All Vegetarian Recipes: 2,600+ Plant-Based Ideas

Ginger-scallion sauce is the condiment I keep in a jar and put on everything: minced ginger, scallions, and garlic, hit with smoking-hot oil so they sizzle into something aromatic and faintly sweet. Salt rounds it out, and it makes plain rice a dish. If there's one...

Homemade salsa fresca — pico de gallo by its proper name — is nothing more than ripe tomatoes, white onion, garlic, chile, cilantro, and lime, chopped and salted with care. Fifteen minutes, and it's the freshest thing on any table it lands on. There's nothing...

Pico de verde — the fresh tomatillo salsa that answers pico de gallo — is raw chopped tomatillos, poblano, scallions, garlic, cilantro, and lime in one bright, crunchy bowl. Ten minutes, no cooking, and completely its own thing next to any red salsa. Dive into the...

Plant-based fish sauce is the umami hack that unlocks Thai and Vietnamese cooking without the anchovies: soy sauce, lime, palm sugar, garlic, and optional dulse simmered into a salty-sour condiment that behaves beautifully in dips and dressings. Fifteen minutes, one...

Fast down-home vegetarian barbecue sauce is my twenty-minute weeknight weapon: ketchup, red wine, vinegar, and vegetarian Worcestershire simmered with chili powder, onion, and garlic into something smoky-sweet and punchy. Brush it on anything that grills and stand...

Coconut cilantro chutney in ten minutes is my South Indian-style obsession: unsweetened coconut, fresh ginger, green chile, cilantro, and cumin blended cool and creamy with a squeeze of lime. No cooking, one blender rinse, and it makes plain rice considerably more...

Cilantro lime sauce is my ten-minute cure for boring food: a big handful of cilantro blended with garlic, lime juice, and oil, thinned with water until it drizzles. It belongs on tacos and rice bowls and grilled vegetables, and it goes on all three in the same week...

Green chutney — cilantro and mint blitzed with ginger, garlic, green chiles, lime juice, and red onion — is the bright, fierce sauce that lives in a jar in my fridge door. Fifteen minutes, no cooking, and it wakes up everything from plain rice to a plain sandwich. The...