40 Best Vegan Recipes with Canned Tomatoes

September 21, 2025

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Explore 40 easy, healthy vegan recipes using canned tomatoes. Delicious, budget-friendly meals from top bloggers that are perfect for any season!

Easy & Budget-Friendly: 40 Healthy Vegan Recipes Featuring Canned Tomatoes

Looking for flavorful, affordable meals that are both healthy and plant-based? This roundup of the 40 best vegan recipes with canned tomatoes proves that pantry staples can still be exciting! Featuring dishes from top food bloggers—including some of my own—these recipes are easy to make, budget-friendly, and packed with wholesome ingredients. Whether you’re in the mood for a hearty stew, a comforting pasta, a spicy curry, or a quick soup, canned tomatoes bring bold flavor and rich nutrition to every dish. Perfect for busy weeknights, meal prep, or anyone cooking on a budget!

Just in time for comfort food season, this fabulous collection of plant-based canned tomato recipes brings you everything, from soups and stews to pastas and casseroles. It’s so easy to just grab a can of tomato products, such as canned tomatoes, pasta sauce, and salsa, and make a healthy, delicious meal in minutes. So go ahead, paint your plate red with tomatoes!

Eat and Live Goodness,

Sharon

40 Best Vegan Recipes with Canned Tomatoes

Chili, Soups, and Stews

Chickpea, Chard and Potato Stew, Elaine Lander, Seasoned Vegetable (shown above)
Chickpea Tomato Stew, Louise-Claire Cayzer, The Vegan Larder

Chunky Vegan Tomato Bisque with Hidden Veggies, Sophia DeSantis, Veggies Don’t Bite (shown above)

Creamy Tomato & Red Pepper Soup with Basil Chickpeas, Caitlin Shoemaker, From My Bowl (shown above)
Creamy Tomato Soup, Katie Morford, RDN, Mom’s Kitchen Handbook

French Wild Rice Vegetable Soup, Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Hearty Vegetable Soup, Diane Fahrenkrug, Delightful Mom Food
Instant Pot Caballero Bean and Soy Curl Chili, Kathy Hester, Plant-Based Instant Pot

Italian Lemon Rosemary Barley Soup, Linda Meyer, Veganosity (shown above)

One Pot Vegan Minestrone Soup, Jess Hoffman, Choosing Chia (shown above)

Sweet Potato and Kale Chili, Aimee Ryan, Wallflower Kitchen (shown above)
Tomato Rice Vegetable Soup, Brandi Doming, The Vegan 8
Vegan Lasagna Soup, Dianne Wenz, Dianne’s Vegan Kitchen

Vegan One Pot 3 Bean, Kale & Mushroom Stew, Tamsin Musgrave, Cupful of Kale (shown above)

Vegan Pumpkin Chili, Amy Katz, Veggies Save the Day (shown above)
Vegan Spanish Chickpea Stew, Rhian Williams, Rhian’s Recipes

Vegan Tortilla Soup with Jackfruit, Sarah McMinn, My Darling Vegan (shown above)
Very Veggie Bean Chili, Chelsey Amer, RDN, C It Nutritionally

Pasta Dishes

Baked Pumpkin Pasta, Amy Reese, Bear Plate (shown above)
Classic Vegan Baked Ziti, Sam Turnbull, It Doesn’t Taste Like Chicken

Tomato Pasta Bake with Garlicky Crumb Topping, Melanie McDonald, A Virtual Vegan (shown above)
Vegan Chickpea Noodles with Garlic Tomato Sauce, Richa Hingle, Vegan Richa

Vegan Stuffed Shells, Kerrie Dare, Plant and Vine (shown above)
Vegan Sweet Potato Lasagna, Amy Lyons, Fragrant Vanilla

Walnut Tomato Sauce with Zucchini Lasagna Noodles, Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)

Curry Dishes

Cauliflower, Sweet Potato, Chickpea Curry, Alexandrea Daum, Occasionally Eggs (shown above)

BEST Chana Masala with Brown Rice, Sharon Palmer, RDN, The Plant-Powered Dietitian (shown above)
Easy Chana Masala with Chickpeas & Yams, Diane Smith, Plant-Based Cooking

Red Lentil Dahl, Katherine Hackworthy, Veggie Desserts (shown above)
Simple Chickpea Curry, Alexandra Tugada, Home Baked Vegan
Tempeh Tikki Masala, Rebeca Fallihee, Eggplant and Olive