Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
Homemade vegetarian lemon curd is four ingredients away — unwaxed lemons, eggs, butter, and sugar, stirred low and slow until it turns to sunshine. The zest goes in with the juice for real intensity, and gentle heat is the entire technique: patience, not boiling, gets...
This foolproof vegetarian shortcrust pastry (savoury & sweet) is the base recipe worth memorizing — cold butter rubbed into flour, brought together with ice-cold water, in two versions so your quiche and your jam tart come from the same page. Fifteen minutes of...
Quick microwave apple chutney is small-batch preserving for real life — Braeburn apples, cider vinegar, and sugar bubbled in the microwave until jammy, in about 35 minutes with no preserving pan and no day-long simmer. The cold plate test tells you the moment it is...
Truffled mushroom and dill pâté (vegan) is the spread that makes a drinks table — deeply browned mushrooms, a splash of red wine, a heap of fresh dill, and white truffle oil stirred through at the end. It takes 45 minutes, keeps for days, and spread on crusty bread it...
This strawberry and tomato salad with mint sounds like a dare until the first bite — sweet berries and ripe tomatoes share more flavor DNA than either admits, and raspberry vinegar with a little sugar makes the sweetness sing. Torn mint on top, fifteen minutes, no...
Vegetarian scotch duck eggs with tomato jam are the picnic centerpiece nobody expects — duck eggs in their sage-and-onion coating, breaded and fried to deep gold, with sweet-sharp tomato jam alongside. A weekend project, yes, and a deeply satisfying one; the jam does...
Hungarian-inspired horseradish pickles bring real sinus-clearing heat to cucumbers and gherkins — a brine of white distilled vinegar, sugar, and freshly grated horseradish, with dill fronds over the top. A few minutes of cooking, a short rest, and they keep their...
Sunshine in a jar: a quick & crunchy piccalilli is exactly what it claims — pickling onions, cauliflower, green beans, broccoli, cucumber, and peppers in a sweet-sour spiced vinegar with apple and a warm kick of red chilli. The chopping is the work; the vinegar,...
This gourmet truffle potato salad with heritage potatoes is a lesson in restraint — waxy heritage potatoes, thick mayonnaise, spring onions, and just enough white truffle oil to perfume the whole bowl. It asks for two things: completely cooled potatoes and a short...
Crisp and fruity carrot coleslaw with homemade mayonnaise upgrades every plate it touches — finely shredded cabbage and carrot with spring onions and chewy-sweet dried fruit, all wrapped in a mayo you whisk yourself in minutes. The fruit against the sharp homemade...
This courgette, marjoram, and toasted almond salad is the summer side I make on repeat — raw courgette ribboned thin enough to drink up a sweet-sharp vinegar dressing, tossed with toasted almonds and plenty of fresh marjoram. Twenty minutes, no real cooking, and the...
This gourmet chive egg mayonnaise sandwich is egg mayo with a promotion — a homemade chive mayonnaise whisked from egg yolks, sunflower oil, and white wine vinegar, folded through softly boiled eggs and piled on proper bread with watercress. It is the sandwich you...