Super-Simple Plant-Based Recipe Books
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!
Make It Vegan is absolutely terrific! This has gorgeously innovative recipes, all beautifully photographed, and affordable for anyone to make. From ‘Wake Up’ and quick eats, to nibbles, sides and main dishes, there are also plenty of sweets and treats.
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).
Maddie starts off telling her life story (a history of eating disorders and drinking at university), before she ‘fell into’ a healthy lifestyle after moving to Cornwall. She strongly believes that unless you run a restaurant (or are appearing on Masterchef), there’s no need to get stressed about cooking.
She suggests trying a few of her recipes each week, putting on some music (she likes Norah Jones) and chilling, while you learn to cook!
Recipes include:
- Pesto Potato Salad
- Cauliflower & Mushroom Burgers
- Maple Pancakes
- Spinach & Butter Bean Soup
- Sundried Tomato & Tahini Rigatoni
- Sticky Seitan Ribs
- One Pan Baked Scramble
- Butter No-Chicken Curry
- 10-Minute Mac & Cheese
- Vegan Paella
- Un-Sausage Rolls
- Beetroot Mushroom Wellington
Desserts include:
- Fluffy Lemon Sponge Cake
- Chocolate Spread Cheesecake
- Pain au Chocolat
- Choc-a-choc Chocolate Cake!
Madeleine Olivia is a popular chef and influencer, who lives in the Cornish countryside with her husband (together they have released a lovely guide to making bread!)
She makes the mac and cheese recipe from this book at least once a week, served with roasted garlic broccoli. She also enjoys making dals and stir-fries.
A Book of 200 Super-Simple Vegan Recipes
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!
Easy Vegan Bible is another of Katy’s books, with 200 easy recipes, the chapters are divided into various types (one is 5-ingredient recipes, along with 15-minute, 30-minute or 1-pot).
Using quick-to-cook, affordable and easy-to-find ingredients, the book also includes details on useful kitchen equipment and common substitutions, plus demystifies common vegan ingredients like silken tofu, so you know what to do with them!
Plus there are recipes for special occasions. Learn to make:
- Breakfast French Toast
- Carrot Coriander Fritters
- Chickpea & Pesto Toastie
- Summer Punch
- Christmas Chestnut Cassoulet
Many of the recipes have international flavours:
- Creamy Coconut Noodles
- Panzanella
- Spring Risotto
Desserts include:
- Limoncello Panna Cotta
- Rhubarb & Orange Crumble
- Sticky Toffee Flapjack
- Lemon Drizzle Squares
Katy Beskow grew up in Yorkshire, and learned to cook while studying physiotherapy in London (inspired by the markets of fresh produce, while having to eat on a budget).
Returning to her home county, her blog led to a cookbook deal which led to another, and now Katy has many top-selling vegan cookbooks under her belt.
100 Plant-Based Recipes to Enjoy Everyday
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!
Here’s a cookbook from Germany (a country that has more vegans on earth by ratio than anywhere – Berlin is the most vegan-friendly city one art!) All Day Vegan is a unique book of really easy recipes. You won’t have to find another page to find one of the ingredients!
If you’ve just bought a chunk of artisan vegan cheese but don’t know what to do with it, or if you don’t know where to start with plant-based cuisine, this is the book for you.
Many of today’s recipe books seem to be more about taking photographs of the authors rather than the food itself. This book is quite different, with a comprehensive contents page detailing all recipes, so you can just flip to whatever you fancy making. The 100 (very unique) recipes include:
- Strawberry Cheesecake Mousse
- Lemon Pie Oatmeal
- Mini’s Muesli Guide (a no-recipe recipe!)
- Go-to Scrambled Tofu
- Hot Orange Waffles
- Green Pea Toast (or pasta salad)
- New York-style Bagels
- Greek-style Pita Sandwiches
- Artichoke Tortilla Pizza
- Apple Pie Energy Bites
- Minty Iced Chocolate
- Date & Maple Crumble Bars
- Sweet & Salty Almond Cookies
- Lemon & Ginger Loaf
- Carrot Cake for One
- Chocolate Chai Ice Cream
As an example, the first recipes is for Chocolate Polenta Porridge (ideal if you’re bored of oatmeal but don’t want to go down the ‘cocoa pops’ route’, or you have polenta, and have no idea what to do with it. Made with natural vanilla and maple syrup.
Mina Roma is a popular German blogger, whose recipes on her YouTube channel are popular with millions, thanks to her unique and simple meal ideas. She also regularly posts what she eats each day, to inspire others with simple ideas.
A Refreshing Aussie Vegan Recipe Book
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!
Let’s go over the other side of the world, to read Chloe’s Vegan Kitchen. This is an uplifting book of 90 fresh easy recipes, from curries to cookies!
Everything in this book is super-simple to make and good for you too (as well as the animals!) The author (who went vegan as a teenager) quickly discovered that making her own quick easy meals made her feel better, especially when made with affordable and easy-to-find ingredients.
Recipes include:
- Spicy Tofu Scramble Breakfast Tacos
- Butternut Pumpkin Risoni
- Cauliflower Floret Focaccia Sandwich
- Pesto Eggless Frittatas
- Strawberries & Cream Smoothie
- Mocha Hazelnut Smoothie
- No-Bake Carrot Cake
- Chunky Chickpea Cookies
- Chocolate Cherry Tart
Chloe is a popular vegan influencer, this time in an country that invented Vegemite on toast! Raised in a rural town, she had to learn to cook, and now her recipes have gone viral worldwide. Her background in social media marketing led her to publish her first book.
A Book of Simple Delicious Vegan Recipes
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!
Simple & Delicious Vegan is a self-published book by one of the world’s most popular vegan recipe bloggers. This German woman (who lives in Costa Rica) went vegan to heal severe acne, and her recipes are unique, each page containing a visual of ingredients.
A few of her recipes use the sweetener xylitol, but she always gives subs, if you live with pets (just a few dropped crumbs could be unsafe, so never cook or bake with it, if you live with furry friends).
Author Michaela Vais is German by birth. She used to work as a pharmaceutical technician, and noticed that people who used natural methods often got better results than those who took endless medication! She now lives in Costa Rica, where she runs one of the world’s most popular vegan recipe blogs.
This book is a bit more expensive due to being self-published, but will provide you with years of lovely recipes (all affordable) so will pay for itself in no time. Here is a gallery of some of the recipes included:
