Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Vibrant spinach nigiri proves a sushi topping doesn't need fish to be beautiful. Blanched spinach, seasoned with dark sesame oil and salt, drapes over pressed rice and gets a belt of nori with black sesame seeds. Forty-five minutes, most of it rice time, and the...
This genius shortcut to delicious homemade sushi swaps store-bought Japanese omelette sheets for a stovetop tamago you'd normally babysit. Strips of sweet egg go onto pressed rice, a nori band holds everything in place, and a dusting of furikake adds crunch....
Spicy carrot and tomato inari sushi brings genuine heat to a usually sweet hand-held. Finely diced carrot gets tossed with sriracha and garlic chili paste, shichimi togarashi, and dark sesame oil, then folds into sushi rice with halved cherry tomatoes. Fifteen minutes...
Easy shiitake mushroom nigiri is the vegetarian sushi piece that wins over fish loyalists. Pan-cooked shiitake caps, briefly marinated for extra flavor, sit on hand-pressed rice with ginger and scallion, a strip of nori holding it all together. Tomato furikake...
Red bean inari sushi is dessert disguised as lunch, in the best possible way. Sweet red bean paste (anko) and fresh herbs — shiso or basil, mint, and scallion — fold into sushi rice inside sweet inari pouches. Twenty minutes with prepared rice, no rolling mat, and...
Miso eggplant inari sushi is what happens when two good ideas meet in one pouch. Diced miso-pickled eggplant and wakame fold into seasoned sushi rice with miso dressing, then everything tucks into soft inari pockets. The rice filling can be made two days ahead — meal...
Meal-prep inari sushi with black bean rice is lunch, solved. Sushi rice stirred through with savory black bean sauce, green onions, snow peas, and shredded carrot gets tucked into sweet inari pouches. Make eight on Sunday and grab-and-go all week. Craving sushi that...
Vegetarian seaweed salad — restaurant style — is that glossy, sweet-tangy side you thought required a sushi chef. Dried mixed seaweed rehydrates into slippery ribbons, then takes on amazu, soy sauce, ginger, and toasted sesame oil. Fifteen minutes and a fraction of...
Ramen noodle salad with mango & wasabi peas is the vibrant potluck dish everyone photographs before eating. Crunchy ramen noodles and almonds, tender spinach and broccoli slaw, juicy mango, and candied ginger, all slicked with sesame dressing. Twenty minutes,...
Daikon radish and carrot slaw is the crisp, tangy side that brightens any rice bowl. The two vegetables shred into a tangle, grated ginger and sushi rice dressing coat them, and a short rest deepens the flavor. An hour, mostly hands-off, and it's endlessly...
The secret to the best kale salad isn't a fancy technique — it's a nutty sesame dressing that tenderizes as it flavors. Chopped kale mellows under that dressing, then gets piled with dried cherries, scallions, and toasted almonds. Ten minutes, one bowl, and...
Quick pickled lotus root is the crunchy, blushing pickle that makes a sushi tray look professional. Thin coins of lotus root take a two-minute blanch, then steep in sushi rice dressing with a little grated beet for color. Twenty-two minutes later you have crisp,...