Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes

Mediterranean braised giant lima beans in tomato sauce — this is the dish I think of as sunshine in a pot. The giant limas go custard-soft in a garlicky tomato sauce with rosemary and a splash of dry red wine. Finished with lemon juice and raw onion, it's taverna...

This vegetarian antipasto salad with fresh mozzarella assembles in about fifteen minutes and looks like a trattoria platter. Torn mozzarella, ripe tomatoes, and ribbons of zucchini soak up a parsley-and-oregano vinaigrette with slivers of red onion. Good ingredients...

This creamy and zesty roasted eggplant dip is baba ghanouj done right — smoky, lemony, and light. Charred eggplant whips with a hard push of lemon juice and olive oil into something billowy and bright. It's the kind of dip people hover over. Move over, baba...

Get ready to rethink everything you know about hummus! I stumbled upon this recipe and was skeptical at first—tartar sauce in a garbanzo dip? But one taste and I was hooked. This dip is unbelievably creamy, tangy, and packed with a zesty flavor that will have everyone...

This chilled roasted eggplant dip is sweet, sour, gingery, and nothing like the creamy versions you already know. Roasted eggplant is mashed with brown sugar, cider vinegar, and a generous grating of fresh ginger, then chilled until the flavors turn jammy. It's...

This vibrant Italian rice salad with zesty vinaigrette is the dish I bring to every potluck I'm invited back to. The vinaigrette is the story: Parmesan whisked into olive oil and white wine vinegar until it turns almost creamy, poured over rice and finely diced...

This classic céleri rémoulade is the crisp, mustardy French salad that makes celery root worth knowing. Raw celery root cut into fine matchsticks gets wrapped in a creamy sauce of mayonnaise, Dijon, lemon, and whipped cream. It's crunchy, faintly nutty, and...

This rustic baked eggplant salad is what I make when the farmers market gets generous. Whole eggplants bake down to smoky, spoonable flesh, then fold together with tomato, cucumber, olives, and onion in a lemon-and-vinegar dressing. It's eggplant caviar's...

This cold gnocchi antipasto salad is the chewy, colorful pasta-salad upgrade summer needs. Chilled potato gnocchi toss with peas, crunchy bell peppers, and red onion in a tomato-tinted red wine vinaigrette. Store-bought gnocchi make it genuinely fast; a couple hours...

This simple and flavorful white bean salad is five minutes of real work around an hour of simmering you can ignore. Small dried white beans turn creamy and quiet, ready to soak up tomato, cured olives, red onion, and a garlicky vinaigrette. As the recipe promises, the...

This vibrant Italian rice salad is picnic food done properly — colorful, hardy, and better after a night in the fridge. Fine-diced carrots, green beans, celery, and bell pepper fold through rice with parsley and a Parmesan-spiked vinaigrette. It's what I bring...