Greek Recipes for Vegetarian Meatless Main Dishes

A delicious alternative to the heavier Eggplant Parmesan, this recipe for Eggplant with Tomatoes and Feta makes a wonderful vegetarian entree or side dish.

A quick and easy pie to assemble and bake made with zucchini, onions, leek and feta cheese. Perfect for a lunch or dinner or even a quick snack.

Cauliflower is covered with a cheesy cream sauce, and topped with even more cheese to create a fabulous side dish. This recipe can also be made with broccoli.

Green beans in a savory tomato sauce flavored with olive oil and seasoned with garden fresh herbs. Enjoy this dish is a vegetarian entree or a savory side dish.

Yigandes are similar to giant dried lima beans, and this oven-to-table casserole combines them with tomatoes, onions, herbs, and spices to create a fabulous dish. This can also be served as a side dish or (on small plates) as a meze.

A fabulous meatless appetizer or main dish of eggplant, tomato, herbs, and feta cheese.

Grilled eggplant slices rolled and stuffed with a savory spinach and Feta cheese filling. These rolls make a great summer entrée or a delicious side dish.

This easy dish highlights black-eyed peas with the tastes of onions, capers, and dill. Because it is often served chilled or at room temperature, we call it a salad, but it makes a wonderful warm side dish or vegetarian and vegan main dish.

This traditional Greek vegetable main dish is a delightful combination of eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, and onions.

Broad beans and artichoke hearts are a delightful taste combination and a favorite main dish during the lenten season. It can also be served as a side dish.

An easy recipe with frozen peas, frozen artichoke hearts, tomatoes, fresh green onions and fresh dill.

The taste of dill with peas is delightful and this dish combines those with green (spring) onions, potatoes, and a touch of lemon juice. This can be served as a light main dish or side.

Dried giant ("yigandes") beans are cooked, coated in flour, and fried until crispy. A delightful vegetarian dish that also meets Greek fasting (Lenten) requirements.

Stuffed vegetables with a mixture of herbs, rice, and grated vegetables. Vegetables include bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, and stuffed potatoes - a real treat!

Meatless moussaka made with eggplant, zucchini, and potatoes cooked with tomatoes and topped with grated cheese.

The fabulous tastes of "stifatho" (also "stifado") dishes aren't limited to meat and seafood. This mushroom stew is a simple dish that brings favorite Greek tastes to a meatless table!

A wonderful combination of vegetables cooked in the oven in a covered casserole. Delicious as a meatless main dish, or a side.

Potatoes, zucchini, red and green peppers, and melted feta cheese on top: a delightful main dish or side.

This is a favorite meatless main dish. It's easy to make and a favorite on cold days.

Briam is a very versatile dish. It is especially tasty as a vegetarian main dish, or as a side dish with broiled fish or lamb chops.

"Au gratin" recipes found their way into Greek cooking in the early 1900s. This combination of spinach and asparagus with cream and sharp cheese is a delicious example of this type of cooking.

Fabulous as a meatless main dish, this is delightful as a first course as well. Spinach, yigandes beans (or lima beans), feta cheese, tomato, onions, leeks, and dill make a delicious combination.

Delicious as a side dish or meatless main dish, this dish incorporates the tastes of onion, garlic, cloves, and mint for a fabulous result.

This dish of stewed green (string, pole, snap) beans and zucchini with tomatoes is easy to make, and is a delicious side dish or meatless main dish.

Peas, carrots, potatoes, and tomatoes with a fabulous selection of herbs and spices. A great vegetarian, vegan, and Lenten dish.

Cabbage leaves stuffed with a mixture of rice and herbs can be made with the full cabbage leaf as a main course, or made into small rolls as an appetizer or side dish using pieces of the leaf.

A delightful alternative to rice, bulgur is used in this aromatic herb stuffing for bell peppers - green, red, yellow - your choice.

A pretty - and pretty unusual - dish, this meatless main course (or side dish) calls for tomatoes stuffed with a mixture of peas, onion, parsley, bread crumbs, and grated cheese.

Bell peppers, zucchini, eggplant, tomatoes, and potatoes are stuffed with a mixture of rice, vegetable pulp, herbs, and crushed roasted almonds.

This vegetarian version of stuffed tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, and eggplant is so delicious, you'll never miss the meat.

Zucchini are stuffed with a mixture of orzo pasta, cheese, garlic, parsley, and sun-dried tomatoes.