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12 Festive Recipes

If you're looking to incorporate some whole grains and pulses into your festive food this holiday season make sure you check out some of these great recipes.

Coconut Lime Chickpea and Flour Shortbread

The cardamom gives this shortbread recipe a festive flavour and the chickpea flour makes them nice and rich.

Coconut Lime Chickpea and Flour Shortbread

Power Hungry

Pumpkin Seed Brittle

Using pumpkin seeds makes this toffee brittle feel a little more seasonal than a typical sesame seed recipe.

Pumpkin Seed Brittle

Edible Northeast Florida

Festive Matcha Red Bean Cake

Red bean paste is in all sorts of recipes this time of year and this cake adds another great flavour, Matcha.

Festive Matcha Red Bean Cake

The Little Epicurean

Healthy Christmas Sugar Cookies

This recipe might be a little healthier than your traditional cookies by using white beans and natural dyes from spinach and beets.

Healthy Christmas Sugar Cookies

Super Healthy Kids

Vegan Christmas Pudding

Ground flax (aka linseed) helps to bind this Christmas pudidng and give it that famous dense texture.

Vegan Christmas Pudding

Veggielicious

Cauliflower and White Bean Bake

Adding cannellini beans to this classic cauliflower bake makes it even more comforting.

Cauliflower and White Bean Bake

Love Food

Black Bean Meatballs with Cranberries

These Swedish-style vegan meatballs are made with black beans and plant-milk.

Black Bean Meatballs with Cranberries

A Veg Taste from A to Z

Sage and Onion Faba Bean Bake

No mashed potato here. Faba bean splits replace potato in this oven bake recipe.

Sage and Onion Faba Bean Bake

Hodmedod's

Cinnamon Sugar Chickpeas

You might have tried savoury roasted chickpeas but this cinnamon sugar is a nice festive treat.

Cinnamon Sugar Chickpeas

Veggie Inspired

Challah Bread

Challah bread is great for celebrations with it's knots, and this one is topped with bakery seeds like sesame and poppy.

Challah Bread

Epicurious

Chocolate Energy Balls

These festive date balls have hemp seeds and chia seeds to give them a nice texture.

Chocolate Energy Balls

Sobody

Vegan Red Lentil Nut Roast

Nut loaf is a vegan Christmas classic and this one opts for red lentils as the core ingredient.

Vegan Red Lentil Nut Roast

This Vibrant World

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