30 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes – Less than 8g Fat per Serving!

Name: 30 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes - Less Than 8g Per Serving!
Prep time: 2 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 12 min
Ingredients: 1 ripe banana; ⅓ cup bulgur; ⅔ cup oat milk ((or milk of choice)); 2 tbsp peanuts ((or hazelnuts)); 1 mango ((or peach)); 1 pinch salt

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If you are trying to lose weight, or just want to cut unnecessary fat from your diet, then these 30 low fat vegetarian recipes are exactly what you need!

All of these recipes have less than 8g overall fat per serving, of which less than 3g are saturated. Many of them have only 1g overall!

Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, not No Fat Vegetarian Recipes

Making low fat vegetarian recipes is a healthy choice for many reasons. Too much fat in your diet can lead to high cholesterol, which in turn increases your risk of heart disease.

However, it is important to remember that fat itself is not bad and is in fact necessary for the healthy functioning of our body.

Fat provides us with lots of energy and helps the body to absorb Vitamins A, D, E and K and it is also the backbone of many of our hormones.

That’s the thing about fats – they’re complicated. There are good fats and bad fats, and while it is important not to have too much fat, it is also important to have enough!

We would also say to take all of this with a pinch of salt – having ‘bad fats’ in your diet isn’t necessarily bad, it’s just all about moderation.

The Facts About Fats

Unsaturated fats are the classic ‘good fats’. These are the fats found in plants and fish, for example in avocados, olive oil and nuts.

In these low fat vegetarian recipes, we have picked recipes with mostly unsaturated fats.

We need unsaturated fats for energy, vitamin absorption and for maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.

The ‘bad fats’ are saturated fats. These can be found in cream, butter, many meats, cakes, and biscuits, among other things.

A diet with too much saturated fat increases the body’s production of bad cholesterol, which is a fatty substance that increases the risk of heart disease and stroke.

That is one of the reasons why we have found low fat vegetarian recipes with less than 3g saturated fat per serving.

The other reason is that, on a gram for gram basis, fat contains over double the amount of calories compared to carbohydrates and protein.

That means by reducing overall fat content you can much more easily reduce the calories in a meal to aid with weight loss – if that’s your thing.

Does that make more sense? Check out the NHS’s guidelines on fat consumption if you want to learn more.

Healthy vegetarian recipes with low fat content

So, what ingredients are used in low fat vegetarian recipes to maintain healthy levels of unsaturated fat and keep saturated fat out?

You will find a lot of beans and lentils, as these are a great source of protein with a naturally low fat content.

For example, in half a cup of green lentils, which are used in this lebanese lentil soup with kale and lemon, there are 12g of protein and only 0.5g of fat!

Compare this to a standard sausage: for 12g of protein from a sausage, you can expect 8g of fat!

You will also find lots of vegetables, which are full of vitamins and fibre, meaning they keep you full for a long time and are low in calories.

Veg can be used to bulk up a dish while keeping the fat and calorie count low! This zucchini and potato soup uses potatoes for a creamy taste and texture, with only 5.3g of fat and no dairy.

Low fat sweet treats

We have included some sweet low fat vegetarian recipes, because cake and biscuits are particular culprits of high saturated fat content!

Oats and bananas are staples of low fat baking. Bananas lend a natural sweetness, while being full of nutrients and even acting as a binding agent!

Oats are used in many low fat vegetarian recipes for sweet treats, because they are low in fat, high in fibre and super energising.

A hack I discovered while researching low fat vegetarian recipes is using Weetabix – yes, that’s right, the wheat biscuit cereal that any brits reading this will almost definitely have suffered through for breakfast as children!

These weetabix cake and weetabix muffin recipes use the cereal to make healthy, low fat, filling sweet treats!

With all these delicious low fat vegetarian recipes, you can eat hearty and delicious dinners, while keeping your fat intake at a healthy level!

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30 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes – Less than 8g Fat per Serving!

Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, not No Fat Vegetarian Recipes

The Facts About Fats

Healthy vegetarian recipes with low fat content

Low fat sweet treats

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Curried Parsnip Soup

Mushroom Stew

Mexican Street Corn

Lentil Veggie Nuggets

Southwestern Quinoa Salad

Smooching Mushrooms on Toast

Lentil Dahl

Asian Cucumber Salad

Sweet Potato Casserole

Creamy Mushroom Spinach Pasta

Lebanese Lentil Soup

Oil Free Refried Beans

Barbecue Tofu

Black Eyed Pea Salad Recipe

Masala Dal Brown Lentils

Broccolini Salad with Pan Fried Mushrooms

Goi Cuon – authentic Vietnamese spring rolls

Zucchini (Courgette) and Potato Soup

Easy Ratatouille

Authentic Moroccan Couscous Salad

Easy Pilaf Rice

Tom Yum Fried Rice

Sweet Treats

Banana Oatmeal Fitness Cookies

Spicy Kiwi Banana Smoothie

Weetabix Apple Muffins

Cornmeal Porridge

Healthy Carrot Muffin

Weetabix Cake

Cinnamon Baked Pears

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