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Great Cookbooks For Vegans and Vegetarians


Plant-Based Diet for Beginners: 75 Delicious, Healthy Whole Food Recipes

The author of this cookbook, Gabriel Miller, shows how easy it is to get started living a plant-based lifestyle. His book is full of tasty, easy to prepare recipes that use everyday ingredients. Each recipe has nutritional information to ensure you’re getting a healthy, balanced diet as a new vegan or vegetarian. 

Miller’s book gives tips for eating a plant-based diet at restaurants, or when you don’t feel like cooking. Learn about the health benefits of eating plant-based, cooking and shopping basics, and what ingredients and equipment you can stock up on for best results. 

Look for “Plant-Based Diet for Beginners” here.

Forks Over Knives – The Cookbook

Not only is this cookbook a New York Times bestseller, but it’s also part of a movement to get healthy by eating the right food. Chef Del Stroufe and his team of collaborators want to show you how you can turn fresh, healthy produce, grains, and legumes into hundreds of delicious plant-based dishes. 

“Forks Over Knives – The Cookbook” is chock full of more than 300 recipes that are delicious, easy to make, and dishes you can serve at every meal, every day of the year. 

Have a look at this fantastic book here.

Vegetables: The Ultimate Cookbook

Chef and farmer Laura Sorkin has filled her amazing cookbook with colorful photos, illustrations, knowledge about farming, and over 300 recipes for everything from soups to main dishes. Each one of her recipes celebrates vegetables to the max and is easy to follow, even for beginning cooks. Sorkin writes brilliantly about where vegetables come from, how to choose the best ones at the market, and ways to use them that you probably haven’t tried yet. 

Check out this outstanding book that champions vegetables like no other, here

Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi combined his classic French training and his Mediterranean and Middle Eastern background with his love for fresh, wholesome ingredients to create this superb vegetarian cookbook that everyone can enjoy. 

“Plenty” has 120 easy-to-follow vegetable-based recipes that include spices, herbs, and other ingredients that make them unique. The flavors can take you on a trip to another world without leaving your own kitchen.

Original, innovative, fresh, and seasonal, you’ll fall in love with Ottolenghi’s vegetable dishes in “Plenty”. For a closer look, check it out here.

Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food: Deliciously Doable Ways to Cook Greens, Tofu, and Other Plant-Based Ingredients

Hsiao-Ching Chou’s cookbook gifts readers with 85 recipes that are vegetarian versions of famous Chinese dishes. You can cook Chou’s delicious, foolproof family favorite recipes like dumplings, shumai, Kung Pao Tofu Puffs, and lots of other well-loved classic comfort foods easily in your own kitchen. 

Together with mouth-watering recipes, Chou provides helpful information about what equipment and ingredients you’ll need. She also gives vital tips on seasoning and maintaining your wok so it’s ready to go to cook her tempting recipes. 

Let “Vegetarian Chinese Soul Food” help you take your vegetarian and vegan cuisine to another level. Check it out here. 

La Vida Verde: Plant-Based Mexican Cooking with Authentic Flavor

Author Jocelyn Ramirez welcomes readers on a journey through Mexico to cook and eat her vegetarian and vegan versions of authentic Mexican dishes. Her book features favorite Mexican dishes from soups to desserts that she’s learned to cook with her grandmother, and she’s turned them into delicious plant-based options that are healthy and respectful of the environment. 

Ramirez’s book is full of vibrant colors and photography that invite you to try them. She shows readers how to make healthier versions of queso fresco, homemade tortillas, tacos, and moles. There are 60 tempting recipes in this book that you can make at home any day of the week. 

For a closer look at “La Vida Verde”, click here. 

Vegetarian Indian Cooking with Your Instant Pot: 75 Traditional Recipes That are Easier, Quicker and Healthier

Manali Singh’s gorgeous cookbook gives you 75 amazing recipes for traditional Indian dishes that you can cook up fast and easy in your instant cooker. Singh, who also writes a popular blog called “Cook with Manali”, shares her vegan recipes for Indian street food such as Pav Bhaji, momos, flavorful curries, and fun desserts. 

You can find out more about “Vegetarian Indian Cooking with Your Instant Pot” here. 

Chloe’s Vegan Italian Kitchen: 150 Pizzas, Pastas, Pestos, Risottos, & Lots of Creamy Italian Classics

If you’ve been dreaming of creamy pasta and cheesy pizza but aren’t sure how to fit those Italian favorites into a vegan lifestyle, Chloe Coscarelli has done it for you. She’s come up with over 150 vegan recipes with an Italian twist and put them into one fun, colorful book. 

Chloe might be famous for her fantastic vegan desserts, but her new cookbook is full of delicious recipes for comfort foods like potato gnocchi, lasagna, and eggplant parmesan. And save room for one of her desserts cause you’ll want to try chocolate-dipped almond biscotti or Italian wedding cake for sure!

Get an inside look of “Chloe’s Vegan Italian Kitchen” by clicking here. 

The French Market Cookbook: Vegetarian Recipes from My Parisian Kitchen

Clotilde Dusoulier, who also has a food blog called Chocolate and Zucchini, has written this lovely cookbook that celebrates French cuisine and vegetables. You’ll find 82 delicious recipes that champion fresh produce and include new, bright flavors that wake up the palate. 

Clotilde loves to use seasonal, ripe vegetables and fruit that are bursting with flavor and goodness, so you won’t miss the fats, creams, cheese, and meat of more traditional French dishes. Her book takes you on a trip around the markets of Paris and into your kitchen to create tasty vegetarian dishes. 

You can find “The French Market Cookbook” here. 

Afro-Vegan: Farm-Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed

Bon Appétit has named Bryant Terry’s brilliant cookbook one of the best vegetarian cookbooks of all time. For his cookbook, Terry has created over 100 new recipes that use ingredients from classic African Diaspora dishes, and he has expertly remade these ingredients into exciting and creative dishes. When you dive into Terry’s collection of recipes like creamy coconut-cashew stew with okra, collard greens with cabbage and garlic, or crispy teff and grit cakes with eggplant – you’ll want to try them all. 

Bryant Terry’s cookbook isn’t only about the amazing plant-based cuisine of Africa and the Caribbean, it illustrates the long history of that food that African cultures shared with the rest of the world. 

For a better look at “Afro-Vegan”, click here.

Vegan Soul Food Cookbook: Plant-Based, No-Fuss Southern Favorites

This cookbook is a collection of 101 plant-based soul food dishes that give all the comfort of traditional dishes without meat or dairy. It’s the cookbook you need if you’ve been craving gumbo, “fried chicken”, or biscuits and gravy. 

Together with the delicious, plant-based recipes, the “Vegan Soul Food Cookbook” shows you how eating a vegan diet can boost your health and well-being. Check it out here.

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