23 Dairy-Free Recipes

Dairy-free recipes — alternative recipes for all your favorite foods!

It can be frustrating having to give up your favorite meals when you switch diets — but now you don’t have to! Instead you can simply substitute a few ingredients with the alternatives listed below & and still eat the same great stuff!

All these recipes are dairy-free and most are gluten-free as well. 

23 Dairy-Free Dinners:

Chicken:

Whole Chicken in the Crock-Pot — serve with a side of rice & stir fry veggies.

Taco Chicken Bowl — skip the grated cheese on top and it’s perfect, via Budget Bytes 

Chicken Enchiladas — via Natural Momma in Progress

Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup — via Cooking Classy

Beef:

Stuffed Peppers with Beef and Quinoa –– via Simple Life Abundant Life

Ground Beef & Peas —  over rice via Worth Cooking

Meatball Recipe — via Springpatch Jam

Meat free:

15-Minute Creamy Avocado Pasta — via oh she glows

Vegan Mac & Cheese — Rabbit Food for my Bunny Teeth

Dairy-free Melty Pizza Cheese — via Vegan Connection

Breakfast Burritos — **The tortilla’s in this recipe do have gluten in them. Omit the cheese in this recipe & cook eggs with coconut oil and it’s a great dairy-free recipe.**

Sides:

Cubed Oven Potatoes — these are delicious and make great leftovers (we usually use our leftovers to make breakfast burrito).

Healthy Muffins — that have veggies snuck in! **this has gluten but can be make without dairy**

Dairy-Free Desserts:

Homemade Coconut Whipped Cream — delicious over berries!

Peppermint Patties — via Worth Cooking {she also has a great recipe for Ooey Gooey Pumpkin Bars}

Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookies — via Yammie’s Gluten Freedom

Dairy-Free & Gluten Free Alternatives for Staple Items:

Homemade Coconut Flour — via The Realistic Mama

Coconut Milk Yogurt — via The View from Great Island

Avocado Cream (substitute for sour cream) — via Worth Cooking

Dairy-Free Ranch Dressing Recipe — via Cooking with Curls

Homemade Coconut Milk — via The Realistic Mama

Gluten-free Bread — via Gluten Free Mommy

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