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The best, comforting sweet and savory vegan recipes for quarantine with meal ideas for healthy, family-friendly breakfasts, lunches and dinners. All of these can be whipped up using what you have stocked in your vegan pantry already. Many are gluten-free and/or made using an Instant Pot.
The best Vegan Recipes for your Quarantine!
With all of us practicing social distancing or full-on quarantining, I thought it would be a good time to do a little recipe roundup for easy recipes using our favorite vegan pantry staples.
I know all we really want to do in these times of anxiety, is to sit on the sofa, eat sleeves of cookies and bags of chips. But let’s be real – you and your loved ones still need to eat proper meals. However, I find the act of preparing a wholesome meal — even a simple one — can be oh-so-soothing and can bring great comfort.
If you have a stocked vegan pantry, you can make a wonderful meal out of a few basic staple ingredients like black beans, lentils, chickpeas, oats, and pasta.
Even though “pantry staples” typically means shelf-stable items, I’m going to include some recipes with veggies but for most of those, you can substitute frozen vegetables. I know that your freezer isn’t your pantry, but I also know that you probably come prepared and have your veggies all chopped up, frozen and ready to go!
Here are my favorite simple healthy vegan dishes that will get you through quarantine!
Breakfast Recipes for Quarantine
PB & J Baked Oatmeal
Chickpea Tofu Breakfast Scramble with Smoky Bits
Vegan Savory Oats Hash
Fudgy Nut Butter & Lentil Brownies
Sprouted Lentil Avocado Toast
Pantry Staple Meals – Lunch & Dinner Recipes for Quarantine
Beans
Vegan Instant Pot Black Bean Soup
Mexican Street Corn Salad
Smoky Vegan Black Bean Wraps
Sweet Potato Black Bean Quesadilla
Grilleable Black Bean Veggie Burger
Lentils
Vegan Keema Madras with Red Lentils
Vegan Instant Pot Lentil Soup
Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes
Chickpeas
Chickpea Tahini Salad Sandwich
Vegan Nachos with Shawarma Chickpeas
Vegan Chickpea & Rice Soup
Pasta
Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans
Vegan Black Pepper Mac and Cheese
Vegan Fajitas Pasta with Chickpeas
Vegan Garlic Pasta with Roasted Cajun Cauliflower
Vegan Rose Sauce Farfalle
Rice
Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas Rice
Instant Pot Wild Rice Mushroom Soup
Dessert & Sweet Treat Recipes for Quarantine:
Coffee Cake
Vegan Gluten-free Carrot Banana Bread
Vegan Chickpea Brownies
Caramelized Banana Granola Bars
One Bowl Gluten-free Brownies
More Cakes.
I hope you enjoyed these simple vegan recipes for quarantine! You can totally play around with these. With just a few additional ingredients and substitutions, I am sure these recipes will keep you satisfied for a while.
Hang in there, we will all get through this. Feel free to share your thoughts in general and your favorite quarantine meals in particular in the comment section below.
This is lovely thanks for sharing these recipes during this outbreak. And, please keep posting…good luck.
thanks! you too!
Any desserts that can be cooked without an oven as I only have a stove top & pressure cooker & saucepans.
Love your recipes!
Yes there are so many no-bake recipes on the blog here is the link: veganricha.com/?s=no+bake
I actually found your wonderful recipes because of the word quarantine. I go through my veggies so fast so I was looking for some pantry meals. So, thank you. Stay well.
Bookmarking this for ideas. Thank you!
love your recipies…its too good and healthy. your presentation is very good . love it.. keep sharing the magic of healthy food and delicacies with us
Thank you so much for the wonderful recipes. Greetings from Germany
My sister and I use both your cook books and talk about how awesome the recipe results are all the time. Thank you so much for sharing these recipes today.
Scrolling down I’m reminded how varied, creative and delicious your recipes always are! Thank you for compiling some of them in this useful format. Stay well, and look after yourselves.
The recipes look beautiful and I would like to try some. … but is it necessary that we be reminded that we are in quarantine?
I really would like to get away from being reminded of that at every turn.
It really lowers the vibration and it shouldn’t be something we should be thinking about while we are cooking beautiful, healthy meals .
Just saying…
thank you &
blessings
Thats true. I wrote up the post and my assistant edited it. She adds words based on google search and it seems thats what people are searching for right now. ill edit it out in a few days to just be for pantry staples.
The quarantine reference didn’t bother me. In fact, I see it as a marker of the times we’re going through. If you left it in and reviewed this post in 5 years, it would serve as a reminder of what the world is going through right now.
I find this type of reminder both historically beneficial and plain ol’ interesting. I understand if you still choose to change it up, but know that people look at internet blog comments in different ways. Blessings!
Thanks. I’ll think over itt later for sure. The times are too weird right now to make decisions. I am just hoping thins will pass and settle soon
This is a lovely idea for a post – thanks for doing it. I have a bunch of food on hand and will be referring to this for ways to use it up!
Absolutely love your work! Keep it up! ❤️