Cooking Vegetarian: 2,600+ Recipes
This silky cream of fennel soup turns three pounds of fennel into something gently sweet and anise-scented, rounded out with potato and a soft finish of milk and sour cream. It tastes like a restaurant first course and takes under an hour. If you think you know...
This chilled Turkish cucumber and yogurt soup — cacik — is summer in a bowl: cooling cucumber, garlicky yogurt, dill, and a scatter of walnuts. Fifteen minutes of work, an hour in the refrigerator, and dinner is cold and ready. When the summer sun is blazing and the...
Gooey lime coconut bars are the sunny bake I want in the fridge all season: a buttery base under a coconut-lime layer that is sharp with fresh juice and piled with zest. The gooey center is the goal here, not a flaw — pull them early. Twelve bars, gone in a weekend....
My favorite coconut meringue pie really is a slice of tropical paradise: full-fat coconut milk and shredded coconut cooked into a cornstarch-thick custard, poured into a pre-baked nut crust, and crowned with meringue. The nut crust plays beautifully against all that...
This chocolate vanilla layer cake pairs deep cocoa layers with real vanilla bean — minced fine, straight into the batter — plus oil for moisture and separated eggs for lift. Fill and frost it with the recipe's suggested Not-Too-Sweet Buttercream, and you have a...
Elegant chocolate tuiles look like pastry-school territory, but they are just egg whites, confectioners' sugar, cocoa, flour, and melted butter spread into paper-thin rounds and baked for minutes. Draped over a mold while hot, they become crisp edible dessert...
Easy 2-ingredient chocolate ganache is the most useful dessert trick I know: hot heavy cream poured over finely chopped bittersweet chocolate, rested, and stirred glossy. Pour it warm as a glaze or chill it thick for spreading. Ten minutes, two ingredients, endless...
These chewy almond cherry cookies are gluten-free by design: whole almonds ground with sugar, bound with egg whites, and packed with chopped dried cherries. No flour means chewy centers and crisp edges. The chill time is long, but it is the non-negotiable step,...
These irresistible walnut caramel squares start with a buttery base, then get topped with real caramel — sugar cooked to amber, loosened with heavy cream and honey — loaded with roughly chopped walnuts. Sixteen pieces, about 75 minutes, and a candy-shop result with no...
Blueberry buttermilk pie might be the most underrated bake of summer: a jiggly custard of buttermilk, cream, eggs, and vanilla, studded with fresh blueberries in a pre-baked sweet piecrust. The buttermilk's tang cuts all that sweetness beautifully. Plan for the...
The perfect salty-sweet crumbly cookie, as far as I am concerned, is this one: butter, dark brown sugar, an egg yolk, and semolina flour for a sandy snap, finished with coarse sea salt. Most of the time listed is the dough resting, and the dough keeps beautifully for...
This toffee-style soaked apple cake is a soft, buttery bake studded with peeled apples and finished with a double recipe of boozy or vanilla cake soak that sinks in as it rests. Seventy minutes, twelve servings, and it genuinely improves as it sits. Choose the soak...