Vegetables
1337 recipes found
Cucumber and Radish Salad With Yogurt and Cumin
This is based on a recipe from Mark Peel’s “New Classic Family Dinners.” Slice the cucumbers and radishes as thin as you can. I use an inexpensive plastic Japanese mandolin for this. (Make sure to use the guard so you don’t cut your fingertips!) I eat this as a salad and also as a delicious bruschetta or crostini topping.
Asparagus With Brown Butter
Writing in 1991, Jacques Pépin talked of his love of asparagus, stemming back to his childhood in France. His approach to the vegetable is as uncomplicated as it gets. “It is best when cooked in just enough water to steam it,” he wrote. “It is ready — tender but still a bit firm to the bite — after a few minutes.” Topped with a brown butter sauce, it’s a perfect accompaniment to meat, poultry or fish, but also just as at home with some white rice, part of a simple weeknight meal.
Mushroom Stir-Fry
Steamed Asparagus With Pistachios and Brown Butter
This versatile brown butter sauce could enhance all sorts of other vegetables, or fish for that matter. But it just so happens to be a delightful pairing with perfectly cooked fresh green asparagus.
Fresh Multi-Bean Salad with Charred Red Onion
Shaved Asparagus Salad With Ginger and Sesame
Succulent, fat, fresh asparagus is thinly sliced by hand for this raw salad — easier than you'd think, and safer than using a mandoline. It’s very refreshing and bright tasting.
Butter-Braised Cardoons With Mushrooms and Bread Crumbs
Cardoons are related to artichokes but look like celery — or celery gone wild, anyway. They take a little time and trouble to find (try a specialty grocery store or an Italian market) and to trim and string, but they are worth the effort.
Swiss Chard
How to cook Swiss chard.
Spinach With Mushrooms and Bread
This simple vegetarian recipe, from Mark Bittman, is a great light lunch, the result of a trip to a Parisian market in 2008. Pairing bread from an earlier dinner with flavorful chanterelles and spinach, he came up with this quick, flexible meal. It was, as he wrote, “a completely honest and delicious dish that might’ve been the most creative thing I did all week, had it not been among the most traditional.”
Asparagus With Walnuts, Parmesan and Brown Butter
Here's a sophisticated yet simple way to prepare spring's trademark vegetable. Steam the asparagus. Brown a knob of butter in a sauté pan and toss in a handful of chopped walnuts, garlic and fresh thyme (lemon thyme if you can find it). Whisk in a 1/4 cup of Parmesan cheese, then pour over your awaiting asparagus. Dive in.
Veracruzana Vinegar-Bathed Shrimp
Italian Potato-Pasta Soup With Greens
Some soups are light and refreshing preludes to a meal; others, like this one, are an entire meal in a bowl. Pasta and potatoes, like pasta and beans, are frequently combined in Italian vegetable dishes. The potatoes should be starchy, like Yukon Golds or russets, so that they lend body to the broth. Short pasta shapes add texture; onion, fennel, garlic, tomato paste and fresh herbs and greens add flavor. The soup may be made a day or so before serving: It improves in the refrigerator and reheats beautifully, but don’t add the pasta in this case until serving.
Tunisian Winter Squash Puree
This is one of many North African spicy cooked vegetable purees typically served as a starter. The authentic dish is seasoned with harissa, the spicy hot pepper paste used widely in Tunisia and Algeria. If you can get hold of harissa easily, substitute 1 teaspoon or more to taste for the cayenne. You can serve this as an hors d’oeuvre, side dish or salad.
Orange Chicken With Vegetables
This is a mild version of Grace Young’s spicy orange chicken, with as much emphasis on vegetables as on chicken.
Spiced Sweet Potato Fries With Chili-Cilantro Cream
Sweet potato french fries will surprise everyone at your holiday table — and nobody will miss the marshmallows. The potatoes are baked, not fried, so no need to feel guilty. Chili powder, cumin, cayenne and paprika complement the natural sweetness of the potatoes. It’s probably a good idea to double this recipe, because they go fast.
Stewed Peppers with Tomatoes, Onions and Garlic
There are variations of this dish throughout the Mediterranean. The Basque piperade, made with slender, slightly piquant peppers called piments d’espelette and stirred into scrambled eggs along with bayonne ham, has some heat; whereas Italian peperonata is sweet through and through. A North African version, chakchouka, is spiced with fiery harissa and a spice blend made with caraway and coriander, cayenne and garlic, and is usually served with eggs poached right on top of the stew. See the variations below.
Summer Squash Ribbons with Cherry Tomatoes and Mint/Basil Pesto
The texture of these squash ribbons can be as satisfying as pasta if the squash is cooked just until flexible, about two to three minutes. The dish is quite beautiful, and once you’ve shaved the squash – which really doesn’t take that long – it comes together in no time. The best tool to use for tossing and stirring the squash and the cherry tomatoes is tongs. Serve as a light main dish or as a side.