Get Veggies In the Meal: 13 Recipes with Vegetables

Curly leaf spinach has great texture and flavor and holds this mustard dressing well. For additional color, feel free to use a variety of different colored beets. You can also swap blood oranges for the tangerines.

Recipe: Spinach Salad with Citrus and Roasted Beets

You'll need a knife and fork for these hearty, luscious toasts. The cabbage topping would also be delicious as a side dish for roast pork.

Recipe: Cabbage-and-Mushroom Toasts

Kale, when combined with sweet roasted squash, can become tender, soft, and velvety.

Recipe: Squash-and-Kale Toasts

Soften spongy eggplant by steaming it instead of sautéeing it in oil.

Recipe: Eggplant Compote

Soak split peas for an hour before simmering them in the soup so thay they're more tender and the soup is smoother.

Recipe: Classic Split Pea Soup

Crispy, cheesy shortbread bites add savory flavor and a textural contrast to this creamy spring soup made with asparagus and peas.

Recipe: Asparagus Soup with Parmesan Shortbread Coins

Use this easy roasted vegetable dish as a garnish for hearty winter soups or as a side served up with roasted meat and greens.

Recipe: Dijon-Roasted Cauliflower

Broccoli gets a kick in the pants by amping it up here with hot sauce, garlic, and pepper. Now you have an addictive side dish.

Recipe: Broccoli with Hot Sauce

Here, the turnips and radishes are tossed with a mix of honey and soy sauce, and served with sautéed shiitake mushrooms that have an ingenious, crispy rice-cracker coating.

Recipe: Honey-Soy-Glazed Vegetables with Crispy Mushrooms

In Korea, chefs typically create stir-fries with just one kind of vegetable, like lotus root. Tradition is broken here with an assortment of vegetables, including Jerusalem artichokes and parsnips.

Recipe: Maple Root-Vegetable Stir-Fry with Sesame

In this playful vegan take on osso buco (braised veal shanks), very large pieces of carrots are braised in red wine and mushroom broth until tender. Ground dried porcini mushrooms give the dish rich, meaty flavor.

Recipe: Carrot Osso Buco

Ground porcini mushrooms add a meaty flavor to this veggie burger.

Recipe: Veggie Burgers with Pomegranate Ketchup

Heidi Swanson, who blogs about healthy food on her excellent website 101 Cookbooks, shares this lightened bread pudding in her cookbook, Super Natural Every Day.

Recipe: Spinach Bread Pudding with Lemon and Feta

In the mood for more vegetables? We commend you! And we understand. Check out more tips for packing your meals with healthy veggies from Food & Wine:

10 Best Vegetable Soups

F&W Editors' Favorite Veggie Dishes

Vegetable Dishes for Carnivores