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← All dietsVegan Sunday dinners
Vegan is where a strict check earns its keep, because the ingredient that breaks it is almost never the main. It is the butter finishing the sauce, the egg wash on the bread, the honey in the dressing, the milk in the kid-friendly drink. Every plan on this page passed on every one of those, component by component. The ones that missed by a single dish are listed separately as almost-fits with the exact reason — which for a lot of households is more useful than a page that pretends the miss did not happen.
What counts: Nothing from an animal, anywhere in the meal: no meat, fish or shellfish, and no dairy, eggs, honey or gelatin — including in the drinks and the dessert.
3 plans in the Sunday Gallery.
What vegan plans look like
Most common mains
- vegetarian3
How they're cooked
- Stir-fried3
Cuisines
- South Indian2
- Taiwanese1
Diets they fit
- Dairy-free3
- Pescatarian3
- Vegan3
- Vegetarian3
- No pork, no alcohol2
The plans
- South Indian · vegetarianKerala Garden Thoran Supper
A focused South Indian supper built around a vibrant, one-pan coconut vegetable thoran — crisp-tender vegetables stirred with mustard, curry leaf and freshly grated coconut — served with steaming white rice and a bright tamarind-tomato rasam. Clean textures, straightforward technique, and lively sour-spicy aromatics make it worth sitting down for.
- South Indian · vegetarianKerala Evening Upma Supper
A comforting South Indian weekday-to-weekend supper built around soft, fragrant rava upma finished at the table, accompanied by a lightly spiced cabbage thoran and a bright coconut chutney. Technique-forward but simple: one stovetop one-pan main, an easy sautéed vegetable side, and a quick blender chutney — all finishable within a single 1-hour cooking window.
- Taiwanese · vegetarianTaiwanese Market Eggplant Supper
Velvety stir-fried eggplant tossed in a concentrated soy–sesame sauce with fresh basil, served with fluffy steamed jasmine rice — a night-market–inspired weeknight supper that feels special without fuss.
Almost fits
These plans fit everywhere except one dish. The reason is shown so you can decide. They are not counted above.
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