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Best Vegetarian/Vegan Thai Recipes (+ gluten-free)!

Most Popular Vegetarian & Vegan Thai Food Recipes

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21. Easy Thai Cucumber Salad - New!

Easy Thai Cucumber SaladCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt

For a delicious vegetarian Thai salad, try my easy Thai Cucumber Salad. This salad achieves all of the flavor and taste of non-vegetarian Cucumber Salad without resorting to using fish sauce or shrimp paste, plus it's virtually fat free!

22. Thai Green Papaya Salad (Som Tam)

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This green papaya salad, known as som tam, is popular in most areas of Thailand, and when you taste it, you'll know why. Green papaya salad is a beautifully unique and flavor-filled dish that will make a great impression. It's also easy to make, low-calorie, and very nutritious.

23. Thai Lettuce Wraps

Thai Lettuce Wraps made with TofuD.Schmidt

Lettuce wraps are also a fun dish to eat, either as an appetizer or as a main course dish. Serve the filling on a platter with whole lettuce leaves on the side, and let your friends and family wrap their own. They'll love the combination of crisp, cold lettuce with the warm, flavorful filling.

24. Vegetarian Dumplings (vegan)

Steamed DumplingsD.Schmidt
For a vegetarian dim sum treat, try these delicious Thai Steamed Dumplings made with a shiitake mushroom-tofu-ginger & coriander filling. These dumplings are steamed, but with an option to fry them to create pot-stickers (goyzas).

25. Delicious Homemade Deep-Fried Tofu (vegan/gluten-free)

Fried TofuD.Schmidt
Learn how to make your own homemade deep-fried tofu (gluten-free!). This recipe is fun to make and delicious to eat. Serve on its own with sweet chili sauce, or use it to add to your other vegetarian Thai food dishes.

26. Easy Thai Basil Rice Noodles (vegan/gluten-free)

Easy Basil NoodlesD.Schmidt

This Thai fusion noodle recipe is extremely easy, plus healthy and wonderfully delicious! Rice noodles and fresh basil are the key ingredients. This noodle dish cooks up in no time, and is equally superb as a weekday dish or to serve company.

27. Quick & Easy Curried Chickpeas (vegan/gluten-free)

Curried ChickpeasCopyright D.Schmidt
Beans are a common vegetarian food in many parts of Thailand, and this easy recipe for Curried Chickpeas is definitely one of my personal favorites. I love this dish so much that I sometimes just eat it on its own for lunch (with or without rice). Also makes a great side dish or main course for dinner.

28. Stir-Fried Eggplant (vegan)

Garlicy Thai EggplantD.Schmidt
This simple eggplant recipe is aromatic and flavorful, owing to the generous amount of fresh garlic (this also makes it extra healthy). This eggplant recipe works with any type of eggplant - whatever is fresh and available where you live. You can also adjust the spice level, taking it anywhere from mild to spicy hot, according to your liking.

29. Easy Thai Coconut Rice

Coconut RiceD.Schmidt
Coconut rice makes a great side dish to accomapany any of the above Thai curries or side dishes. It's simple to put together, and makes any meal extra special. ENJOY!

30. Easy Saffron Rice (made in a rice cooker)

saffron riceCopyright Darlene A. Schmidt
This saffron rice may just be the easiest rice recipe you'll ever make. Just put together a few ingredients and let them simmer in your rice cooker while you get on with other things. Saffron rice makes a delicious accompaniment to all types of Southeast-Asian and East Indian dishes, but is equally beautiful to serve alongside nearly any Western dish you might be making. ENJOY!

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