For along time I distanced myself from pasta. In my earlier life, being a new vegetarian in rural midwest was hard. However, restaurants made a try, usually with a pasta dish. I also made a lot of pasta in my early days because it was easy. I got really burnt out on pasta. However, many years later and a better balance in dishes, I'm happy to add a solid dose of pasta recipes back into my repertoire. Below are the 13 vegetarian pasta recipes I turn to when the weather gets cooler. Some are rich, some are vegan but all are delicious.
The Vegan
My whole goal when making a pasta vegan is to make my husband not question it. Pack it full of flavor (and garlic) and it seems like these dishes are always a win. Nuts and nut-creams are your friend. Play into the nut flavors as well- I love using pecan and walnut milks for a base, especially during the fall.
- Sweet Potato Pasta with Sage Sauce
- Pasta with Roasted Rutabaga and Cashew Sauce
- Roasted Cauliflower Pasta with Lemon-Almond Sauce
- Pasta with Olive Pesto
The Baked
There is nothing quite like pulling a cheesy, hot pasta bake from the oven. It's up their on my cozy comfort food list. Lasagna is always delicious but my preference lies in stuffed shells (like the butternut squash pictured above!)
The Vegetable-Heavy
My biggest complaint about restaurant pasta dishes is the pasta to vegetable ratio. Often it's 90% pasta with a few measly vegetables tossed on top. These dishes are my rebuttal where most reach a 50/50 pasta to vegetable ratio.
Andre fosh says
wow! The vegetable-heavy pasta is just so perfect. Love vegetables a lot and your recipe are so cool.
Sophie Wheatley says
Such a treat reading your blogs. Fantastic suggestions as always. I love your style, dishes, flavour combos. My favourite food blogger by far!
Liz says
YUM!! Other than cheese, what do you do for protein in these dishes?
Erin Alderson says
I usually pair the pasta with a salad that uses legumes + nuts. You could also use a bean pasta in place of the noodles!
Susan says
You've got some really wonderful-sounding recipes here. I'm actually making the rutabaga pasta for dinner tonight, my second go-round on that recipe. Your recipes are so good that I could easily go back to being a vegetarian. Unfortunately that wouldn't work for my husband, but I've been giving him ever more vegetarian meals, and he does enjoy them.