Speedy Vegan Recipe Books (15 to 30 minutes!)

15-Minute Vegan Meals offers lovely meals packed with plant-based protein and good fats for dinners with taste, and nutrition. Ideal for people low on time and energy, who still want to make their meals with fresh ingredients.

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).

Recipes include:

• Buffalo Tempeh Bowl with Vegan Honey Mustard
• Sun-dried Tomato Alfredo Penne with Broccoli
• Spiced Chickpea & Kale Salad
• Spicy Sweet & Sour Tofu with Broccoli
• BBQ Jackfruit & Chickpea Flatbread with Creamy Slaw
• Roasted Red Pepper Pasta Salad
• Ginger Noodle Soup:

Janet Gronnow is a popular vegan food blogger, whose recipes have been featured in many publications. She lives in Pennsylvania, USA.

It has few pictures, but Vegan in 15 is a lovely little read, an affordable book of easy recipes by Kate, who blogs at The Veg Space.

A Fun Book of 20-Minute Vegan Recipes

The 20-Minute Vegan is a book by new cooking star Calum (we can see him becoming the new Jamie Oliver). These simple affordable meals include proper pastas, creamy curries and fluffy pancakes, all made with easy-to-find ingredients.

Recipes include:

• Proper Porridge with Cherry Jam
• Fancy Apple Cinnamon Oven Oats
• Fluffy Blueberry Pancakes
• Miso Beans & Gnocchi
• Danny Danny noodles
• Silky Chocolate Mousse

This book is really good! Endorsed by Joe Wicks, if you like the Jamie Oliver kind of instructions, you’ll love this book. He can write, cook and also is on a mission to make it simple for anyone to cook.

I believe that with the recipes in this book and a few adjustments to your weekly shop, you’ll be flying and eating more vegan food in no time. And you’ll actually stick with it.

You only need a little bit of prep to make meals that look like the rainbow and taste gorgeous. 20 minutes for me means 15 minutes with time for a little chat and going back to the fridge for an ingredient. I don’t have a stopwatch when I cook, as that would be too strict and I’d have no social life.

Calum’s Proper Healthy Vegan Cookbook

Proper Healthy is the latest book by the ‘new vegan Jamie Oliver’ offering plant-based recipes that just happen to be healthy. Each recipe is designed to give you energy, heal your gut, pack in protein and help you shape up.

Recipes include brunches and quick eats, puds and pick-me-ups including:

• Whipped Butter Beans on Toast
• Cacio e Pepe Leek Rigatoni
• ‘Pretend You’re in LA’ Smoothie Bowl
• Gingery Basil Rainbow Noodle Jars
• Gnocchi Shepherd’s Pie
• Tempeh Taco Bowl with Chipotle Crema
• Shredded Jerk Tofu Bowl
• Kinda Carbonara Vegan Noodles
• Mean & Green Vegan Sandwiches

Desserts include:

• Upside-Down Pistachio Semolina Cake
• Raspberry Miso Blondies

Calum Harris is a popular cook (not a chef) who learned to cook from his mum, then converted recipes after he went vegan after a conversation with a vegan relative at a BBQ.

His recipes went viral on social media (340,000 and counting) and he has ‘won the heart’ of fellow chef Jamie Oliver (he often gets mistaken for being his son!)

A Book of Easy Speedy Vegan Recipes!

Easy Speedy Vegan is a book of simple, no-nonsense tasty meals, which are quick to cook and use readily-available ingredients that you can find in any store. Ideal for even non-cooks, to whip up something tasty for dinner.

There is information on common substitutions plus recipes for however much time you have – 10, 20 or 30 minutes. This is a cookbook that won’t get left on the shelf gathering dust! Recipes include:

• Breakfast Banana Split
• Caponata Gnocchi
• Creamy Tuscan Beans
• Chickpea, Carrot & Olive Salad
• Hot & Sour Broth with Tofu
• Roasted Tomatoes on Toast
• Spicy Potato & Pea Wraps
• Aubergine & Lentil Curry
• Allotment Tart
• Jam & Coconut Sponge

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.

The 29-Minute Vegan (real food at anytime!)

The 29-Minute Vegan is the latest release from one of the world’s best-selling vegan cookbook authors. Now you can learn how to create a tasty and nutritious plant-based meal, on the table in under half an hour.

Recipes in the book include:

• Taco Tuesdays
• Massaman Curry
• Green Curry Tofu Noodle Salad
• Chocolate Shake with Whippety Whip!

Have about five recipes that you’ve mastered. Dishes where you don’t need to pay close attention to measurements, or that you need to read each step of the recipe. Almost like a guitarist learns a few chords, and then they can create a song.

Once you have those five dishes that you love making, it’s going to make everything a lot easier. You’ll be able to riff on them, come up with variations, and not be stressed because you’ll know what to make, when you come home tired, after a long day. Isa

Isa Chandra Moskowitz grew up in New York City, and learned to cook, while volunteering for Food Not Bombs, which serves up free food to local people, from donated leftovers in shops and restaurants. This led to a cable TV show from her tiny kitchen, which led to a cookbook deal.

The cookbook went viral, leading to many more publications. Today Isa remains a best-selling author, and has used proceeds to fund the opening of a Brooklyn vegan catering company