Meatless Mondays in the Winter? Absolutely, With These Comforting Dishes (2024)

This creamy French bread pizza with fresh spinach, cream cheese, and artichoke is a weeknight dinner dream.

Recipe: Spinach-Artichoke Pizza

Risotto can be quicker and easier than you'd think, and it makes a deliciously creamy base for this hearty vegetarian dish.

Recipe: Risotto with Scallions, Mushrooms, and Spinach

This indulgent recipe combines thick, tubular torchio pasta with a cheesy sauce, sweet potato chunks, radicchio slices, pecans, and even more cheese.

Recipe: Cheesy Baked Pasta with Sweet Potatoes and Radicchio

Rubbing garlic on the pan before cooking contributes mellow depth to a rich classic.

Recipe: Potato Gratin

Sweet, juicy pears and the slightly nutty flavor of Gouda cheese are a perfectly sophisticated flavor pairing.

Recipe: Pear and Gouda Grilled Cheese

Try this slightly spicy, Tex-Mex-inspired take on a traditional Southern dish.

Recipe: Fried Green Tomatillos with Spicy Cream Sauce

Kick your regular mac and cheese recipe up a notch by adding healthy veggies — spinach and mushrooms — and using good quality cheese. The biggest secret of this delicious macaroni and cheese recipe is that it's not really baked! Instead, it's cooked on the stove and then broiled for 2 minutes at the end to make the topping crusty, which saves you tons of time.

Recipe: Spinach-Mushroom Mac and Cheese

You'll be craving this rich and creamy, thyme-infused potato and onion soup on chilly fall nights.

Recipe: Potato and Onion Soup

These super-tender, buttery biscuits are barely sweet, so they go equally well with the sweet and savory dishes. They're also great with a drizzle of honey.

Recipe: Sweet Potato Biscuits

You can stuff anything into a poblano chile and fry it, and it will taste good. Serve this rendition with sour cream as a side dish or as a vegetarian main dish.

Recipe: Poblano Chiles Stuffed with Corn and Monterey Jack Cheese

This lighter version of a classic alfredo includes cauliflower for an extra boost of nutrition with the same creamy comfort.

Recipe: Fettuccine Alfredo

These potato pancakes get a boost of flavor from sweet beets and thyme. They're delicious with sour cream.

Recipe: Beet-and-Potato Latkes with Thyme

This vegetarian hot-and-sour-inspired soup is chock-full of tofu and vegetables, plus noodles to make it hearty enough for dinner.

Recipe: Shiitake and Noodle Hot and Sour Soup

If you like a classic eggplant parm, then you'll absolutely love it turned into a cheesy, gooey lasagna.

Recipe: Eggplant Parmesan Lasagna

It might seem simple on its surface, but this concoction of freshly made pasta, creamy cheese sauce, and fragrant winter herbs is a hearty, comforting, and luxurious combination.

Recipe: Winter Herb and Ricotta Cannelloni

This hearty chili recipe is made to soothe away the bite of chilly days. It's so delicious, you won't even notice that it's healthy.

Recipe: Two-Bean Harvest Chili

Adding sweet parsnips to your usual potato mash is an easy way to reinvigorate a classic side dish.

Mashed Potatoes and Parsnips

This comforting classic does dinner double-duty in the winters — in 25 minutes it warms you up and gives you a healthy boost of vitamins.

Recipe: Classic Minestrone

These mini vegetarian shepherd's pies feature lentils, carrot, and corn, crowned with a velvety mashed potato topping. Serve with a spinach salad with oranges, walnuts, and red-wine vinaigrette for a well-rounded meal.

Recipe: Vegetarian Shepherd's Pies

Believed to have Tunisian origin, shakshuka are eggs simmered in a tomato sauce and traditionally served in a cast iron pan with bread to soak up all the flavors. After the chopping is done, this dish comes together quickly in one pot so clean-up is a breeze.

Recipe: Shakshuka (Eggs in a Spicy Tomato Sauce)