My Christmas vegetable tray bake is the ultimate fuss-free, vegan dish. I simply roast parsnips, potatoes, carrots, and sprouts together on one tray. It’s seasonal, easy to make, and packed with festive flavors! Pair it with my sage and onion stuffing balls for the perfect holiday side.
One-Tray Roasted Festive Veggies
I love making simple recipes, especially around Christmas when things can get a bit hectic. Vegetarian Christmas Dinners should be delicious, but also stress-free, right? That’s why I gravitate towards easy, one-tray meals like Tomato Gnocchi Tray Bake, Oven-baked Winter Root Vegetables traybake and Sausage and Potato traybake. That's also less cleaning to do afterwards!
Christmas is all about enjoying good food together. But it can be overwhelming trying to get everything ready and hot at the same time. My goal has always been to simplify festive cooking without compromising on flavors.
This festive traybake is as easy as chop, throw, and bake! You can use any vegetables you have on hand. For a festive touch, I love using carrots, parsnips, mini potatoes, Brussels sprouts, red onions, and herbs from my garden. It’s a simple, delicious way to enjoy all those lovely Christmas veggies!
Why You’ll Love This recipe?
- Super quick prep – You only need about 15 minutes to peel and chop the veggies into batons, wedges, or cubes just like in my Indian potatoes cauliflower tray bake. If you’re in a rush, grab a ready-to-use pack of seasonal veggies from the store. Then there’s no prep time at all!
- Budget-friendly – Festive meals during Christmas can get pricey, but this dish keeps things affordable. It uses only seasonal veggies. You can easily make it with whatever root vegetables for a traybake you already have at home.
- Quick & easy – It’s as simple as chop, throw, and bake! While the oven heats up, you can prep the veggies. While they’re roasting, you have time to finish setting the Christmas table.
- Healthy – This roasted veggie tray bake is packed with goodness and full of flavor.
- Perfect side dish – It pairs beautifully with your holiday mains or even with a Sunday roast.
- Diet-friendly – It’s vegan, gluten-free, and dairy-free, so it ticks all the boxes for a healthy, crowd-pleasing side.
How to Make This Christmas Vegetable Tray Bake Recipe?
First, I start by washing and drying all the veggies. I peel and chop the carrots and parsnips into batons, halve the potatoes and Brussels sprouts, and cut the red onion into wedges. You can either put them straight onto your baking tray or mix them in a large bowl.
Next, I season the veggies with olive oil, salt, black pepper, and sometimes a little garlic powder if I’m in the mood. I just mix everything together with my hands (or a wooden spoon if I don’t want to get messy) to make sure they’re all nicely coated.
Then I scatter them around on the baking tray, sprinkle on some fresh herbs, and roast for about 30 minutes. Once they’re done, I like to add a little extra fresh herbs before serving.
How to serve Roasted Vegetable Tray Bake this Christmas?
I love serving this One Tray Roasted Vegetable Bake with a generous helping of Fresh homemade English mint sauce, onion gravy or mushroom gravy, and lots of cranberry sauce.
It pairs beautifully with mains like whole roasted cauliflower, Christmas vegetable gratin or Sprouts gratin. Even as part of a cozy vegan dinner any time of the year. Just before serving, I sprinkle some fresh herbs over the veggies to add a burst of flavor.
For an extra touch, I sometimes drizzle it with homemade roasted garlic dressing. They are great on my potato and cauliflower traybake too. To make it, I roast 4-5 large garlic cloves with the veggies. Then mash them with balsamic vinegar, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
Recipe FAQ's
This easy traybake recipe is super flexible—you can use just about any veggies you have on hand! Some great options are Brussels sprouts, turnips, parsnips, butternut squash, sweet potatoes, and carrots. Feel free to get creative with whatever’s in season or just root vegetables in the traybake.
It’s simple! Just season your veggies with olive oil, salt, pepper, any other homemade spice blend and herbs you like. Then, transfer them to a roasting tray. Bake in a preheated oven at 180C for about 20-30 minutes, or until they’re perfectly tender and golden.
Yes, you can absolutely air fry a Christmas tray bake! Just like with traditional oven baking, the air fryer is great for roasting vegetables, paneer sausages, halloumi fries - anything! Season the veggies and add it to the air fryer basket. Air fry at 180C for 15 minutes. If needed add another 2-3 minutes or until done.
Just like how I make air fryer veggies for fajita or air fryer peppers and onions. Air frying the vegetables is a quicker way to prepare your holiday meals.
There are plenty of vegetarian options to complement your Christmas roast dinner. Try serving classic air fryer roast potatoes, creamy mashed potatoes, air fryer hasselback potatoes, cabbage steak, honey glazed carrots, roasted sprouts with pomegranate, or no-mayo Christmas coleslaw.
More easy Vegetarian Christmas Recipes
Easy Christmas Tray Bake recipe below
Ingredients
- 250 g Potato halved
- 2 Large Carrots cut into batons ( 200g )
- 2 Large Parsnip cut into batons (200g)
- 100 g Brussel sprouts
- 1 Large onion cut into wedges ( 150g )
- 2 tablespoon Olive Oil
- Salt & Pepper to taste
- 3 cloves garlic minced or 1 teaspoon Garlic Powder Optional
- Herbs - Rosemary Thyme plus more for garnishing
Instructions
- Preheat the oven at 200 C / 180 fan-assisted oven.
- Peel and cut the carrots and parsnip into batons.
- Peel and cut the red onion into wedges.
- Dice the potato and Brussel sprouts in half.
- Add all the vegetables into a large baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil, season with salt, pepper, garlic ( if using any) and herbs. Mix them well with your hands or use a pair of wooden spoons.
- Bake for 30 -35 minutes. Taste and season more if needed. Remove the herbs and garnish with the fresh ones just before serving.
Sophie Gourlay says
this worked perfect thanks
Sandhya Hariharan says
Lovely to know Sophie!
Juli says
I'm so excited! Your recipe was so delicious I am adding it to my Christmas menu as we all recommend it.
Biana says
Looks like a delicious veggie bake. Perfect for dinner with some chicken or turkey.
Mirlene says
It's always good to have some roasted veggies as a side dish for any occassion. Just added this to my Thanksgiving dinner list!
Katia says
I loved the flavour on these veggies, the rosemary is so delicious in this. Love it!!
Jacqueline and says
What a fabulous idea to cook all the vegetables together like this. I might do this this year. I usually roast the potatoes and parsnips and steam the rest.