Vegan Recipes from Around the World, Page 4
Every dish here is naturally vegan, no substitutions needed, and comes from a real culinary tradition somewhere on the map. Prefer to wander? On any recipe you can toggle vegan and the ingredients rewrite themselves with regional swaps.
386 recipes · showing 145 to 192
Paella de Verduras (Valencian Vegetable Paella)Valencia, Spain · medium · 1 hSaffron rice cooked wide and shallow until it forms the prized socarrat crust, loaded with market vegetables.
Paella de Verduras (Valencian Vegetable Paella) Gemista (Stuffed Summer Vegetables)Crete, Greece · medium · 1 h 45 minTomatoes and peppers baked slowly around an herbed rice filling, with potatoes roasting in the juices.
Gemista (Stuffed Summer Vegetables) Tavče GravčeSkopje, North Macedonia · easy · 1 h 35 minNorth Macedonia's national dish: white beans baked in a clay pan with paprika, peppers, and mint.
Tavče Gravče RibollitaTuscany, Italy · easy · 1 h 35 minA thick Tuscan "reboiled" soup of cannellini beans, cavolo nero, and day-old bread.
Ribollita Pa amb TomàquetAndorra la Vella, Andorra · easy · 8 minRustic bread rubbed with ripe tomato and garlic, drizzled with olive oil and salt.
Pa amb Tomàquet SoccaMonaco, Monaco · easy · 52 minA thin, crisp-edged chickpea-flour pancake baked hot and eaten in torn pieces with black pepper.
Socca ImqaretValletta, Malta · medium · 45 minDiamond-shaped fried pastries filled with spiced date paste, a Maltese street sweet scented with aniseed and orange.
Imqaret PasulPristina, Kosovo · easy · 1 h 45 minA slow-simmered white bean stew rich with paprika and onion, the everyday food of Kosovo.
Pasul KulagaMinsk, Belarus · easy · 35 minA thick, warm berry and rye porridge sweetened to a jammy pudding, an old Belarusian forest-berry dessert.
Kulaga Jani me FasuleTirana, Albania · easy · 2 h 45 minThe Albanian white-bean stew: creamy beans slow-simmered with onion, paprika, tomato and olive oil, brightened with mint.
Jani me Fasule Louvi me LahanaNicosia, Cyprus · easy · 55 minA simple Cypriot Lenten staple: black-eyed beans simmered with chard and dressed warm with olive oil and lemon.
Louvi me Lahana DoublesPort of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago · medium · 2 h 10 minTwo soft turmeric flatbreads folded around curried chickpeas, tamarind, and pepper sauce, Trinidad’s street-corner breakfast.
Doubles Moros y CristianosHavana, Cuba · easy · 1 h 30 minBlack beans and white rice cooked together in one pot with a cumin-scented sofrito until every grain turns dusky and savory, the everyday soul of the Cuban table.
Moros y Cristianos Porotos GranadosCentral Valley, Chile · easy · 1 hSummer stew of fresh beans, corn, squash, and basil, Chile’s pre-Columbian trinity in one pot.
Porotos Granados Diri Kolé ak PwaOuest (Port-au-Prince), Haiti · easy · 1 h 5 minHaiti’s national rice and beans: red beans cooked into coconut-scented rice with thyme, clove, and Scotch bonnet.
Diri Kolé ak Pwa Cuscuz NordestinoBahia, Brazil · easy · 30 minA fluffy steamed cornmeal cake from Brazil's northeast, moistened and finished with butter or coconut, naturally gluten-free morning fuel.
Cuscuz Nordestino Tortas FritasMendoza, Argentina · easy · 35 minSimple fried dough discs, crisp-edged and dusted with sugar, that Argentines make on rainy mornings to eat with mate.
Tortas Fritas SopaipillasCentral Valley, Chile · medium · 40 minGolden pumpkin-dough fritters, soft and faintly sweet, fried up on cold Chilean mornings and eaten with pebre or chancaca syrup.
Sada Roti with Tomato ChokaDemerara (Georgetown), Guyana · medium · 40 minSoft griddled flatbread torn and dipped into smoky fire-roasted tomato choka sharpened with garlic and onion, a vegan Guyanese classic.
Sada Roti with Tomato Choka BaraParamaribo, Suriname · medium · 1 h 50 minLittle savory fried rings of ground urdi and flour, green with chopped tajer leaf and heavy with masala, eaten hot with chutney or sambal.
Bara Fry JacksBelize City, Belize · easy · 35 minPuffy, crisp triangles of fried dough eaten with refried beans, eggs, or jam, the golden centerpiece of a Belizean breakfast.
Fry Jacks Fried Bakes with ZabocaRoseau, Dominica · easy · 35 minGolden fried bakes split and filled with seasoned mashed avocado (zaboca), a simple, satisfying vegan breakfast from the Nature Isle.
Fried Bakes with Zaboca Dulce de MamónAsunción, Paraguay · easy · 5 h 30 minGreen papaya slow-cooked in clove-and-cinnamon syrup until translucent and jammy, a Paraguayan pantry sweet.
Dulce de Mamón KurmaPort of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago · easy · 45 minCrunchy fried sticks of ginger-spiced dough tumbled in a hard sugar glaze, a Trinidadian Indo-Caribbean sweet.
Rellenitos de PlátanoSacatepéquez (Antigua), Guatemala · medium · 50 minSweet fried plantain dumplings stuffed with spiced black bean paste, a Guatemalan treat.
Rellenitos de Plátano TemblequeSan Juan, Puerto Rico · easy · 3 h 25 minA wobbling coconut pudding set with cornstarch and dusted with cinnamon, a light Puerto Rican holiday classic.
Tembleque Saint Lucian Pumpkin RiceCastries, Saint Lucia · easy · 45 minRice simmered with sweet pumpkin, coconut, and island herbs into a soft, golden one-pot, an everyday Lucian lunch.
Saint Lucian Pumpkin Rice Coconut Sugar CakeBasseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis · easy · 35 minChewy pink-and-white coconut candy set in ginger sugar syrup, a nostalgic Saint Kitts and Nevis sweet.
Coconut Sugar Cake Dominica Guava CheeseRoseau, Dominica · medium · 1 hA firm, chewy guava paste cooked down and cut into sugared squares, a confection traditional to Dominica.
DuckanooKingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · medium · 1 h 10 minSweet spiced cornmeal and coconut tied in banana leaves and boiled, a West African legacy sweet of Saint Vincent.
Duckanoo DucanaSt. John's, Antigua and Barbuda · medium · 1 h 15 minSweet grated sweet potato and coconut spiced and steamed in banana leaves, a traditional Antiguan treat.
Ducana Thayacha (Andean Frozen Oca)La Paz, Bolivia · easy · 8 h 40 minAn ancient Bolivian altiplano treat: sweet oca tubers boiled with cinnamon, then frozen overnight into a natural ice, sold in the winter markets of La Paz and El Alto.
Thayacha (Andean Frozen Oca) Calabaza en TachaOaxaca, Mexico · easy · 1 h 15 minPumpkin simmered in dark piloncillo syrup with cinnamon, cloves and orange until deep amber and tender, a pre-Hispanic sweet that is a fixture of the Dia de los Muertos altar.
Calabaza en Tacha Belizean Rice and BeansBelize City, Belize · easy · 8 h 55 minRed kidney beans and rice cooked together in coconut milk until fluffy and fragrant; the Sunday staple of Belize, quite distinct from stew beans served over rice.
Grenadian Callaloo SoupSt. George's, Grenada · easy · 50 minA creamy Grenadian soup of callaloo (dasheen) leaves and okra simmered in coconut milk with thyme and a whole hot pepper, blended smooth.
Grenadian Callaloo Soup Palusami (Baked Coconut Taro Parcels)Upolu, Samoa · easy · 1 h 20 minTaro leaves wrapped around rich coconut cream and onion, baked until silky, the crown of the umu feast.
Palusami (Baked Coconut Taro Parcels) Lap LapEfate (Port Vila), Vanuatu · medium · 2 h 10 minGrated root vegetables and coconut cream wrapped in banana leaf and baked in an earth oven, Vanuatu's national dish.
Lap Lap BabakauViti Levu, Fiji · medium · 1 h 45 minPuffy, faintly sweet Fijian fried bread, crisp outside and pillowy within, torn and dunked in sweet milky tea for breakfast.
Babakau Koko AlaisaUpolu, Samoa · easy · 35 minSamoan cocoa rice: short-grain rice simmered with rich local cocoa, coconut, and sugar into a warm, chocolatey porridge.
Roasted Kaukau with CoconutHighlands, Papua New Guinea · easy · 40 minKaukau (sweet potato) roasted in the embers and eaten with fresh grated coconut, an everyday Papua New Guinean breakfast.
Roasted Kaukau with Coconut Keke IsiteTongatapu, Tonga · medium · 1 h 45 minTongan fried "yeast cakes", crisp-shelled, fluffy doughnuts eaten warm with tea, a Saturday-morning island tradition.
Keke Isite Cook Islands PokeRarotonga, Cook Islands · easy · 1 h 25 minCooked ripe banana bound with arrowroot and baked until translucent, drowned in thick coconut cream, eaten at breakfast, at teatime, or alongside the main meal.
Cook Islands Poke Taro with Coconut SyrupNgerulmud, Palau · easy · 40 minSteamed taro drizzled with a warm caramel-like coconut syrup, a gently sweet Palauan breakfast built on the islands' staple root.
Taro with Coconut Syrup Kiribati Coconut RiceTarawa, Kiribati · easy · 30 minRice simmered in fresh coconut milk and sweetened with coconut toddy, a soft, fragrant breakfast from the atolls of Kiribati.
Kiribati Coconut Rice Banana in Coconut CreamYaren, Nauru · easy · 15 minRipe bananas warmed in sweet coconut cream with a hint of lime, a soft, quick Nauruan breakfast from the Pacific's smallest republic.
Banana in Coconut Cream Boiled Kumara with Fresh CoconutHoniara, Solomon Islands · easy · 25 minTender boiled kumara (sweet potato) tossed with fresh grated coconut and a little salt, an honest, everyday Solomon Islands breakfast.
Boiled Kumara with Fresh Coconut FekeiFunafuti, Tuvalu · medium · 2 h 45 minA sweet Tuvaluan pudding of grated pulaka or banana cooked with coconut cream into a sticky, caramel-rich cake.
Fekei VakaloloViti Levu, Fiji · easy · 1 h 5 minDense baked cassava under a dark coconut caramel, one of Fiji's oldest sweets, cut into sticky squares.
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