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
NEW! VEGAN Got fresh turmeric? Make a vibrant chickpea-kale curry and cups of warm ‘golden milk’
NEW! VEGETARIAN Cacio e pepe cheese coins may be the dreamiest aperitivo snack ever
NEW! 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/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)
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 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 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