Vegetarian Recipes

Vegetarian recipes — no meat or fish, as written.

105 recipes

Black Bean and Sweet Potato Enchiladas

Corn tortillas rolled around roasted sweet potato and black beans, baked under a chile-spiced tomato sauce and Monterey Jack. Mashing the filling keeps the rolls from falling apart.

Bibingka Coconut Rice Cake

A rice flour and coconut milk batter baked in a banana leaf until set, then buttered, sugared, and browned under the broiler. Soft and slightly chewy, finished with grated coconut.

Basil Pesto

Basil, pine nuts, garlic and Parmesan worked into a coarse green paste with olive oil. Ground rather than blended, so it stays textured and does not turn bitter.

Baklava

Thirty sheets of filo brushed with butter around a cinnamon-walnut layer, baked until brittle, then soaked in cooled lemon and honey syrup. It needs a night uncovered to set properly.

Middle Eastern

350 mins

Vegetarian

Azifa Green Lentil Salad

An Ethiopian cold lentil salad: green lentils simmered just to tender, then dressed while warm with mustard, lemon, green chile and red onion so the flavor soaks in as it chills.

Atchara Pickled Green Papaya

Shredded green papaya drawn down with salt, then packed with ginger, carrot and garlic in a cold sweet-sour cane vinegar brine. A refrigerator pickle meant to cut through fried and grilled food.

Akara Black-Eyed Pea Fritters

West African fritters of black-eyed peas soaked and skinned, blended to a smooth paste and beaten until light, then spooned into hot oil so they puff crisp outside and stay fluffy within.