Whether you’re making a conscious effort to go vegan or just looking to get Meat-Free Mondays into your weekly cooking routine, it can be difficult to know where to start! But have no fear, here are our top picks for your best new vegan recipe books, all promising tasty, healthy and delicious meals with ingredients that are affordable and available in your local supermarket -- despite what your anti-vegan friends might have to say! In fact, these might just be good enough to turn them onto veganism...
Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley
Smith & Daughters: A Cookbook by Smith & Daughters
Across 7 chapters, including big plates, small plates, salads, sweets, dressings and cocktails, Smith and Daughters: A Cookbook offers 80+ delicious vegan recipes to recreate at home. From ‘chorizo’ and potato, Spanish ‘meatballs’ in a saffron almond sauce, chipotle cashew ‘cheese’, ‘tuna’ and green pea croquettes to Spanish doughnuts, the recipes give new inventive life to classics that will appeal to meat and vegetarian eaters alike.
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Happy Food by Bettina Campolucci Bordi
In Happy Food, Bettina Campolucci Bordi shares a collection of easy and delicious plant-based recipes that anyone can incorporate into their busy life. Whether you’re looking to eat more veggies or have decided to turn vegan but don’t want to compromise on taste, this is the book for you.
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15 Minute Vegan: On A Budget by Katy Beskow
Featuring 100 recipes for home cooks who want to create effortless, fast and delicious vegan food, without the price tag often associated with vegan cooking. All of the ingredients can be purchased in supermarkets and every recipe is ready in 15 minutes or less, as Katy Beskow shows that being doesn’t have to be expensive, or exclusive.
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How to be Vegan and Keep Your Friends by Annie Nichols
This book helps you to go about your life without compromises, excuses or apologies. Instead, you'll be armed with more than 50 incredible recipes you can cook for yourself, your friends and your family (without hearing any complaints!), as well as tips, tricks and hacks for being a better more easygoing and happy vegan.
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Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley
Tempted to try your hand at vegan food but don't know where to start? Or even just to make meat-free Monday a regular thing? Long gone are the days of vegan food being dull and worthy: Vegan 100 is bold, vibrant and gorgeous. Gaz Oakley, once a meat eater, found that going vegan improved his health, and made him feel like he was doing his bit to care for the planet and its animals.
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Vegan Goodness and Vegan Goodness: Feasts by Jessica Prescott
Here are two titles from the fabulous Jessica Prescott, showcasing a colourful collection of exciting plant-based recipes that can be enjoyed by anyone, as well as some delicious ideas for catering gatherings both big and small. Jessica shows readers that cooking with plants can be gutsy and flavourful and with a light-hearted, playful approach to the photography and design, each recipe is laid out with the ingredients on show so readers can see at-a-glance what they need.
Vegan Goodness available now from Amazon
Vegan Goodness: Feasts available now from Amazon