Vegan recipes, done properly

Cook more plants, with less fuss.

Every recipe is plant-based, every one is vegan, and every one is free to read in full — ingredients, method, no account.

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South Asian · 35 min · Easy

Aloo Gobi

The classic dry curry of potato and cauliflower, steamed gently under a lid with turmeric and coriander, then finished uncovered so the edges catch and crisp. The side dish that quietly steals the plate.

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East Asian · 15 min · Easy

Miso Soup with Tofu

A clear, savory broth with silken tofu, shiitake and seaweed. The one rule is never to boil it once the miso goes in: that is what turns it flat and grainy.

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European · 60 min · Medium

Ratatouille

The Provençal summer-vegetable stew, cooked the honest way: each vegetable browned so it keeps its character, then folded together to melt into a glossy, herby whole.

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Latin American · 15 min · Easy

Agua de Tamarindo

Tamarind loosened in hot water and sweetened into a sour-brown cooler with a long, mouth-watering finish. Sharper and more savory than it looks.

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Mediterranean · 20 min · Easy

White Bean and Kale Skillet

Garlicky white beans wilted down with kale and lemon in a single pan. Substantial, cheap, and on the table in twenty minutes.

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European · 10 min · Easy

Bircher Muesli

Oats soaked overnight in plant milk with grated apple, lemon and raisins, then loosened with yogurt in the morning and topped with almonds. Five minutes of work the night before, and breakfast is already made.

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Latin American · 20 min · Easy

Elote Street Corn Salad

Everything good about Mexican street corn, taken off the cob and into a bowl: charred kernels, a tangy lime dressing, chili, and a shower of herbs.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

Green Bean Casserole

Green beans in a proper mushroom cream sauce made from scratch, under a lid of crisp fried onions. No condensed soup anywhere near it.

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European · 40 min · Easy

Mushroom Stroganoff

Deeply browned mushrooms in a creamy, smoky, mustard-sharpened sauce over pasta. The whole dish turns on getting real color on the mushrooms first.

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South Asian · 30 min · Easy

Red Lentil and Coconut Dal

Red lentils collapsed into coconut milk with cumin and ginger. No soaking, no technique, and it thickens itself while you set the table.

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East Asian · 55 min · Easy

Japanese Curry Rice

A thick, glossy, faintly sweet curry sauce over rice, with soft potato and carrot. Mild by design and deeply comforting. Japan's favorite home dinner.

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Southeast Asian · 10 min · Easy

Peanut Sauce

Salty, sour, sweet and hot in roughly equal measure, loosened to a pourable cream. It takes five minutes and improves almost anything it lands on.

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North American · 20 min · Easy

Vegan Protein Pancakes

Oat-flour pancakes built on a scoop of vanilla plant protein and soy milk, sweetened by a mashed ripe banana rather than sugar. Cooked as small rounds so the soft batter flips cleanly. Light to eat but genuinely filling. Batch a pile of them and reheat through the week.

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European · 30 min · Easy

Sheet-Pan Gnocchi with Tomatoes

Shop-bought gnocchi roasted straight from the packet with cherry tomatoes until the gnocchi crisp at the edges and the tomatoes burst into a sauce. One tray, no boiling.

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Latin American · 55 min · Medium

Pozole Verde

A tangy green broth built from blistered tomatillos and chilies, poured over chewy hominy and white beans. The raw garnishes (cabbage, radish, lime) are half the dish, not decoration.

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North American · 20 min · Easy

Loaded Nachos

The most shareable thing in the booklet: a tray of tortilla chips scattered with cumin-spiced black beans, drizzled with blender cashew queso, then loaded with salsa, avocado, pickled jalapeños and cilantro.

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East Asian · 15 min · Easy

Chrysanthemum and Goji Cooler

Dried chrysanthemum flowers and goji berries steeped into a pale gold, honeyed-floral tea, served cold with the softened berries still in the glass.

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Middle Eastern · 35 min · Easy

Barazek

Thin, snapping Syrian cookies, sesame-crusted on one face and pistachio on the other. They crisp entirely as they cool.

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Blueberry Grilled Cheese, cooked by Will

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North American · 17 min · Easy

Blueberry Grilled Cheese

Blueberries cooked down with maple and thyme until they slump into a loose jam, spread under melting vegan cheese and griddled in butter until the edges go lacy and brown. Sweet against salt, the way fruit and cheese have always worked.

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Middle Eastern · 55 min · Easy

Basbousa

A dense, damp semolina cake soaked in lemon syrup, cut into diamonds with an almond on each. Sweet and grainy in the best way.

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South Asian · 5 min · Easy

Mango Lassi

Ripe mango blended with plant yogurt and a pinch of cardamom into a thick, cold, barely-sweet drink. The traditional partner to anything fiery.

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Curried Cauliflower and Lentil Tray Bake, cooked by Tiffany

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South Asian · 40 min · Easy

Curried Cauliflower and Lentil Tray Bake

Cauliflower roasted with curry powder until the edges char, then folded through warm lentils and yogurt. One tray, one can, very little attention.

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North American · 5 min · Easy

Berry Chia Pudding

Chia seeds left to swell in vanilla-sweetened plant milk until thick and spoonable, layered with crushed berries. Five minutes of work the night before.

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South Asian · 30 min · Easy

Besan Ladoo

Chickpea flour toasted in butter until it smells like biscuits, then rolled into sweet cardamom balls. No baking, no setting. Just patience at the pan.

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Buffalo Cauliflower Wings, cooked by Tiffany

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North American · 40 min · Easy

Buffalo Cauliflower Wings

Game-day wings, baked not fried. Cauliflower florets dipped in a simple seasoned batter, baked until crisp, tossed in buffalo sauce and returned to the oven until sticky. Served with celery sticks and vegan ranch.

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North American · 20 min · Easy

Cashew Alfredo Sauce

Silky, garlicky and thick enough to coat every strand of pasta. Blended rather than cooked, so it takes about as long as boiling the water.

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Mediterranean · 65 min · Easy

Gigantes Plaki

Giant white beans baked slowly in a sweet tomato sauce with dill and plenty of olive oil, until the top catches and the beans turn to cream. Greek taverna cooking at its simplest.

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Mediterranean · 25 min · Easy

Lemon and White Bean Pasta

Twenty-five minutes, one pan, mostly cupboard. The beans break down just enough to make the sauce creamy without a drop of cream.

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European · 25 min · Easy

Creamy Tomato and White Bean Soup

Canned tomatoes and white beans simmered with garlic then blended smooth, so the beans do the work of cream. Fifteen minutes of cooking and almost nothing to chop.

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Middle Eastern · 50 min · Easy

Baba Ganoush

Eggplants burnt black over a flame until the flesh collapses, then beaten with tahini, lemon and garlic. Smoky, loose and nothing like a puree of raw eggplant.

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West African Peanut Stew, cooked by Tiffany

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African · 60 min · Easy

West African Peanut Stew

A silky, gently spiced stew where peanut butter melts into tomato and stock to make something deeply savory. Sweet potato and chickpeas make it a full meal in one pot.

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South Asian · 5 min · Easy

Nimbu Pani

Indian lemonade, made savory with black salt and roasted cumin. Sweet, sour, salty and faintly smoky. The fastest cure there is for a hot afternoon.

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Southeast Asian · 45 min · Medium

Indonesian Gado-Gado

A composed salad of blanched vegetables, potato, fried tofu and tempeh under a thick, sweet-savory peanut sauce. Substantial enough to be dinner.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

Vegan Jambalaya

A one-pot Louisiana classic, plant-based. The "holy trinity" of onion, celery and green pepper softened in oil, then rice toasted with Cajun seasoning and smoked paprika and simmered with tomatoes, kidney beans and stock until every grain is tender. Optional vegan sausage pushes the protein higher.

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African · 65 min · Medium

Egyptian Koshari

Egypt's national dish: rice, lentils and pasta layered together under a sharp spiced tomato sauce and a heap of crisp fried onions. Carbohydrate on carbohydrate, and completely justified.

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Southeast Asian · 25 min · Medium

Burmese Chickpea Tofu

Shan tofu: chickpea flour whisked into water, cooked until it thickens like polenta, then poured out to set into a silken, faintly yellow block. No soy, no coagulant, no pressing. Sliced and dressed, it is nothing like the tofu you know.

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Caribbean · 25 min · Easy

Coconut Chickpea and Spinach Curry

Chickpeas simmered in coconut milk with thyme and allspice, finished with spinach. Mellow, quick, and entirely from cans and a bag of leaves.

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North American · 15 min · Easy

Strawberry Basil Lemonade

Strawberries crushed into lemonade with a handful of basil. The basil sounds odd and is the entire reason to make it.

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European · 55 min · Easy

Hungarian Mushroom Goulash

A deep red paprika stew of mushrooms, peppers and potato, finished with a swirl of plant cream. The paprika goes in off the heat, which is the trick nobody mentions.

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East Asian · 45 min · Easy

Tofu Fried Rice

The Sunday-night clear-out-the-fridge dinner, done properly: cold rice, a screaming-hot pan, and tofu crisped until golden. Ready before the takeaway would even arrive.

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Latin American · 60 min · Medium

Mushroom Empanadas

Flaky hand pies filled with deeply browned mushrooms, onion and olives. The filling must be cold and dry before it goes near the pastry, or the parcels burst in the oven.

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East Asian · 17 min · Easy

Soba with Edamame and Greens

Soba, edamame and broccoli in a light soy-sesame dressing, served warm or cold. About as fast as dinner gets.

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North American · 35 min · Easy

Crispy Tofu Nuggets

Firm tofu pressed and torn (never cut) into craggy nuggets, dipped in mustardy plant milk and coated in seasoned panko. Fry them or bake them; either way they're built for dipping.

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North American · 10 min · Easy

Hot Maple Drizzle

Maple syrup infused with chili and a little vinegar until it is sweet, hot and sharp all at once. The vegan answer to hot honey, and it goes on everything.

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Mediterranean · 40 min · Easy

Loukoumades

Greek yeast puffs fried until hollow and crisp, then rolled in syrup, cinnamon and walnuts. Best eaten standing at the stove.

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Latin American · 40 min · Easy

Black Bean and Sweet Potato Tacos

Smoky roasted sweet potato, spiced black beans, and enough lime to wake it all up. The roasting tray does most of the work.

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European · 75 min · Project

Mushroom and Lentil Shepherd's Pie

A proper Sunday project: a dark, savory lentil and mushroom base under a mash lid, browned hard on top. Feeds six and reheats beautifully.

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North American · 75 min · Medium

Lentil and Walnut Meatloaf

A dense, savory loaf of lentils and toasted walnuts under a sticky ketchup glaze that caramelizes at the edges. It slices cleanly, which is most of the battle.

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Fried Oyster Mushrooms, cooked by Tiffany

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North American · 30 min · Medium

Fried Oyster Mushrooms

Torn oyster mushrooms dipped in a quick plant-milk buttermilk, dredged in seasoned flour and cornstarch, and fried until shatteringly crisp. The texture lands somewhere very close to fried chicken.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

Coconut Rice Pudding

Short-grain rice simmered slowly in coconut milk until it collapses into something thick, creamy and barely sweet, scented with cinnamon and vanilla.

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Caribbean · 15 min · Easy

Sweet Fried Plantains

Very ripe plantains fried until the sugars caramelize into dark, sticky edges and the middles turn to custard. Three ingredients and about ten minutes.

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South Asian · 45 min · Medium

Chana Masala

The Punjabi chickpea curry that earns its place in every weeknight rotation: deeply spiced, made almost entirely from the store cupboard, and better on day two.

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East Asian · 50 min · Medium

Scallion Pancakes

Chewy, flaky layered flatbreads shot through with scallion, fried until blistered and served with a sharp dipping sauce. The rolling technique is what makes the layers.

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East Asian · 35 min · Easy

Gochujang Tofu Rice Bowl

Tofu roasted until firm and coated in a sweet-hot gochujang glaze, over rice with quick cucumber. Sticky, spicy and mostly hands-off.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Creamy Cashew Mac and Cheese

A blender sauce of soaked cashews and nutritional yeast that clings to every elbow of pasta: properly creamy, savory and comforting, with not a plastic slice of vegan cheese in sight.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Buffalo Chickpea Dip

Hot sauce, chickpeas and something creamy, baked until it bubbles at the edges. The thing that vanishes first at every gathering it turns up to.

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European · 40 min · Easy

French Lentil Salad

Firm green lentils dressed while warm in a sharp Dijon vinaigrette, with plenty of shallot, herbs and walnuts. Good hot, better after an hour, excellent from the fridge.

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South Asian · 10 min · Easy

Chana Chaat

A no-cook chickpea chaat that's tangy, fresh and ready in ten minutes. Chickpeas tossed with red onion, cucumber and tomato, brightened with lemon and chaat masala.

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North American · 35 min · Easy

Chili Cheese Fries

A platter of crisp fries buried under a thick lentil-and-tomato chili and a blended cashew cheese sauce, finished with scallions and jalapeños. The messiest, most shareable thing you can put on a table.

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Middle Eastern · 15 min · Easy

Ful Medames

The Egyptian breakfast: fava beans warmed through and crushed roughly in their own liquid, sharpened with lemon and garlic, then flooded with olive oil and scattered with tomato and parsley. Eaten with bread, out of the same bowl.

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Latin American · 60 min · Medium

Vegan Birria Tacos

Jackfruit braised in a dark, spiced tomato consomé until it shreds, then folded into tortillas that have been dipped in the braising liquid and griddled until the edges crisp. Serve the consomé alongside for dunking.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

Banana Walnut Baked Oatmeal

Oats, mashed banana and toasted walnuts baked into a soft, sliceable breakfast that keeps all week. Sweet enough from the fruit that it barely needs syrup.

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Caribbean · 45 min · Easy

Jamaican Curry Chickpeas and Potato

Curry powder bloomed in oil until it perfumes the whole kitchen, then chickpeas and potato simmered in coconut until soft and golden. Warming, cheap and quietly fiery.

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North American · 35 min · Medium

Vegan Philly Cheesesteak

The weekend indulgence: seitan (or mushrooms) seared with soy sauce and vegan Worcestershire, piled into hoagie rolls with charred peppers and onions, then flooded with a blender cashew cheese sauce.

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North American · 15 min · Easy

Peanut Butter & Date Energy Balls

Medjool dates blitzed to a sticky paste with peanut butter, oats, cocoa and chia, rolled into bites and chilled. Naturally sweet with no added sugar.

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North American · 60 min · Medium

Chickpea Pot Pie

A creamy vegetable and chickpea filling under a lid of puff pastry that shatters when you cut it. Everything about it is comfort, including the smell.

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Braised Peppers with Chickpeas, cooked by Tiffany

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Mediterranean · 45 min · Easy

Braised Peppers with Chickpeas

A cheap, batch-friendly workhorse: mixed peppers cooked down until silky with sweet onions and tomato, then folded through chickpeas and finished with red wine vinegar and parsley.

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Southeast Asian · 15 min · Easy

Peanut Noodles with Cucumber

A no-cook peanut, lime and soy sauce whisked in the bowl, tossed through noodles with cold cucumber ribbons. Fifteen minutes, and better slightly under-dressed than over.

North American · 45 min · Medium

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy

Tall, flaky biscuits under a peppery white gravy full of browned sausage. The Sunday breakfast that ruins the rest of the day, in the best way.

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Mediterranean · 50 min · Easy

Greek Lentil Soup

Fakes, the Greek lentil soup that's the gentlest way back to solid food. Brown lentils simmered soft with tomato, oregano and bay, then lifted at the end with a slug of red wine vinegar and good olive oil.

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South Asian · 45 min · Easy

Dal Tadka

Soft yellow lentils finished with a tadka: whole spices bloomed in hot oil and poured over at the last second, so it hits the surface and sizzles.

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Caribbean · 20 min · Easy

Caribbean Ginger Beer

A fierce, unfermented ginger beer: fresh ginger blended, steeped and strained into a syrup, then topped with soda water. All of the heat, none of the waiting.

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Mediterranean · 30 min · Easy

Chickpea & Tomato Stew

A revithada-style chickpea stew: soft, warming and quietly spiced with cumin and smoked paprika. Ready in half an hour and lovely spooned over rice.

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South Asian · 30 min · Easy

Aam Panna

Green mango simmered soft, pulped, and spiced with cumin and black salt into a pale, tart-savory cooler. Drunk across North India specifically to survive the summer.

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Caribbean · 25 min · Easy

Jamaican Sorrel Drink

Hibiscus steeped with ginger, clove and orange peel. The Caribbean Christmas drink, deep red and warmly spiced rather than simply tart.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

BBQ Jackfruit Sandwich

Shredded jackfruit cooked down in smoky barbecue sauce until sticky, piled into a soft roll with a sharp vinegar slaw. The slaw is what stops it being too rich.

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African · 15 min · Easy

West African Ginger and Lime Juice

Gnamakoudji: raw ginger blended, steeped and strained, then sharpened with lime and sweetened. Sold ice-cold on every roadside from Bamako to Abidjan.

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North American · 45 min · Easy

Dark Chocolate Tahini Brownies

Fudgy, properly dark brownies with ribbons of tahini swirled through the top. The sesame cuts the sweetness and makes them taste grown-up.

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Latin American · 26 min · Easy

Black Bean and Corn Quesadillas

Mashed spiced black beans and corn folded into tortillas and pressed in a dry pan until crisp. Fifteen minutes and mostly from the cupboard.

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North American · 5 min · Easy

Peanut Butter and Banana Overnight Oats

The five-minute-tonight, grab-and-go-tomorrow breakfast. Oats soften in the fridge overnight into a creamy, spoonable pot that tastes like a peanut butter and banana sandwich.

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European · 45 min · Easy

Creamy Leek and Potato Soup

Sweet, slowly-sweated leeks and floury potatoes blended into a thick, comforting soup. No cream needed: the potato does all of it.

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Latin American · 15 min · Easy

Agua de Jamaica

Dried hibiscus steeped briefly, sweetened while hot and chilled hard: tart, cranberry-deep and an almost unreasonable red. The most common agua fresca in Mexico.

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Middle Eastern · 15 min · Easy

Muhammara

The Aleppan red pepper and walnut dip. No cooking at all. Everything goes in the food processor, and it tastes better after an hour in the fridge.

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East Asian · 30 min · Medium

Vegan Mapo Tofu

Numbing, savory and fast. Mushrooms stand in for the pork and nobody misses it. The chili bean paste and Sichuan pepper are doing the real work.

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Fried Pineapple Rings, cooked by Tiffany

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Caribbean · 22 min · Easy

Fried Pineapple Rings

Pineapple cut into rings, dried, dusted and dropped through a thin sparkling batter into hot oil, so the outside shatters and the fruit inside turns hot, syrupy and startlingly sharp against the sugar.

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Middle Eastern · 50 min · Easy

Maamoul

Buttery semolina shortbread stuffed with spiced date paste. Traditionally pressed in carved wooden molds; a fork and a steady hand do fine.

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African · 15 min · Easy

Moroccan Iced Mint Tea

Gunpowder green tea brewed strong over a fistful of spearmint, sweetened hot and poured over ice. Bracing, fragrant and very sweet, as it should be.

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North American · 35 min · Easy

Kansas City BBQ Sauce

Thick, dark and sweet, with molasses behind it and enough vinegar to keep it from cloying. The kind that goes on in the last five minutes so it does not burn.

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North American · 25 min · Easy

Peanut Butter Cookies

Dense, short and deeply peanutty, marked with the traditional fork crosshatch. The fastest cookie here: there is no butter to cream.

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Southeast Asian · 45 min · Easy

Coconut Mung Bean Porridge

Split mung beans simmered soft, then finished with coconut milk and a little sugar until the whole pot turns creamy. A sweet, gentle breakfast eaten across Southeast Asia, warm or at room temperature.

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East Asian · 35 min · Easy

Kimchi Jjigae

A fiercely savory red stew built on well-fermented kimchi, tofu and gochujang. Sour, spicy and bubbling. The older your kimchi, the better this gets.

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North American · 17 min · Easy

Vegan Smash Burger

A patty pressed thin against a screaming hot pan until the whole underside turns to lace and crust. Cheese, pickles, and a bun that has seen butter.

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European · 25 min · Medium

Seared King Oyster Scallops

Thick discs cut from king oyster stems, scored in a crosshatch so they drink up a nori and miso brine, then seared hard until the cut faces caramelize. The sea flavor comes from the brine, not the shape, which is the step most versions leave out.

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Southeast Asian · 5 min · Easy

Vietnamese Lime Soda

Soda chanh: lime juice and sugar syrup in a tall glass, topped with soda water and stirred at the table. Three ingredients, correctly assembled.

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Southeast Asian · 30 min · Easy

Kolak Pisang

Bananas simmered in coconut milk with palm sugar and pandan until the syrup goes thick and caramel-brown. A bowlful of warm comfort.

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North American · 60 min · Easy

Smoked Carrot Lox

Whole carrots roasted buried in salt until they collapse to a silky, translucent texture, then peeled, sliced on a long diagonal and steeped in smoke, oil and vinegar. The salt crust does the work: it seasons and dehydrates at once.

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Latin American · 40 min · Easy

Cuban Black Bean Soup

Smoky, garlicky and thick enough to stand a spoon in. Cheap store-cupboard beans turned into something that tastes like it simmered all day.

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Southeast Asian · 35 min · Easy

Indonesian Tempeh Satay

Marinated tempeh grilled until the edges blacken, served with a thick peanut sauce for dipping. Nutty, smoky and very high in protein.

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South Asian · 25 min · Easy

Savory Chickpea Pancakes (Besan Chilla)

Thin, lacy gram-flour pancakes studded with onion, tomato, chili and cilantro. High-protein, naturally gluten-free, and on the plate in twenty-five minutes.

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Latin American · 15 min · Easy

Black Bean Breakfast Tostadas

Tortillas toasted flat until they snap, spread with warm cumin-spiked black beans and topped with avocado, red onion and lime. Fifteen minutes, mostly from the cupboard.

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Southeast Asian · 80 min · Medium

Vietnamese Pho

A clear, aromatic broth built by charring onion and ginger and steeping it with star anise and cinnamon, poured over rice noodles and tofu with a plate of herbs to add at the table.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Mushroom Gravy

Deep brown, glossy and savory enough to stand up to anything you pour it over. Built on properly browned mushrooms rather than on a stock cube.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Sweet Potato & Black Bean Hash

A hearty one-skillet breakfast: sweet potato diced small and browned until tender, then folded through smoky paprika, cumin and black beans. High-fiber, high-protein, and it holds you well into the afternoon.

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European · 35 min · Easy

German Potato Salad

Warm waxy potatoes, sliced into thick rounds and dressed while still hot in a sharp mustard-and-vinegar dressing loosened with stock, sharpened with finely diced yellow onion. No mayonnaise anywhere near it.

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Middle Eastern · 40 min · Easy

Turkish Red Lentil Soup

A smooth, golden lentil soup finished with paprika butter and a hard squeeze of lemon. Cheap, fast, and one of the most comforting bowls there is.

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African · 35 min · Easy

Ethiopian Shiro Wot

Chickpea flour whisked into a spiced onion base until it becomes a thick, smoky, deeply savory stew. One of the fastest genuinely great things you can cook from a cupboard.

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Latin American · 50 min · Easy

Tres Leches Cake

A plain sponge drenched in three milks until it is barely holding together, topped with whipped cream. Soaked, not soggy. The distinction is everything.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Chocolate Chip Cookies

Crisp at the edge, soft in the middle, with seams of melted dark chocolate. Chopping a bar instead of using chips is what gives you the puddles.

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Southeast Asian · 30 min · Easy

Vietnamese Noodle Salad

Cool rice noodles under a pile of herbs, raw vegetables and crisp tofu, with a sharp lime-and-chili dressing poured over just before eating. A hot-weather dinner that never feels heavy.

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Mediterranean · 20 min · Easy

Smoky Roasted Almonds

Raw almonds roasted low until fragrant, then tossed warm with smoked paprika, cumin and a pinch of cayenne. Filling and full of healthy fats. Portion them out.

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African · 55 min · Easy

Moroccan Chickpea Tagine

Chickpeas and sweet potato in a warmly spiced tomato sauce, with dried apricots melting into it for a sweetness that plays against the cumin and cinnamon.

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Southeast Asian · 32 min · Medium

Vegan Pad Thai

Rice noodles tossed in a sweet-sour-salty tamarind sauce with crisp tofu, beansprouts and a heap of crushed peanuts. Everything happens in about four minutes, so get organized first.

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East Asian · 20 min · Easy

Korean Iced Barley Tea

Boricha: roasted barley simmered into a nutty, toasty, faintly sweet brown tea, drunk cold all summer instead of water. No sugar at all.

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European · 120 min · Easy

Whole Roasted Celeriac

A whole celeriac scored deep, rubbed with oil and thyme and roasted slowly until the outside goes mahogany and crackling and the inside turns sweet and custardy. It comes to the table whole and gets carved like a joint.

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East Asian · 35 min · Easy

Teriyaki Tofu with Broccoli

Cornflour-dusted tofu fried until the edges shatter, then tumbled in a glossy teriyaki glaze that thickens around it in seconds. Steamed broccoli and rice make it dinner.

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North American · 40 min · Medium

Nashville Hot Tofu

Fried tofu dragged through a cayenne paste made with the frying oil itself, so the heat goes on hot and stays glossy. Served the proper way, on soft white bread with pickles.

nut-free

North American · 35 min · Easy

Vegan Sugar Cookies

Soft-centered, crisp-edged and rolled in sugar rather than iced, with lemon zest cutting the sweetness. Pale is the point.

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Latin American · 10 min · Easy

Horchata

Rice and cinnamon soaked overnight, blended and strained into a cloudy, faintly sweet, milky drink. Served very cold, it is the standard partner to anything spicy.

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Latin American · 55 min · Easy

Peruvian Lentil Stew

A thick, gently spiced lentil stew softened with squash-sweet carrot and finished with a hard squeeze of lime. Everyday Peruvian home cooking: cheap, filling and quietly excellent.

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African · 55 min · Easy

Moroccan Harira

A fragrant tomato, lentil and chickpea soup thick with herbs and finished with lemon. Traditionally eaten to break the fast during Ramadan, and restorative at any time.

nut-freesoy-freehigh-protein

North American · 30 min · Easy

Marry Me Tofu

Crisp cubes of tofu in a sun-dried tomato cream sauce that tastes like it took an hour. It takes half of one, and that is the reason people keep making it.

gluten-freenut-free

Caribbean · 40 min · Easy

Caribbean Rice and Peas

Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme, allspice and a whole chili left in for perfume rather than heat. The side dish that turns any plate Caribbean.

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Middle Eastern · 20 min · Easy

Tomato and Chickpea Couscous

Couscous steamed in a spiced tomato and chickpea broth in the same pot. No draining, no timing, and it is done in twenty minutes.

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European · 22 min · Easy

Black Garlic and Miso Butter Pasta

Black garlic mashed into miso and butter until it becomes a dark, jammy paste, then loosened with pasta water into a glossy sauce that clings. Sweet, deeply savory, and on the table in the time it takes the water to boil.

nut-free

Mediterranean · 70 min · Medium

Stuffed Peppers with Rice and Herbs

Sweet peppers packed with a lemony rice, pine-nut and herb filling and baked until they slump and blister. As good at room temperature as they are hot.

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Mediterranean · 60 min · Easy

Orange and Olive Oil Cake

A plain, damp cake carried by good olive oil and a lot of orange zest. Keeps for days and is better with coffee than with cream.

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Middle Eastern · 30 min · Easy

Fattoush Salad

A crunchy chopped salad of tomato, cucumber and herbs with shards of toasted pita, dressed in lemon, sumac and pomegranate molasses. Sharp and refreshing.

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Latin American · 45 min · Easy

Alfajores

Two crumbling cornstarch cookies with caramel between them, edges rolled in coconut. They dissolve rather than crumble.

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North American · 20 min · Easy

Cashew Queso

Pourable, molten and properly cheesy, with enough jalapeno to keep it interesting. It sets as it cools and loosens again with a splash of water.

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East Asian · 20 min · Easy

Miso Mushroom Udon

Mushrooms browned hard, then a quick miso broth poured over thick udon. Deeply savory for something that takes twenty minutes and five ingredients.

nut-free

North American · 40 min · Easy

Banana Peel Pulled Pork

The peels people throw away, scraped clean, forked into strands and cooked down with smoked paprika and barbecue sauce until they go dark, sticky and unnervingly meaty. It costs nothing and it convinces almost everybody.

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Latin American · 10 min · Easy

Watermelon Agua Fresca

Ripe watermelon blended with water and lime into something lighter and more drinkable than juice. Five minutes of work and it tastes like the middle of summer.

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Middle Eastern · 40 min · Easy

Roasted Vegetable and Hummus Bowl

A tray of vegetables roasted hard, spooned over shop-bought hummus with lemon and parsley. Assembly more than cooking, and endlessly adaptable.

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Southeast Asian · 35 min · Medium

Lemongrass Tofu Noodle Bowl

A cold-noodle bowl built for lunch: crisp lemongrass tofu, rice noodles, herbs and a sharp lime dressing. Assembles from the fridge in minutes once the tofu is done.

high-proteinno-added-sugar

European · 50 min · Medium

Spanish Tortilla

Soft olive-oil-poached potatoes and onion set in a chickpea-flour batter, cooked slowly until the middle is just custardy. Good hot, better at room temperature.

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African · 25 min · Easy

Harissa Bean and Pepper Skillet

Peppers and onions softened down with harissa and white beans until jammy. One pan, big flavor, and almost entirely from cupboard and freezer.

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North American · 10 min · Easy

Vegan Ranch Dressing

Cool, herby and thick enough to cling, with the sharpness that makes ranch worth having. Better after an hour in the fridge, and better still the next day.

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Southeast Asian · 50 min · Easy

Mango Sticky Rice

Warm coconut-sweetened glutinous rice with cold ripe mango and a salty coconut sauce poured over. The salt is what makes it.

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Middle Eastern · 25 min · Easy

Tabbouleh

A parsley salad first and a grain salad second: bright, lemony and green, with just enough bulgur to give it body. The kind of thing that makes everything else on the table taste better.

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South Asian · 20 min · Easy

Poha

Flattened rice rinsed until it softens, then tossed through a quick tempering of mustard seeds, curry leaves and turmeric with onion, potato and peanuts. Light, fast, and the standard weekday breakfast across much of western India.

gluten-freesoy-free

Southeast Asian · 40 min · Easy

Thai Green Curry

Green curry paste fried in thick coconut cream until it splits and turns fragrant, then loosened into a fresh, hot, herby curry with eggplant, beans and tofu.

gluten-freehigh-protein

Mediterranean · 10 min · Easy

Smashed White Bean Toast

Cannellini or butter beans forked into a chunky, garlicky spread with olive oil and lemon, piled onto good toast and topped with sliced tomato, herbs and chili flakes. Ten minutes, and far more filling than it looks.

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South Asian · 70 min · Project

Vegetable Biryani

Spiced vegetables and part-cooked basmati layered in a pot and steamed together so the rice takes on the masala from below while staying separate and fragrant on top.

gluten-freesoy-free

European · 55 min · Easy

Pears Poached in Red Wine

Whole pears simmered in spiced red wine until stained crimson to the core, then served in their own reduced syrup. Almost no work and looks like a great deal of it.

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Latin American · 25 min · Easy

Chilaquiles Verdes

Tortillas crisped in a pan and then folded through warm salsa verde just long enough to soften at the edges without collapsing. Topped with black beans, avocado, onion and lime.

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European · 25 min · Easy

Tiramisu

Coffee-soaked sponge layered with whipped cashew cream and a heavy dusting of cocoa. Assembled in twenty minutes, transformed by a night in the fridge.

soy-free

Latin American · 20 min · Easy

Watermelon and Mango Pico de Gallo

Watermelon and mango cut small and salted early so they give up their water in a colander rather than in the bowl, then tossed with red onion, chili, lime and cilantro. Sweet, sharp and hot at once, and it stays a salsa instead of collapsing into juice.

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East Asian · 50 min · Easy

Congee with Ginger and Scallion

Rice simmered far past the point of holding its shape, until the grains collapse into a loose, savory porridge. Ginger goes in at the start and scallions at the end, and every bowl is finished with soy and a few drops of sesame oil.

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Caribbean · 20 min · Easy

Banana Fritters

Very ripe bananas mashed into a spiced batter and fried into soft, craggy rounds. Ten minutes, and the blacker the bananas the better.

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East Asian · 15 min · Easy

Garlic Sesame Green Beans

Green beans blistered in a hot pan until they wrinkle and char in places, then tossed with garlic, soy and sesame. Ten minutes, one pan, and they disappear.

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European · 65 min · Easy

Apple Crumble

Sharp apples baked under a thick, buttery oat rubble until the juices bubble up the sides. The one everybody actually wants.

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European · 45 min · Easy

Baked Pears with Berries and Miso Cashew Cream

Pears roasted in maple and thyme until the cut faces caramelize, served with berries and a cashew cream sharpened with white miso. The miso is doing what a blue cheese does here: salt and funk against sweet fruit, which is the whole reason that pairing works.

South Asian · 40 min · Easy

Nankhatai

Indian cardamom shortbread, sandy and crumbling from chickpea flour and semolina, split across the top and studded with pistachio.

soy-free

Latin American · 40 min · Easy

Churros with Chocolate

Choux-style dough piped straight into hot oil, rolled in cinnamon sugar and dipped in thick drinking chocolate. Crisp ridges, soft middle.

soy-freenut-free

South Asian · 10 min · Easy

Jaljeera

A dark, herby, aggressively savory spiced water: mint, cilantro, tamarind and roasted cumin. Drunk as an appetiser, and it genuinely works as one.

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European · 10 min · Easy

Pan con Tomate

Good bread toasted hard, rubbed with a cut clove of garlic, then with the cut face of a ripe tomato until the crumb is stained red. Salt, olive oil, and nothing else.

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African · 50 min · Easy

Misir Wot

The Ethiopian red lentil stew. Almost nothing in it, and yet the berbere and a genuinely long onion cook do all the heavy lifting.

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Middle Eastern · 15 min · Easy

Rose and Lemon Sharbat

A pale, fragrant cordial of lemon, sugar and rose water, diluted to order. Floral and cold and old-fashioned, and it keeps for weeks.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

Mediterranean · 15 min · Easy

Mediterranean Chickpea Salad

No cooking, one bowl, fifteen minutes. Chickpeas, cucumber, tomato and kalamata olives tossed in a sharp lemon and red wine vinegar dressing, with plenty of parsley and mint. Holds its own as a light lunch or shrinks to a side.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

North American · 35 min · Easy

Broccoli Cheddar Soup

Thick, orange, deeply cheesy soup with broccoli soft enough to fall apart in it. Cashews and nutritional yeast do the work the cheddar used to.

gluten-freesoy-free

Caribbean · 45 min · Easy

Coconut Drops

Chunks of fresh coconut boiled in ginger sugar until the syrup thickens, then dropped in spoonfuls and left to set hard. Chewy, sticky and very Jamaican.

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South Asian · 60 min · Easy

Gajar ka Halwa

Carrots grated fine and cooked down slowly in sweetened plant milk until the whole pan turns glossy and orange, with chopped cashews and raisins folded all the way through. Deeply sweet, faintly floral, and better the next day.

gluten-freesoy-free

Southeast Asian · 25 min · Easy

Lemongrass and Ginger Cooler

Bruised lemongrass and ginger simmered into a fragrant, faintly citrus syrup, then chilled and lengthened with lime. Clean and grassy rather than sweet.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

European · 50 min · Easy

Minestrone Soup

A generous vegetable soup with beans and small pasta, built on a slowly softened base of onion, carrot and celery. The kind of pot that improves every time you reheat it.

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South Asian · 45 min · Medium

Palak Tofu

A silky, deep green spinach curry with cubes of golden pan-fried tofu folded through it. All the comfort of palak paneer with none of the dairy.

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South Asian · 45 min · Medium

Rajma

The North Indian kidney bean curry that's built for batch cooking: onions taken deep golden, tomatoes cooked until the oil separates, and a few beans mashed against the pan for a thick, creamy gravy without a drop of cream.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

East Asian · 45 min · Medium

Korean Bibimbap Bowl

A warm rice bowl with each vegetable seasoned separately, crisp pan-fried tofu, and a sweet-sharp gochujang sauce stirred through at the table. The point is the contrast: you mix it all together yourself.

high-protein

Middle Eastern · 75 min · Easy

Baklava

Layers of phyllo and chopped nuts baked until shattering, then flooded with lemon syrup while still hot. The sound when you cut it is the point.

soy-free

Caribbean · 45 min · Medium

Jerk Jackfruit Rice Bowl

Roasted jerk-spiced jackfruit shreds like slow-cooked meat, over coconut rice and black beans. Big flavors, mostly from a jar and a tin.

nut-freesoy-free

South Asian · 45 min · Easy

Pistachio Kulfi

Plant milk cooked down with cardamom and pistachio, then frozen hard in molds. Denser and slower-melting than ice cream because it is never churned.

gluten-freesoy-free

Middle Eastern · 40 min · Easy

Tofu Shakshuka

A smoky red pepper and tomato sauce, simmered down until it is thick enough to hold a hollow, with seasoned crumbled tofu nestled into the wells where the eggs would go.

high-protein

Middle Eastern · 25 min · Easy

Tahini Halva

Sesame paste and hot sugar syrup worked together until it sets into a dense, flaky slab that melts on the tongue. Three ingredients, one critical temperature.

gluten-freesoy-free

Middle Eastern · 10 min · Easy

Classic Hummus with Veggie Sticks

Chickpeas, tahini, garlic and lemon blended smooth, loosened with aquafaba (the liquid from the chickpea can) so it stays creamy without extra fat. Served with carrot, cucumber and pepper sticks.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

Latin American · 40 min · Medium

Arepas with Black Beans and Avocado

Griddled corn cakes with a crisp shell and a soft, steamy middle, split open and stuffed with cumin-spiked black beans and mashed avocado.

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Caribbean · 80 min · Easy

Sweet Potato Pudding

Grated sweet potato baked slowly with coconut milk and warm spice into a dense, sliceable pudding with a dark, sticky top.

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African · 55 min · Easy

Koeksisters

Plaited dough fried gold and plunged straight into ice-cold syrup, so the outside stays crisp while the inside floods sweet.

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East Asian · 5 min · Easy

Silken Tofu with Soy and Scallion

A block of chilled silken tofu turned out whole and dressed with soy, sesame oil, ginger and scallion. No cooking at all, and on the table in five minutes.

nut-freelow-caloriehigh-protein

East Asian · 20 min · Easy

Sesame Soba Noodles

Cold buckwheat noodles in a nutty sesame dressing, loaded with edamame and crunchy raw vegetables. Fifteen minutes, and it is better after an hour in the fridge.

high-proteinnut-free

East Asian · 8 min · Easy

Edamame with Chili & Sea Salt

Frozen edamame pods boiled for five minutes and tossed with flaky salt, chili flakes and a little toasted sesame oil. One of the highest-protein snacks you can make from a freezer bag.

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Caribbean · 40 min · Easy

Caribbean Callaloo

Greens stewed down with coconut milk, thyme and okra until soft and glossy. Mellow, rich and green. The Caribbean answer to creamed spinach.

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European · 5 min · Easy

Elderflower and Lemon Cooler

Elderflower cordial cut with lemon, cucumber and mint over a lot of ice. Barely a recipe, and the most refreshing thing in the book.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

Middle Eastern · 45 min · Medium

Baked Falafel Bowl

Herby, crisp-edged falafel baked instead of fried, piled into a bowl with salad and a swoosh of tahini. All the flavor, none of the pan of hot oil.

nut-freesoy-freehigh-protein

North American · 35 min · Easy

Lentil Sloppy Joes

Lentils and finely chopped mushrooms cooked down in a sweet, tangy tomato sauce until they hold together on a bun. Deliberately messy; that is the whole idea.

nut-free

African · 40 min · Easy

Ethiopian Gomen (Collard Greens)

Collards braised slowly with onion, garlic, ginger and turmeric until they turn silky and sweet. Mild, garlicky and green. The calm dish on an Ethiopian plate.

gluten-freesoy-freenut-free

Caribbean · 10 min · Easy

Pineapple Ginger Punch

Fresh pineapple blended with ginger and lime into a thick, golden punch. Sweet, sour and hot all at once, and it takes ten minutes.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

North American · 20 min · Easy

Tofu Scramble Breakfast Burrito

Twenty minutes from fridge to foil. Black salt is what makes it taste unmistakably of eggs. Don't skip it.

nut-freehigh-protein

Caribbean · 40 min · Easy

Caribbean Coconut Lentil Curry

Red lentils collapsing into coconut milk with Caribbean curry powder, thyme and sweet potato. Ready in half an hour and thick enough to eat with a fork.

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South Asian · 25 min · Easy

Upma

Semolina toasted until it smells nutty, then cooked into a soft savory porridge with mustard seeds, curry leaves, ginger and cashews. It comes together in one pan in under half an hour.

soy-free

Mediterranean · 35 min · Easy

Crispy Roasted Chickpeas

A crunchy swap for chips: chickpeas dried hard, roasted until deep golden, then tossed hot with smoked paprika, cumin and garlic powder. Protein and fiber for very few calories.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

South Asian · 45 min · Easy

Gulab Jamun

Milk-powder dumplings fried dark and drowned in cardamom-rose syrup, served warm so they are still drinking it in. Sticky, floral and completely over the top.

nut-freesoy-free

Middle Eastern · 10 min · Easy

Limonana (Mint Lemonade)

Lemon juice and a whole bunch of mint blitzed with ice into a pale-green frozen slush. The drink of every Levantine summer street.

gluten-freenut-freesoy-free

European · 85 min · Medium

White Bean Cassoulet

White beans and vegan sausage baked slowly under a breadcrumb crust until the top is golden and the beans beneath have gone completely creamy. A weekend pot.

high-protein

North American · 5 min · Easy

Chipotle Aioli

Smoky, garlicky and the color of terracotta. Five minutes of work that makes fries, burgers and roast vegetables taste like somebody planned ahead.

gluten-freenut-free

Middle Eastern · 45 min · Easy

Shawarma-Spiced Cauliflower Wrap

Cauliflower roasted hard with shawarma spices until the edges blacken, piled into warm pita with pickles, salad and a garlicky tahini sauce.

nut-freesoy-free

North American · 10 min · Easy

Chocolate Avocado Mousse

Five minutes, one blender, no cooking. Ripe avocado and cocoa whipped into a mousse so dark and silky nobody will guess the base. Chill it and it sets like the real thing.

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North American · 30 min · Easy

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

Chewy, hearty and heavily cinnamoned, with the oats left whole so they keep their bite. Better on the second day.

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Southeast Asian · 30 min · Easy

Thai Red Curry with Tofu

A fragrant, coconut-rich curry that comes together in the time it takes to cook rice. Sweet, salty, sour and hot, all balanced in one pan.

gluten-freehigh-protein

African · 55 min · Easy

Malva Pudding

A dark, spongy apricot-jam pudding that has hot cream sauce poured over it the moment it leaves the oven and drinks the lot.

soy-freenut-free

North American · 35 min · Medium

Vegan Patty Melt

Buttered rye griddled around a plant burger, melting vegan cheddar, deeply caramelized onions and a tangy special sauce. Full indulgence. The diner classic, done plant-based.

nut-free

North American · 90 min · Easy

Cranberry and Apple Twice-Baked Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes baked until they slump, scooped out and whipped with butter, maple and cinnamon, then folded through with sharp apple, cranberries and toasted walnuts and sent back into the oven until the tops catch. The second bake is what makes it worth doing.

gluten-free

Mediterranean · 55 min · Easy

Mujadara

Lentils and rice cooked together under a heap of deeply caramelized onions, warmed with cumin, coriander and a whisper of cinnamon. The most filling plate in the set: the lentils make it stick with you far longer than rice alone.

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African · 35 min · Easy

South African Chakalaka

A spicy vegetable relish of onion, pepper, carrot and beans in a curried tomato base. Served hot or cold alongside almost anything, and better the next day.

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East Asian · 60 min · Easy

Baked Matcha Mochi

Chewy, dense squares of glutinous rice flour and coconut milk, baked rather than pounded, with a clean bitter edge from good matcha.

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Mediterranean · 20 min · Easy

Lemon Orzo with Peas and Mint

Orzo cooked risotto-style in stock so it comes out creamy without cream, finished with frozen peas, lemon and a lot of mint. One pot, twenty minutes.

nut-freesoy-free

East Asian · 45 min · Easy

Sesame Balls

Glutinous rice dough wrapped around sweet red bean paste, rolled in sesame and fried until they puff hollow and crackle.

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