Recipes · Guide 02
The Weeknight Plant Cookbook
Thirty recipes you can actually pull off after work. Most clock in under thirty minutes. None use more than ten ingredients. All taste like food you'd cook again.
01The 10-ingredient pantry
Stock these and most of the book happens without a shopping trip:
Olive oil · soy sauce · garlic · onions · canned tomatoes · canned beans (black, chickpea, white) · dry lentils · pasta · rice · tortillas. Add nutritional yeast and tahini if you want to feel like a wizard.
02Five 20-minute dinners
Crispy chickpea bowls — roast chickpeas with smoked paprika, pile over rice with greens and tahini-lemon sauce.
Lentil bolognese — sauté onion + garlic, add red lentils + crushed tomatoes + Italian herbs, simmer 15. Over any pasta.
Black bean tacos — warmed beans, charred corn, cabbage, lime, hot sauce. Done.
Peanut noodles — soba or spaghetti tossed with peanut butter, soy, lime, garlic, chili crisp. Top with cucumber.
Miso mushroom udon — sauté mushrooms hard, add broth + miso + udon, finish with scallions.
03Five things to make on Sunday
A pot of grains. A pot of beans or lentils. A tray of roasted vegetables. A bright sauce (tahini-lemon, salsa verde, or peanut). A washed bin of greens.
Five components, twenty minutes of active time, and every weekday lunch is already half-built.
04Three sauces that make anything good
Tahini-lemon: tahini, lemon juice, garlic, water, salt. Whisk until creamy.
Cashew cream: soak cashews 1 hr, blend with water, lemon, salt. Sour cream replacement.
Chili crisp + soy + maple: equal parts. Drizzle on rice, noodles, tofu, vegetables, your hand.
05What to do when you're tired
Beans on toast. Peanut butter banana toast. A baked potato with everything on it. Pasta with olive oil, garlic, white beans, and arugula. Cereal. The bar is not high — feed yourself something plant-based and call it a win.