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Green Sauce Recipes

Green Sauces are the easiest way to add instant flavor to meals. From creamy cashew dressings to vibrant herb sauces, these blends are fresh, versatile, and ready in minutes. Drizzle over bowls, toss with veggies, or use as dips and spreads-once you start, you'll want them on everything.

Green Dressings

Use green dressings generously-drizzle over salads, spoon onto bowls, toss with roasted vegetables, or spread onto wraps to instantly add flavor and freshness.

  • Healthy green goddess dressing in a white pouring cup next to a plate of cauliflower steaks with dressing.
    Creamy Tahini Green Goddess Dressing (Vegan + 5 Minutes)
  • Green Lemon Herb Tahini sauce in a white bowl with a gold spoon.
    Lemon Herb Tahini Recipe
  • Avocado salad dressing on a bed of chopped red cabbage, carrot, green onion, and roasted chickpeas next to a white jar of avocado dressing.
    The Best Avocado Dressing Recipe For A Healthy Salad
  • Green oil-free hemp seeds dressing in a white pouring bowl.
    5-Minute Hemp Seed Dressing (Oil-Free)
  • Herb dressing in a white bowl.
    Fresh Herb Dressing (Oil-Free)
  • Dill dressing in a white pouring bowl.
    Dairy-Free Dill Dressing Without Oil

Green Pesto

Green pesto works as a quick flavor boost-tossed with pasta, spread on toast or sandwiches, or spooned over roasted veggies and bowls.

  • Pesto recipe without nuts in a white bowl with a gold spoon.
    Pesto (Oil-Free, Nut-Free)
  • Creamy pumpkin seed pesto in a white bowl.
    Creamy Pumpkin Seed Pesto (No Pine Nuts)

Green Sauces

Green sauces are incredibly versatile-thin with water or lemon for a dressing, or keep them thick to stir into curries, stews, chickpeas, or pasta for an instant flavor boost-while adding fiber, folate, vitamin K, and polyphenols from the herbs and greens.

  • Pouring green cashew sauce into a wooden bowl.
    Green Cashew Sauce (Creamy Dressing & Dipping Sauce)
  • High-protein tofu pesto with pasta in a saucepan.
    Tofu Pesto (High-Protein)
  • Healthy green chutni in a bowl served with samosas.
    Green Chutney Recipe (Indian Green Sauce)
  • Herb Greek yogurt sauce in a glass jar.
    Herb Greek Yogurt Sauce
  • Everything cashew sauce in a white bowl and drizzled on red lentil soup.
    Everything Cashew Sauce
  • Green miso sauce in a glass bowl with hemp hearts.
    Green Miso Sauce

Green Dips & Spreads

Dips and spreads-especially green ones-work everywhere: spread onto sandwiches, use as dips, toss with vegetables, or thin into dressings; they can also be stirred into curries, stews, chickpeas, or pasta for extra flavor, while adding protein from legumes plus fiber, folate, vitamin K, and polyphenols.

  • Avocado crema in a small white bowl.
    5-Minute Avocado Crema Recipe (Dairy-Free Option)
  • Creamy high-protein edamame guacamole in a ceramic bowl.
    Edamame Guacamole: Protein-Rich Vegan Snack
  • Green pea hummus in a white bowl.
    Green Pea Hummus
  • Greek Green Goddess Dip on a white platter with crudités.
    High-Protein Green Goddess Dip (Creamy, Healthy, Easy)
Nisha Melvani in a red sweater sitting with hands crossed over.

Hey! I'm Nisha.

A registered dietitian and Natural Gourmet Institute culinary school graduate. As a nutritionist and mom of three, I design my recipes to be pantry-friendly, healthful, and enjoyable for the whole family.

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High-Protein Breakfasts

  • Baked red lentil protein pancakes with toppings in four meal prep glass containers.
    Sheet Pan Red Lentil Protein Pancakes
  • Strawberry chia pudding in a glass jar with a wooden spoon.
    Strawberry Chia Pudding (High-Protein)
  • High-Protein Chocolate Chia Pudding in a glass bowl with a spoon.
    High-Protein Chocolate Chia Pudding with Yogurt
  • High-protein apple cinnamon chia seed oatmeal in a bowl with a spoon and sliced apples on top with a drizzle of date syrup.
    Protein Chia Seed Oatmeal (Apple-Cinnamon)
  • Savory protein porridge with oats and red lentils in a white bowl on a wooden board.
    Savory Protein Porridge
  • Breakfast Lentils Vegan Porridge in a meal prep container with a spoon.
    Breakfast Lentils Vegan Porridge (High-Protein)

Longevity Soups & Stews

  • Miso soup with noodles, mushrooms, tofu, nori seaweed, and green onion.
    Best Miso Noodle Soup
  • Vegan red bean and rice in a white bowl with chopped cilantro.
    Vegan Red Beans and Rice Recipe
  • Tempeh, lentils, potatoes, and carrots in a tomato broth stew served with brown rice.
    'Tempeh That Tastes Good' Vegan Protein Stew Recipe
  • Vegan tofu chili in a white bowl.
    Tofu Chili (High-Protein)
  • Cooked quinoa with lentils, corn, diced tomatoes, celery, red onions, and carrots in a white bowl. Topped with vegan sour cream, avocado, and chopped cilantro.
    High-Protein Quinoa & Lentils Without Oil
  • Orange colored vegetable soup with white beans, quinoa, celery, carrots, zucchini, kale, and diced tomatoes in a white bowl.
    White Bean Soup with Quinoa

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