Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Thai sticky rice (khao niao) is about technique more than ingredients — the right rice, a long soak, and a steamer, and you get the chewy, glossy rice that makes Thai food at home feel real. Plan on soaking time, but the hands-on work is minutes. If you've ever had...
Creamy rice and peas is the twenty-minute side dish I make when the fridge is nearly bare — short-grain rice and butter cooked into something soft, sweet, and soothing with peas folded through. It goes with basically everything and comforts like nothing else. A Simple...
The easiest, most flavorful chickpea and rice pilaf is a true one-pot dinner: aromatics, tomatoes, long-grain rice, and chickpeas all simmer together until the rice is fluffy and the pot smells incredible. Thirty minutes, one pan, and dinner is handled. The Easiest,...
This cheesy Arborio rice is risotto's easy cousin — the same starchy rice, molten fontina, and Parmesan, but done in twenty-five minutes without all the stirring. It's a two-person comfort dinner that feels like it took far more effort than it did....
The only rice pilaf recipe you'll ever need is this master version — buttery basmati, softened onion, and warm stock, plus eight variations once you've nailed the base. It's the technique you'll keep reusing for years, and it's genuinely hard...
This perfect golden rice pilaf looks dramatic on the plate but comes together from a short, honest list: butter, onion, basmati, saffron, and warm stock. Forty-five minutes for a side dish that turns even a Tuesday supper into something a little festive. Ever wonder...
Rice cooked in onions (soubise) is French home cooking at its coziest — a mountain of onions melts into butter and basmati until everything turns silky and sweet. The dish takes about 75 minutes, but the oven and stovetop do the work while you get on with the rest of...
Simple and luscious coconut rice is the three-ingredient side dish I make whenever dinner needs a little something extra. Short-grain white rice simmers in full-fat canned coconut milk until it turns glossy and almost custardy, and twenty-five minutes later you have a...
This brown rice pilaf will change your mind about brown rice — nutty brown basmati cooked in mushroom stock with rehydrated porcini and shiitakes, deeply savory rather than worthy. Eighty minutes, mostly unattended. It's the pilaf that converts the brown-rice...
Let's banish the myth that brown rice is a tricky, 'health-food-only' ingredient! This wholesome grain is a powerhouse of nutrition and boasts a wonderfully nutty, chewy texture that can elevate any meal. Forget inconsistent results—this simple stovetop method is your...
Aromatic weeknight biryani that's ready in thirty minutes sounds impossible, and yet: basmati simmered with cardamom, cinnamon, and bay, onion and garlic softened in butter, saffron steeped in the stock, done. It's the whole spice-cabinet perfume of the...
Is there anything more comforting than a bubbling, cheesy, perfectly layered lasagne fresh from the oven? I think not! This vegetable lasagne is my go-to recipe for a reason. It’s endlessly adaptable, packed with flavor, and proves that you don’t need meat to create a...