Here are all the best vegan side dishes to round out a plant based meal! These recipes load on the colorful vegetables and plant based protein.

Looking for vegan side dishes? It’s deceptively difficult to round out a vegan meal. Sure, you can find a plant-based recipe or two: but making it into a healthy meal? That can be trickier. Most importantly: you’ve got to think about plant-based protein to make a vegan meal filling enough to last through the day.
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Because of these challenges, we’ve rounded up a bunch of our best vegan side dish recipes! These are all the recipes we turn to on the regular. There’s a mix of recipes that load on the colorful veggies and nutrients, and others that bring in the plant-based protein. Let’s get cooking, shall we?
And now…the best vegan side dishes to try!
More great vegan resources
- How to Go Vegan: Guide & Recipes Here’s a beginner’s guide and all the healthy recipes you need. Plant based eating can be affordable, filling and delicious!
- Plant Based Diet for Beginners Everything you need to know about eating plant based, with lots of recipes!
- 28 Day Vegan Meal Plan or 28 Day Plant Based Diet Meal Plan All the recipes you need arranged into a monthly plan (with printable planner)!