Explore cooked savory maca recipes, including soups, hummus, vegetable dishes, and other creative ways to use maca powder in everyday meals.
Maca is often used in smoothies, drinks, and sweet recipes, but it can also work surprisingly well in savory foods.
This collection includes some of our favorite cooked savory maca recipes, from lentil soup and hummus to vegetable dishes and soufflé. These recipes are a good choice when you want to use maca as part of a meal rather than in a drink or snack.
These cooked savory recipes are part of our complete Maca Recipes collection, where you can also explore smoothies, simple drinks, sweet recipes, raw dishes, and traditional Peruvian preparations.
If you are still learning how maca fits into your overall routine, visit our How to Use Maca guide.
Maca has an earthy, slightly malty flavor, so savory recipes work best when the other ingredients have enough flavor and texture to balance it.
If you are unsure how much maca to use per serving, see our Maca Dosage guide.
Sweet recipes and smoothies are usually the first ways people learn to use maca, but savory cooking gives you more variety.
Adding maca to soups, dips, vegetable dishes, or other meals can be especially useful if you already use smoothies and drinks regularly and want additional ways to incorporate maca into your food.
The key is to keep the amount reasonable and choose recipes where maca’s earthy flavor works naturally with the other ingredients.
For even more ideas, return to our complete Maca Recipes hub.
