1,251 water recipes

A warming Chinese winter soup with mushrooms, spinach, and silky tofu in a tangy sesame-soy broth spiked with hot pepper oil. Vegan, cozy, and ready in 40 minutes.

A fast, easy chocolate frosting made from cocoa powder, sugar, and a splash of boiling water beaten with margarine until creamy. A quick, dairy-free way to frost any cake with real chocolate flavor.

Baked potato strips in a peanut butter and salt water bath that browns into a nutty, savory coating. An unusual three-ingredient side dish where peanut butter replaces oil for roasting potatoes.

Two-ingredient drop biscuits using Bisquick and water. Just stir, drop, and bake for 12 minutes. The fastest path to warm, golden biscuits when you need bread on the table right now.

Mom's lemon pie cooks a fresh-lemon curd with the zest of two whole lemons over the stovetop, thickened with both flour and cornstarch. A traditional water-based lemon meringue pie filling.

Mandarin pancakes made from a simple hot water dough with sesame oil, rolled paper-thin and dry-cooked in an ungreased pan. The classic wrapper for Peking duck and mu shu pork.

Dill pickles brine whole cucumbers in a hot vinegar, water, and salt solution with garlic and fresh dill. Old-fashioned canning jar pickles ready to crack open in 3 to 4 weeks.

Low-cal pumpkin pie skips eggs, butter, and traditional crust. Sugar-free pudding mix and skim milk thicken the spiced pumpkin filling over a thin water-bound graham crumb base. Diabetic-friendly.

Easy homemade almond milk soaks raw almonds, blanches them, then blends with water and a touch of maple syrup. Vegan, dairy-free, and free of the gums and stabilizers in store-bought.

Raisin cookies use a boiled-water cooking method that plumps the raisins into the sweet brown sugar syrup before baking. No eggs, no butter required. Frugal Depression-era cookie that still satisfies.

Extra-tangy sourdough baguettes shaped by hand, cold-fermented in the fridge for up to 24 hours, and baked crusty with water sprays. Bread machine mixes the dough, you shape the flavor.

A fizzy, citrus-bright champagne punch made with orange juice and limeade concentrates, two bottles of bubbly, and sparkling water over crushed ice. Serves 36 and comes together in 10 minutes flat.

Garlic spaghetti (aglio e olio) with golden garlic sauteed in olive oil, tossed with pasta water, fresh parsley, and Parmesan. Five ingredients, 35 minutes, and the simplest Italian pasta you can make.

Shereen Polo is a Persian jeweled rice pilau with saffron, julienned carrots, orange peel, almonds, pistachios, and rose water in sugar syrup. Served with crispy tahdig and a side of chicken stew.

Hot pepper and garlic spaghetti pulls heat and flavor straight into the pasta water. Chili and garlic blended into the cooking liquid season the noodles from the inside out. Tossed with olive oil and parsley. Five ingredients, twenty minutes.

Creamy stovetop tuna with sauteed mushrooms and celery in a homemade white sauce. Diabetic-friendly comfort food from two cans of tuna and a handful of pantry basics in 45 minutes.