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New Year's Dinner Ideas

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What are your plans for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day? If you plan to stay home, here are some New Year's dinner ideas to help you prepare. This collection of Vegan New Year's recipes is my family's favorite!

My husband and I generally stay home on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day because most of the fancy restaurants around town have set meals that cater to something other than our plant-based lifestyle. So, we usually celebrate New Year's at home with friends and family.

When we first started eating a plant-based diet, I struggled to create a menu that both the vegan and non-vegan guests would enjoy.

For that reason, I created a list of my family's favorite dinners to help you plan if you're starting or need a little inspiration for New Year's dinner ideas.

Appetizers

Sometimes, I make a bunch of appetizers for everyone to graze on throughout the day. Or we have a more formal tapas party for a more formal celebration.

Vegan Calamari
This crispy vegan calamari is made from hearts of palm and served with a spicy vegan tartar sauce. This vegan calamari recipe is so easy and tastes sinfully delicious!
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Vegetable Egg Rolls
Total Time: 20 minutes
Vegetable egg rolls are crispy, crunchy, and oil-free. Loaded with cabbage, carrots, onions, and mushrooms, these healthy vegetable egg rolls taste so good you won't believe you didn't order carryout from your favorite Chinese restaurant.
vegetable egg rolls
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Vegan White Bean Dip
Total Time: 30 minutes
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.
White Bean Dip Recipe
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Pizza Pinwheels
Total Time: 55 minutes
Full of your favorite pizza toppings, pizza pinwheels are made with oil-free dough. Rolled into bite-sized treats, these pizza pinwheels are easy to make and disappear from the plate in minutes. My kids LOVE them!
rolling the pizza pinwheels
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Soups and Salads

I always make a big salad to serve with dinner. And having a crockpot full of your favorite soup or chili is a great way to stay warm during a cold New Year's celebration.

Vegan Gnocchi Soup
Total Time: 20 minutes
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.
vegan gnocchi soup recipe
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Wild Rice Soup with Mushrooms
Total Time: 50 minutes
Wild Rice Soup with Mushrooms is gluten-free, oil-free, nut-free, and fabulous. Loaded with veggies in a thick, creamy, savory broth, this wild rice and mushroom soup is simply mouthwatering. Cook it on the stovetop, in the crockpot, or the Instant Pot.
Wild Rice Soup with Mushrooms
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Vegan White Bean Chili
Total Time: 55 minutes
A twist on a traditional chili recipe, vegan white bean chili is a slightly spicy sweet chili with many vegetables. I served it with cornbread because chili and cornbread taste fabulous together!
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Easy Chickpea Tomato Soup
This simple, quick, and easy recipe for homemade chickpea tomato soup is rich and delicious. And this chickpea tomato soup recipe s ready in under 20 minutes in one pan.
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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad
Dive into a bowl of Mediterranean quinoa salad for lunch or dinner. It's the perfect quick and easy summer meal you can prepare in less than 20 minutes!
Mediteranean Quinoa Salad Recipe
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Roasted Asparagus Salad
Total Time: 25 minutes
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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French Lentil Salad
Total Time: 30 minutes
French lentil salad is a cold or hot salad dressed in a tangy dressing with an array of vegetables served on a bed of arugula and topped with vegan tofu feta cheese. This quick and easy lentil salad is perfect for a hot summer night.
French Lentil Salad
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Beet Salad
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Savory meets sweet in this beet salad dressed in an oil-free balsamic vinaigrette and topped with tofu feta cheese. Don't be surprised when they ask for seconds.
Beet salad recipe
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Entrees

I make it as easy as possible to make an entree that everyone enjoys, and I can prep it in advance. These are a few of our favorites for a vegan New Year.

Vegan Cabbage Rolls
Vegan cabbage rolls taste just like grandma used to make. This perfect vegan cabbage roll recipe is easy weeknight comfort food for the whole family.
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Vegan Lasagna
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
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.
vegan lasagna served
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Vegan Mushroom Wellington
Total Time: 55 minutes
Vegan Mushroom Wellington is filled with a savory mushroom pate, wrapped in a delicate puff pastry, and baked to perfection.
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Vegetable Strudel
Total Time: 45 minutes
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.
sliced vegetable strudel with mashed potatoes
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Vegan Cajun Pasta
Total Time: 25 minutes
Creamy, cajun pasta is full of vegetables and cooks in one-pot in under 20 minutes. Make dinner easier, and clean up even easier. You will love this cajun pasta recipe!
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Breads and Desserts

Our family has a tradition of making Greek New Year's Bread with a quarter hidden inside. The family member with the piece of bread containing the quarter is gifted a year of good luck. And we enjoy finger food desserts as well.

Greek New Year's Bread
Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Greek New Year's Bread is an oil-free sweet bread, almost like a cake made every New Year as a good luck tradition for the upcoming year. My daughter turned my family's Greek New Year's Bread into an oil-free vegan version of our family's annual tradition.
cutting the greek New Year's Bread
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Pomegranate Chocolates
Total Time: 20 minutes
This simple recipe for pomegranate chocolates takes minutes to prepare and tastes like magic in your mouth. Vegan dark chocolate surrounds fresh pomegranate seeds for a beautiful combination of flavors.
pomegrante chocolates recipe
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Orange Cranberry Bread
Total Time: 1 hour
Orange cranberry bread is oil-free, nut-free, and refined sugar-free. Made with whole-food ingredients, each piece of bread is full of fresh cranberries that pop in your mouth with fresh orange flavor in each moist bite.
orange cranberry bread
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Enjoy these Vegan New Year's Recipes! Happy New Year to you and your family, and may you be blessed with a beautiful and healthy 2024!

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  1. Marianne Whaley

    Can't wait to try these recipes. Really enjoy your recipes, lots of flavor!

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    • Kathy Carmichael

      Hi Marianne, I'm so glad you like the recipes. Let me know if you try any. I'd love your opinion!

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