These vegan comfort food recipe books are ideal, if you love childhood favourites like macaroni cheese, hotpots and crumble with custard. The difference are that all the recipes are plant-based.
Easy Vegan Comfort Food offers recipes mostly with 10 ingredients, to whizz up comfort food favourites with simple recipes using everyday ingredients, with shortcuts to minimise time spent in the kitchen. You’ll also learn how to make vegan butter, milk and mayo. Also find suggestions for baking, swapping or adding ingredients and adapting recipes. Recipes include:
- Strawberry Banana Parfait Bowls
- Vanilla-Berry Baked Oatmeal
- Blueberry n Oats Muffins
- Veggieful Tofu Scramble
- Baked Buffalo Cauliflower
Cravings Made Vegan is a lovely book of 50 plant-based comfort food recipes by a couple who run Austria’s most popular vegan recipe blog. Bianca and Sascha show that you can still enjoy all your comfort foods that you grew up with, and reassure that cravings are completely normal, and part of every vegan’s life. You’ll also find easy swap alternatives for meat and dairy, and answers to common questions like how to make food taste and look like it has eggs, how to make tofu not boring, and how to satisfy that bacon craving. These 50 unique recipes include breakfast sandwiches, mac & cheese and popcorn chicken. You’ll also find recipes for:
- Melted Vegan Cheese Sandwiches
- Hearty vegan Sausages
- Mac & Cheese
- Popcorn ‘Chicken’
- Baked Almond Feta
- Hot Chocolate Fudge Pudding
Make it Vegan presents over 75 recipes to make plant-based versions of comfort foods that traditionally feature meat, eggs and cheese. If used, choose palm-oil-free vegan butter for the stodge recipes! Using easy-to-find ingredients, think savoury chick’n and biscuit sandwiches with sriracha maple syrup for breakfast, saucy pulled ‘pork’ sliders piled high with crispy onion strings for lunch, and spaghetti bolognese for dinner. Recipes include:
- Cheddar-Jalapeno Biscuits Chorizo Gravy
- Monte Cristo French Toast
- Nachos Al Pastor
- BBQ Chick’n Salad
- Hearty Hamburger Soup
- Meatball Banh Mi
- Pesto Linguine with Seared ‘Scallops’
- Beefy Skillet Cobbler
- Chili Verde Enchiladas
Ashley Hankins is the author, photographer and recipe developer behind what we think is one of the best named vegan recipe blogs: Eat Figs, Not Pigs! She lives in California, USA.
Vegan Comfort Cooking is a bestselling guide with 75 recipes to veganise your comfort classics. If used, choose palm-oil-free vegan butter for the stodge recipes! With endless options for each meal of the day, recipes include:
- Black Forest Breakfast Crepes
- Rustic Skillet Potato & Greens Hash (above)
- Soul-Warming Stew & Dumplings
- Creamy Mushroom Stuffed Crepes
- Sticky Sweet-and-Sour Tofu
- Rich & Saucy Bolognese
- Bangin’ BBQ Cauliflower Wings
- Sky-High Apple Pie
- Dreamy Baked Strawberry Cheesecake
- Ooey-Gooey Cinnamon Rolls
- Baked Coconut Creamy Rice Pudding
Melanie Mcdonald is the founder of A Virtual Vegan recipe blog. She lives in British Columbia, Canada.
15-Minute Vegan Comfort Food shatters all ideas that vegan food can’t rival traditional favourites. If used, choose palm-oil-free vegan butter for the stodge recipes! Enjoy Moussaka Bowls, Sweetcorn Fritters, Chocolate Chilli, Speedy Samosas, Mushroom Bourguignon, Garden Biriyani, Spicy Falafel Burger, Cashew Chow Mein, Cherry Pot Pies and Jam Sponge Pudding.
Plant-Based Comfort Food Classics is a book of amazingly tasty recipes to make your family fall in love with these comforting tastes. Guests at your vegan dinner party will talk about these recipes for years! The book has you covered from soups, salads and spreads to main dishes and cakes. Plus there are no-bake desserts and recipes for a BBQ and Christmas. All the recipes are easy and affordable with local grocery ingredients. Includes beautiful colour photographs. Recipes include:
- Crispy ‘fish’ fingers
- Meaty Lentil balls
- Heavenly Cabbage Rolls
- Savoury-Filled Pancakes
- Lentil & Vegetable Pie
- Baked Onions with Lemon Mushroom
- Black Pudding Sausages
- Carrot & Peanut Butter Brownies
- Pull-apart Cinnamon Bread
- No-Bake Chocolate Cherry Cake
Author Sandra Vungi is one of Estonia’s top vegan food bloggers and the author of several best-selling books. She lives in the woods with her boyfriend, in a hut they built themselves. In her spare time, she is the drummer in a heavy metal band!
Easy Vegan Comfort Food offers 10-ingredient recipes using familiar ingredients, vegan fridge staples (butter, milk, mayo) and recipe heads like making recipes ahead of time, swapping or adding ingredients, and adapting dishes to accommodate dietary preferences and restrictions. If used, choose palm-oil-free vegan butter for the stodge recipes! Recipes include:
- Veggieful Tofu Scramble
- Blueberry Oat Muffins
- Strawberry Banana Parfait Bowls
- Vanilla Berry Baked Oatmeal
- Veggieful Tofu Scramble
- Spinach Dip
- French Bread Pizza
- Baked Mac n Cheese
- Pasta Primavera
- Baked Buffalo Cauliflower
- Creamy Roasted Corn & Green Chile Dip
- Cherry Turnovers
- Blueberry Cinnamon Monkey Bread
These super-easy vegan recipe books are ideal if you’re not the world’s greatest cook, are a beginner vegan or simply don’t spend much time in the kitchen, whether you are busy or just don’t like cooking that much. But all the recipes are still plant-based and packed with healthy ingredients.
The Everything Easy Vegan Cookbook offers 200 simple recipes, with colour photos throughout. Recipes include:
- Caramelized Onion Pizza
- Fresh Mint Spring Rolls
- Potato Poblano Breakfast Burritos
- Messy Taco Salad
- Lemon, Basil & Artichoke Pasta
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Explosion Pie
Vegan Yum offers 75 balanced recipes, but also shows how to cook, via six chapters, each devoted to a different part of vegan cooking. Not just recipes, learn how each recipe is expertly crafted and balanced, for delicious results. Recipes include:
- Crispy Southern Chickpea Sandwiches
- Meat Lover’s BBQ Pulled Jackfruit with Avocado Slaw
- Spring Linguine with King Oyster Scallops
- Smoky Gouda Melt
- Pesto Mac n Cheese
- Roasted Vegetable Romanesco Lasagna
Easy Vegan Bible offers simple tasty recipes that are all easy to make. Recipes include Tagliatelle alla norma , Creamy Vegan Mushrooms, Creamy Tomato Soup, Vibrant Spring Risotto, Summer Punch, Rhubarb & Orange, Crumble and Sticky Ginger Parkin.
Angela Liddon is a Canadian chef who is one of the best-selling vegan recipe book authors in the world. A former researcher, she has been very honest about her struggles in the past with anorexia. But one day, she decided to throw out her fat-free butter spray, and learn to cook. Fortunately for us, she turns out to be a gifted natural cook and writer, and her books now sell in their hundreds of thousands. Read these books, to find out why.
Oh She Glows for Dinner is a book of nourishing plant-based meals by Canadian Angela Liddon, a best-selling cookbook author. Known for her flavourful and creative approach, make Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice Salad, Cold-Be-Gone Flavour Bomb Soup, Rosemary-Lentil Crumble, Roasted Asparagus & Baby Potato Salad, Cheesy Lentil Bolognese Casserole, Creamy Salt-and-Pepper Scalloped Potatoes and Spiced Maple Cream Torte with Warm Apple Compote.
These ‘everyday’ vegan recipe books are packed with food that you like to eat most days. Full of favourite staples, these are ideal if you don’t want any specific genre of food, nor gourmet meals.
Oh She Glows Every Day includes foolproof recipes that have become the gold standard for plant-based cooking. The 100 family-friendly recipes include simple smoothies, breakfasts, snacks and staples. Recipes include:
- Homemade Sunflower Seed Butter
- Sweet Potato Casserole
- Lentil-Mushroom Bolognese
- Rainbow Quinoa Salad
- Ultimate Flourless Brownies
Hot for Food All Day offers super-easy recipes for quick weeknight meals, easy work lunches and hearty breakfasts. Choose your own adventure with photos and ideas for dressings, sauces and flavour boosters. With recipes for:
- Buffalo Chicken Mac & Cheese
- Cheeseburger Pasta Salad
- Oyster Mushroom Calamari
- Spiced Grilled Cheese
- Stuffed Breakfast Danishes
- Tokyo Street Fries
