Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Homemade vegetarian ponzu sauce is the bright, citrusy splash that wakes up everything from cold tofu to noodle salads. It's nothing more than soy sauce, three fresh citrus juices, rice vinegar, and mirin stirred together. Give it a day in the fridge to mellow...
This 10-minute homemade black bean sauce delivers deep, savory restaurant flavor faster than takeout. Fragrant fermented black beans sizzle with ginger and garlic, then simmer in a soy-dashi broth until glossy. Spoon it over rice or noodles and dinner is done. Ready...
This incredible homemade orange sauce brings sweet, sticky heat to the table in fifteen minutes flat. Fresh orange juice and grated ginger simmer with garlic chili paste into a glossy glaze that happens to be both vegan and gluten-free. Keep a jar in the fridge and...
The only miso dressing you'll ever need is a five-ingredient jar: white miso, sushi rice dressing, soy sauce, a neutral oil, and water to thin it. Whisk it once and you'll keep a jar in the fridge permanently — the recipe's not-exaggerating name is...
Simple sweet vinegar sauce — amazu — is three ingredients with an outsized job: rice vinegar, vegetarian dashi, and sugar warmed together into the bright, gentle-sweet dressing behind Japanese sunomono. Fifteen minutes, and it keeps, quietly improving everything from...
Perfectly seasoned brown sushi rice makes whole-grain sushi a real thing: long-grain brown rice cooked tender, then glossed with the classic vinegar, honey, and salt seasoning while it's still warm. The grains are chewier and nuttier than white sushi rice, which...
Protein-packed quinoa sushi rice applies the same vinegar-sweet seasoning to quinoa that sushi rice gets, and the result is nori rolls with a nutty, complete-protein filling that holds together surprisingly well. Cook the quinoa plain, season it warm, roll as usual....
Perfect vegetarian sushi rice comes down to two unglamorous things: the right short-grain rice and slightly less water than you'd normally use — 2½ cups minus 3 tablespoons (45 ml / 1.5 fl oz), exactly. Then the vinegar dressing, folded in while the rice is warm....
The secret to perfect sushi rice dressing is that there's barely anything to it: rice vinegar, fine unrefined sugar, and salt, warmed together until they dissolve, then folded gently through warm rice. That gentleness is the actual secret — sushi rice is...
Simple whole wheat pizza dough asks for fifteen minutes of hands-on time and six pantry ingredients, and the water temperature is the one place to be precise — around 115°F (46°C) wakes the yeast without scalding it. The rest is rising and waiting. Friday pizza night...
Easy homemade vegetarian tomato sauce in 35 minutes tastes like it simmered all afternoon, and the reason is technique, not time: fry the tomato paste until it darkens and the whole pot deepens. Two cans of no-salt tomatoes put you in charge of seasoning. Double it,...
The creamiest homemade Greek-style yogurt is one ingredient and half a day of waiting: plain low-fat yogurt strained until it's thick enough to stand a spoon in. There's no cooking, no culture wrangling, no thermometers. The whey that drains off is a bonus,...