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15+ Easy Vegetarian Recipes for Intermediate Home Cooks

These are the best easy-to-make cooking recipes that will bring your kitchen skills to the next level.

Our simple entrée, breakfast, and dessert recipes are all vegetarian, and perfect for the intermediate-level cook.

This intermediate recipe index includes quick and easy meals that are vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, or paleo, and always delicious. 

Reader favorites include creamy and crunchy Vegan Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Panko Breadcrumbs, a decadent but easy Pumpkin Pie with Spelt Flour Crust, and sweet Upside-Down Cranberry Cake that never disappoints.

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Vanilla Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake

Vanilla Chocolate Marble Bundt Cake

Swirls of chocolate and vanilla meet in this delicious marble bundt cake. Your everyday coffee cake or bake it for birthdays or gatherings.

Filed Under: Czech, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Plate with a portion of vegan mac 'n' cheese pasta

Vegan Mac ‘n’ Cheese With Panko Breadcrumbs

Make this flavorful vegan casserole for a weeknight dinner or bring it to a gathering. It’s a total crowd-pleaser!

Filed Under: Dairy-Free, Intermediate, Main Course, Over 1 hour, Vegan

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White soup plate with blue flowers with green lentil soup with carrots and parsnips

New Year’s Day Good Luck Green Lentil Soup

My mom’s delicious version of a classic Czech recipe.

Filed Under: Czech, Intermediate, Under 60 min

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Filed Under: Advanced, Beginner, Breakfast, Czech, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Main Course, Over 1 hour, Paleo, Raw, Sweet, Under 30 min, Under 60 min, Vegan

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Sliced pumpkin pie with spelt crust, topped with whipped cream

Pumpkin Pie With Spelt Flour Crust

Sweet & tangy pumpkin filling in a nutlike, crumbly spelt flour crust. This pie is a Thanksgiving winner!

Filed Under: Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Cranberry upside-down cake with a scoop of vanilla ice cream

Upside-Down Cranberry Cake

Sweet-sour sponge cake scented with vanilla, lemon zest and cinnamon, and filled with cranberries

Filed Under: Intermediate, Sweet, Under 60 min

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chocolate chip oatmeal cookies

Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

Crisp on the surface and chewy on the inside, this old-school cookie is one of my favorites.

Filed Under: Intermediate, Sweet, Under 60 min

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Czech Lemon Linzer Holiday Cookies

Lemon linzer cookies are tender, lemony and buttery morsels, that you won’t be able to stop eating. Make the easy dough, roll it out, cut out cookies, bake and enjoy! If you love the taste of lemons in baked stuff like me, this cookie is a must to add to your repertoire. And not just […]

Filed Under: Czech, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Walnut Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Walnut Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Your go-to coffee cake with a layer of crunchy walnuts in the middle.

Filed Under: Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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two glasses with roasted fruit tea. red glass mug with berry tea and yelllow/green with tropical variation

Roasted Fruit Tea (Berry & Tropical)

Comforting hot drink made by roasting your favorite combination of fresh fruit, sweetener and spices.

Filed Under: Czech, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Sweet, Under 60 min, Vegan

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jar of rhubarb vanilla jam with spoon. flowers in the background

Rhubarb Vanilla Bean Jam

An amalgam of smooth and chunky textures, and tart and sweet flavors with a pretty green color.

Filed Under: Czech, Dairy-Free, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Sweet, Under 60 min, Vegan

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Easy Blueberry Crumb Cake

This quick and unfussy Blueberry Crumb Cake is a delicious coffee cake, featuring layers of juicy blueberries, soft cake and crunchy topping. Let’s start at the top: Buttery, brown-sugary, cinnamony streusel with a nice crunchy texture. Right underneath, juicy, plump blueberries, perfectly fusing with the crumbs. Seriously, when no one’s looking, I pick and nibble […]

Filed Under: Czech, Featured, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Poppy Seed Bundt Cake (Maková Bábovka)

Traditional Czech poppy seed bundt cake. It’s moist and airy, and at the same time, pleasantly dense and rich. In Central Europe, where I grew up, using poppy seeds in desserts is as common as pumpkin purée or cream cheese in the States.  And I’m not talking about adding a teaspoon to a muffin batter […]

Filed Under: Czech, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Czech Baked Rice Pudding with Apricots

Czech Baked Rice Pudding with Apricots is a casserole of sweet, buttery rice scented with vanilla and cinnamon, layered with preserved apricots, and topped with dramatic-looking browned meringue peaks. In the Czech Republic, especially in the countryside, where I grew up, it is normal to serve a sweet entrée at lunch or dinner. You typically […]

Filed Under: Czech, Gluten-Free, Intermediate, Over 1 hour, Sweet

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Three pancakes with toppings

Fluffy Bohemian Pancakes (Lívance)

My Czech grandma’s easy, delicious, Bohemian pancakes recipe (called lívance in Czech) with yeast and whipped egg whites added to the batter. This turns them into fluffy, tender pillows with crisp edges, and golden-brown sides. I remember sitting in her kitchen as a boy, and stuffing my face with them as they came off the […]

Filed Under: Breakfast, Czech, Intermediate, Sweet, Under 60 min

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