Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Balsamic strawberry & arugula salad is the trick that makes strawberries dinner — sweet berries macerated in syrupy balsamic, piled onto peppery arugula with olive oil and a generous grind of black pepper. Fifteen minutes, most of it waiting, and it tastes like a...
Hearty black bean soup is my 30-minute pantry rescue — cooked black beans simmered with chili powder, cumin, and an optional splash of sherry, then brightened with lime and crowned with sour cream and cilantro. That spoonful of sherry (or dark rum, if that's your...
Versatile seasonal vegetable barley soup is the recipe you'll cook differently every month — a garlicky broth around chewy pearled barley and whatever vegetables the market has, finished with sage. The barley gets toasted first, which is the step that makes this...
Avocado salad with sweet-and-sour ginger dressing is five minutes of pantry whisking plus one luxurious ingredient — ripe avocados fanned and glossed with a warm ginger-vinegar syrup, salted generously and scattered with roasted peanuts and cilantro. The dressing can...
Arame and bean thread noodle salad with ponzu dipping sauce is my gateway recipe for sea vegetables — mild, mineral arame tossed with slippery bean thread noodles, scallions, and toasted walnuts, dunked in bright ponzu. The arame needs only a soak, which makes this...
A spectacular watermelon fruit sculpture is the centerpiece that makes people pull out their phones — a 10-pound seedless watermelon carved and studded with pineapple, strawberries, and kiwi on toothpicks. Twenty-five minutes of playful knife work, and the fruit salad...
Craving a creamy, decadent ice cream without the dairy, sugar, or guilt? Meet your new favorite dessert: one-ingredient banana 'nice cream'! Using a special attachment on your juicer, you can transform frozen bananas into a silky-smooth soft serve in minutes. It's a...
Veggie pepperoni pizza is pizza night with zero compromise — your favorite dough under spicy veggie pepperoni, red bell pepper, mushrooms, red onion, and olives, all under melted non-dairy cheese. From stretched dough to bubbling pizza takes about half an hour, faster...
Veggie 'chicken' paella with artichokes and spinach brings the Spanish classic to the vegetarian table — Gardein chick'n and arborio rice simmered in saffron stock with tomatoes and artichoke hearts, finished with a fold of spinach. One pan, about 45...
Vibrant vegetable and tofu kebabs are summer dinner on a stick — pressed tofu cubes marinated alongside mushrooms, bell pepper, zucchini, and cherry tomatoes, then cooked in about 10 minutes with real char. Most of the recipe's time is hands-off marinating, which...
3-ingredient vegan vanilla frosting is proof that a great frosting is mostly technique — softened vegan buttery spread, sifted icing sugar, and real vanilla beaten until cloud-light. Ten minutes, one bowl, and you can frost anything from a sheet cake to cupcakes. The...
Raw mango strawberry pie (no-bake) is summer's easiest showstopper — a raw almond-date crust filled with fresh and dried mango set with coconut oil, crowned with strawberries. Twenty-five minutes of work plus some patient chilling, and you have a dessert that...