Dirty Vegan

by Matt Pritchard

From the ex presenter of the cult TV show Dirty Sanchez, Matt Pritchard, comes the BBC's first ever (and long overdue) vegan cookery programme. In Dirty Vegan, Matt is set a challenge to create vegan food for certain groups of people with specific nutritional needs - a women's rugby team, OAPs, teenagers and emergency services (mountain rescue). He examines the science behind the ingredients, such as egg alternatives, and cooks 2-3 recipes per episode.

In this television tie-in, Matt shows you just how easy and cheap it can be to go vegan and how the right nutrition can help you perform better in all aspects of life. Discover more than 80 cracking recipes for proper healthy vegan food - none of this Michelin Star sh*t - such as the Full vegan pile up, Squash & shroom momos with yuzu dip, Crispy bang-bang tofu, peanut & chilli stir-fry, Creamy peppercorn & mushroom pie and Maple, orange & chocolate baklava.

Chapters include:
1. Morning Kickstarters
2. Quick Hits & Gobfuls
3. Rabbit Food
4. Belly Warmers
5. Proper Main Munch
6. The Main's Best Mate
7. Sweet Stuff

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference, Vegan, Food, Ebooks

208 pages, Hardcover

Published December 27, 2018

Reviews

[Hilary · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Picked this up from my favourite Oxfam bookshop. Lots of easy, basic, low cost meals, tried several and have all worked well. Nice book for getting ideas for quick family meals. Nothing groundbreaking but good everyday food. An enjoyable book to look through to get inspiration for what to cook.

[Stephen Robert Collins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am not a Vegan, but I see here why some people will be come one if this sort of grub available. I collect interesting cookbooks with outstanding recipes like The Scarlet Salad, Aubergine & Tahini Giant Couscous Salad, Piri Piri Tomato crispy Chickpeas, Crispy Bang Bang Tofu, Peanut & Chilli stir-fry, Jackfruit Red Pepper goulash, Four/Five/Six-Bean Chilli, Sun -Roasted Pineapple with Coconut cream, Victoria Orange sponge to Vegan cheesecake lots of great Recipes that are easy for people to make no over the top crazy expense prices for ingredients that no bugger can ever find even got big wallet. I hate cookbooks use ingredients that no normal person can buy.
This has good print, dozens of photos with funny recipe titles. Mall Pritchard looks like lead singer of Heavy Metal band & has more tattoos than Ray Braduary's Illustrated Man.
This book is from BBC Welsh series 1-4 which is available to download on iPlayer until 9/2/19. The series is short but Shame wasn't on BBC 2 but Think from how good both sales of the book & the quality of the show it go into longer 2nd series that be on BBC 2. The book has all extras like lot of TV books, but If can I tell you to get TV series as its new look on Vegan fresh & exciting biggest thing was in ep.2 when used chick pea water that you chuck out to whip up for stiff egg peeks & his chocolate cakes at the WI show..

[Kathi · Rating 4 out of 5]

„Dirty Vegan - Vegan satt. Krass lecker“ von Matt Pritchard ist am 05.08.2020 bei GU erschienen. Wie der Titel schon verrät geht es um Vegane Gerichte. Den Autoren selbst kannte ich bisher noch nicht. Darum fand ich es auch gut, dass er und sein Leben am Anfang auch ausführlich vorgestellt worden sind. Ich fand seinen Weg ziemlich interessant. Am Auffälligsten vom ganzen Buch ist wohl das Cover. Es ist mir vom ersten Moment an aufgefallen. Es ist definitiv kein 0815-Cover und erst Recht nicht für ein Kochbuch. Besonders schön am Cover finde ich die verschiedenen Schriftarten und Zeichnungen. Das harmoniert auch perfekt mit seinen Tattoos. Auch die innere Gestaltung ist schön, aber anders als alle bisherigen GU-Kochbücher, die ich bisher gelesen habe. Jedes Rezept hat andere Schnörkel oder kleine Zeichnungen in der Überschrift. Direkt darunter sind auch nochmal Anmerkungen, wann der Autor es isst oder noch Hinweise zum Gericht oder zur Zubereitung. Die Zutaten stehen rechts am Rand. Links folgen dann die einzelnen Schritte. Was mich ein bisschen gestört hat war, dass es nicht zu jedem Rezept ein Bild gab. Manchmal waren die Bilder vor oder auch erst nach den Rezepten. Mal keins, mal eins und ab und zu sogar zwei hintereinander. Dadurch ist die Übersicht ein bisschen verloren gegangen welches Bild zu welchem Rezept gehört. Im ebook war auch kein Inhaltsverzeichnis zu finden. Das hat mich persönlich enttäuscht und auch ein bisschen genervt. So muss ich mich erst durchs ganze Buch klicken bis ich beim passenden Rezept oder beim passenden Kapitel angekommen bin. Die neuen Kapitel waren sehr schön gestaltet. Auch dort hat man einen deutlichen Unterschied zu den normalen GU-Büchern gesehen. Es passt hervorragend zum Cover und auch zum Autoren. Auch die Kapiteleinteilung an sich fand ich gelungen.

Fazit: Das Cover verrät schon, dass es kein „typisches“ GU-Buch ist. Die Gestaltung ist anders und zu großen Teilen auch echt gelungen. Die Rezepte klingen gut und die, die ich bisher schon ausprobiert habe, schmecken auch hervorragend. Für jeden ist etwas dabei. Es gibt sowohl Basic-Rezepte als auch ein paar ungewöhnlichere. Hier findet sicherlich jeder etwas und kann es notfalls auch für sich selbst abwandeln. Einzig das nicht vorhandene Inhaltsverzeichnis und die Bilderreihenfolge im ebook kann ich kritisieren.

[Sam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Despite spending my career trying to protect the environment, I am yet to totally embrace the vegan diet and I'm willing to admit I doubt I ever will. But if anything was and is likely to convince me, it is this book. Not only does Pritchard avoid the usual condescending/preachy tone that many books and programmes end up having, he has also created and pulled together a great collection of recipes with ingredients that you will find in a majority of kitchens. Yes, there are one or two extra ingredients that need to be bought specifically but 99% you will be familiar with and/or already have in your kitchen if you cook at all. For me this is a massive selling point as I avoid any recipe book (vegan or otherwise) that expects me to stock the equivalent of a supermarket in my kitchen, so bravo Pritch. I'm yet to try the recipes but I have so many tagged for trying it would've been easier to mark those I don't want to try! And each recipe is written in the same asy carefree manner that Pritch has on his show and has the feel of your mate giving you a few tips on eating better while keeping the enjoyment of food as high as ever.

[Daniela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wer abseits der alltäglichen Pfade mal etwas ausgefallenere vegane Gerichte sucht, der wird hier sicherlich fündig.
Neben zahlreichen (ziemlich praktikablen) Frühstücksideen gibt es natürlich auch viele Rezepte für Hauptgerichte, Salate, Eintöpfe und Desserts - natürlich alles vegan und mitunter recht ausgefallen.
Man spürt allerdings deutlich den englischen Einschlag bei vielen Gerichten, was erfahrungsgemäß nicht jedermans Sache ist.
Dennoch sind einige Rezepte dabei, die durchaus interessant klingen und probiert werden wollen.

[Jenny Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mouth watering read

Loved the language used, felt at ease in following the well laid out recipes and methods. Also loved hearing more about the author and how they have come to write this book.

[Cirila Zorenč · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best vegan cookbook I ever came across! Most vegan cookbooks use complicated ingredients and lots of meat substitutes, but most of recipes in Dirty vegan can be made using stuff you already have in your kitchen. The dishes are still beautifully inventive, super tasty and so far I (and my family) loved every recipe I've tried.

[G. Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some new and interesting recipes, some pretty tame and basic. As an intro to vegan cooking, I guess that's fine. As an established vegan was hoping for a bit more, but there are some recipes here I look forward to trying, and some new ideas. Good pictures, easy to follow.

[Amelia · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't cooked any recipe from this book yet, but there are more in here that I want to try, as in every other cookbook I ever owned. The ingredients sound amazing and tasty, but not too fancy, nevertheless often with a bit of an unusual twist. The pictures are great and even with having the same issues here, as I have with every cookbook, namely that not every meal is illustrated, there is actually a huge amount of pictures shown. If I have tried something out, I will probably increase my rating to five stars!

This book was provided to me by netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

[Inge H. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kochen mit Power
Matt Pritchard ist ein etwas ausgeflippter TV-Koch. Er kocht zur eigenen
Beruhigung. Sein Kochbuch Dirty Vegan: Vegan satt. Krass lecker, besticht durch seine interessanten Gerichte, die auch noch gut schmecken.

Seit kurzem interessieren mich vegane Rezepte ungemein. Ich bin begeistert, was man da so alles leckeres zubereiten kann und es ist nicht schwer.
Hier ist besonders gut, das es einige Energierezepte zur Stärkung gibt, ideal für Sportler.
Der TV Koch ist selber Sportler, der weiß was er braucht.
Ein empfehlenswertes Buch. Die Rezepte kann man leicht nachkochen. Guten Appetit.

[xmikerx75 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Better than I expected.

I'm not a vegan and frankly I only purchased this because I loved Dirty Sanchez so thought why not?

Firstly, Prichard doesn't bang on about being vegan like he's a Welsh Moby and it is about the food.

I'd eat most of the stuff in here but some of the more obscure ingredients may be a laugh to source round my neck of the woods which is why it's only a four star.

But if you want something different, give it a go.

[Lizzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have made about 6 recipes from this book so far and each one has been a winner. I'm vegetarian but would like to cook more vegan food. My partner (who eats meat) equally enjoys making and eating these recipes! They are uncomplicated and the ingredients are easy to get in the supermarket. My favourite so far is probably the crispy bang bang tofu, it takes like take away but nicer!! Will probably end up buying the sequel.

[Michael Amann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not big on cookbooks and I had not heard of Matt before reading this one. However, the premise of finding quick and 'dirty' vegan recipes seemed compelling. I didn't quite get that part right or I misinterpreted the title because many of the recipes require up to 10 or more ingredients. That's not my understanding of a quick meal.

I should mention that I DID find a few recipes that I adapted and have found the way into my diet so it wasn't terrible.

[Ben Sizer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tasty-looking food and it covers a wide range of meals, but apart from the snacks the meals are relatively complex compared to other cookbooks. Good for an experienced cook who wants to move into vegan food, less good for people trying to get into plant-based diets and needing some quick fixes.

[Tari Etela · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vegan yumminess by the truckload

This is a really good vegan cookbook filled with a great variety of recipes. The ingredients are easy to source and the instruction are easy to follow.

[Angela Kykisz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely book to inspire you to try something new .

[Robert Leonard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic introduction veganism

Recommend this book to people like myself who want to start being vegan it has good insight and reasons on why to become vegan

[Daniela Kuijpers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great! Loved it!

[Nakitta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some fantastic recipes!

[Bert · Rating 2 out of 5]

Own several vegan books. But this one suggests special ingredients which are difficult to get.