In order to encourage a healthy lifestyle and less consumption of staple diet portions, The Monday Campaigns Inc., in association with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Centre for a Livable Future, launched a non-profit initiative called the Meatless Monday. This campaign has caught on like wild fire with health-conscious individuals beginning to relish this day.

We bring you the meatless Monday recipes so that it is easy for you to be a part of this campaign and contribute your bit to saving natural resources and building a healthy future.

Meatless Monday Recipes

Vegetarian Moussaka

In the meatless version of this Greek dish, you can use barley instead of meat. Barley would not only keep you off meat for a day but will also build the flavour of the dish.

Quinoa Stir-Fry with Spinach and Walnuts 

This easy vegetarian recipe makes a filling dish, which has the protein-rich quinoa. You can use it as a side dish or a main dish both.

Fruited Tabbouleh

This is another version of the Middle Eastern wheat salad, where fresh fruits like plums, apricots and nectarines and juicy tomatoes come together to make a perfect summer treat.

Spinach-cottage cheese

This is an Indian version of the creamed spinach dish, made with cottage cheese chunks and pureed spinach. Loaded with iron and protein, this dish is a perfect substitute as one of the Meatless Monday recipes.

These are some of the meatless Monday recipes, which you can try whenever you don’t feel like eating meat.

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