Meera Sodha’s Baked Butter Paneer

Meera Sodha · Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day

This vegan buttery miso greens pasta recipe from Meera Sodha features a simple, flavourful green sauce packed with broccoli and cavolo nero.

Meera Sodha · Dinner: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day

Finished with tofu puffs and quickly pickled beansprouts this filling and fragrant carrot laksa from Meera Sodha just happens to be entirely vegan.

Meera Sodha · East: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Beijing

Tomatoes work in different ways in this recipe: they create a wonderful sauce with the coconut milk, which is used to flavour and cook the rice, and then they float to the top to decorate the dish. The end result is a dish delicious enough to stand on its own feet without the need for anything else and (as a side benefit) it uses just a single pan. You'll need a wide frying pan with a tight-fitting lid. NOTE: curry leaves add a lovely citrus and smoke flavour to the rice but can be tricky to find unless you live near an Asian supermarket, although larger supermarkets do have them sometimes. If you can't find them, leave them out.

Meera Sodha · Made In India

I have to try hard to contain my excitement when someone gives me a recipe for something I’ve just eaten and fallen in love with. This is my cousin Disha’s recipe for pav bhaji, which is a famous and much-loved street food in Mumbai. It's a mash of spicy vegetables slathered in butter, best mopped up with a hot "pav" - a bread roll - while the juices escape down your chin.

Meera Sodha · Dinner

Some people have big epiphanies, but not me. I had two small ones though. The first was that I don’t like the taste of vegetable stock: use too much and there’s no return. This led to my second illuminating discovery, namely that Marmite makes great stock and, well, here we are. This risotto, contrary to what you might assume, is very gentle (the Marmite is a back note); the party is in the tomato and chilli butter, in which I’ve used my favourite crispy chilli oil to give the cherry tomatoes some fireworks.

Meera Sodha · Made in India: Cooked in Britain: Recipes from an Indian Family Kitchen

This show-stopping Indian roast lamb dish makes an excellent centrepiece to any feast. Prepared the day ahead, it's a low-maintenance alternative to Christmas dinner or a traditional roast.