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Zucchini Stir-Fry (Quick Recipe)

This one-pan zucchini stir fry with a simple sweet and savory stir-fry sauce is delicious, nutritious, versatile, and ready from kitchen to table in just 25 minutes!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

The next time you have zucchini to spare, ‘stir things up’ with a quick, one-pan zucchini stir-fry. This zucchini recipe combines tender-crisp veggies in a sweet-savory sauce for a surprisingly flavor-packed meal made with just a few simple ingredients and loaded with texture and nutrients.

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Vegan Pot Pie

With a flaky crust (store-bought or homemade- mine is gluten-free!), hearty veggies, and creamy, savory herb-infused sauce—this vegan pot pie is the ultimate comfort food!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Nothing says cozy during winter quite like big bowls of vegan soup, warming stews, and breaking through the golden flaky pie crust of this vegan pot pie to its creamy, savory vegetable filling beneath. It’s comforting, hearty, super satisfying, and totally meat-free – perfect for weeknight dinners...

Hazelnut and Date Cake

Rich, moist, and date-sweetened, this flourless hazelnut date cake is egg-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, and even more delicious with a drizzle of healthy caramel sauce!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

Whether you’re hoping to break up festive feasting or craving a year-round dessert that’s both wholesome and indulgent, this hazelnut and date cake delivers. Naturally sweetened with dates, it has a deep, rich color and caramel-like sweetness that feels indulgent but who...

Creamy Butter Beans with Sun-Dried Tomatoes

Creamy butter beans with sun-dried tomatoes, harissa, and coconut milk is a rich, comforting yet healthy, Tuscan-inspired, flavorful one-pot meal in 20 minutes!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

It’s once again time to transform humble canned beans/pulses into a quick, easy, brag-worthy meal. Having shared recipes for harissa chickpeas and one-pot lentil dal, now it’s the turn of creamy butter beans. This recipe is the plant-based answer to Mediterranean/ Tuscan-inspired and “marry me” recipes—minus ...

3-Ingredient Almond Flour Cookies

These nutty and rich 3-ingredient almond cookies have crisp edges and soft middles, are SO easy to make, and deliver big on flavor. Plus, they are gluten-free, dairy-free, oil-free, refined sugar-free, and vegan!

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

It’s not the first, or even the 10th, time that I’ve turned to almond flour to elevate my bakes with moisture, buttery flavor, and heaps of nutrients. I’ve already shared recipes for almond flour chocolate chip cookies, almond flour apple pie cookies, and ra...

One-Pan Mexican Rice

Packed with bold flavors, black beans, & corn, this one-pan Mexican Rice is an easy, vegan, crowd-pleasing main or side dish!

Why You’ll Love This Mexican Rice Casserole

Let’s taco ‘bout (see what I did there?!) this one-pan Mexican rice (aka Spanish Rice). I’ve already shared a stovetop version of Spanish rice and beans, but this version is even easier; just chop, throw everything in a pot, and bake until tender and flavorful – it’s that easy and makes a hearty, satisfying side (perfect for sp...

Best Homemade Hummus Recipe

How to make the BEST hummus – It’s super creamy, fluffy, silky smooth, and tastes so much better than grocery store versions (with just a few simple ingredients and a few tricks!).

Get Ready For The Best Hummus Of Your Life

I’ve been making hummus (or ‘humus,’ ‘houmous,’ etc.) for years, but taking some cues from Michael Solomonov, the chef behind the hummus dubbed the best in the world, helped me take my homemade hummus recipe to a whole new level – and it’s now utterly dip-licious.

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High-Protein Pasta Sauce

Make easy, high-protein pasta sauce 100% dairy-free (no cottage cheese in sight!). This creamy vegetable pasta sauce is delicious and nutritious, with 30 grams of protein per serving!

Why You’ll Love This Protein-Rich Pasta Sauce

Hidden vegetable pasta sauce is kind of my jam. It’s cozy, comforting, and super satisfying, but what if you’re craving pasta but increasing protein is your current goal? After sharing a hummus pasta recipe, I knew I was onto something. But this time, I wanted somethin...

Homemade Bubble Tea (Boba Milk Tea)

Homemade bubble tea (boba tea) is creamy, sweet, healthier and less expensive than store-bought, easy to make, and loaded with satisfyingly chewy tapioca pearls!

What Is Boba Milk Tea?

Bubble tea/ boba tea is a highly popular drink from Taiwan traditionally made with black tea, milk, and brown sugar syrup. It’s known for its sweet, creamy flavor and signature chewy tapioca balls – I mean, how often do you get to sip AND chew a drink at once?! Unfortunately, despite its popularity, it can still ...

Creamy Harissa Chickpeas

Prepare a cozy harissa chickpea stew that’s comforting and delicious! This one-pot meal is packed with protein and fiber, thanks to chickpeas simmered in a creamy, spicy tomato harissa sauce with spinach.

Why You’ll Love Harissa Chickpeas

I love chickpeas, so much so that I’ve already shared a (constantly growing) round-up of my favorite vegan chickpea recipes. I mean, they’re inexpensive, loaded with nutrients, fiber, and plant-based protein, and so quick (using canned) to turn into hearty, s...