Ginger root is a versatile and flavorful ingredient that originated in Asia. It’s warm, spicy, and even a little sweet, adding complexity and a little kick to a dish. Here’s a selection of tasty plant-based ginger-flavored recipes.
Ginger is anti-inflammatory and vitamin C rich, giving these tasty recipes an added immune-boosting benefit. Learn more about the benefits, preparation, and storage of ginger here!
This roundup features all kinds of recipes, from dressings and beverages to soups and side dishes, that benefit from the sweet-spicy flavor of ginger.
Gingery Salads & Dressings
Sesame Ginger Tofu and Edamame Salad is perfect to served with your favorite Asian-inspired rice or noodle dishes. It’s an offbeat, chopped salad that can be served year-round.
Sesame-Ginger Red Cabbage and Carrot Slaw: It’s not always easy to pair Asian-style dishes with salad, but this slaw might just be the perfect partner. This is one of the most addictively delicious red cabbage salad recipes you’ll come across!
Bean Thread Noodle Salad with Tahini, Lime, and Ginger: Tess Challis, author of Food Joy, contributed this recipe for an easy bean thread noodle salad flavored with tahini, lime, and ginger.
Sesame Ginger Miso Salad Dressing is a bold-flavored way to boost your salads, this sesame-ginger miso salad dressing might be just what you’re looking for. This easy miso dressing is great on all kinds of salads.
Sesame Ginger Salad Dressing is briny, sweet, and tangy. This homemade salad dressing recipe is the perfect choice for salads featuring kale, cabbage, bok choy, and other greens.
Japanese-Style Carrot-Ginger Salad Dressing Just just like the kind you enjoy on salads in Japanese restaurants. A simple leafy salad enveloped in this dressing is a good accompaniment to noodle and dishes, and vegetable sushi.
Ginger-Flavored Soups
Quick Ginger Miso Noodle Soup In this Japanese-inspired recipe, noodles are cooked in broth and are topped with crisp raw vegetables, making for a fun and offbeat presentation. Use soba, udon, or any other long, thin noodle (even ramen) for this recipe — they all work!
Gingery Miso Mushroom Bok Choy Soup with Silken Tofu is a light yet satisfying way to warm up most any time of year. And it’s vegan, unlike the miso soup that’s served in Japanese restaurants, which often contains bonito (a fish product).
Coconut Sweet Potato Soup (with Lime and Ginger) is a cheerful-hued coconut soup and super easy. The sweet potatoes are microwaved ahead of time and scooped out of their skins. Naturally plant-based, this soup is warming and comforting. It’s subtly flavored with curry, lime juice, and ginger, all of which you can tailor to your taste.
Carrot-Ginger Soup (with a Parsnip Variation) is made easier by using baby carrots, eliminating the need for a lot of peeling and chopping. Naturally plant-based, this delicious pureed vegetable soup recipe can be enjoyed in the fall, winter, and spring.
Beverages with a Ginger Kick
Fresh Ginger and Turmeric Tea with Lemon and ACV: The classic fresh ginger and turmeric tea is bolstered by fresh lemon and apple cider vinegar to make a bracing tonic. This golden ginger drink recipe is good served hot or cold. If you like the flavors of this tonic separately, you’ll love them all together in one drink!
Cucumber Ginger Lemonade: If you’re regretting a food blow-out (aka holiday meals), or just want to feel refreshed and hydrated on warm-weather days, this cucumber ginger lemonade is for you.
Ginger Mint Limeade is a creation by Timothy Pakron, AKA Mississippi Vegan. Timothy writes: “There’s nothing quite as refreshing as a cool glass of lemonade on a hot Mississippi day. When I was a little boy, we would always have a lemonade stand and sell a cup for $1.
Ginger-Flavored Vegetable Dishes
Gingery Bok Choy Fried Rice is an easy recipe filled with colorful vegetables. Use whatever type of bok choy you prefer— the kind with the large white stalks and dark green leaves, or any size/variety of baby bok choy.
Sesame-Ginger Cold Rice Noodles with Vegetables: Rice noodles are a nice change of pace from regular pasta and are widely available in the Asian foods section of supermarkets. This simple dish of cold rice noodles is flavored with bottled or homemade sesame-ginger salad dressing and embellished with colorful vegetables.
Hoisin-Ginger Udon Noodles with Bok Choy is a quick plant-based dish with a minimum of ingredients and great flavor. Best of all, it’s ready in minutes.
Ginger & Garlic Stir-Fried Bok Choy is quick to prepare and can be served on its own or over rice, quinoa, or noodles.
Ginger Turmeric Chickpeas with Roasted Cherry Tomatoes: This simple dish of ginger turmeric chickpeas is embellished with roasted cherry tomatoes and comes together for a delicious quick meal.
Gingery Rice and Apple Stuffed Sugar Pumpkin is a quietly dramatic plant-based main dish that’s perfect for fall and winter holidays and special occasions.
More Gingery Recipes
Gingery Winter Fruit Salad is a refreshing finish to cool-weather meals — or an offbeat, sweet appetizer. Made with pears, apples, oranges, pineapple, and dried cranberries, this fruit medley is dressed up with crystallized ginger and vegan yogurt.
Red and White Pickled Ginger from Sushi Modoki: Here’s recipe for sushi fans from the unique book on plant-based sushi, Sushi Modoki by iina. Pickled ginger is an appetizing condiment that enhances all kinds of Asian dishes.
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