Vegan Japan: 70 Comforting Plant-Based 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!

Never eat rice after 24 hours (a food poison hazard) and avoid unpasteurised miso for pregnancy/nursing or weak immune systems (and use bamboo chopsticks). 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).

Vegan Japan is a book of street foods, vegetable sides and adorable bite-sized desserts, along with warming soups and slurp-able noodles.

Japanese French chef Julia grew up devouring all the above, so when she went vegan, was sure she would not give up her childhood favourites. And in this book, shows that Japanese food does not have to be complicated.

Recipes include:

Kabocha Stew
Miso Butter Ramen
Yakisoba
Onigiri
Napolitan
Japanese Potato Salad
Karaage
Maguro Don
Ponzu Sauce
Mentsuyu
Japanese Mayonnaise

Author Julia Boucachard grew up between Tokyo and France. She earned degrees in biology and environment, then became a self-taught cook and opened a Paris restaurant, where she shares plant-based recipes, inspired by her childhood foods.