Vegan Iftar Recipes (32 Ramadan Food Ideas) (2024)

Carrot and Celery Soup (Easy + Vegan)

A light and warming carrot and celery soup. Mildly sweet from the carrot, this vegan soup is low-fat, healthy and perfect for dunking freshly baked bread into.

Carrot Celery Soup

Lentil Porridge (Mujadara Makhbousa)

Savoury Lebanese lentil porridge is known as Mujadara Makhbousa. A wholesome, warming bowl of goodness made with lentils and rice.

Mujadara Makhbousa

Best Lebanese Lentil Soup (Shorbet Adas)

My family’s favourite authentic Lebanese lentil soup (shorbet adas) made with orange lentils, rice, vegetables and spices. The best Arabic lentil soup recipe. Gluten free + vegan.

Shorbet Adas

Fattoush Salad (My Family's Recipe - الفتوش)

This fattoush recipe is unchanged from my childhood, passed down from my mother from hers and so forth. Fattoush is Lebanon’s version of a garden salad with sour dressing and toasted pita bread for extra crunch.

Fattoush Salad

Spiced Vegan Couscous Salad (Maftoul Salad)

This spiced vegan couscous salad with pine nuts is well seasoned and includes colorful diced vegetables and herbs in a fresh lemon dressing. It can serve as a main dish or side dish.

Vegan couscous salad

Easy Balela Salad (Middle Eastern Chickpea Salad)

Balela salad is a classic Middle Eastern chickpea salad. Made with tender chickpeas tossed with chopped tomato, onions, herbs, and spices.

Balela Salad

Refreshing Quinoa Tabouli Salad (Gluten-Free Vegan)

Quinoa tabouli salad is made with quinoa, freshly diced parsley, tomato, onion, and cucumber in a light dressing, resulting in a fresh salad that can be paired with so many foods.

Quinoa Tabouli

Lebanese Vermicelli Rice

Easy and buttery vermicelli rice is a traditional Lebanese Rice made with three simple ingredients, rice, vermicelli and olive oil.

Lebanese Rice with Vermicelli

Hindbeh Bi Zeit (Lebanese Greens)

Lebanese greens (hindbeh bi zeit) is made with either dandelion, endive or chicory tossed in a sour dressing topped with caramelized onion.

Lebanese Greens

Authentic Lebanese Baba Ganoush Recipe (باباغنوج)

My Lebanese family’s authentic creamy Baba Ghanouj recipe using simple ingredients to create the smoky eggplant Lebanese dip that is perfect with mezze, crudités or crackers.

Baba Ghanouj

Loubieh Bi Zeit (Lebanese Green Beans Braised in Oil)

This Loubieh bi zeit recipe is traditional Lebanese green beans braised in oil and tomatoes with garlic.

Loubieh bi zeit

Bamia (Lebanese Okra Stew)

This Bamia recipe is a classic Arabic dish from Lebanon made with okra and tomatoes. Preparation is quick and easy. Okra Stew is always served with vermicelli rice.

Bamia - Okra Stew

Sabanekh w Riz

Lebanese spinach stew aka sabanekh w riz is hearty, warming, and delicious. Using minimal ingredients and can be made in around 30 minutes. Gluten free and vegan.

Lebanese Spinach Stew

Bazella w Riz Without Meat (Vegan Lebanese Pea Stew)

This bazella w riz without meat is an easy vegan Lebanese pea stew recipe. Sweet peas and carrots simmered in a tomato base. Traditionally served over Lebanese vermicelli rice.

Bazella w riz

Lebanese Fasolia (Kidney Bean Stew)

Vegan Lebanese fasolia is a deliciously hearty red kidney bean stew in a thick tomato base seasoned in aromatic spices.

Fasolia

Vegetarian Kibbeh (Lebanese Kibbeh)

Bake vegetarian Kibbeh, made with potato and bulgur on an aromatic bed of walnuts, onion and sultanas. This delicious Lebanese kibbeh is a well balanced savory and sweet recipe that has been passed down through the generations of my family. Vegan friendly.

Vegetarian Kibbeh

Kousa Mahshi (Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini)

Kousa mahshi is Lebanese Stuffed Zucchini. This recipe is my Lebanese family’s recipe. Each zucchini (squash) is filled with spiced vegetables, toasted pine nuts and rice cooked in a delicious tomato broth. This is a vegan Lebanese recipe.

Mahshi Kousa

Easy Lebanese Falafel (From Scratch)

Make the popular Lebanese street food in your kitchen from scratch. This crunchy Lebanese falafel recipe is from my Lebanese family’s recipe book, it’s easy, super delicious and on top of that it is gluten free.

Lebanese Falafel

Lebanese Vegan Stuffed Eggplant (Batinjan Mahshi)

Lebanese vegan stuffed eggplant is also known as "batinjan mahshi." Each eggplant is hollowed whole, stuffed with a vegetable and rice filling then simmered in a tomato broth until tender.

Lebanese stuffed eggplants

Vegan Black Eyed Peas With Greens (Lebanese)

A traditional home-cooked Lebanese food of vegan black eyed peas with greens known as “selek bi loubieh”. The black eyed peas are simmered in garlic, cilantro and onions with chopped greens and finished with a squeeze of lemon for a flavorsome comforting meal.

Vegan Black Eyed Peas with Greens

Lebanese Spiced Rice with Toasted Nuts and Vegetables

Easy Lebanese spiced rice with nuts and vegetables is one of my favorite ways to enjoy rice. It’s fluffy, filling, loaded with flavor and can be enjoyed as a side dish or a main. No more boring rice.

Vegan Lebanese Rice

Malfouf (Vegan Lebanese Cabbage Rolls)

This Lebanese malfouf mahshi (vegan cabbage rolls) are stuffed with rice, fresh vegetables and herbs. Then cooked in a deliciously minty sour evaporated broth. This recipe is vegan and gluten-free.

Malfouf

Best Vegan Shawarma

The best vegan shawarma, boasting big vibrant flavors. Made of spices mixed through cooked mushrooms, which are combined with fresh vegetables, pickles and a garlic sauce. A wonderful feast in a sandwich or bowl.

Vegan Shawarma

Moghrabieh Lebanese Pearl Couscous

A Tempting moghrabieh recipe. Lebanese pearl couscous cooked with aromatic Middle Eastern spices, tender chickpeas and caramelized onions.

Moghrabieh

Mujadara Hamra (Lentils and Bulgur)

Mujadara Hamra hails from the South of Lebanon. It is a flavorsome dish made from caramelized onions, lentils and bulgur. Accidentally a vegan Lebanese recipe.

Mujadara Hamra

Mujadara (Lebanese Lentils and Rice)

An authentic Lebanese mujadara recipe of lentils and rice. This recipe is vegan and gluten free. An inexpensive meal to feed the whole family.

Mujadara

Baklawa (Lebanese Baklava)

Baklawa, a mouthwatering dessert of layered golden filo pastry, with crushed walnuts and a drizzle of sugar syrup. This is the best baklawa recipe will ever need. Thank me later!

Baklawa

Atayef (Middle Eastern Stuffed Pancakes)

Atayef (qatayef) are an Arabic dessert of stuffed pancakes filled with walnuts, then oven-baked and then coated in a fragrant simple syrup. Vegan friendly.

Atayef

Vegan Lebanese Milk Pudding - Haytaliyeh

An authentic Lebanese milk pudding dessert converted to use plant based ingredients. Gluten free.

Haytaliyeh

Vegan Lebanese Rice Pudding (Riz Bi Haleeb)

Delicious and easy to make Lebanese rice pudding aka riz bi haleeb is a fragrant and creamy dessert. This is a dairy free rice pudding flavored with orange blossom and is naturally sweetened.

Riz bi Haleeb

Vegan Namoura (Basbousa Recipe)

Namoura (basbousa) is a Middle Eastern semolina cake with sugar syrup. Namoura has a sweet, floral taste and is served cut into diamonds or squares topped with a single almond piece

Namoura

Sfouf Lebanese Turmeric Semolina Cake (Vegan)

Sfouf is an easy Lebanese semolina cake with turmeric that is a gorgeous bright yellow color. This Lebanese cake is soft, quite tender and slightly crumbly. The semolina contributes to this cake's unique texture, giving it a slightly pleasant graininess. The exterior is crunchy and the interior is moist.

Vegan sfouf