Mississippi vegan,
They understand how much garlic is needed
Recipes for a Small Planet; Not totally vegan, and got it from my grandma so it’s old af. It’s also kinda the original vegetarian permaculture cookbook. I don’t have it’s companion book, Diet for a Small Planet.
Big fan of Big Vegan Flavor, we signed up for her ‘year of meal plans’ thing and now if we don’t know what we want for the week yet before going shopping we just pick one that sounds good and the shopping list is already made. Not technically a cookbook though, I guess.
I did too recently and I already love how easy it made my life.
I always knew there were tasty vegan recipes out there because I have eaten at tasty vegan restaurants. I’ve just waded through a lot of junk before I found Nisha Vora’s YT channel and recipes.
You don’t need a vegan cookbook, you just need Middle Eastern and South Asian cookbooks.
are you sure? From what I know about the cuisines there they do use a lot of dairy and a fair bit of meat.
I could be wrong, though
Middle Eastern cuisine has a lot of meat dishes but not nearly so much dairy, and the vegetarian dishes tend to also be vegan: falafel, hummus, Jerusalem salad, Persian salad, maklouba, baba ghannoush.
South Asian cuisine tends to be vegetarian and the dairy is usually ghee (sub in olive oil or another liquid vegetable fat). 90% of the recipes are already vegan-friendly: Chana masala, tarka dal, aloo gobi are my favorites. And if you do come across a meat dish, sub in green jackfruit and you’ll have a good time.
Sure, but if people are explicitly asking for vegan cookbooks, I don’t think they’d enjoy having a bunch of the recipes feature meat and even more some form of dairy
At least you’d want recipes that have known working vegan substitutes, so you don’t have to experiment yourself. You very often can’t just randomly substitute ingredients 1:1 and expect a good result
For me it is a german book called “Immer schon vegan” being about stuff that always was cooked vegan from all over the world. I do not know if it available in english
Big Vegan Flavor by leaps and bounds is the best. My non vegan partner has raved about the recipes.
I loved the name, but everything I ever made from the Veganomicon wound up in the garbage. Tasteless mash.
Not vegan (sorry), but I thought The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen by Peter Berley was really good. Not all recipes are vegan, but most (all iirc) of them also have a vegan variant.
“How it all Vegan” is great, and also one about vegan Italian cooking by Chloe Coscarelli.
Any ones that are available online for free?
Even before going vegan, America’s Test Kitchen was always my go-to when learning about a new dish/recipe. Their vegan cookbook is great.
Our faves are “The Vegan Chinese Kitchen” and “The Korean Vegan Cookbook”. Also https://redhousespice.com/ has amazing vegan recipes.
ive cooked from both of these and definitely second them as recommendations. the vegan chinese kitchen is my favorite by far, probably because it had a larger variety of ingredients that were new to me and easily accessed at two high quality asian markets nearby.
Salt Fat Acid Heat. No, it isn’t explicitly vegan, but it was instrumental in me being a good enough cook to improv vegan stuff and have it taste awesome.
I just cook whatever is in season and eat it plain.
I neeeeed someone to try Thee Burger Dude’s new cookbook. It looks like an absolute dreamm ;-;
I make fried chickn from that dudes website. Its one of the best ive made. So I’ll have to check out the book.
