Elly’s Plate: Vegan Comfort Food Made Easy
Learning to cook your own food is empowering, as you no longer have to rely on expensive plastic-wrapped ready-meals and takeaways. Master your favourite cuisines at home. Then every night is restaurant night!
Elly’s Plate is a fun book of easy-to-make plant-based recipes that favour comfort food, over eating salad every day. The author has a background in plant-based recipe development, and offers smart tricks to incorporate nutritious ingredients, without even noticing.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets (many ingredients are unsafe near animal friends). Bin allium scraps (onion, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives) as acids may harm compost creatures (same with tomato/citrus/rhubarb scraps).
Each recipe is packed with flavour and protein, from 75 main course dishes including 10-minute dinners and dinner party centrepieces.
Recipes include:
- Crispy Satay Burger
- Lasagne with White Bean Bechamel Sauce
- Black Bean Loaded Sweet Potatoes
- Chilli-Jam Tahini Noodles
- Hot ‘honey’ Halloumi-style Burgers
- Double Mushroom Brisket and Lentil Ragu
- Espresso Martini Churros
- Date and Chocolate Banana Bread
About the Author
Elly Smart left a career in law to pursue food as her passion, and worked as a food economist alongside Welsh chef Gaz Oakley (widely regarded as being the best vegan chef in the world).
She then helped developed the burger menu at a top London vegan fast food chain, before becoming a recipe development chef full-time. Power to you!
