Side Dish Recipes

A side dish shares the plate instead of owning it, which is why the roasted vegetable salad and noodle dishes that double as mains elsewhere show up here in smaller portions. Vegan Cornbread Dressing serves ten, built for a table already full of other food, while Mashed Cauliflower serves four, sized for a weeknight plate.

Mashed Cauliflower is ready in about twenty-five minutes and Avocado and Egg Salad in about thirty. Vegetarian Kimchi and Vegan Cornbread Dressing need the most lead time, over three hours apiece, so plan on making them a day or two ahead. Vegan Green Bean Casserole and Vegan Broccoli Casserole sit in the middle, each spending a bit over an hour in the oven once assembled.

Order matters wherever a recipe is standing in for dairy or animal fat. Vegan Mashed Potatoes works the butter in before the milk, the reverse of the 1747 method, because milk added first is what turns a vegan mash to glue. Vegan Green Bean Casserole keeps the soy sauce that was already in the 1955 original, the ingredient most vegan versions drop and then spend an afternoon trying to replace.

Badges on each card mark vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free. A few dishes here skip “vegan” in the name and still lean on dairy, Vegetarian Corn Casserole and Vegetarian Stuffing among them, and a vegan butter with a can of full-fat coconut milk covers most of that in a pinch.