A Round-Up of Highly Nutritious Vegetarian Dishes

Are you put off vegetarian food because you think it's bland, lacking in flavour and doesn't give your body enough nutrients? Then you're seriously mistaken! Join VN Cooking to discover these highly nutritious vegetarian dishes!

1. Mushroom porridge

Mushrooms aren't just delicious; they also help boost the immune system, slow ageing, reduce the risk of heart disease, detoxify the body and protect liver cells.

One nourishing mushroom dish you can't miss is vegetarian mushroom porridge. It's usually made with rice, mung beans, mushrooms, carrot and more.

2. Mushroom hotpot

Hotpot suits a great many tastes because it's delicious and easy to eat. Vegetarian mushroom hotpot is very good for your health, supplying your body with nutrients, vitamins and minerals.

The ingredients include mushrooms such as enoki, king oyster, oyster and straw mushrooms, along with fresh vegetables like carrot, tomato and napa cabbage.

Mushroom hotpot is tangy, lightly sweet, fragrant and full of flavour, yet very easy to cook and eat.

3. Vegetarian curry

In southern Vietnam, curry is a familiar dish at offerings and death anniversaries. Instead of meat such as chicken, duck, goat or beef, you can easily make a vegetarian version using sweet potato or taro, chopped lemongrass stalks, fried tofu, straw mushrooms, coconut milk and curry powder.

You'll have a tempting curry to enjoy with crusty bread.

4. Tofu braised in bean sauce

Braised dishes often feature in vegetarian meals thanks to their rich, savoury flavour from ingredients such as tofu, soybeans and fermented bean sauce.

Served with steamed rice, it's guaranteed to give you a warming meal on cold, rainy days.

5. Fried rice

Vegetarian or not, rice is a must at any Vietnamese meal. Vegetarian rice dishes usually include tofu, as well as peas, straw mushrooms, carrots and so on.

The blend of these ingredients means you'll never tire of eating vegetarian.

6. Coconut sticky rice

For meat-eaters, sticky rice is an everyday dish eaten at breakfast, lunch or as an afternoon snack. Coconut sticky rice is a popular favourite made from glutinous rice, coconut, peanuts and pandan leaves.

This vegetarian sticky rice is very healthy, with a distinctive aroma: the soft, sticky grains blended with the sweet fragrance of coconut are simply impossible to resist.

These are the highly nutritious vegetarian dishes VN Cooking wanted to share with our readers. Vegetarian food is incredibly varied and just as nutritious as meat dishes, so don't hesitate to eat vegetarian!