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Make simple and delicious meals with these healthy vegetarian recipes.

Whether you’re always vegetarian or just looking to shake up your weekly routine with a meat-free meal, it can be a challenge to find healthy vegetarian recipes that are at once simple, delicious and nutritious. There’s certainly no lack of veggie-friendly ingredients available in stores, but it’s all too easy to pass up fresh produce, whole grains, tofu and other soy products if you aren’t sure exactly how to cook them. These healthy recipes showcase some of the staples of vegetarian cuisine and provide tasty culinary inspiration and cooking tips for every vegetable lover.

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Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

• Asian-Style Grilled Tofu with Greens
• Athenian Pasta Primavera
• Black Bean & Hominy Succotash with Barbecued Portobello Mushrooms
• Black Bean Croquettes with Fresh Salsa
• Broccoli & Goat Cheese Soufflé
• Corn & Broccoli Calzones
• Creamy Gorgonzola Polenta with Summer Squash Sauté
• Gnocchi with Zucchini Ribbons & Parsley Brown Butter
• Lasagna Rolls
• Lemony Asparagus Pasta
• Lemony Lentil Salad with Feta
• Lentil & Almond Burgers
• Mediterranean Portobello Burger
• Mock Risotto
• Provencal-Style Edamame Saute
• Red Pepper & Goat Cheese Frittata
• Savory Orange-Roasted Tofu & Asparagus
• Smoky Corn & Black Bean Pizza
• Southwestern Rice & Pinto Bean Salad
• Spicy Vegetable Soup
• Tofu Cutlets Marsala
• Tunisian Vegetable Tagine
• Vegetarian Reubens with Russian Dressing
• Zucchini-Potato Latkes with Tzatziki

Healthy Vegetarian Menus

Soy Love Menu
For those who just can’t get enough of the wonderful legume.
Provencal-Style Edamame Saute
Baby spinach and arugula tossed with Ginger-Miso Tofu Dressing
Banana-Cocoa Soy Smoothie

Something for the Kids Menu
Encourage healthy eating with these nutritious versions of kids’ favorites.
Updated Mac & Cheese
Oven-Fried Zucchini Sticks
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies

Pizza Night Menu
Forget delivery; making your own pizza is easy, satisfying, and good for you!
Insalata Mista with Buttermilk-Chive Dressing
Whole-Wheat Pizza Dough
Grilled Pizza with Eggplant, Tomatoes & Feta
Balsamic Vinegar-Spiked Strawberries

Cooking Tips

• Edamame are fresh soybeans (also called “sweet beans”) that look like bright green lima beans and have a sweet and mild flavor. Edamame are easy to digest and are exceptionally high in protein (1⁄2 cup has 16 grams). You’ll most likely find frozen, partially cooked edamame—in pods or shelled—but fresh ones might turn up at farmers’ markets or natural-foods stores. Use the bean (the pods are inedible) in salads and tossed into stir-fries or soups.
• Tofu or “soybean curd” is made by heating soymilk and a curdling agent in a process similar to dairy cheesemaking. Allowed to stand and thicken, the curds form silken tofu. When stirred and separated from the whey, the pressed curds, with their spongier texture, are known as “regular” tofu. The longer the pressing, the firmer and denser the tofu—soft, firm or extra-firm. Crumble and use instead of the meat in your favorite tuna or chicken salad recipe; dice and add to a vegetable stir-fry; add leftover silken tofu to smoothies.
• Tempeh is a chewy, nut-flavored soybean loaf (often combined with rice and millet) that has been allowed to ferment briefly. The grains are covered with a whitish mold, which is fully edible. Crumble a little into scrambled eggs, slice and sauté to make a veggie burger, or use like meat in stir-fries, stews or tomato sauce.
• Quinoa, often referred to as a “superfood” for its many nutritional benefits, is a delicately flavored grain that was a staple in the ancient Incas’ diet. It is available in most natural-foods stores and many supermarkets. Toasting the grain before cooking enhances its flavor and rinsing removes any residue of saponin, quinoa’s natural, bitter protective covering.

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