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

This roasted carrot and leek soup gets nearly all its flavor from the oven — a tray of carrots caramelizing while you clean the leeks. Fennel seed and a finish of lemon keep it from being merely sweet. Simple ingredients, the better part of an hour, and a result that...

This homemade hearty tomato soup builds its flavor the slow way — onion, shallot, carrot, and celery softened in olive oil before no-salt-added tomatoes and broth join. A pinch of sugar and a squeeze of lemon at the end do quiet, essential work. Ready in 40 minutes,...

This creamy tomato basil soup with Gruyère is comfort at full volume — ripe tomatoes, fresh basil, heavy cream, and Gruyère melted straight into the pot. It's the soup to make when tomatoes are peaking and somebody's had a long day. An optional splash of...

This hearty tomato-barley soup with garden vegetables takes 33 minutes because it's honest about shortcuts — a ready-to-serve tomato-basil soup base plus quick barley, carrots, zucchini, and green beans. The result eats slow-simmered. Plus, as the recipe notes,...

Hearty Tuscan bean soup with cheesy cornmeal croutons solves the bread-bowl problem by putting the bread on top instead. The croutons — corn muffin mix, Romano or Parmesan, egg, and milk — bake while the soup simmers. Leeks, mushrooms, and sweet pepper make the pot...

This spicy vegetable stew is my go-to when the evening calls for something thick, red, and honest — a hug in a bowl, exactly as the name promises. Eggplant, peppers, chickpeas, and fresh tomatoes cook down until everything is deep and saucy. Red pepper flakes decide...

This homemade rich and savory vegetable broth simmers carrots, celery, unpeeled sweet onions, tomatoes, and cremini mushrooms for two unhurried hours. It costs almost nothing and tastes like the boxed version's more serious older sibling. Your soups, risottos,...