Top 45 Winter Vegetable Recipes
Discover 45 healthy winter vegetable recipes from top food bloggers—creative, plant-based dishes featuring seasonal cool-weather produce.
Top 45 Plant-Based Recipes Featuring Winter Vegetables
Welcome to winter! Just because it’s cold outside, it doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate veggies in all of their winter glory. Winter vegetables may seem humble, but they’re also incredibly flavorful, nutritious, and versatile. From hearty root vegetables to vibrant winter greens, cool-weather produce offers endless possibilities for creating healthy, plant-based meals that feel fresh and exciting all season long. For thousands of years humans have been cherishing these vegetables, tucking them away in root cellars to help them survive the lean winter months. So, today I’m honoring winter vegetables in this amazing collection of Top 45 Winter Vegetable Recipes, which brings together inspiring dishes from top food bloggers (including some of my own favorites) that showcase seasonal ingredients in creative new ways. Every recipe is vegan, vegetarian, and plant-based, highlighting the natural goodness of winter favorites like squash, brussel sprouts, beets, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower, and leafy greens. You’ll find winter vegetable recipes in every category—appetizers, salads, soups, stews, chilis, side dishes, entrees.
Eat and Live Goodness,
Sharon
Top 45 Winter Vegetable Recipes
Winter Appetizer Recipes
Buffalo Cauliflower Wings, Sarah Trenalone, Champagne Tastes
Dehydrated Raw Cheezy Broccoli Chips, Jeneil Fraga, Sprouting Zen
Spicy Sweet Potato Tots With Cilantro Avocado Dipping Sauce, Amy Lyons, Fragrant Vanilla Cake (shown above)
Winter Salad Recipes
Butternut Squash Salad, Nicole Harris, Wonky Wonderful
Cranberry Pecan Brussels Sprouts Salad, Melanie McDonald, A Virtual Vegan
Kale Caesar Salad, Dianne Wenz, Dianne’s Kitchen (shown above)
Kale Waldorf Salad, Annie Markowitz, VegAnnie
Pecan Encrusted Delicata Squash and Quinoa Kale Salad with Creamy Maple-Garlic Tahini Dressing, Elaine Gordon, Eating by Elaine
Spicy Roasted Carrots with Tahini Lemon Salad, Alexandrea Daum, Occasionally Eggs (shown above)
Warm Asian Bok Choy and Mushroom Salad, Sarah Binde, Carob Cherub
Winter Jewel Salad with Orange Vinaigrette, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN (shown above)
Winter Superfood Salad, Francesca Di Leandro, Seven Roses
Za’atar Crispy Chickpea and Leek Salad, Kristina Todini, RDN, Fork in the Road
Winter Soups, Stews, and Chili Recipes
Barley Vegetable Stone Soup, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian
Butternut Squash Chili, Julia Nickerson, Savory Tooth (shown above)
Cauliflower Kale Avocado Soup, Dylan Cutler, Phruitful Dish
Cream of Broccoli Soup, Manuel Villacorta, RDN, Whole Body Reboot
Easy Vegan Green Split Pea Soup, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian
Healthy Cabbage and White Bean Soup, Florentina Lile, Veggie Society (shown above)
Hearty Veggie Potato Stew, Brandi Doming, The Vegan 8
Instant Pot Vegetable Barley Soup, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Irish Vegetable Stew, Jeni Hernandez, Thyme and Love
Root Vegetable and Bean Soup, Toby Amidor, RDN, Toby Amidor Nutrition
Sweet Potato Cauliflower Soup, Jennifer Sebestyen, Veggie Inspired
Three Sisters Chili, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Tortilla Soup, Sharon Palmer, MSFS, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian
Warming Beet, Pea, and Lentil Winter Soup, Kristen Wood, Moon and Spoon and Yum (shown above)
Winter Side Dish Recipes
Mashed Cauliflower Kale, Kelly Page, Tasting Page
Roasted Butternut Squash with Pomegranate Sauce, Amy Gorin, MS, RDN, Amy Gorin Nutrition
Roasted Chicory with Pistachios and Pomegranates, Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Rainbow Swiss Chard with Golden Raisins and Pepitas, Melville Nicoletta, Sugar Love Spices
Winter Main Dish Recipes
Broccoli Sweet Potato Buddha Bowl, Sarah Hayes, Bad to the Bowl
Chickpea Butternut Pumpkin Curry, Katie Culpin, Delightful Vegans
Green Curry with Winter Vegetables, Melissa Copeland, Cilantro & Citronella (shown above)
Green Lentil and Butternut Squash “Noodle” Bowls, Liz Weiss, MS, RDN, Liz’s Healthy Table
Kohlrabi Schnitzel, Bianca Haun, Elephantasic Vegan (shown above)
Roasted Masala Cauliflower with Coconut Lentils, Tricia Bozeman, Rhubarbarians
Rotini Pasta Alfredo with Shaved Brussels Sprouts, Rebecca Pytell, Strength and Sunshine
Smoky Tempeh Stuffed Acorn Squash, Emily Cooper, RDN, Sinful Nutrition
Spinach Pesto Lasagna with Creamy Mushroom Sauce, Anjali Lalani, Vegetarian Gastronomy
Sweet Potato & Black Bean Hash with Chipotle Crema, Cadry Nelson, Cadry’s Kitchen (shown above)
Sweet Potato and Kale Boats with Easy Tahini Dressing, Caitlin Shoemaker, From My Bowl (shown above)
Sweet Potato Brussels Sprouts Wild Rice Bowl, Kate Minor, The Artful Appetite
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Such a delicious collection of recipes! Thank you so much for including my kale salad!