Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes

Chilled beet soup, chlodnik, is summer in Poland's favorite color: shocking pink from young beets and their greens, cooled with cold lager, and finished with sour cream, cucumber, dill, and halved hard-boiled eggs. It takes time to chill and almost none to make....

Chilled avocado soup is the laziest, creamiest hot-day lunch imaginable: avocado, tomato, cucumber, and a hit of green chili whirled cold with lemon and a whisper of vinegar. Fifteen minutes of blending, and then the fridge does the rest. Every spoonful is cool,...

Classic Spanish gazpacho is cold soup at its most elemental: ripe tomatoes, cucumber, green pepper, onion, garlic, and a slice of stale bread blended into liquid sunshine with olive oil and sherry vinegar. No cooking at all. It's air conditioning you can eat, and...

When the summer sun is high and the days are long, nothing satisfies quite like a cool, refreshing soup. Forget the heavy winter warmers; this Chilled Cucumber and Spinach Soup is a vibrant emerald dream in a bowl! It's luxuriously creamy, thanks to a secret touch of...

Chilled cantaloupe and tomato soup sounds improbable and tastes inevitable: sweet melon and ripe tomato turn out to be soulmates, with sour cream and ginger smoothing the seam between them. It's nearly no-cook and needs nothing but time to chill. The most...

Creamed fresh pea soup with butter lettuce and white wine is spring in a bowl: sweet shelled peas simmered with their own pods, the lettuce melting into silk, a splash of Sauvignon Blanc. This is the soup for the two weeks a year when fresh peas are actually perfect....

Elegant cream of watercress soup is dinner-party food disguised as humble greens: a pale, silky puree with watercress's signature peppery hum under all that cream. It looks like a restaurant first course and behaves like one too. Lemon and a whisper of sugar keep...

Creamy watercress soup with potato peel broth is the best kind of two-birds cooking: yesterday's potato peels become a fragrant stock, and the peppery watercress gets a silky, creamy finish. Eggs enrich the pot and lemon sharpens it. It feeds ten from almost...

Creamy avocado soup is green in the most luxurious way: a buttery, flour-thickened broth folded together with ripe avocados, cream, and a serious squeeze of lemon. It cooks in twenty minutes and never sees a long boil, because the avocado goes in off the heat. Crispy...

Creamy spiced carrot soup takes carrots on a detour through India: mustard seeds popped in butter, turmeric, ginger, cumin, and cinnamon, finished with lemon. The carrots turn tender and glossy in the golden broth. It's warming, gently spicy, and on the table in...

Creamy roasted eggplant soup starts with eggplants roasted until they collapse, which trades any hint of bitterness for deep, smoky sweetness. Celery, onion, and garlic build the base, and cream and milk round it out. Ninety minutes, most of it the oven doing the...

Velvety cream of carrot soup is the carrot's formal wear: sweet carrots and a single potato simmered soft, enriched with milk and cream, and blended to smooth orange satin. A pinch of sugar and a dusting of paprika do quiet but important work. It's the...