Dairy Free Recipes
Dairy-free recipes, as written — no substitutions required.
101 recipes
Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini
A whole head steamed until tender at the core, then roasted hot with cumin and coriander oil until the outside browns, served under a loose lemon tahini sauce with sumac and parsley.
White Bean and Sausage Cassoulet
Dried white beans cooked with salt pork and aromatics, then baked slowly with browned pork sausage until the liquid reduces and a browned crust forms and re-forms on the surface.
West African Peanut Stew
Groundnut stew of tomato, peanut butter, sweet potato, and collard greens, simmered until it is thick enough to mound on a spoon. A whole habanero adds perfume without much heat.
Vietnamese Caramel Braised Pork
Pork belly braised in a dark sugar caramel with fish sauce, shallot and coarse black pepper until the fat is silky and the sauce turns glossy. Serve with plain steamed rice.
Vegetarian Mapo Tofu
Silken tofu simmered in a fiery doubanjiang sauce with finely chopped shiitakes standing in for pork, finished with ground Sichuan peppercorn for its numbing tingle. Ready in under half an hour.
Vegetarian Black Bean Chili
Black beans simmered with toasted cumin, chili powder, and chipotle until the liquid thickens around them and a spoon stands up in the pot. It costs little and freezes well.
Vegetable Bibimbap
A rice bowl arranged with five vegetables, each seasoned separately with sesame and garlic, finished with a fried egg and a sweet-hot gochujang sauce that gets stirred through before eating.
Turkish Red Lentil Soup
Red lentils cooked soft with onion, carrot, and tomato paste, blended smooth and finished with dried mint bloomed in olive oil. Lemon at the table does the rest of the work.
Tortilla Espanola
The Spanish potato omelette: potatoes and onion poached soft in olive oil, drained, then bound in beaten egg and set in a skillet into a thick round with a barely creamy center.
Tomato Rasam
A thin South Indian broth of tamarind and tomato seasoned with black pepper and cumin, finished with a hot tempering of mustard seed and curry leaf. Sip it from a cup or spoon it over rice.
Tom Yum Goong
A clear Thai hot-and-sour shrimp soup built on lemongrass, galangal, and lime leaf, sharpened with lime juice and fish sauce and rounded out with roasted chile paste.
Thai Basil Chicken Stir-Fry
Minced chicken stir-fried hard with garlic and bird chiles, seasoned with fish sauce and oyster sauce, then finished with a heap of holy basil that wilts into the pan. Twenty minutes start to finish.
Tamagoyaki Rolled Omelette
Seasoned egg cooked in thin layers and rolled onto itself into a striped, faintly sweet log. Sliced crosswise, it works for breakfast or a lunchbox.
Tabbouleh
A Lebanese parsley salad, not a grain salad: chopped flat-leaf parsley and mint far outweigh the fine bulgur, with tomato, lemon, and olive oil in support.
Sunomono Cucumber Salad
Paper-thin cucumber salted and wrung dry, then dressed in sweetened rice vinegar. The squeeze is what makes it: the slices stay crisp instead of turning watery in the bowl.
Sundubu Jjigae Soft Tofu Stew
Silken tofu spooned into a kelp and shiitake broth built on a quick gochugaru chile oil, with onion and scallion. It arrives at the table still bubbling and comes together in under half an hour.
Stovetop Kettle Corn
Popcorn popped in oil with sugar stirred in at the moment the kernels go, so it caramelizes into a thin sweet-salty shell instead of scorching in the pot.
Southern Braised Collard Greens
Collards braised low and slow with a smoked ham hock, onion and red pepper flakes until the leaves go soft and the pot likker turns rich. Cider vinegar goes in at the end to cut the fat.
Som Tam Green Papaya Salad
Shredded unripe papaya pounded in a mortar with garlic, chile, palm sugar, lime and fish sauce, plus long beans and tomato. Sour, salty, sweet and hot, bruised rather than tossed.
Smashed Cucumber Salad
Cucumbers bruised open with the flat of a knife so their ragged edges hold a dressing of Chinkiang black vinegar, soy sauce, garlic and toasted sesame oil. Salting first keeps it from going watery.
Sinangag Garlic Fried Rice
Filipino breakfast fried rice built on day-old grains and a lot of garlic, half of it fried crisp for the top. Salty, toasty, and dry enough that every grain stays separate.
Simit Sesame Rings
Turkish street bread: twisted dough rings dipped in thinned grape molasses and pressed into sesame seeds, baked until the crust is dark and the seeds toast through.
Sheet Pan Sausage and Peppers
Italian sausage links roasted over bell peppers and onion until the skins split and the vegetables collapse into the pan juices. Five ingredients and one pan to wash.
Sheet Pan Chicken Shawarma
Chicken thighs marinated in cumin, coriander, turmeric and lemon, then roasted hot with red onion until the edges char. Everything cooks on one pan and reheats well through the week.