The New Vegetarian: 500+ Recipes for a Lifetime of Great Meals

by America's Test Kitchen

Here is the next generation vegetarian cookbook from America's Test Kitchen

500+ creative recipes that define vegetarian cooking today—fresher, fiberful, fantastic

Enjoy vegetarian meal-making at its best with 500+ recipes that showcase a wide variety of vegetables and non-meat healthier proteins that help to deliciously add more fiber to your diet. You'll find incredible flavors, new techniques, and hundreds of weeknight-friendly meals as well as stunning celebration-worthy centerpiece recipes.

A complete and essential resource, The New Vegetarian presents a wealth of satisfying main dishes of every kind, from mostly vegetables to burgers, noodles, savory tarts, and hearty soups and salads. You’ll also

• Weeknight Recipes: 350 freshly appealing and inventive recipes that are ready in an hour or less, including Eggplant with Black Bean Sauce, Creamy Broccoli Pasta with Crispy Panko, and Summer Squash Tart
• Hearty Protein Options: with chapters and meals devoted to eggs, beans and legumes, and tofu and tempeh. Among the must-try recipes are Chickpea Shakshuka, Tofu Curry with Squash, and Cacio e Pepe Beans
• Simple Vegetables from A to Z: a chapter covering everything from Asparagus Mimosa to Broiled Smashed Zucchini with Garlicky Yogurt
• Multiple Ways to Add Variety: add variety and interest to recipes with collections of quick sauces and spreads, fast flatbreads, 10-minute salads, and more
• A Comprehensive Introduction: includes how to build a balanced meal; the anatomy of bowl, salad, and sheet pan meals; and how to mix and match components into customized meals
• A Vegetable Cooking Primer: covers prepping vegetables, scrappy cooking suggestions that use the whole vegetable, and how to fill an updated, global vegetarian pantry. Learn about heirloom beans and grains, getting the most from herbs and spices, and using next-level condiments.  

Start the day with Kale and Black Bean Breakfast Burritos, lunch on Mushroom Taleggio Pizza or a big bowl of Green Gumbo, make an easy weeknight dinner of Crispy Gnocchi with Shredded Brussels Sprouts and Gorgonzola, and invite company over for Silky Roasted Eggplant with Tomato and Feta.

Vegetarians, vegans, and even meat eaters will all love these super-appealing vegetable-forward recipes.

Genres: Cookbooks

640 pages, Hardcover

Published May 5, 2026

About the author

America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008.

Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Reviews

[CarrieAnn Bowden · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fantastic vegetarian cook with great recipes and far superior ATK's The Essential Vegetarian. I do have two major gripes so, as a result, I have deducted a star.

First, ATK apparently likes to play fast and loose with the definition of vegan. There are many recipes which are marked vegan but are actually vegan optional; that is, the recipe is vegetarian with a note stating that a vegan substitute may be swapped. Others are marked vegan, but the recipe includes a cheese topping or honey, both of which are not vegan, so it is incorrect to label them as such.

Second, there is a chapter exclusively dedicated to eggs, which is disappointing. Although I'm not a vegan, I believe vegetarian cookbooks should not be dedicating an entire chapter to promote an animal product when many people (myself included) are vegetarians to reduce animal consumption, not redirect it.

Although I am frustrated by both of these, I still am giving four stars because having to read the recipes extra closely isn't that big of an imposition for me, and simply skipping the egg chapter still gives me 90% use of the cookbook.

[Channon Coats · Rating 5 out of 5]

ATK Has Found Gold Again!

This is the BEST vegetarian cookbook I've ever seen, and I've seen a LOT. Mollie Katzenberg has been the queen for me Cornwell over 30 years, but ATK is profoundly professional, deeply into the subtleties that make or break the fragility of flavors of the veg. You want more? You'll be lucky to fully explore what they offer here. For the very first time EVER, I completely comfortable with the ability of veggies to nourish and satisfy my family. Since ATK is the best, it is no surprise, but serendipity nonetheless. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[Cherie · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent encyclopedia of vegetarian cooking. This is better for a beginning cook. The "Why this works" section tells you why you do certain things

[Mom · Rating 5 out of 5]

The New Vegetarian has just what I look for in a cookbook: clear color pictures of the dishes, explicit directions, not too many exotic ingredients, and recipes I can trust. This book has it all. I appreciate the wide range of recipes, and I know I can trust America’s Test Kitchen to have actually tested each recipe, and to have proofread the book for errors. Well done.

I do think their classification of recipes is odd, as some recipes without any animal ingredients are not classified as vegan when they certainly appear to be. Some recipes are too long and complicated for me to bother with, but they are in the minority; most of the recipes are perfect. Great cookbook.