Dairy-Free Recipes From Around the World.

Most of humanity does not digest lactose well as an adult, and the world's cooking reflects that far more than a European kitchen would suggest. Across East and Southeast Asia dairy is essentially absent from the culinary language — richness comes from coconut milk, sesame paste, egg, rendered fat and stock instead. West African stews build body from palm oil and ground peanuts. Levantine and North African cooking leans on olive oil and tahini, with yogurt as a deliberate choice rather than a default. Thai and Malaysian curries are creamy without a drop of cream. The dishes gathered here are not adapted versions of anything; they are cuisines that solved richness by other means, and they are worth cooking whether or not you avoid dairy. The label reflects the recipe as written: no milk, cream, butter, ghee, yogurt or cheese in our ingredients. Check packaged goods yourself, since butter and milk solids turn up in stock powders, breads, curry pastes and margarines, and ghee is standard in a great deal of Indian and Middle Eastern cooking even when a dish looks plant-based. Where a classic depends on dairy and a substitution genuinely works, the recipe names the substitution and what it costs; where it does not work, the recipe says that too.

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