My favourite new vegetarian recipes 2023
Hey you! Need lovely food? Me too! So here are our top hit new recipes we discovered in 2023. They're all vegetarian and more than half of them happen to be vegan too. Pick a recipe, try it out:
- Plantain and black bean burgers (PS I only used 100g flour not 250g!) These are a super delicious flavour pairing. also very handy to make ahead and freeze. The flavour combo is fabulous, the black beans help the plantain to taste chunky and meaty - this recipe is so easy, it has no right to taste this good. We used the same flavour combo to make black bean and plantain tacos, which is also great.
- Monastery lentils - very nice way to flavour a simple lentil dish with cheese and sherry!
- "Fresh India" by Meera Sodha -- Honestly, this whole blog article could just be one sentence: "Buy a copy of Fresh India" - because so many of the recipes in that book have been fabulous. There's a mix of traditional and innovative Indian cooking, lots of recipes, well-written and easy to follow. Some recipes from Fresh India that we loved are:
- Baby aubergines stuffed with coconut and peanut
- Blackened sweetcorn chaat
- Paneer butter masala
- Fresh matar paneer
- Mushroom keema
- Potsticker dumplings -- These were nice, easy, and fun. Not very filling though - I put rice with them to make a full meal and I'd still suggest more next time. You could increase the filling by about 30% in my opinion.
- Moroccan Millet & Roasted Carrot Pilaf -- The carrot and the spices go really well with the slightly nutty, and slightly "cakey" texture of the millet grain
- Vegan spaetzle (spätzle, south German noodles) Verdict: #nom. It's a very easy recipe, though a bit of a mess in the kitchen! Handy to be able to whip up these noodles quickly.
- Dutch loaded fries! ("Kapsalon")
- Mushroom/cabbage/tofu ramen, from Tim Anderson's "Vegan JapanEasy". I've never made ramen before this year - it's a bit intimidating, but it was fun and wow it was gorgeous.
- Almond jelly with mango & brown sugar syrup ("annin dōfu"), a delicious n stylish vegan dessert, from Tim Anderson's "Vegan JapanEasy". The almond essence we bought was crazy powerful -- even half a teaspoon for 2 people was still slightly too much!
Most of the recipes I listed here are also vegan. It's getting easier and easier to cook ace vegan food - I used to think it was verging on impossible.
... And here are the top hits from previous years: