A Book of Vegan Recipes from the Middle East

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!

The Vegan Middle Eastern Cookbook is a beautiful book of authentic recipes, based around grains and pulses, nuts, vegetables and fruits, from cuisine in Iran, Armenia, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Turkey.

Never eat rice after 24 hours. 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).

Find dishes to use as a main course or traditional mezze. This book features warm and spicy stuffed vegetables, cool and fragrant soups, delicate preserves, pilafs, bread, pickles, relishes and pastries.

About the Author

Parvin Razavi was born in Iran, and spent her early years at the Caspian Sea and in Tehran, until their family emigrated to Europe. She has always been fascinated by her family kitchen, and her culinary talent was valued for years among friends, before she turned her passion into her profession.

Vegan Middle East and One Arab Vegan are nice recipe blogs, proving that this popular cuisine is suitable for Muslims worldwide. Plant Based Arab is another nice recipe blog, by a man who is a part-Syrian Palestinian, born in Jordan.

His site offers Ramadan recipes, and an e-book of Middle Eastern Recipes.

Middle East Vegan Society is an organisation to support businesses transition to plant-based. It has info on being a vegan Muslim, a country guide and its own V-label certification (already used for over 50,000 products in over 30 countries).

Other Good Middle Eastern Vegan Cookbooks