Easter is right around the corner! What's on your menu? Plan your celebration with an array of vegan Easter recipes the whole family will enjoy. We have you covered, from appetizers to soups, salads, and entrees!
I love Easter because the weather starts to warm up, and we can enjoy the outdoors and a great meal. As a result, I hope you enjoy some of my vegan Easter recipes to help you to enjoy a happy vegan Easter.
Regardless if you live alone or your entire family surrounds you, please take time to enjoy a good meal.
Vegan Appetizers for Easter
Sometimes, our family chooses to have appetizers or tapas on Easter or other holidays. Instead of a sit-down dinner, we graze all day. So, here are my favorite vegan Easter appetizer recipes.
Hummus is one of my favorite appetizers; however, making it a little fancier and adding beautiful greens, quinoa, and fresh veggies makes it a fabulous dip.
Skinny Cilantro Jalapeno Hummus Salad Dip
Total Time: 20 minutes mins
Don't just serve hummus, add something special with a healthy twist! Use a fork, dip with vegetables, or dip in with pita.
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Another way to enjoy hummus is to make a Greek layered dip with Mediterranean flavors!
Vegan Layered Greek Dip
Total Time: 40 minutes mins
Layer on top of layer of fabulous freshness. Take hummus to the next level and enjoy this beautiful vegan layer Greek dip! Serve with baked pita chips or vegetables; this dip is always a crowd-pleaser.
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Try making a vegan bruschetta board with various different toppings. Make ahead, or make a self-service bruschetta table for your guest to build their own bread creations.
Vegan Bruschetta
Total Time: 15 minutes mins
Quick and simple, vegan bruschetta can be a beautiful, colorful appetizer to serve to guests or a creative meal for the whole family.
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Vegan baby portobello mushroom bites are easy to make, filling, and savory!
Vegan Baby Portobello Mushroom Bites
Total Time: 25 minutes mins
Mushrooms are a perfect capsule to stuff wonderful ingredients. These savory bite-sized mushrooms are to die for.
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Regardless of how often I make vegan crockpot meatballs, they vanish in minutes.
Vegan Sweet and Sour Meatballs
Total Time: 6 hours hrs 15 minutes mins
I veganized Grandma's sweet and sour meatball recipe. Even meat-eaters love these vegan sweet and sour meatballs! So, don't tell anyone. Shhh!
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These bite-sized savory vegan baked parmesan tomatoes melt in your mouth. Full of a mixture of vegan parmesan cheese, oil-free bread crumbs, and a few additional ingredients, these bite-sized treats are ready in 15 minutes or less.
Baked Parmesan Tomatoes
Total Time: 15 minutes mins
These bite-sized savory vegan baked parmesan tomatoes melt in your mouth. Full of a mixture of vegan parmesan cheese, oil-free bread crumbs, and a few additional ingredients, these bite-sized treats are ready in 15 minutes or less.
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I love grilled asparagus with mustard dill sauce. It's fresh and perfect for Easter.
Mustard Dill Sauce
With a few simple ingredients, try this mustard dill sauce. It's perfect for roasted, grilled, or air-fried vegetables, baked potatoes, and rice or noodles. And this mustard dill sauce recipe only takes 5 minutes to make from start to finish.
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White bean dip is savory and delicious and served with bread, crackers, or your favorite veggies. Cold or hot, this white bean dip is a hit.
Vegan White Bean Dip
Total Time: 30 minutes mins
This vegan white bean dip is a savory, rich, hot dip with incredible flavor. Healthy and robust, this white bean dip can also be served as a cold dip with bread, crackers, or vegetables for dipping—skinning dipping at its best.
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Fried polenta is a beautiful appetizer the whole family loves!
Fried Polenta
Get the air fryer out for a delicious fried polenta recipe. This tubed polenta recipe is quick and easy with a Mediterranean twist! And, if you don't have an air fryer, baking is an option. You will love these fried polenta cakes!
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A classic vegan spin on a popular dip, vegan spinach artichoke dip is fabulous with bread, crackers, or veggies.
Vegan Spinach Artichoke Dip
Total Time: 50 minutes mins
Vegan Spinach Artichoke Dip is a creamy all veggie sensation. Served hot or cold, this all-vegetable dip is oil-free, nut-free, and plant-milk-free. Even the cheesy sauce is made with only vegetables. This is skinny dipping at its finest.
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Easter Vegan Salad Recipes
As you know, I love salad; the more greens, the better. So, I generally have a bunch of my favorite salads for Easter!
For example, Creamy potato salad is one of my family's favorite salads, often requested.
Vegan Potato Salad
Total Time: 15 minutes mins
Vegan potato salad is the perfect picnic or barbeque side dish. Creamy and full of veggies, this classic potato salad is so delicious that you won't believe it's vegan. So don't skip your favorite foods; instead, make them vegan and healthy, and enjoy!
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Colorful and full of beans and veggies, everyone loves a flavorful bean salad for Easter dinner.
Bean Salad
Total Time: 15 minutes mins
For a quick and easy lunch idea, or your next BBQ or picnic, make an oil-free bean salad.
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The combination of apples, grapes, walnuts, and veggies in a creamy sweet dressing is my favorite salad every holiday.
Vegan Waldorf Salad
Total Time: 10 minutes mins
Crunchy with crisp apples, celery, and walnuts, this vegan Waldorf salad is a classic recipe perfect for the fall. Take a bite of this sweet and savory vegan Waldorf salad recipe, and you'll be hooked.
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Vegan chicken salad combines chickpeas, vegetables, red grapes, and a tangy salad dressing for a wonderful Easter salad.
Vegan Chicken Salad
Total Time: 20 minutes mins
This vegan chicken salad recipe is fabulous stuffed in a tomato, wrap or pita, a sandwich, or on top of a crunchy salad! With two different versions, you get to choose how you like it.
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Everyone loves vegan caesar salad with crunchy croutons dressed in a tangy caesar dressing.
Vegan Caesar Salad
Total Time: 25 minutes mins
Vegan Caesar salad is a copycat version of a traditional Caesar salad, veganized for plant-based salad lovers. Oil-free, down to the croutons, this vegan Caesar salad is savory and delicious with all the tasty flavors in a Caesar salad just healthier.
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Although a grilled caesar salad requires grilling, it has very few ingredients, and it is exquisite to serve with your vegan Easter meal.
Vegan macaroni salad is full of veggies and dressed in a tangy, oil-free, creamy dressing. This salad is easy to make in 15 minutes or less, but it's also perfect as a side dish for any meal.
Vegan Macaroni Salad
Total Time: 30 minutes mins
Summer is on the way, and what better way to greet it than with a classic vegan macaroni salad for your first BBQ! 15 minutes from start to finish, this vegan version of a classic macaroni salad will bring them back for more.
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Israeli salad is a lettuce-free salad full of veggies and chickpeas.
Israeli Salad
Total Time: 10 minutes mins
Israeli salad is a chopped salad packed with vibrant vegetables, chickpeas, and fresh herbs in an oil-free lemony dressing. Made ahead of time, the flavors in this Israeli salad enhance as it chills.
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This pasta salad contains asparagus, tomatoes, onions, parsley, and kalamata olives. It's light and tasty and perfect for Easter Sunday.
Roasted Asparagus Salad
Total Time: 25 minutes mins
Roasted asparagus highlights this fresh and light asparagus salad with simple ingredients dressed in an oil-free champagne vinaigrette dressing. Asparagus salad tastes like summer in a bowl.
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Welcome spring with this vegan pasta salad even has veggie pasta as a base. Not only is it colorful, but it tastes delicious.
Vegan Pasta Salad
Total Time: 19 minutes mins
This spring, make a vegan pasta salad full of vibrant spring vegetables dressed in a light, tangy, oil-free vinaigrette dressing. This spring pasta salad is so fresh and delicious that your guests will return for seconds.
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Delicious Vegan Soups for Easter
Vegan carrot soup is the perfect soup to welcome spring! Served for Easter dinner or as a cup of soup with a tasty salad, carrot soup is creamy and delicious.
Vegan Roasted Carrot Soup
Total Time: 1 hour hr 25 minutes mins
When life gives you carrots, make vegan carrot soup! Vegan carrot soup is a melody of savory roasted vegetables and cashews for a melt-in-your-mouth creamy soup.
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This creamy broccoli soup recipe is made with carrot, potato cheese sauce, and fresh broccoli. You won't believe how creamy and delicious this cheesy broccoli soup is.
Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup
Total Time: 1 hour hr
Vegan Cream of Broccoli Soup is a satisfyingly creamy, cheesy soup made from potatoes, carrots, onions, and broccoli without nuts, non-dairy milk, or oil. So, dive into a bowl of luscious cream of broccoli soup.
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In this tasty vegan minestrone recipe, noodles, beans, and many vegetables fill this tomato-based broth. This soup is perfect for any meal with beans and veggies in one delicious cup or bowl.
Vegan Minestrone Soup
Total Time: 1 hour hr 10 minutes mins
Watch out, Rachel Ray; my vegan minestrone is just as delicious, oil-free, and plant-based. Enjoy the same savory goodness without all the fat and calories and enjoy this delightful vegan minestrone recipe for lunch, dinner, or freeze it for future meals.
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Potato chowder is a perfect way to begin Easter dinner with a chunky, savory potato soup recipe.
Vegan Potato Chowder
This thick and creamy vegan potato chowder is a one-pot meal in under 30 minutes. So, grab a pot and a few simple ingredients for a delicious vegan potato chowder recipe.
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Pasta fa*gioli Soup has everything you could ever want in a soup.... veggies, beans, pasta, and a delicious tomato broth.
Pasta fa*gioli Soup
Total Time: 30 minutes mins
This Pasta fa*gioli Soup recipe is a comforting Italian soup in a tomato-based broth filled with beans, vegetables, and tiny tubular pasta. This vegan, healthy version of an Olive Garden classic is so delicious you will think you are eating out. And it takes less than 30 minutes and one pot to make.
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This family favorite is so delicious you may need to double the recipe. And don't be surprised if someone asks for the recipe.
Vegan Gnocchi Soup
Total Time: 20 minutes mins
Thick and creamy, this vegan gnocchi soup recipe is oil-free, loaded with vegetables and delicate potato gnocchi dumplings in a savory broth. Not only is this soup decadent, but it also takes under 25 minutes from start to finish. Stove-top, crockpot and Instant Pot directions provided.
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Easter Holiday Vegan Entree Ideas
No matter the holiday, vegan meatloaf is always a winner! Make it ahead of time to make holiday prep easy.
Vegan Meatloaf
Total Time: 1 hour hr
This lentil loaf is the best vegan meatloaf you will ever eat! Make it the day before, enjoy it for dinner, and make cold vegan meatloaf sandwiches for lunch! YUM! And if you love this recipe, stuff a bell pepper, portobello mushrooms, or some pasta shells with this yummy lentil mixture.
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Vegetable strudel is another make-ahead meal. I serve it with vegan mashed potatoes and gravy.
Vegetable Strudel
Total Time: 45 minutes mins
Vegan vegetable strudel is stuffed with vegetables in a thick and creamy vegan gravy, wrapped in a light flaky, oil-free dough, and baked to perfection. Served with vegan mashed potatoes and gravy.
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Everyone at my house loves pasta! And creamy, garlicky Fettuccine Alfredo is often requested at my home. Again, making the sauce ahead of time saves a lot of time.
Another family favorite, vegan lasagna, is a definite crowd-pleaser. So, if you want a GREAT family favorite, try vegan lasagna.I always make lasagna the day before and reheat it the day of my party.
Vegan Lasagna
Total Time: 1 hour hr 20 minutes mins
The best 7 layered vegan lasagna recipe you will ever eat! Loaded with lentils, vegetables, and cashew basil cheese sauce, you will be begging for more.
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Vegan white sauce lasagna is made with creamy bechamel sauce instead of tomato sauce. It is decadent and one of our favorite ways to enjoy lasagna.
Vegan White Sauce Lasagna
Total Time: 50 minutes mins
Vegan white sauce lasagna is layered with onions, mushrooms and spinach in a creamy white sauce and topped with vegan parmesan cheese. This is comfort food taken to the next level. Dig in and taste the splendor.
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Make an individual or one big vegan pot pie for the family to enjoy!
Vegan Pot Pie
Total Time: 50 minutes mins
Plunge through the crispy crust of this oil-free vegan pot pie full of vegetables in a thick, creamy, savory vegan gravy made without nuts or plant milk. This vegan pot pie recipe is the perfect holiday meal or comfort food on a cold evening.
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This vegan shepherd's pie is unique because the topping is scalloped potatoes instead of traditional mashed potatoes.
Vegan Shepherds Pie
Total Time: 1 hour hr
My version of vegan shepherd's pie is filled with lentils, vegetables, in a savory sauce, topped with thin scalloped cheesy potatoes. Instead of mashed potatoes. This cottage pie is a savory sensation you must try!
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Vegan Side Dishes
Carrot Potato Mash
If you're looking for a savory and delicious new take on mashed potatoes, you have to try this carrot potato mash! Instead of plain mashed potatoes, add a variety of falvors to this carrot potato mash recipe! You'll never eat plain mashed potatoes again.
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Vegan Scalloped Potatoes Recipe
Total Time: 1 hour hr 45 minutes mins
These creamy, oil-free, smoky, vegan scalloped potatoes are mouth-watering and delicious. They are the perfect dish for a weeknight dinner or any holiday, and they can be made ahead of time and cooked when needed.
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Butter Bean Mashed Potatoes with Easy 'No-Chicken' Gravy
Total Time: 35 minutes mins
"Buttery" Mashed Potatoes without any vegan butter or added fat. Naturally season your potatoes by simply adding butter beans. Enjoy the buttery taste without the guilt.
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From our family to yours, Happy Easter!
Kathy Carmichael
Hi! My name is Kathy, I am a retired high school English teacher & vegan enthusiast and blogger. My entire blog is fully plant-based vegan. I truly believe what we eat & how we live determines our health & the preservation of our planet! 🙂
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