Vegetarian

This pesto variation is built on a combination of toasted nuts, creamy ricotta, salty Parm, and a little kick of raw garlic. You don’t need a food processor or a blender to make it; everything comes together in a single bowl.

Coconut milk and curry powder lend comforting warmth and spice to this simple vegetarian dinner.

Persillade is an herby sauce, a little like a French pesto, made with ingredients we have an abundance of in the US.

Sure, you could use just one kind of potato for this pomegranate-topped side dish, but we love to combine a few. Try orange and purple sweet potatoes plus Yukon Golds. 

Butternut squash melts into the polenta as this creamy, make-ahead dish cooks, while chunks of Fontina create gooey pockets of cheese throughout.

Deviled eggs get way more exciting when you cover the egg whites in a deeply flavorful spice mix and swap out the filling’s usual mayo for yogurt-y labne instead.

Fresh shell-on peanuts are available only at harvest time and are hard to find, but unroasted shell-on peanuts work just as well and can be found in many supermarkets and online.  

Serve this creamy dip with crunchy vegetables, a meat platter, spread on sandwiches, or thinned out and used as a dressing for salad.

Sweet and smoky roasted carrots are blended with chickpeas, almonds, lemon juice, garlic, and herbs—it’s the perfect companion to seeded crackers or good bread.

Here’s your new favorite way to eat scrambled eggs: with turmeric, tzatziki, a big pile of greens, and a very generous serving of good butter. Oh, and a sprinkle of Aleppo-style pepper, too.

Chaas is an Indian buttermilk beverage seasoned with mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, and dried red chiles. Drizzle it over a mix of greens and you've got yourself a creamy salad dressing. 

When 5:15 p.m. hits and there’s still no dinner plan, Deb Perelman makes this Instant Pot soup. While the beans cook you can prepare the taco fixins, manage life’s last-minute chaos, and take a load off.

This dish is triply aggressive, with sweet, sour, and spicy tastes strung together in an intense interplay. To make it your own, experiment with the balance of those three elements—you might make it more sour, or very, very spicy, depending on your palate and preferences.

Take the time to really cook the onion and garlic in this recipe until they’re completely soft—this encourages them to release even more flavor into the velvety-rich tomato broth.

This creamy lemon pasta recipe is luscious and amply cheesy, but still bright and fresh. Best part: You can make it for dinner in just 15 minutes.

Use less-spicy kale instead of mustard greens if you prefer a milder side dish—or try a mixture of both.

Here, eggplant gets halved lengthwise, drenched in olive oil, and roasted. It never quite crisps, but it browns and caramelizes while the rest of it turns to the texture of a perfectly just set 6-minute egg.

A creative way to take all the goodness of a fondue and wrap it up in a neat little package.