Vegetarian

A simple and cooling salad made with an increasingly trendy spring green that's capturing the attention of home gardeners and restaurant chefs across the country.

Sambal eggplant is an iconic Southeast Asian food because of its spicy, sweet flavors. Few ingredients and simple prep make it easy.

Creamy, cool, herby, and tangy, this homemade ranch dressing is unspeakably better than the stuff in a bottle or (shudder) envelope. Slather, drizzle, dunk, and dip away.

Creamy, cheesy, and no processed ingredients like in the boxed stuff? Yes please. America's Test Kitchen's mac and cheese delivers all of that.

French onion soup meets veggie ramen in this inspired hybrid from Meera Sodha. Flavored with sake, miso, chiles, and piles of caramelized onions, it's revelatory.

No one will ever know it's vegan...unless you tell them. All you'll experience is chocolate through and through.

Froufrou, fancypants, yet fuss-free, these thumbprint cookies with white chocolate ganache and chopped hazelnuts are, in a word, lovely.

Full of natural ingredients that pack a wallop of intense, true-to-life ginger flavor, this brilliant hack for making real ginger ale will make you a convert.

Tender eggplant covered in a deeply flavored Hakka sauce that's ready in a snap. Eating your veggies has never been so rewarding.

A different spin on waffles, these breakfast beauties from King Arthur Flour make an outstanding nosh thanks to the addition of cornmeal. Perfect with fried chicken, too.

Easy, healthy, and perfectly spiced, these creamy lentils are simple to whip up at a moment's notice. Lucky you.

A classic Italian treatment for an everyday green that tastes anything but ordinary thanks to the perfect technique.

Get ready for a simple way to serve up a tasty helping of tender pinto beans with some subtle heat from jalapeno. Did we mention they'll be ready in minutes?

Jacques Pepin's family recipe for cheese is a frugal approach to using scraps of cheese that's a very traditional French thing. A delicious, boozy, cheesy, French thing.

Wait until you give Bryant Terry's squash a try. Creamy and packed with flavor, this vegan recipe is also healthy as heck without tasting like it.

Making maple sugar at home isn't difficult or tricky or fearsome. It's actually crazy simple. And ridiculously tasty. And paleo-friendly.

You shouldn't have to choose between your two competing cravings. The only disappointing thing about these? That we didn’t discover them sooner.

Satiating and healthy-ish, this salad is a vibrant and quick dinner. No peeling required. Just a little chopping and cooking.

Slightly sweet from a corn masa filling, Nopalito’s tamales are a can’t-say-no recipe. And that mole sauce? You’re gonna want to slather it on everything. #tamales

Tahini truffles are nutty, rich, sexy, little bites. A pleasure to share...though we wouldn’t blame you if you wanted to keep them all to yourself.