Last Ingredient Recipes

Find simple seasonal recipes for every meal including breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert. Many of these recipes are vegetarian and some are even vegan. With an emphasis on fruits and veggies and celebrating the best of summer, fall, winter and spring, discover cooking and baking inspiration.
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Arugula Persimmon Salad with Pomegranate Seeds & Goat Cheese - Last Ingredient
This easy persimmon salad is a fantastic mix of sweet, tart and savory flavors. It has pomegranate seeds, toasted walnuts, crumbled goat cheese and baby arugula. Tossed in maple lemon vinaigrette, this is a beautiful salad for fall-winter weeknight dinners or holiday meals.
Easy Vegetable Barley Soup with Frozen Vegetables - Last Ingredient
This vegetable barley soup is an easy recipe that takes advantage of the convenience of frozen vegetables. You can cook it in less than 30 minutes. It has a tomato-flavored broth with green beans, corn, peas, carrots and lima beans. Barley makes it a very hearty and filling vegan soup. It freezes well and is perfect for meal prep for lunch or dinner.
Roasted Carrot Salad with Chickpeas and Feta - Last Ingredient
This roasted carrot salad is a sheet pan recipe packed with vegetables and greens. Tossing in a can of chickpeas makes it filling enough to be a main dish salad. Besides baby arugula, carrots and chickpeas, it also has feta cheese, almonds, scallions and fresh herbs and is dressed in a honey shallot vinaigrette. Each bite of this salad has a fantastic mix of different textures and flavors.
Roasted Beet Wild Rice Pilaf with Baby Spinach and Pecans - Last Ingredient
This wild rice pilaf has a colorful combination of ingredients and textures with roasted beets, baby spinach, pecans and dried cranberries.Serve this as a side dish for Thanksgiving or another fall-winter meal. You can make the wild rice, beets and vinaigrette in advance, so then you can just stir everything together when you’re ready to enjoy it.
Easy Green Bean Quinoa with Lemon & Almonds - Last Ingredient
With lemon, almonds and fresh herbs, this green bean quinoa is an easy side dish recipe. While the quinoa cooks on the stove, you simmer the green beans in a couple minutes and make the lemon vinaigrette. Then you stir the quinoa with the green beans, white beans, arugula, chopped almonds, crumbled feta, scallions and parsley and drizzle in the dressing. This recipe is worth of a holiday side dish, but it's also great as a vegetarian main dish for lunch or dinner.
Easy Mushroom Spinach Pasta with Lemon & Garlic - Last Ingredient
I love a fancy tasting pasta recipe that’s easy to make, and this mushroom spinach pasta is one that fits this exact description. Ready in less than 30 minutes and made with penne, I sauté the mushrooms with garlic and shallots and then add butter and fresh lemon juice. They both give just the right amount of flavor and silkiness to the noodles. The heat from the pan gently wilts the greens, and then I stir in lemon zest and grated parmesan to finish it. This is an easy vegetarian pasta recipe.
Easy Maple Balsamic Roasted Parsnips - Last Ingredient
These maple balsamic roasted parsnips are an easy vegetable side dish that’s fantastic for a fall-winter weeknight dinner or for a holiday meal. After cutting the parsnips, I whisk the marinade in a large bowl with maple syrup, balsamic vinegar, mustard, olive oil and dried spices. Then I stir in the parsnips and put them on a sheet pan. The hot oven does the rest roasting and browning the parsnips until they are tender. I toss them with fresh herbs to finish them.
Easy Lemon White Bean Pasta with Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Baby Greens & Walnuts - Last Ingredient
Simple pantry staples and fresh ingredients make this white bean pasta an easy vegetarian dinner recipe. It has sun-dried tomatoes, cannellini beans and baby greens. You simmer orecchiette and then sauté the beans with garlic and seasonings. All the ingredients come together with grated pecorino cheese, toasted walnuts and fresh herbs.
Vegan Sweet Potato White Bean Soup with Kale - Last Ingredient
With sweet potatoes, white beans and tomatoes, this easy quinoa soup is a tasty and satisfying recipe that's a wonderful fall-winter vegetable soup. After the sweet potatoes, cannellini beans and quinoa finish simmering, I add chopped kale for greens. This soup is freezes well and is a good choice for meal prep for lunch or dinner.
Roasted Purple Cauliflower with Cilantro Pesto - Last Ingredient
If you’re a cauliflower person, then you have to try this incredible vegetable in every color including this roasted purple cauliflower. Once only a farmers market find, more than the usual white cauliflower is available at the grocery. For this easy vegetable side dish recipe, I make cilantro pesto with peanuts, lime and chilies and then use that as an herby sauce for the cauliflower.
Easy roasted Yukon Gold Potatoes - Last Ingredient
These easy roasted Yukon gold potatoes make the most of this special potato variety. With just 8 ingredients, this is a side dish that goes with countless main dishes for a weeknight meal or a holiday dinner. I season the potatoes with garlic powder, onion powder, salt and pepper before roasting them in the oven. They end up deep golden brown and crisp on the edges and tender and creamy in the middle.
Lemon Brussels Sprout Farro with Parmesan & Almonds - Last Ingredient
This easy sautéed brussels sprout farro can be a vegetarian side dish or a main for a weeknight dinner or a holiday meal. I quickly shred the sprouts in a food processor and sauté them with garlic, shallots and lemon. Then I stir in the cooked grains along with parmesan, chopped almonds and fresh herbs.
Roasted Cabbage Wedges with Scallion Tahini Sauce - Last Ingredient
These roasted cabbage wedges are an easy vegan side dish that you can also serve as a main dish with lentils or grains. While the cabbage roasts in the oven, you make a quick no-cook tahini sauce with scallions and fresh herbs for the perfect finishing drizzle. This is a simple vegetable recipe that takes just 30 minutes to make.
Baked Feta with Honey and Roasted Grapes - Last Ingredient
If cheese appetizers had a season fall through the holidays would be it, and feta might be the best kind to create something incredible and shareable. This baked feta with honey and roasted grapes has the most magical combination of flavors. First off, it's a savory dish, but then it has subtle sweet, salty and tart moments. It’s the kind of appetizer recipe that’s easy to make and will be an instant favorite.
Vegetarian Italian White Bean Soup - Last Ingredient
Fragrant with garlic and rosemary, this Italian white bean soup proves why beans are one of the best pantry ingredients. After the soup simmers, you puree half of it, so it ends up with a rich creamy base (without any actual cream) and bites of beans and carrots. After that, you stir in chopped kale, parmesan, lemon juice and fresh herbs to finish it. This vegetarian soup is great for meal prep and is freezer friendly.