Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Creamy roasted cauliflower curry proves a korma-style dish does not need meat to feel royal. Cauliflower roasted until golden-flecked sinks into a gently spiced sauce of slow-cooked onions, ground almonds, and cardamom, with blackened raisins for little bursts of...
Vegetarian Goan butternut squash cafreal takes Goa's famous green masala and lavishes it on a big roast squash. A blitzed paste of cilantro, ginger, garlic, green chiles, cumin, and cinnamon paints every piece before roasting - herbal, hot, and bright. Ninety...
Butternut squash seekh kebabs are everything a vegetarian kebab should be: roasted squash and chickpeas bound with breadcrumbs, shot through with ginger, garlic, and green chiles, shaped onto skewers, and fried until craggy and golden. The batch serves eight, which...
Crispy smashed Jerusalem artichokes with spiced butter might be the most underrated side in the produce aisle. Tender-smashed and pan-crisped, then glossed with cumin, garlic, and ginger butter and a squeeze of lemon, they are knobbly, nutty, and gone in minutes - the...
Punjabi dum aloo is celebration food: blistered baby new potatoes in a silky cashew-and-tomato gravy, scented with fennel and finished with garam masala. The not-so-secret step is soaking the cashews in boiling water - it is what makes the sauce velvety without a drop...
Roasted root vegetable madras gives winter's mixed roots their moment. A hot oven concentrates their sweetness before they tumble into a Madras sauce built on curry leaves, red onion, garlic, ginger, and green chiles - dark, hot, and deeply savory. Seventy...
Sweet potato vindaloo is here to rehabilitate vindaloo's reputation: the real Goan original is a bright, vinegary, spice-deep dish, not restaurant napalm. Whole spices toast, garlic and ginger go in, and sweet potatoes soak up that tangy sauce as if they were...
Sri Lankan kottu roti is the chopped-flatbread stir-fry you hear before you see - on the streets of Colombo it is made with two blunt metal blades clattering on a griddle. Here, shredded roti gets tossed with red cabbage, carrot, and a tomato-garlic-ginger spice paste...
Keralan beet and coconut pachadi turns a big pile of beets into one of the prettiest sides in the Indian repertoire. Sweet, jammy beets fold through cool Greek yogurt and coconut, and a crackling black mustard seed and curry leaf tarka finishes it in style. Yes, your...
This pea soup gets a fresh, fiery upgrade from ginger, green chiles, and a heap of mint and dill - nothing like the murky split-pea soups of childhood. Hot stock cooks a bag of frozen peas in minutes, and a sizzling cumin-seed tarka poured over the top seals the deal....
Savory chickpea flour pancakes with lime pickle paneer turn a handful of pantry staples into a 40-minute feast. The besan batter, tinted gold with turmeric and garam masala, fries up lacy at the edges, and soft paneer spiked with finely chopped lime pickle is the...
Homemade veggie momos are a Himalayan street-food classic you can absolutely make in your own kitchen. Soft hand-rolled wrappers hold a ginger- and garlic-laced vegetable and paneer filling, and the fiery soy-vinegar dipping sauce makes the whole project worth it. Set...