Vegetarian & Vegan Christmas Brunch Casseroles

Goodness, gracious, how are there so many variations on an egg, bacon and shredded potato dish? A lot of people think breakfast and brunch casseroles require cheese, beef and eggs, it seems — and along with them, a post-breakfast food coma. But your morning plate shouldn’t make we feel exhausted and shitty, and generally not on Christmas. Here are a few lighter, fresher and vegetarian or vegan casserole recipes for your holiday table.

Adzuki Bean Pumpkin Casserole

Hearty, healthful and vegan. With pumpkin, ginger, garlic, shiitake mushrooms, adzuki beans and kombu, this stew (left) melds Japanese cooking American comfort food for a gratifying though non-traditional brunch dish. GET THE RECIPE, around Scandi Home

Kale Frittata

Kale adds a small immature to this sincerely customary breakfast frittata (below). we like this recipe since it uses olive oil instead of butter; no cream or milk; and small cheese. Replace a sharp salami with vegetarian or vegan sausage to keep it meat-free. GET THE RECIPE, around My Kitchen in a Rockies

Quinoa Squash Casserole

The multiple of garlic, paprika, cumin, coriander and allspice make this vegetarian quinoa and squish stew an savoury as good as dainty dish. And regulating solidified squash, as this recipe does, cuts down on Christmas morning cooking time. GET THE RECIPE, around Eating Well.

Greek Style Vegetable Casserole

A movement on a Greek Lenten plate briam, this “jumble of corpulent vegetables” with garlic, lemon juice, oregano, dill and feta is “a small larger than a sum of a parts,” contend a Bon Appetit editors. GET THE RECIPE

Vegan Lentil Shepherd’s Pie with Parsnip Potato Mash

Total vegan comfort food, with a sharp cashew cream, non-dairy divert and unfeeling gas sauce. GET THE RECIPE, around Food 52

Gluten-free Green Bean Casserole

A remade, semi-homemade chronicle of a Campbell’s classic, with a cornstarch-and-milk salsa with mushrooms subbing in for cream of fungus canned soup and gluten-free rice flour for a onion topping. GET THE RECIPE, around Serious Eats

Baked Egg with Mushrooms, Spinach Salsa Casserole

A discerning and easy vegetarian breakfast stew for those who consider brunch contingency engage eggs. GET THE RECIPE, around Cookin’ Canuck

Celery and Fennel Gratin Casserole

Standard stew format, astonishing stew mixture (anchovies, leeks, fennel, etc. GET THE RECIPE, around Food 52

Quinoa Spinach Bake

This quinoa-spinach bake recipe is complicated in vegetables and herbs, not in crream or cheese. GET THE RECIPE, around Martha Stewart

Parsnip Gratin with Gruyere and Thyme

Another imagination gratin plate — and a good approach to make use of one of a many under-appreciated members of winter’s bounty, a parsnip. Food blogger Sylvia Fountaine calls this “a parsnip recipe that competence presumably modify even a many hardened of parsnip skeptics.” GET THE RECIPE, around Feasting At Home

Baked Eggplant Parmesan

Baked eggplant, a healthier bechamel salsa and reduction cheese make this vegetarian eggplant stew lighter and healthier than your typically complicated egglant parmesan dishes. GET THE RECIPE, around Martha Stewart

Sweet Potato Oatmeal Casserole

A acquire change from all these delicious casseroles — though only since this (vegan) plate is honeyed doesn’t meant it’s installed with sugar. GET THE RECIPE, around Oh She Glows

Vegan Overnight Breakfast Casserole

A tofu-and vegan cheese formed casserole. Make it on Christmas Eve night, cocktail it in a oven once a presents are open in a morning. GET THE RECIPE, around Hell Yeah It’s Vegan