Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes

Incredible crisp-fried noodle cake is the trick I pull out when noodles need to become an event — one giant disc, shatteringly crisp at the edges and tender in the middle. Soy and sesame season the noodles before they hit the pan, with scallions folded through. Cut it...

Creamy baked noodle casserole with eggplant is vegetarian pastitsio at its coziest — cinnamon-and-clove spiced eggplant in tomato under a blanket of cheese sauce. It's a Sunday dish that rewards the ninety minutes, feeding you tonight and reheating beautifully...

Chinese egg noodle soup in soy broth is my cold-weather, low-effort, big-payoff bowl — twenty minutes, one pot, deeply savory. A spoonful of ketchup sounds odd until you taste how it rounds out the soy broth. Cubes of pressed tofu and sliced scallions make it a meal....

Homemade butternut squash tortellini sounds like a project and folds together faster than you'd think — especially if you use the recipe's time-saving triangles. Sweet baked squash, Parmesan, and a whisper of nutmeg get sealed inside tender egg pasta....

Hearty mushroom baked ziti is the ultimate comfort food for meatless dinners that don't feel like a compromise. Mixed mushrooms browned properly give the tomato sauce a deep, almost meaty backbone, layered with mozzarella between big tubes of pasta. One pan, six...

From-scratch baked macaroni and cheese is the casserole I make when nothing but a bubbling, golden-topped dish of comfort will do. The sauce is a real one built on butter, flour, and milk, with bay leaves steeped in and sharp cheddar melted through. Twenty extra...