5 Approaches For Better Vegetarian Cooking
Too often cooks overload vegetarian meals with rich, heavy ingredients, and we've all suffered the result: oily, laden dishes that taste more like cheese or starch than vegetables. Learn to let the vegetarian ingredients shine. Create contrasting textures and flavors with strategic, minimal and rich additions that complement but don't overwhelm. And as you build in richness, counterbalance it with tartness and freshness.
Here's how:
- Meal Cheats - Learn our essential techniques and ingredients for making robust and satisfying vegetarian meals.
- Beans - Give canned beans a face lift by microwaving and mashing.
- Grains - Boost grains by cooking in amped up liquid or toasting before cooking.
- Vegetables - Char for savory depth and sequence cooking time for better flavor and texture.
- Eggs - Poach, steam and fry eggs to turn sides into mains.

What To Expect in Milk Street Classes:
- Short, clear and concise lessons tailored for the busy home cook.
- Gain kitchen confidence. Lessons that get you ready for cooking success because you learn the why behind a recipe before you cook and not during or, worse, after you are done. You will cook the recipes from class better once you’ve walked through a lesson with us.
- Lessons based on technique, skills and ideas that apply broadly to cooking but presented in the specific context of a recipe you can make tonight
- Optional quizzes and at-home cooking challenges and experiments
- Downloadable handouts on ingredients, skills, theory and more
- Extra recipes to continue your practice once class is done
- Class chat forums
What NOT To Expect in Milk Street Classes:
- Long, step-by-step recipe videos that you have to start and stop while you cook
- Classes that teach you how to make one recipe without showing you how to become a better cook.
Who Milk Street Classes Are For:
- The curious home cook who wants to learn why cooking works but who also craves new, bold and simple recipes for great dinners tonight.