um, that Potato & Kale Gratin at #14 has parmesan cheese in it...

The kale gratin looks yummy, but isn't vegan.

I'm guessing they put them in there because it's not hard to leave the non-vegan ingredients out.

I live off of the potato tacos and dal palak. They're awesome.

I've made vegan potpie before. It is so delicious. I leave out nutritional yeast at all times.

lola, if you don't mind my asking, why do you leave it out?

Yes, the Parmesan cheese in the gratin can be left out with minimal effect. You can also substitute a vegan cheese.

Leaving out Parmesan cheese doesn't have a "minimal effect"--it drains flavor and moisture from the recipe. And vegan cheeses generally aren't great. Shouldn't you be featuring actual vegan recipes for Vegan Week?

That seems like a lame response to me. Leave parm cheese out of a gratin, and you get...um...NOT a gratin? Sauteed kale?

There are tons of great vegan recipes out there - south indian food has thousands of choices alone - and the only choice for a list of 15 is a non-vegan recipe? I'm an omnivore, but I think that is lame editing.

Yes, that recipe is totally vegan-adaptable. No, leaving the Parm out of the gratin does not make it sautéed kale. (Did you read it? There are potatoes.) Sorry it annoyed you, but I think it's such a wonderful recipe and most gratins are loaded with dairy -- this (mostly! pretty much!) dairy-free one is a real treat. I included it quite deliberately for that reason; many gratins have far too much dairy, and this one is a good template for other dairy-free baked dishes.

We will add a specific note to the recipe, but a mere 1/3 cup of Parm adds almost no moisture to the recipe -- just a bit of flavor and saltiness. It can be left out just fine. You can rub a bit of herbs and extra salt into the breadcrumbs if you like.

Happy Vegan Week. :)

On that note- the chickpea curry has fish sauce in it. Not vegan, obv. What would you substitute? Braggs Liquid Aminos?

whenever i need a fish sauce/shrimp paste substitute i use bottled yellow fermented soy beans. they make a world of difference if you're making laksa or curry pastes. You can throw them in anything for that salty zing.

you can soak seaweeds and use the juice as a fish sauce alternative.

@renasf try this!

- Recipe: Vegan Fish Sauce

And thanks for the note on the fish sauce; I'll make sure to add a link to this in that recipe.

The biggest vegan challenges are avoiding dairy and not consuming too many carbs.

I love the tempeh ideas...keep'em coming :-)

THANK YOU!! Last night my 6-year old decided he wants us to try vegetarianism (ovo-lacto) for 1 week. He said he loves chickens and pigs and wants them to live. He is bean- and casserole-phobic, so I have my work cut out for me, even though we were vegetarian for a long time before he came along. I do really want to foster his compassion for living creatures, and support his moral choice. We will see how it works out, it might not, but it is nice to have some visuals to show him to choose from.

wow. so very defensive, vegans. hows about instead of complain and scrupulously pick through this (anyone who cares will know that parmesan would not fall under the vegan repetoire), you provide us with some of your favorite recipes to share with others.

these look good. i don't think the vegans are completely out of line by stating that the recipes aren't vegan, considering the copy states that the recipes are the kitchn's vegan favorites.

Regardless, they look adaptable and delicious. I'm so making the tofu/kimchee rolls. One thing for vegans to watch out for - i've see a few brands that contain fish sauce or squid (!) so make sure you read the labels carefully.

I'm the one that complained, and I am not even vegan. I eat goat and offal, for heck's sake, in addition to tons of Indian recipes that are actually all vegan. I just think that with the thousands of great vegan recipes out there, a short list might be able to pick a group of 15 that are all actually vegan.

Anyhow, I've said my piece on that. I thought it was lazy editing, that's all.

Oh - and favorite vegan recipes to share, so that I'm not just complaining...

I eat vegan food most mornings for breakfast. I love kicheree, which is a spiced rice and mung dal pilaf. I make it by rinsing separately the rice and yellow split mung dal, and then letting dry for 15 minutes. Then make a tarka of warm spices in oil (cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, black pepper) until fragrant. Add 1 tsp cumin seeds and stir for 15 seconds. Add rice, stir for 2 minutes on low heat. Then add mung dal and 1/4 tsp to 1/2 tsp turmeric. lastly add water - I use 4x the amount of rice (or 2x the amount of rice & mung dal together). Turn to low heat, cover and cook for 30-40 minutes until done. It may need a tad more water at end if heat is high. Fluff and serve. I like to have it with yogurt on the side, but if you are a vegan that can be left off with no problems.

Oh - I should have said, Add BOILING water for kicheree recipe above. Also stir/toast the mung dal for a minute or so before it goes in...

! you did it. thanks, DCarl1. i second your feelings on lazy editing -- that's fair. it was (and is) mostly the others that i see time and time again with ridiculous pickiness and snobbery, making me not even want to browse the comments. however, i'm liking this sharing business.

I guess, because I've been veg*n for almost 20 years, I can look at a recipe and know that parmesan or eggs or really anything can be substituted. And once you're used to them, substitutes don't taste bad -- in fact, I prefer them, otherwise I wouldn't be veg*n. If I wanted something to taste like parmesan, I would eat parmesan. But I don't. Because my personal opinion is that it's disgusting. Which is why I don't eat it. I never understood why veg*ns try to replicate non-vegan food. Eat veg*n food for what it is. A "tu-no" sandwich will never be a tuna sandwich, that doesn't mean it's not tasty in its own right.

I never understand why veg*ns have to be so nasty. I admit that the original post should have included a disclaimer about being "mostly" vegan or "some substitutions needed," but it's a simple request.

Hi, not a vegan. It seems to me that if there was a post titled "15 great fish dinners" and one of them called for chicken, an equal number of people would have complained simply that the title was incorrect. Even if fish can easily be substituted for chicken, it still seems silly to include. The criticism seems fair. The vegans I know aren't nasty.

And, I'm excited to try some of these recipes, so thanks for that!

Looks delicious!

I have nothing valuable to add to the discussion, though I'm kind of amused that these comments are the "nastiest" that someone has seen. Must be nice!

I fail to see how pointing out that a vegan recipe is not vegan is "nasty." It's not like anyone nitpicked over an obscure ingredient - it was cheese and fish stock. In fact, the nastiest responses in this thread are from people acting as if we're over-reacting. It's not "snobbery" to not want to eat an animal product when you're vegan, my goodness.

I also think it's bad that some of the "vegan" recipes aren't vegan at all. "You can just substitute something vegan" is not an excuse, you shouldn't have to substitute anything to make a vegan recipe vegan. If you think substitutions are acceptable why not include "Steak and Onions" (because you can easily just substitute the steak).

Why not just leave out the non-vegan recipes and title this post "Some Vegan Dinner Recipes" instead.

I think they may have included this because the recipe includes specific vegan adaptation directions:

Vegan adaptation: If you want to leave out the Parmesan, double the bread crumbs to 2/3 cup. Rub the extra olive oil and the minced herbs into the breadcrumbs with your fingers until they are the texture of wet sand. Proceed as directed above, layering the bread crumbs between the potatoes and kale.

I'm not vegan but a friend of mine is and she suggested using a mixture of ground walnuts and nutritional yeast to imitate a parmesan like flavor & texture

First off, my husband made the pot pie last night and it was the most awesome thing he's made for me so far!! YUM! Thank you for posting this recipe!

On another note, I am vegan and in the kale gratin recipe and chickpea recipe it does state for vegan substitution. They are both easy enough substitutions. I have no problem with that. Again, why are people so nit picky on here (AT community in general)? If you don't like how it's written, or whatever gripe you have, why not just email them directly instead of leaving negative comments for everyone to see?

A perfectly delicious vegan dinner -- chana masala!

Chana Masala

All this bickering aside, as someone who is not accustomed to cooking vegan, it does make it hard to try it, if the recipes themselves aren't actually vegan. Substituting ingredients is, I'm sure, always an option, but unless someone tells me what will be a good substitute, I have no idea. A good cook, I am. A magician with tempeh and nutritional yeast and soy cheese... uh... no. Finding where to buy 1/2 these ingredients is work enough - I'd prefer to at least have a direct recipe to work from.

While I appreciate that each reposted post contains the original date of posting, I am becoming increasingly frustrated by the amount of reposted posts on this website. Especially when they are simply collections of recipes... Surely there are some great new vegan recipes that have been published in the past year!
It is irksome to get excited about reading a post that was posted at 7am and have the first line reference that it's almost time for dinner, and welcome us to Vegan Week, which appears to have occurred in January 2011.

I'm vegetarian not vegan. I'd like to be vegan one day, but I'm raising two little boys as vegetarians, and that's challenge enough for now! I do try to have a lot of vegan meals, though. I've got a lot of recipes that are either vegan, or easily adapted to be vegan. Like this creamy cashew spinach sauce. Well, all of these recipes, actually.

I've had vietnamese crepes (although not the vegetarian ones). Sooo yummy!

Oh man, we are recycling this post again? Can we have 15 more vegan friendly dinners?

AT loves reposts with the fury of ten thousands suns. It also drives me bats because they won't/don't label them as reposts, but present them as new content, which strikes me as a wee bit lazy. I normally lurk and drool over the fabulous recipes they dig up (and cook and consume them with relish) and don't complain overmuch, but that is one thing that gets on my nerves about the website in general.

And, FWIW, I'm kind of with the other commenters who would have liked for this post to include more new content - I read the Kitchn because I'm a relatively new cook, and I love their equal-opportunity approach to recipes in terms of diet, time, skill, ethnicity, so on and so forth. I'm not vegan, but I'm always game to learn new cooking techniques - if I want to learn to cook vegan meals, I wouldn't mind for the post to ACTUALLY be vegan, instead of having to rely on recipes that need substitutions in order to fit the criteria.

Wow, I feel terrible that this comment section has become a complainer territory. That being said,I too am kind of disappointed when I see a list of re-used recipes I've already bookmarked...seems to happen a lot lately. That said, I love this site and the information/recipes it provides! Maybe I just read it too much:)

I think the recipes look and sound great. My daughter recently went vegan after 4 years as a vegetarian, so I'm on the look out for new ideas. It doesn't matter to me that these are re-used recipes that have been posted before, or that some aren't vegan and require some ingredients to be substituted. I'm new, so I haven't seen them here before. Plus you can always just take what you want from them and make them your own anyway :)