Vegetarian Christmas recipes everyone will love (2024)

Impress vegan guests with this standout festive centrepiece, served with an indulgent gravy.

Try this beetroot wellington recipe

Delicious served hot or cold, this veggie tart is beautifully balanced with sweet, salty, aromatic and bitter flavours.

Try this sprout, fennel, apple and blue cheese tart recipe

It might sound like a bit of a cliché as a veggie option for Christmas Day, but if you’re going to cook a nut roast, this spinach, wild mushroom and cashew nut roast is the recipe to make.

Try the Hairy Bikers' nut and spinach roast recipe

This savoury kale and cheese tart makes the most of the kale’s mineral notes with toasted almonds, lemon zest, capers and plenty of pecorino. It’s lovely warm with buttery roast potatoes and all the other Christmas trimmings.

Try this kale and cheese tart recipe

This full-bodied mushroom and chestnut pie is packed full of flavour and will make the perfect veggie accompaniment to the festive trimmings.

Try our chestnut bourguignon pie recipe

Packed full of festive colours and flavours, even meat-eaters will find it hard to resist this quirky Christmas cob.

Try our walnut and spice plum Christmas cob recipe

This dish from the Mantua region of northern Italy is traditionally eaten on Christmas Eve, but is delicious served on Christmas day too.

Try our buon natale pumpkini ravioli recipe

This gorgeous tart makes a brilliant alternative to quiche, full of deliciously buttery fried shallots and glistening with honey and balsamic vinegar.

Try our honey glazed shallot tarte tatin recipe

A festive soup that is packed full of flavour and will make the perfect vegetarian Christmas starter.

Try Tom Aikens’ broccoli and blue stilton soup recipe

This celebratory twist on a cheese tart is simply delicious and will make the ultimate veggie centre piece.

Try our white stilton with apricot and red onion tart recipe

This classic Belgian potato tart is deliciously indulgent and will make the perfect celebratory feast.

Try the Hairy Biker’s Belgian potato tart recipe

A great Christmas day soup, packed with festive flavours and perfect served with cheese straws. The Bramley apple is the secret, tempering the sweetness of the chestnuts and squash.

Try our chestnut, roasted butternut squash and Bramley apple soup recipe

Crisp, creamy and deliciously warming, this tasty vegetable gratin will make the perfect accompaniment to the festive trimmings.

Try Bruno Louberts’ fennel, squash and courgette gratin recipe

Need a meat-free starter? These pistachio-stuffed portabellos are nutty, creamy, and look every inch as impressive on the table as your pigs-in-blankets stack.

Try this pistachio stuffed mushroom recipe