Vegan Christmas Recipes - 60+ Vegan Recipes for the Holidays (2024)

This butternut squash, carrot and ginger soup is such a cosy dish. The earthy butternut combines with the sweetness of carrots and the fieriness of ginger. It will awaken your tastebuds for the rest of your amazing meal.

Vegan Mushroom Soup

For a creamy and umami rich start to your meal, try this easy vegan mushroom soup. Served with some crusty bread, it would also make a lovely light meal for over the holidays.

Vegan Mushroom Pâté

Our vegan mushroom pâté is always a hit at Christmas. You can spread it on crackers to make easy canapés, or serve it as a dip with crudités. Or just eat it by the spoonful - because it's Christmas!

Easy Vegan Crackers

These easy vegan crackers are so much better than storebought! Because your special Christmas vegan cheese deserves the best! Also amazing with our vegan mushroom pate.

Vegan Cheesy Pull-Apart Garlic Bread

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This vegan cheesy garlic bread is a perfect starter or side to any holiday dinner. It's made with homemade vegan mozzarella and served in a fun pull apart style bread.

Vegan Cheesy Sweet Potato Pierogi

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Start your Christmas dinner with a small plate of these vegan cheesy sweet potato pierogi, Polish traditional dumplings. Even better when topped with the optional caramelized onions!

Vegan Cheese Straws

These delightfully flaky vegan cheese straws are the perfect fingerfood to serve whilst waiting for the main meal! So easy and quick to make.

Christmas Pinwheels

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These vegan Christmas Pinwheels are a festive appetizer or side dish for any meal or party. Pesto and sun-dried tomatoes are featured as the red and green ingredients to really bring out holidays!

Green Beans in a Blanket

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These make a fabulous and fancy-looking starter. Using pre-rolled vegan crescent roll dough and only 5 other ingredients, they are also simple to make.

Vegan 7-Layer Salad Recipe

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Share this eye-catching flavor bomb at your holiday get-together and glow as admiration flows your way. Plant-based and gluten-free, so everyone can dig in and enjoy!

This vegan mushroom wellington makes an impressive and delicious centerpiece to any festive meal. It’s got a flavorsome mushroom and nut filling, whole roasted portobellos, cranberry sauce and is covered by beautifully braided puff pastry.

This easy nut roast is a family favourite. It’s a staple for a vegan roast dinner and is always popular at Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations. This recipe is quick to prepare with just 10 ingredients and is rich in nutty flavour.

This stunning Christmas roast butternut squash is packed with festive flavours - pistachios, cranberries, red wine, lentils and herbs. A delicious Christmas roast.

Vegan pot roast with an abundance of veggies cooked in a hearty sauce. It can be made with portobello mushrooms, tofu, tempeh or jackfruit as the main piece. Perfect One-pot dish to add to your festive dinner!

This hearty and nutritious vegan lentil loaf is perfect as a delicious plant-based addition to any holiday meal or winter day! It's really easy to make and requires only 10 minutes of hands-on time.

Make your festive dinner complete with this Vegan Holiday Roast. It's filled with savory stuffing and finished with a mouth-watering glaze.

Whole roasted cauliflower is a showstopping healthy baked main or side dish. The garlic and smoked paprika give it a wonderful flavor, while the cauliflower gets soft inside and crispy on the outside.

A golden puff pastry plait filled with sundried tomato pate, topped with roasted vegetables and vegan parmesan. The perfect dish for Christmas dinner.

Want it a bit more extravagant? Here's a layered loaf full of savoury delights and surprises. It is much easier to make than it looks and it will astound friends and family when you unveil it!

This Maple Dijon Baked Tempeh is the perfect gluten-free and vegan main course for Christmas. Covered in a rich, sweet and savory sauce flavored with maple syrup, Dijon mustard, tamari and apple juice with a touch of garlic and tarragon, this vegan tempeh recipe will give you all the holiday feels.

Vegan Stuffing

Inspired by a classic American stuffing recipe. With bread cubes, vegan sausages, apples, celery and nuts this side dish is loaded with yummy stuff for your festive feast!

Cranberry Sauce

Homemade cranberry sauce is a must have for your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner. This easy recipe with orange and spices tastes so rich and festive, you'll never go back to storebought!

Vegan Gravy

This flavoursome and umami rich vegan gravy is made with onions and mushrooms. Homemade gravy that’s quick and easy and perfect for your vegan roast dinner.

Roasted Carrots with Maple Mustard Glaze

Beautifully roasted carrots with a caramelised glaze of maple syrup and mustard are a great vegetable side dish to a roast dinner. This recipe is a simple but super yummy change to boring plain carrots, yet fuss-free and easy.

Puff Pastry Vegetable Tart

This puff pastry vegetable tart is put together really quickly and is customizeable with the use of seasonal vegetables. Perfectly good as a party snack or light meal, it also makes for a colourful, rich side dish to a festive meal!

Mashed Sweet Potatoes

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Mashed sweet potatoes are the perfect side dish for Christmas. Made with only vegan ingredients such as almond milk and vegan butter.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar

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Make these tasty Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Balsamic Vinegar in just 25 minutes with 4 simple ingredients. This tasty side dish is perfect for Thanksgiving, Christmas or any day!

Vegan Cauliflower Cheese

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Vegan cauliflower cheese is a great addition to Christmas dinner, as it is such a special, comforting dish! It's ready in 25 minutes, only needs 9 ingredients and is luxuriously creamy.

Refreshing Kale Salad with Apple

As a lighter side , this seasonal salad is a welcome accompanient to the main dish! With a refreshing lemon and ginger dressing, this kale salad is a wonderful healthy Christmas side dish.

Vegan Green Beans with Nutritional Yeast Sauce

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This vegan green beans dish makes a perfect side for any holiday meal. It is gluten-free and oil-free and is made with a tasty “cheesy” sauce!

Variations of rice pudding are popular all around the world, and the dessert has a Christmas tradition in many European countries. Our easy vegan rice pudding recipe is festive in flavour with cinamon and orange peel.

Tiramisu is a treat suitable for any special occasion. This popular vegan recipe requires only little time, few ingredients and is sure to delight vegan tastebuds in the holidays!

Ice cream for Christmas? Yes, please! This easy 4-ingredient recipe is Christmas flavoured with spiced speculoos cookies. Based on frozen bananas, it even leaves room for more!

For a fruity change, make this vegan strawberry tart this Christmas! The vegan pastry crust loaded with vegan creme patissiere and strawberries. The recipe is simple, yet so fruity-licious!

A wonderfully spiced vegan gingerbread cake with layers of classic buttercream. The cake melts in your mouth and is made with common ingredients.

With plump Medjool dates, golden sultanas, dried cranberries and pears and a goodly swig of brandy, this vegan Christmas pudding recipe makes creating a show-stopping Christmas dessert so easy.

With a rich, caramel-like filling, toasted pecans, and chunks of dark chocolate, this Vegan Salted Chocolate Pecan Pie is everything you want in a holiday dessert. It's easy, can be made in advance, and even holds up well at room temperature. With the most amazing gluten-free crust, this is a pie everyone will love.

Strawberry trifle with layers of vanilla cake, fresh fruit, custard and whipped cream. Great for serving a crowd!

This Gluten-Free Vegan Yule Log is moist and fluffy, super indulgent, and coated in a velvety chocolate buttercream made from chestnuts! It’s also refined sugar free and is the perfect festive dessert for Christmas!

This is what we had for our Christmas dessert last year - it's incredibly easy with just 4 ingredients. With a wonderfully silky chocolatey filling, it's sure to be a hit!

Vanillekipferl are an absolute must-have cookie in Austria and Germany. They are delicate, crescent shaped and sugar dusted cookies. Ground almonds or nuts give them a wonderful light texture and a heavenly taste.

These vegan hazelnut cookies are easy to make, with ground hazelnuts in the cookie dough, as well as chopped hazels on top for extra crunch. They are a favourite bake for Christmas, but you can enjoy them any time of year!

Jam filled vegan Linzer cookies are a holiday favourite. They’re so much fun to bake! Plus they are an absolute eye catcher while also delighting with a lovely flavour and beautiful light, crumbly texture.

These vegan no bake chocolate cookies are SO easy. All you need is 3 ingredients and 10 minutes of your time!

These delightful vegan lebkuchen are soft and richly flavoured with gingerbread spices. Cover them in chocolate or glaze - it's up to you!

These French inspired cookies are crisp and easy to make. With just puff pastry, ground almonds, sugar and cinnamon you can make these crunchy and sweet vegan palmiers.

We love vegan Christmas cookies so much we wrote a whole guide on them.! This article is packed with top tips for baking, storing and packaging your cookies, as well as even more recipes.

Vegan Apple Pancakes

Our traditional breakfast on Christmas Day is pancakes. These vegan apple and cinnamon pancakes are a fun, more festive alternative to plain pancakes.

Vegan Spinach Pancakes

And for fans of a savoury breakfast or a pancake brunch, we love these vegan spinach pancakes. Just look at that glorious green colour!

Vegan Tofu Bacon

What better to go with some vegan pancakes than some vegan bacon? This easy recipe is smoky, salty, chewy and so full of YUM!

Vegan Kaiserschmarrn

Another breakfast favorite of ours is Kaiserschmarrn, a type of scrambled pancake served with spiced plums. It's indulgent and satisfying, just like a special Christmas breakfast should be!

Spiced Christmas Bread with Nuts and Dried Fruit

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Delicious, Christmas-flavoured vegan and gluten-free breakfast or snack. Full of amazing winter spices and packed with nutrients.

Vegan Eggnog French Toast & Cranberry Maple Syrup

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Start the day off with this festive cranberry nog French toast. It’s easy to make and so delicious!

Vegan Granola

Homemade vegan granola is always a great way to start the day! For an extra Christmassy twist, add dried cranberries and orange zest.

One Bowl Gingerbread Muffins

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These one bowl gingerbread muffins are moist, fluffy and bursting with fresh gingerbread flavor. They’re easy to make, naturally vegan and perfect for Christmas brunch!

Vegan Apple and Carrot Loaf

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This apple and carrot loaf is made without any refined sugars and is perfect for a breakfast or snack.

Easy Vegan Crepes

These 2 ingredient vegan crepes are so easy to make! For extra festive indulgence we like to fill them with some vegan ice cream, chocolate and fruit!

Surprise your guests with this no bake dessert when you reveal the rich chocolate, fruit and nut filled inside. It makes a great stockings filling or edible Christmas gift too!

Decadently delicious and easy to make - this vegan rum truffle recipe is top on our list of festive treats. Serve these rum balls at your next holiday party or give them as cute Christmas presents. Just make sure to gift yourself some too!

These roasted sweet and spicy nuts are so incredibly moreish! If you plan to make them as a gift, better make a batch for yourself too... As once you've tried them, you might be less willing to share. You have been warned! Enjoy!

We never peel our potatoes. But if you do, and if you're making some with your dinner this Christmas, don't waste the peels... Make these potato peel crisps! They are so tasty, they are our favourite zero waste snack!

Homemade vegan pesto makes a great edible gift for your food loving vegan friends! Just put a ribbon and a nice label on the jar and you know you have a present that your vegan giftee can look forward to enjoying!

This vegan homemade ground 'parmesan' is a great way to instantly flavour up any meal! We make a batch of this stuff at least once a month. Be sure to bookmark this recipe, as the lucky one receiving this gift will most likely ask for more! 😉

A jar of this homemade vegan hot chocolate powder makes an awesome holiday gift! Just make sure to make some for yourself as well.

Why should cookies have to hide in a tin? You can make them into edible christmas tree decorations with this fun last minute gift idea!

For me, there's something about the combo of chocolate and orange that just shouts Christmas! These indulgent and delectable truffles are a must make gift for friends and family.

If you’re all about gifting food, or just eating really great sweets, this vegan peppermint s’mores fudge is the perfect recipe! Fudge is inherently pretty easy to make, but there is a very hard part: waiting for it to cool before enjoying.