24 Vegan Recipes with Peppers
If you’re looking for a list of vegan pepper recipes that go way beyond stuffed peppers and bell peppers, you’re going to love this post! We’ve collected our best time-tested and picky-eater approved recipes to use up any amount of fresh peppers!
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I have a newfound love for peppers sparked by the surplus of peppers growing in T’s garden this summer.
I’ll admit; I was never much a fan of peppers before, but T is. And the recipes that follow are the ones that wore me down. They turned me into the pepper-lover writing this post!
Peppers are in season all year but most abundant in the summer season. Especially if you grow them in your home garden! Peppers are easy to grow, and T grows several varieties.
Because of this, I am not just including bell peppers in today’s post. Unlike other pepper recipe round-ups, this one goes way beyond bell peppers and vegan stuffed bell peppers. Here, you’ll find recipes for a variety of peppers like shishito, jalapeno, long hots, habanero, and poblano.
So, without further adieu, let’s get to the recipes!
Easy Vegan Recipes with Bell Peppers
Green bell peppers are easily the most common and affordable peppers in the US. They’re also super easy to grow and a very popular choice for new gardeners!
I’m particularly picky about the bell pepper recipes I actually enjoy. That’s why I can say with certainty that everything on this of my favorite bell pepper recipes is a winner!
Vegan Sausage and Peppers
These vegan sausage and peppers with yellow onions are a crowd-pleaser made in one large skillet. We love to use a combination of red peppers and green peppers here for a nice burst of color.
We’ve served this plant-based dish to many crowds of non-vegans of all ages, and it is always a massive hit! It’s also easy to make and versatile: serve over pasta, on a sandwich, with brown rice, potatoes, or on its own!
Vegan Fajitas
Everyone’s favorite sizzling Tex-Mex dinner gets a vegan update with the use of soy curls (a great source of plant-based protein!) in this vegan fajitas recipe! Marinated and spiced soy curls are sauteed to meaty perfection with red, green, and yellow bell peppers, onions and served with pico, guac, and ALL the fixin’s!
Southwest Tofu Scramble
Eat your peppers for breakfast! This vegan tofu scramble recipe is infused with Southwest flavors – like a hearty green bell pepper and onion blend!
This egg-free breakfast scramble is made with black salt for that unique eggy flavor as well as a wonderful array of common household spices. We love to serve this as a breakfast platter or burrito and even sometimes make a big batch to have breakfast for dinner!
Vegan Recipes with Red Bell Peppers
In this section, you’ll find recipes that use exclusively red bell peppers. Red bell pepper adds so much flavor, so you’ll see we have a lot of recipes for these.
Slightly sweet bell peppers that are not as bitter as green peppers, they’re often slightly more expensive but still on the cheaper end of the pepper spectrum. Plus, these are also easy to find and grow!
Vegetable Barley Soup
This is a great recipe for a tomato-free garden vegetable soup that you are sure to love! It’s packed with barley, red bell peppers, squash, zucchini, and so many other garden vegetables in a vegan chicken bouillon broth loaded with herbs and spices. It’s easy to make and sure to please. It may just be your new favorite vegetable soup!
Vegan Breakfast Casserole
Perfect for breakfast, brunch, or any potluck gathering, this vegan cheese, red pepper, and JUST Egg casserole is always going to be a hit. The best part: This vegan breakfast casserole makes one large casserole dish and freezes / reheats tremendously well, so it’s perfect for meal prep too. Oh, and did I mention the tater tot crust?
Homemade Italian Dressing
This easy homemade vegan Italian salad dressing is not only perfect for topping simple green garden salads, but also as a main ingredient in some of our favorite summer salads. Using fresh minced red peppers, we especially love it in our cucumber tomato salad and easy summer pasta salad.
Vegan Southwest Salad
This vegan southwest salad is a no-cook summertime delight. Filled with simple ingredients like lettuce, black beans, sweet corn, red bell peppers and more, it’s sure to satisfy all your senses whether served as a starter or as a full meal. It comes together so quickly and easily, and there’s no oven required! Light, filling, and oh so tasty, it’s perfect for those hot summer days!
Southwest Bean Salad
This vegan Southwest bean salad is the perfect side dish to bring with you to any summer festivity, loaded with flavor from the fresh red peppers to the zesty lime dressing and a blend of white beans, kidney beans, and black beans.
It’s oh so easy to make and oh so tasty to eat! It’s great as a side to a tasty, grilled vegan burger or as a main dish! T also loves to serve this as tacos sprinkled with fresh cilantro!
Vegan Pasta Salad
This super simple pasta salad side is a “grown-up-riff” off the traditional pasta salad my Gram used to make for me at ALL the family gatherings back when I was just a little “t.” It’s quick, easy to make and bursting with flavors of fresh veggies like red peppers, tomatoes, kalamata olives, and more!
Peanut Noodle Salad
This simple vegan cold noodle salad with peanut sauce is an easy weeknight meal that can be made ahead and only takes about 15 minutes. It’s noodles tossed in a zesty peanut and fresh lime juice dressing with red bell peppers and a host of other veggies topped with green onions.
Vegan Beef and Broccoli
T’s favorite Chinese food take-out order of beef and broccoli becomes vegan beef and broccoli with a simple substitute of Butler’s soy curls. Yes, soy curls can mimic beef as well as chicken, and more! We love to add red bell peppers to this dish for a burst of color and balance of sweet flavors.
Plant-Based Recipes with Other Peppers
Of course, bell peppers aren’t the only peppers out there! This most recent year, T decided to only grow peppers that were hard to find or expensive to purchase.
So, we ditched the bell peppers and were able to come up with recipes for so many other fun peppers with various levels of spice and flavor.
BBQ Tofu Bowl
I’m about to lay some magic on you. This vegan BBQ tofu bowl meal with red peppers, spicy long hot peppers, green beans, and sweet potato mac is absolute comfort food at its finest.
Vegan Corn Fritters with Peppers
If you’re looking for vegan recipes with poblano peppers, this is a great place to start. These vegan corn fritters are a testament to how simple ingredients can create something extraordinarily delicious.
Spicy, zesty, and imbued with a fresh and summery vibe and cheesy flavor from the nutritional yeast, they’re astonishingly easy to whip up and versatile enough to complement anything from creamy pastas to crisp salads.
Roasted Vegetable Pizza
If you’re looking for a vegan recipe with shishito peppers, you have to try this. It’s a roasted vegetable pizza that strikes a good balance between eating your veggies and indulging in comfort food, and it might just be my favorite pepper dish!
This recipe uses fresh herbs, tomato sauce, and garden veggies like roasted shishito peppers and red sweet peppers seasoned with a simple flavor trick that complements the veggies without overpowering them.
Spicy Hummus
This spicy garlic hummus recipe is a fun and delicious twist on classic hummus famous in middle eastern cuisine!
It’s easy to make by blending up garbanzo beans with the classic tahini, olive oil, garlic, and lemon juice with hot Habanero peppers and roasted red peppers that create the best flavor.
Spicy Peppers and Green Beans
Fresh crisp green beans, sweet red bell peppers, and spicy long hot peppers are seared to a slight char and seasoned to a simple perfection for a fantastic flavor. This simple vegetarian green bean recipe might be your new favorite way to eat these lovely legumes! We love it as a side or main with brown or white rice!
Vegan Recipes with Jalapenos
We grow jalapenos in our garden, and this type of pepper is super common! We use jalapenos in quite a lot of recipes. If you don’t like spicy food, we’ve also found something called a “coolapeno” that is much cooler. They still add great flavor without the heat!
Spicy Bourbon Pickles
These no-cook refrigerator spicy maple bourbon pickled jalapenos and cucumbers are quick to make and an easy way to have tasty pickles in your fridge all the time. They’re a fantastic twist on classic dill pickles and perfect for the summer BBQ season!
Pineapple Jalapeno Salsa
This fresh pineapple jalapeno salsa is a fun twist on the traditional tomato salsa you might be accustomed to. Not only is it the perfect topping for our Pineapple Tofu Cutlets, but wait until you try it in a vegan breakfast taco or burrito.
Avocado Ranch
Make your own Taco Bell Avocado Ranch Sauce at home with fresh jalapenos! This easy vegan copycat recipe for avocado ranch dressing is perfect for drizzling on tacos, nachos, burgers, fries, pizza, your whole life!
It’s a delicious sauce made lighter and healthier by using silken tofu to replace the sour cream. This adds some extra vegan protein too, but you won’t miss a bit of flavor!
Vegan Taco Dip
The classic 7-layer taco dip gets amped up a notch in the best way with this vegan 11-layer taco dip. Eleven – yes, eleven! – layers of absolute deliciousness are sure to please every partygoer’s palate at your next summer soiree. (It’s also very good in spring, fall, and winter!)
Topped with sliced jalapenos and layered with refried kidney beans, vegan sour cream, vegan ground beef, dairy-free cheese, veggies, all the good stuff! It’s perfect for any party or cookout, even game day or date night with a movie at home!
Slow-Cooker Vegan Chicken Curry
This healthy and delicious vegan chicken curry recipe is made in your slow cooker with a delightful blend of bell peppers and jalapeno, garlic, ginger, spices, and creamy coconut milk.
We use meaty soy curls for the vegan chicken, so it’s easy to just place them and all the rest of the ingredients in your crockpot and let it cook until dinner time! This is one of our favorite plant-based meals for every season!
California Veggie Burgers
By now we’ve probably all had the classic California veggie burger at least once. Packed with veggies and grains and that perfectly balanced blend of spices with a touch of heat from jalapenos. Now you can make your own copycat Dr. Praeger’s or Amy’s California garden burger at home! It’s a simple recipe with basic ingredients.
Avocado Tequila Lime Pasta
This Tequila Lime Pasta recipe is going to be your favorite summer dinner! It’s easy to make, healthy, and FULL of zesty summer flavor including freshly minced jalapenos from the garden. One bite, and you won’t believe the creamy texture!
Refrigerator Dill Pickles
These no-cook refrigerator dill pickles are quick to make and an easy way to have homemade cucumber and jalapeno pickles in your fridge all the time. Plus, you don’t need any special equipment!
We’ll surely be adding to this post, so let us know if there’s a pepper recipe we should make in the comments!
We hope this helped sparked some creativity for using up all those peppers.
Enjoy!
