgette boats may be slightly 1960's, but the flavour is so delightful you'll be channelling your inner Delia in no time. You were warned.