Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Grand vegetable biryani with a puff pastry lid is dinner-theater: spiced basmati layered with roasted sweet potato, beets, chickpeas, and paneer, all sealed under a golden crust that you crack open at the table. It's a Sunday dish, no question. The pastry lid...
Lime pickle rice with roasted butternut squash is the fried-rice trick nobody expects: hot rice tossed with a spoonful of good lime pickle and a sizzling four-seed tempering, with caramelized squash folded through. It's tart, funky, buttery, and sweet in...
Kanda batata poha — Mumbai-style onion and potato poha — is India's favorite quick breakfast: soft flattened rice tossed with mustard seeds, curry leaves, peanuts, turmeric, and a final squeeze of lemon. It's ready in under forty minutes and feels lighter...
Fried onion rice with portobello mushrooms and a poached egg is my idea of a perfect weekend breakfast: deeply browned onions, spiced rice with porcini depth, and a yolk that breaks into sauce. It has kedgeree energy without any of the ceremony. One pan of rice, one...
Aromatic coconut rice with cashews and shallots is a quiet showpiece: basmati cooked through a tempering of mustard seeds, curry leaves, and chana dal, then finished with fresh grated coconut and golden fried cashews. It turns any simple dal into a dinner. One pot,...
South Indian lemon rice is effortless elegance: cold rice transformed in fifteen minutes by a mustard-seed-and-curry-leaf tempering, golden turmeric, salted peanuts, and a big squeeze of fresh lemon. It's the original clean-out-the-fridge rice dish. Day-old rice...
A Side Dish That Steals the Show! Tired of plain rice? Let's elevate your side dish game with this incredibly flavorful Tamarind Rice! This recipe transforms simple basmati into a vibrant dish bursting with the sweet tang of tamarind, the deep sweetness of slowly...
Jeweled saffron rice pilaf is the dish you bring out when you want gasps: golden basmati studded with dried apricots, toasted nuts, and butter-slicked whole spices. It looks like a jewelry box and cooks in under an hour. A pinch of saffron does all the heavy lifting....
Bountiful summer green pilau is a whole garden in one pot — fava beans, broccoli, and zucchini folded through basmati rice with ginger, green chiles, and warm spices. It looks like a lot of work and behaves like a weeknight dish. The trick is staging the vegetables so...
Mum's legendary lentil fritters with a crispy twist are everything a fritter should be: cloud-soft inside from blended urad dal, shatteringly crisp outside, and served with a two-minute garlic and red pepper chutney. The twist is that chutney — a garlicky...
This life-saving sprouted lentil salad is the lunch I reach for when I want something clean but not sad: crunchy sprouts, baby tomatoes, red onion, green chiles, and a bright lemon-cumin dressing with lots of cilantro. It comes together in fifteen minutes and keeps...
Hearty rajma — kidney bean curry for a crowd — is the pot you put on when the whole family is coming. Deeply simmered kidney beans in a thick tomato gravy built on ginger, garlic, and cumin, it's comfort food with real gravity. Soak the beans the night before and...