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    Home » Comfort Food Recipes

    30 Easy Vegan Recipes for Quarantine Using Pantry Staples

    Published: Mar 27, 2020 · Modified: Jun 25, 2020 by Richa 21 Comments

    The best, comforting sweet and savory vegan recipes for quarantine with meal ideas for healthy, family-friendly breakfasts, lunches and dinners. All of these can be whipped up using what you have stocked in your vegan pantry already. Many are gluten-free and/or made using an Instant Pot.

    picture collage with vegan pantry recipes for self quarantine

    The best Vegan Recipes for your Quarantine!

    With all of us practicing social distancing or full-on quarantining, I thought it would be a good time to do a little recipe roundup for easy recipes using our favorite vegan pantry staples.

    I know all we really want to do in these times of anxiety, is to sit on the sofa, eat sleeves of cookies and bags of chips. But let’s be real – you and your loved ones still need to eat proper meals. However, I find the act of preparing a wholesome meal — even a simple one — can be oh-so-soothing and can bring great comfort.

    If you have a stocked vegan pantry, you can make a wonderful meal out of a few basic staple ingredients like black beans, lentils, chickpeas, oats, and pasta.

    Even though “pantry staples” typically means shelf-stable items, I’m going to include some recipes with veggies but for most of those, you can substitute frozen vegetables. I know that your freezer isn’t your pantry, but I also know that you probably come prepared and have your veggies all chopped up, frozen and ready to go!

    Here are my favorite simple healthy vegan dishes that will get you through quarantine!

    Breakfast Recipes for Quarantine

    Samoa Cookie Overnight Oats 

    overhead shot of Vegan Samoa Cookie Overnight Oats in glass jars on a wood board

    PB & J Baked Oatmeal

    Peanut Butrer And Jelly Oatmeal in a white baking dish

    Chickpea Tofu Breakfast Scramble with Smoky Bits 

    Vegan Savory Oats Hash

    Fudgy Nut Butter & Lentil Brownies 

    Sprouted Lentil Avocado Toast

    picture collage with vegan pantry breakfast ideas for self quarantine

    Pantry Staple Meals – Lunch & Dinner Recipes for Quarantine

    Beans

    Vegan Instant Pot Black Bean Soup 

    a bowl of vegan Instant Pot black bean soup sprinkled with chopped cilantro

    Mexican Street Corn Salad 

    Mexican Street Corn Salad with Black Beans and corn in a white bowl

    Smoky Vegan Black Bean Wraps 

    Sweet Potato Black Bean Quesadilla

    Grilleable Black Bean Veggie Burger 

    a picture collage with vegan black bean meals perfect for quarantine cooking

    Lentils

    Vegan Keema Madras with Red Lentils

    Vegan Keema Madras on a white plate


    Vegan Instant Pot Lentil Soup 

    overhead shot of 1 Pot Vegan Lentil Soup in a white bowl

    Vegan Lentil Sloppy Joes 

    Our Vegan Lentil Sloppy joes serves in a sandwich with onions

    Chickpeas

    Chickpea Tahini Salad Sandwich 

    Vegan Nachos with Shawarma Chickpeas

    Vegan Chickpea & Rice Soup

    collage of vegan chickpea lunch ideas for self quarantine using canned foods

    Pasta

    Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans 

    Avocado Pasta with Smoky Pecans served on a white plate

    Vegan Black Pepper Mac and Cheese 

    Vegan Fajitas Pasta with Chickpeas

    Vegan Garlic Pasta with Roasted Cajun Cauliflower

    collage of vegan pasta dishes perfect for cooking during quarantine

    Vegan Rose Sauce Farfalle

    Vegan Rose Sauce Farfalle Pasta with Roasted Veggies in a white saucepan

    Rice

    Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas Rice

    Instant Pot Black Eyed Peas Rice Pulao served in a deep grey bowl

    Instant Pot Wild Rice Mushroom Soup 

    Vegan Wild Rice Mushroom Soup in a small bowl

    Dessert & Sweet Treat Recipes for Quarantine:

    Coffee Cake

    Easy Vegan Coffee Cake Recipe. Simple soft Vanilla Cake topped with a delicious Streusel. Classic Cinnamon Streusel Coffee cake. #Vegan #soyfree #nutfree #Recipe. Glutenfree option #veganricha

    Vegan Gluten-free Carrot Banana Bread 

    Vegan Chickpea Brownies 

    Caramelized Banana Granola Bars 

    One Bowl Gluten-free Brownies

    More Cakes.

    collage of vegan desserts perfect for making with kids at home during quarantine

    I hope you enjoyed these simple vegan recipes for quarantine!  You can totally play around with these. With just a few additional ingredients and substitutions, I am sure these recipes will keep you satisfied for a while.

    Hang in there, we will all get through this. Feel free to share your thoughts in general and your favorite quarantine meals in particular in the comment section below.

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    1. Monica

      March 18, 2021 at 3:24 am

      This quarantine I’ve doing more vegan dishes than ever. Thank you for sharing more ideas, the rose sauce farfalle pasta looks just amazing!

      Reply
      • Vegan Richa Support

        March 18, 2021 at 2:52 pm

        i think many people have been cooking more

        Reply
    2. Ayse

      July 31, 2020 at 12:05 am

      Hi Richa,
      I was browsing but the link to these 30 recepies doesn’t work.

      Reply
    3. Ana machado

      June 21, 2020 at 4:25 pm

      Love your recipes. My family loves them. Greetings from Ontario, Canada.

      Reply
      • Vegan Richa Support

        June 21, 2020 at 6:30 pm

        the great white north! awesome. come on back

        Reply
    4. Eldrok

      April 15, 2020 at 10:08 pm

      This is lovely thanks for sharing these recipes during this outbreak. And, please keep posting…good luck.

      Reply
      • Vegan Richa Support

        April 19, 2020 at 8:45 pm

        thanks! you too!

        Reply
    5. k hewitt

      April 07, 2020 at 9:31 pm

      Any desserts that can be cooked without an oven as I only have a stove top & pressure cooker & saucepans.

      Love your recipes!

      Reply
      • Richa

        April 09, 2020 at 4:34 pm

        Yes there are so many no-bake recipes on the blog here is the link: veganricha.com/?s=no+bake

        Reply
    6. Sue

      April 06, 2020 at 7:47 pm

      I actually found your wonderful recipes because of the word quarantine. I go through my veggies so fast so I was looking for some pantry meals. So, thank you. Stay well.

      Reply
    7. arj

      April 06, 2020 at 1:00 pm

      Bookmarking this for ideas. Thank you!

      Reply
    8. divya

      March 29, 2020 at 7:00 pm

      love your recipies…its too good and healthy. your presentation is very good . love it.. keep sharing the magic of healthy food and delicacies with us

      Reply
    9. Elke Gehrken

      March 28, 2020 at 12:33 pm

      Thank you so much for the wonderful recipes. Greetings from Germany

      Reply
    10. liz harris

      March 28, 2020 at 6:57 am

      My sister and I use both your cook books and talk about how awesome the recipe results are all the time. Thank you so much for sharing these recipes today.

      Reply
    11. Sally

      March 28, 2020 at 12:29 am

      Scrolling down I’m reminded how varied, creative and delicious your recipes always are! Thank you for compiling some of them in this useful format. Stay well, and look after yourselves.

      Reply
    12. jane

      March 27, 2020 at 9:52 pm

      The recipes look beautiful and I would like to try some. … but is it necessary that we be reminded that we are in quarantine?
      I really would like to get away from being reminded of that at every turn.
      It really lowers the vibration and it shouldn’t be something we should be thinking about while we are cooking beautiful, healthy meals .
      Just saying…
      thank you &
      blessings

      Reply
      • Richa

        March 28, 2020 at 3:32 pm

        Thats true. I wrote up the post and my assistant edited it. She adds words based on google search and it seems thats what people are searching for right now. ill edit it out in a few days to just be for pantry staples.

        Reply
        • Linda Gerace

          March 29, 2020 at 2:24 pm

          The quarantine reference didn’t bother me. In fact, I see it as a marker of the times we’re going through. If you left it in and reviewed this post in 5 years, it would serve as a reminder of what the world is going through right now.

          I find this type of reminder both historically beneficial and plain ol’ interesting. I understand if you still choose to change it up, but know that people look at internet blog comments in different ways. Blessings!

          Reply
          • Richa

            March 29, 2020 at 10:15 pm

            Thanks. I’ll think over itt later for sure. The times are too weird right now to make decisions. I am just hoping thins will pass and settle soon

            Reply
    13. patti

      March 27, 2020 at 4:18 pm

      This is a lovely idea for a post – thanks for doing it. I have a bunch of food on hand and will be referring to this for ways to use it up!

      Reply
      • Francisco Álvarez

        March 30, 2020 at 12:45 am

        Absolutely love your work! Keep it up! ❤️

        Reply

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