Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes

Creamy lima bean salad with starchy bean-liquid dressing sounds technical, but it just means the beans make their own sauce. Big dried limas simmer until just tender, then olive oil and white wine vinegar whip into their cloudy cooking liquid as a glossy dressing....

These simple roasted bell peppers with vinaigrette are the antipasto I make most often. Blistered peppers steam out of their skins and soak in an olive oil, white wine vinegar, and lemon dressing. Served at room temperature with their juices pooled in the dish, they...

This zesty marinated chickpea salad is the quiet hero of my picnic basket. Warm chickpeas take a garlicky red wine vinaigrette spiked with a splash of their own cooking liquid, then marinate with slivers of red onion. Two hours later they've become something...

This crisp and tangy paprika cucumber salad is the bright, make-ahead side my summer table runs on. Paper-thin cucumbers and onion are salted until they weep, then dressed with sweet paprika, dill, and white wine vinegar. It stays crunchy for days, which almost never...

This classic vegetarian Caesar salad gets everything right — shattering garlicky croutons, a real egg-and-lemon dressing, and cold romaine. It leans on vegetarian Worcestershire and vegetarian Parmesan, so nothing about it tastes like a compromise. Tossed at the...

This authentic panzanella salad is Tuscany's beautiful answer to yesterday's bread. Thick cubes of stale French bread drink up a garlicky red wine vinaigrette alongside romaine, tomatoes, cucumber, radishes, and celery. There's no cooking, one big bowl,...