Recipes by Food Culture: Plant-Based

Many of the recipes labeled as vegetarian include eggs and/or dairy products; please check ingredients carefully. Our desserts — all of which are vegetarian or vegan — are listed separately, in the Desserts section.

*Recipes with asterisks can easily be adapted for vegetarians or vegans. See the recipe's headnote for details.

STORIES

VEGAN Got fresh turmeric? Make a vibrant chickpea-kale curry and cups of warm ‘golden milk’

VEGETARIAN Cacio e pepe cheese coins may be the dreamiest aperitivo snack ever

PLANT-BASED Cookbooks We Love: Vegetables are the stars of Andrea Nguyen’s ‘Ever-Green Vietnamese’

VEGAN 12 great dishes to invite on a vegan picnic

VEGAN Cookbooks We Love: Hannah Che’s ‘The Vegan Chinese Kitchen’ is gorgeous and inspiring

VEGETABLE-FORWARD (includes two vegan recipes) Greatest vegetable rehabilitation ever: Brussels sprouts’ 23-year rise to culinary power

VEGETARIAN (if you skip the sour cream garnish, it’s vegan) Taste my Ukraine in a bowl of cold beet borscht

VEGAN For the best (and easiest!) ratatouille, capture the fabulous flavor of late summer by roasting those vegetables

VEGAN Bring on the bayos: Showing some love for Mexico’s creamy, dreamy other bean — and its kissin’ cousin mayocoba

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN Beautiful, light and herbal: This easy-to-customize vegan soup gracefully celebrates spring

VEGETARIAN Gloriously lush but not overly rich, this is quite simply the perfect creamed spinach recipe

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN [note: this story is about a dish that is often vegan or vegetarian, but not always] In celebration of gumbo z’herbes, a gloriously green, soul-nourishing Louisiana Lenten tradition

VEGAN The insanely healthy lentil-vegetable soup that’s delicious enough to save us all

VEGAN Need a perfect, easy holiday side dish? Try my family’s longtime favorite roasted potatoes

All the harvest-box greens: How to make the most of kale, chard, collards and the like

VEGETARIAN Our favorite thing in Maneet Chauhan’s new cookbook, ‘Chaat’: out-of-this-world saag paneer

VEGAN Pickle-y, spicy giardiniera is the perfect prelude to pasta, pizza and other carb-loaded indulgences

VEGETARIAN Rich, luscious and packed with umami, miso-butter sweet potatoes are a spectacular autumn treat

VEGETARIAN For ‘Top Chef’ judge Nilou Motamed, the Iranian herb platter Sabzi Khordan is a way of life (note: omit the optional feta cheese and the dish is VEGAN)

Cookbooks We Love: José Andrés’ Vegetables Unleashed is a summer cooking bonanza, with great ideas for all seasons

Celebrate tomato season with salmorejo (a cousin of gazpacho) or tomato-burrata salad (note: one of the dishes is vegetarian; the other is easily made vegan with a garnish change)

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN One of our 5 (five!) fabulous potato salads is sure to make your Fourth Phenomenal

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN Cool as a cuke: Four cucumber-happy salads to refresh you through a hot and heavy summer

VEGAN Say hello to the green gazpacho of your dreams

VEGAN This refreshingly minty Levantine-style salad is missing a key ingredient — that’s why we call it ‘fattoush-ish’

VEGAN Use what you know, what’s sitting in your crisper (and your imagination!) to make an Iced Green Disco Soup

VEGAN April 25 is Slow Food Youth Network’s World Disco Soup Day: Let us help you build a rockin’ soup

VEGETARIAN How to make the most of asparagus: Dress it up with a new-wave gribiche

VEGAN Got romaine leaves? Turn the into tabbouleh- or tuna-and-cannellini-salad filled dream boats (note: one of the two dishes in the story is vegan; the other is not vegetarian)

VEGAN/VEGETARIAN How a bag of frozen peas got me through the zombie apocalypse and made it feel like spring

VEGAN Need a lift? Throw together a batch of these spicy, zingy (addictive!) taquería carrots

VEGETARIAN/EASY TO MAKE VEGAN Celebrate Norooz — Persian New Year — with an emerald-green, ash-e-reshteh New Year’s bean soup

VEGAN How to build the beautifully spiced, mega-healthy, plant-based, multi-cultural soup that could easily change your life

VEGAN Freshly baked pita bread can happen in your very own oven

Ring in the new year with soulful Persian soups starring The Black Eyed Peas (note: one of the two soups in the story is vegetarian and easily converted to vegan; the other is not vegetarian)

VEGAN Baba ganoush fever: How can burnt eggplant become a dip that’s so friggin’ brilliant and addictive?

VEGAN Warming lentil detox soup is a meatless Monday winter favorite

VEGETARIAN Effortless summer baking: the (life-changing!) joy of frozen puff pastry

VEGAN Having friends over for dinner? Be sure to invite Mikie’s fabulous marinated olives

VEGAN Warm, tender (thoroughly cooked!) asparagus is a simple, wonderful pleasure

VEGETARIAN How to fool your friends into thinking you shelled 9,000 English peas

VEGAN My favorite roasted potatoes

VEGETARIAN Luxuriously rich, easy-to-make, flourless Mexican-chocolate cake is blow-them-away fabulous

VEGAN Delicious, soul-warming super-detox lentil-kale soup: Why wait till January? 

VEGETARIAN Crazy-good classic mac and cheese may be the most craveable comfort food in the universe

VEGETARIAN When life deals you zucchini, make these insanely delicious Greek Fritters

EASY TO MAKE VEGETARIAN OR VEGAN Let's dive into an icy-cold bowl of spicy Korean noodles

VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN VERSIONS Fall in love with the most versatile warm summer salad in the universe

VEGAN How to be blown away by your own gazpacho

VEGETARIAN Summer dessert slam-dunk: Make this dazzling (and fool-proof!) stone fruit tart

VEGETARIAN Say hello to a super easy (and crazy good!) berry and peach crisp

VEGETARIAN Messy, gorgeous and dramatic: The berry Pavlova is a spring-into-summer stunner

VEGAN Ottolenghi meets Zahav: Introducing the ultimate hummus recipe

VEGETARIAN/VEGAN A million delicious ways to put asparagus on your springtime table (including some new ones!)

VEGAN Artichoke vinaigrette: an easy, elegant, French (and vegan! and healthy! and make-ahead!) appetizer

VEGAN How I learned to stop worrying about nixtamal and make fresh tortillas from masa harina

VEGETARIAN Nothing says spring like strawberry-mezcal ice cream

VEGETARIAN Celebrate spring with a sugar-snap pea salad with lemon and Parmesan

VEGAN Hummus fans rejoice: Introducing an amazing, easy cheater version

VEGETARIAN Brazilian chocolate cake: Really, it doesn't get any better than this

VEGETARIAN Ta-da! Presenting a custom-created, Cooks-Without-Borders reader-asked-for-it lemon-raspberry tart