Italian food is very popular. But rather than always eat out (too expensive) or buy plastic-wrapped ready meals, why not just learn to make your favourite meals? Use pastas in plastic-free packaging.
The Vegan Pasta Cookbook is the ultimate guide for anyone who loves Italian food. Find 60 recipes from time-honoured fare to Asian-inspired stir-fries and nourishing noodle soups, plus a few plant-powered pasta salads. Alongside staples like almond Parmesan, vegan fish sauce and coconut bacon, you’ll find unique fusion meals.
Before cooking, read up on food safety for people & pets (many human foods are unsafe around animal friends). Keep fresh dough away from pets, as it can expand in the stomach.
Recipes include:
- Creamy carbonara with coconut bacon
- Sundried tomato balsamic pasta
- Vegan Caesar pasta salad
- Creamy stovetop mac & cheese
- Spaghetti & vegan meatballs
- Miso garlic butter pasta
- Garlic & Chilli oil noodles
- Linguine al limone with toasted pistachios
- Vegan chicken noodle soup
- Spicy kimchi mac
a book of authentic plant-based pizza recipes
Purezza Vegan Pizza is a book of recipes by the Brighton restaurant, including how to make your own doughs and toppings. Homemade pizza is pretty healthy (once you take away refined flour, meat and four cheeses – Italians say pineapple versions are not pizza!
If you want to cheat, you can replace the homemade dough with Northern Dough Co pizza doughs, which are all free from palm oil. Keep fresh dough away from pets, as it can expand in the stomach.
Learn how to make :
- Butternut squash cavola nero pizza
- Mixed mushroom sausage pizza
- Cashew mozzarella
- Almond gorgonzola
- Beetroot carpaccio
- Smoked carrot pancetta
- Funghi trifolati
- San Marzano tomato sauce
- Green asparagus sauce
Tim and Stefania set up Purezza in 2015. With backgrounds in marketing and law, they decided instead to follow their dream and start a plant-based pizzeria. Head chef Filippo is from Naples (obviously!). He joined the business on Day 1, and perfected the menu with wholegrain flours and sourdough pizza. Today it is England’s most renowned vegan pizzeria, and also sells its homemade plant-based melty cheeses to wholesalers nationwide. Also read how to make (or buy) good vegan pizza.
Giuseppe and his Nonna’s vegan Italian cookbook
Cooking with Nonna is a fun and unique book to make the best Italian home cooking. Giuseppe is a second-generation British Italian where food and family have always been intertwined. So when he went vegan, he needed to find a way to cook the flavours of his family. There was only one person who could help; his nonna! Together they learned how to make the authentic Italian and Sicilian dishes that Nonna grew up with, using all plants. Recipes include:
- Classic lasagne with homemade mince
- Arancini (croquettes) della nonna
- The perfect tomato sauce
- Pasta aglio olio & peperoncino
- Focaccia
- Tiramisu
- Coffee granita
- Biscotti
Giuseppe Federici comes from a long line of passionate foodies, and only at 15 did he realise that a British roast dinner did not begin with a full plate of pasta. He has a huge fanbase of 440K Instagram followers and 300K on TikTok, and has hosted supper clubs and been crowned Digital Creator of the Year at Fortnum & Mason food and drinks awards.