Big Veg Energy by Christina Soteriou
I don’t usually like cookbooks, but i enjoy the seitanic spellbook
Michael Greger’s ‘How Not to Die Cookbook’
and
Vegan Richa’s ‘Indian Kitchen’I neeeeed someone to try Thee Burger Dude’s new cookbook. It looks like an absolute dreamm ;-;
I make fried chickn from that dudes website. Its one of the best ive made. So I’ll have to check out the book.
Salt Fat Acid Heat. No, it isn’t explicitly vegan, but it was instrumental in me being a good enough cook to improv vegan stuff and have it taste awesome.
Our faves are “The Vegan Chinese Kitchen” and “The Korean Vegan Cookbook”. Also https://redhousespice.com/ has amazing vegan recipes.
ive cooked from both of these and definitely second them as recommendations. the vegan chinese kitchen is my favorite by far, probably because it had a larger variety of ingredients that were new to me and easily accessed at two high quality asian markets nearby.
I can also vouch that they taste very authentic. I have been to China and my wife has been there multiple times.
I just cook whatever is in season and eat it plain.
You don’t need a vegan cookbook, you just need Middle Eastern and South Asian cookbooks.
are you sure? From what I know about the cuisines there they do use a lot of dairy and a fair bit of meat.
I could be wrong, though
Middle Eastern cuisine has a lot of meat dishes but not nearly so much dairy, and the vegetarian dishes tend to also be vegan: falafel, hummus, Jerusalem salad, Persian salad, maklouba, baba ghannoush.
South Asian cuisine tends to be vegetarian and the dairy is usually ghee (sub in olive oil or another liquid vegetable fat). 90% of the recipes are already vegan-friendly: Chana masala, tarka dal, aloo gobi are my favorites. And if you do come across a meat dish, sub in green jackfruit and you’ll have a good time.
Sure, but if people are explicitly asking for vegan cookbooks, I don’t think they’d enjoy having a bunch of the recipes feature meat and even more some form of dairy
At least you’d want recipes that have known working vegan substitutes, so you don’t have to experiment yourself. You very often can’t just randomly substitute ingredients 1:1 and expect a good result
I’m personally not a fan of following recipes, but my wife loves cookbooks. A few of her go to are:
Veganomicon - By Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
And The How Not to Die Cookbook By Michael Greger, Gene Stone
I prefer cooking suggestions or inspiration than actual recipes. Recipes result in buying 10 ingredients and using a fraction of each, then having a load of things left over.
Suggestions can be adapted to better fit what I already have. Or if it differs too much then I might pick another that is a closer fit.
Something like ready steady cook, a UK cooking TV programme. Contestants given a bag of ingredients and have to make something with it. THAT is the kind of cooking I want to be better at.
Yeah, I wish there was an easier way to distinguish what I’d call actual “cook books” from the vast sea of “recipe compilations”.
I.e., books that go over techniques, but then maybe just give some recipes as examples.
The Wok by Kenji Lopez-Alt fits that description perfectly. It is a massive book, filled with a lot of technique and explanations, and additional recipes.
A similar book is Salt Acid Fat Heat by Samin Nosrat. She also has a short Netflix docu where she dives into depth about each part. It has accompanying recipes, but the main focus is on the know how and techniques.
Lol, 2 of the books that I own cause they do this well.
