Best Vegan Cookbooks For Beginners - Top 4 (September 2023)

Choosing a plant based diet is good for your health, your wallet, and the environment. The Plant-Based Diet for Beginners has dozens of tasty whole-food recipes for people who want to switch from eating meat, dairy, and eggs, to eating vegetables, whole grains, and other plant based foods.

Whether your doctor encouraged you to eat a plant based diet or you’re exploring a new way of eating, this cookbook has everything you need to get started. You’ll find nutritional information for each recipe, a guide to eating a plant based diet even when you don’t want to cook, tips for stocking your kitchen, and more. When it comes to your health and your taste buds, now you’re cooking!

This plant based diet book includes:

• 75 whole-food recipes―Try a variety of scrumptious dishes that are free from sugar, oil, and salt, like Hawaiian Luau Burgers, Easy Enchilada Bake, and Peanut Butter Nice Cream.
• Plant based benefits―Learn the perks of eating a plant based diet, including how it helps your health, the planet, and animal welfare.
• Beginner’s resources―Discover plenty of helpful info for newbies―from a guide to cooking basics like grains and beans, to convenient shopping lists, a sample menu, and more.

Take your health and well-being into your own hands with the power of a plant based diet―this guide and cookbook will show you how.

Vegan for Everybody will teach you how to prepare, combine, and—most important—reimagine foods to maximize their flavor without spending a fortune on specialty ingredients. You can rely on these exhaustively tested recipes for everything from Blueberry Muffins (we baked 100 batches to get them right!) and truly great Black Bean Burgers to Baja-Style Cauliflower Tacos paired with spicy mango slaw and cilantro cream and a Yellow Layer Cake that will knock your socks off.

America’s Test Kitchen decodes and demystifies vegan cooking so you can reap its many benefits. Avoid the pitfalls of bland food, lack of variety, and overprocessed ingredients with approachable, fresh, vibrant recipes.

Can vegan cooking be flavorful? Satisfying? Easy to make? Through rigorous testing on the science of vegan cooking, America’s Test Kitchen addresses these questions head-on, finding great-tasting and filling vegan protein options, cooking without dairy, preparing different whole grains and vegetables, and even baking. Reimagine mealtime by celebrating vegetables at the center of the plate and in salads and grain bowls. Take a new look at comfort foods with a surprisingly rich and creamy lasagna or hearty burger with all the fixings. Bake the perfect chewy chocolate chip cookie or a layer cake that stands tall for any celebration. With more than 200 rigorously-tested vibrant recipes, this cookbook has something satisfying for everyone–the committed vegan or simply those looking to freshen up their cooking.

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. Going vegan was the best decision Gaz Oakley ever made.

Gaz Oakley is an exciting young chef who has worked his way up through professional kitchens from his teenage years. Wanting a healthier lifestyle, he decided to change his diet and go vegan. He took up the challenge of finding ways to make his food vibrant and tasty and the results were so impressive that he developed the Avant-Garde Vegan brand to showcase his recipes on Instagram and his vegan YouTube channel.

Gaz, aka Avant-Garde Vegan, was once a meat eater and often didn’t feel well. Overnight, he decided to go vegan for the health benefits, for his love of animals and to do his part in looking after the planet. He found that, as a trained chef, it was surprisingly easy to get big tastes and colours into vegan dishes without compromise, and he also noticed an improvement in the way he felt.

The emphasis in Gaz’s 100 amazing vegan recipes is first and foremost on FLAVOUR. From Kentucky Fried Chick’n and Fillet “Steak” Wellington to Chocolate Tart and Summer Berry Mousse Cake, it’s all incredible-tasting food that just happens to be vegan. Delectable, beautiful and packed with dishes that are good for you, this is like no other vegan cookbook.

A whole-foods, plant-based diet that has never been easier or tastier—learn to cook the Forks Over Knives way with more than 300 recipes for every day!

Forks Over Knives—the book, the film, the movement—is back again in a cookbook. The secret is out: If you want to lose weight, lower your cholesterol, avoid cancer, and prevent (or even reverse) type 2 diabetes and heart disease, the right food is your best medicine. Thousands of people have cut out meat, dairy, and oils and seen amazing results. If you’re among them—or you’d like to be—you need this cookbook.

Del Sroufe, the man behind some of the mouthwatering meals in the landmark documentary, proves that the Forks Over Knives philosophy is not about what you can’t eat, but what you can. Chef Del and his collaborators Julieanna Hever, Judy Micklewright, Darshana Thacker, and Isa Chandra Moskowitz transform wholesome fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes into hundreds of recipes—classic and unexpected, globally and seasonally inspired, and for every meal of the day, all through the year:

• Breakfast: Very Berry Smoothie, Breakfast Quinoa with Apple Compote
• Salads, Soups and Stews: Kale Salad with Maple-Mustard Dressing, Lotsa Vegetable Chowder, Lucky Black-Eyed Pea Stew
• Pasta and Noodle Dishes: Mushroom Stroganoff, Stir-Fried Noodles with Spring Vegetables
• Stir-Fried, Grilled and Hashed Vegetables: Grilled Eggplant “Steaks”
• Baked and Stuffed Vegetables: Millet-Stuffed Chard Rolls
• The Amazing Bean: White Beans and Escarole with Parsnips
• Great Grains: Polenta Pizza with Tomatoes and Basil
• Desserts: Apricot Fig Squares, Bursting with Berries Cobbler . . . and much more!

Simple, affordable, and delicious, the recipes in Forks Over Knives—The Cookbook put the power of real, healthy food in your hands. Start cooking the plant-based way today—it could save your life!

“The recipes in this book are versatile, simple to prepare and, most important, tasty.”

“Forks Over Knives meals are good for the body―and the pocketbook.”

“These recipes are so delicious . . . you’ll never miss the fat.”