The birds are singing, flowers are blooming. These plant-based, vegan clean eating weight loss recipes for Spring are here just in time to make the best dinners this season.
Vegan Clean Eating Weight Loss Recipes for Spring
Vegan Clean Eating Weight Loss Recipes for Spring
After all, it’s officially the time of rebirth. These meals are perfect if you want to do a Spring cleanse or just crave some delicious food. After Winter and Christmas, your body has a ton of toxins and possibly a few extra pounds. Not to worry! You can easily burn fat and detox while losing weight. Cooking these delicious, healthy seasonal dishes and vegan recipes, will flush your body, so you can glow again. Super tasty, satisfying and full of fresh, crunchy garden veggies like green peas, asparagus, radishes, artichoke and new potatoes. These Spring cleaning meals are more than just salads!
1. Roasted Tomato Risotto with Arugula Basil Pesto
This creamy risotto is a flavorful Spring dinner that is filled with arugula, roasted tomatoes, avocado and corn. A delightful meal to choose if you would like something clean and comforting to eat.
2. Grilled Asparagus Tofu Spring Rolls
What’s better for dinner than protein-rich tofu and veggies? These satisfying “updated” spring rolls are definitely a go-to meal for cleansing your body. So tasty and crunchy; it’s an instant favorite.
3. Green Split Pea Spinach Pizza
One of our favorite food hacks is healthy, veggie pizza crust. Since, it’s Spring it has to be made from fresh garden veggies. This crunchy and mouthwatering green pizza is so yummy, you’ll never go back to wheat.
4. Spring Quinoa Minestrone
Minestrone is already a heavenly delicious soup, but if you put quinoa in it too, there’s no reason left not to eat it every single day ’til June.
5. Potato Socca with Mustard Greens
Eating greens for breakfast has to be the easiest thing when you pair them with this finger licking potato socca. It’s a hearty start to the day, that will fuel you until late afternoon.
6. Balsamic Spring Vegetable Salad
A wonderful crunchy and tasty salad for those who don’t really like leafy greens. Artichokes and avocado are almost like comfort food anyways, right?
7. New Potato Pea Curry
Even though, the weather gets so much better in the Spring, it can still get really cold at times. For those occasions, you can just whip out this superb curry recipe, filled with green peas and silky potatoes. There is hardly anything better on a chilly March evening.
8. Mushroom Asparagus Tacos
We are completely drooling over these gorgeous and grain-free asparagus tacos. Seriously, who thinks asparagus is boring?!
9. Spring Salad
If every salad on Earth had potatoes and fresh, crunchy radishes in them, everyone would love salads.
10. Stuffed Sweet Potatoes
Out of ideas for a quick weeknight dinner, or a fancy family gathering? These ridiculously simple but fancy stuffed sweet potatoes will not disappoint in either case.
11. Cauliflower Steaks with Arugula
Are you struggling to eat cauliflower and given up on it completely? Then, you probably haven’t tried it in a stake form, drenched in pesto. Get ready for your new favorite vegetable.
12. Roasted Radish Onion Salad
It’s not an exaggeration to stay, that you can make this basic side dish for every day of Spring and not get bored of it. There is just too many great things about it. The beautiful purple color, the crunchiness, the yummy taste…just, everything.
13. Grilled Asparagus Lentil Nicoise Salad
Parties and social events can be difficult if you are on a diet and trying to lose weight by eating healthy. So many temptation to go for the junk food. But, what if you took this appetizing and lush salad with you? The burger seems like the boring option now, doesn’t it?
14. Quinoa Power Bowl
If there is one negative side effect to Spring, it has to be the all-around tiredness and exhaustion your body is experiencing after Winter. Fortunately, this quinoa bowl is here to fill you up with energy and fuel your day.
15. Creamy Roasted Garlic Carrot Soup
Carrots are so not just for bunnies. This garlicky, roasted soup is an excellent combination of flavors. But, not only is it delicious, it’s also great for eye health, glowing skin, and strong hair/nails.
16. Tofu Scramble with Spring Greens
If you are anything like me, savory breakfasts are just not your thing. I must have sweet flavors in the morning, otherwise I’m terribly sad and grumpy ’til lunch. Although, I make an exception for green tofu scramble.
17. Spring Pea Soup
They say that often times, the simplest meals are the most delicious. That is definitely true in this case. Also, the bright green peas in this rich soup just make it look so yummy.
18. Tahini Dill Carrot Noodles
Carrot noodles might sound like an alien concept to most, but they are very much a fantastic and easy meal idea. These pretty orange ribbons are surprisingly pleasant and satisfying to eat. The tahini sauce even provides you with a fair amount of protein.
19. Green Pea Falafel Bowl
Green peas, beetroot hummus, quinoa, carrots, avocado, radish. How does all of this sound for dinner tonight? Absolutely amazing.
20. Pea and Broccoli Cashew Cream Soup
Cream of broccoli soup just got an upgraded, even more delicious version, in the form of this green pea soup. Cashews make this dish extra filling and creamy. Seconds, please!
21. Spinach Tofu With Turmeric Rice
If you were to ask me what my all-time favorite healthy dinner is, I would say tofu+rice+veggies, without hesitation. It is a complete and satisfying meal, as it has protein, carbs and veggies. Also, thanks to the neutral flavor of tofu, you can use spices to achieve an infinite variety of flavors.
22. Cucumber Noodles with Mustard Greens Pesto
Pesto pasta with olives is the ultimate light meal if you crave tasty but healthy food. Swapping the wheat pasta to cucumber noodles makes it a super clean dish, that’s excellent for weight loss.
23. Pea Socca with Mustard Greens Pesto
Another healthy pizza crust with even healthier toppings??? Clean eating enthusiasts are truly spoiled in this day and age. This “all you can eat” vibrant green pea pizza is what hungry, weight loss dreams are made of.
24. Carrot Lemon Baked Falafel Bowl
You can eat these crispy flavorful carrot falafels bowls with fresh veggies any time of the year, it will instantly feel like Spring.
25. Balsamic Roasted New Potatoes with Asparagus
Cooking wonderful, truly impressing meals is easy if you know the secret technique of the world’s best chefs. Psst: it’s as easy as putting balsamic vinegar on roasted veggies.
26. Cheesy Chickpea Omelets with Spinach
Cheesy omelettes and clean eating? How does that work? Well, if your cheese is yummy nutritional yeast with cashews, and your omelette is made from chickpea flour, it works perfectly.
27. Pea Stew
Hearty potatoes and juicy green peas make this Portuguese dish an excellent choice for meal prep. Stews are even better on the second and third days as the flavors have time to come together.
28. Buckwheat Risotto
Swap rice for buckwheat to make this Spring risotto even healthier.
29. Asparagus Quinoa with Arugula Pesto
Just by looking at this light, asparagus quinoa dish, we already feel refreshed and full of motivation to eat real food and cleanse our bodies.
30. Cheesy Asparagus
Almost everything is 100% more appetizing if it has cheesy flavors in it, right? Veggies are no different. With the help of nutritional yeast, you can turn this simple salad into something heavenly.
More healthy vegan recipes you’ll love:
- Clean Eating Fall Dinner recipes
- Clean Eating Winter recipes
- Super Healthy Soup recipes
- Weight Loss Dinner recipes
What are your favorite vegan clean eating recipes for weight loss in the Spring? Let me know in the comments!
