Vegan Recipes from a Professional Italian Chef
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!
Veganissimo! (if you don’t know your Italian, this is like bellissimo! – very vegan!) If the thought of cooking Italian meals that are both vegan and gluten-free has you running for the hills, then this book is for you. There are even pasta dishes!
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).
From antipasti (starters) to dolci (desserts), award-winning chef Antonio offers stylish modern recipes from pizza to secondi (main courses). Ideal also if you love a big bowl of pasta, but don’t want to fall asleep for the rest of the day! Recipes include:
- Pasta alla Puttanesca (spicy!)
- Asparagus Cacio e Pepe
- Lentil Salad
- Ragu Bolognese (‘meaty sauce’)
- Pizza Primavera (spring pizza)
- Roasted Friggitelli (peppers)
- Panna Cotta (‘cooked cream’)
- Vegan Tiramisu (‘pick-me-up’) Cups
Antonio Alderuccio is an Italian chef who moved to the UK 10 years ago, and began to explore vegan and gluten-free options for a diabetic friend, who found it difficult to eat out. This is one of his desserts above (not from the book).
After testing homemade pizza recipes on friends, he even developed a gluten-free pasta (mamma mia!) in Italy! The first to ever win an award!
The Times has called Antonio ‘the Italian chef who is changing the rules’.
About the Author
Here’s a chef who loves his job:
The happiness I feel in doing what I love is unparalleled. I fuels my spirit, ignites my creativity, and empowers me to surpass boundaries I never thought possible.
With each step I take, I am reminded that I am living my purpose, and that is a gift I cherish every single day. Antonio
