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Easy Vegan: Simple Recipes for Healthy Eating
Easy Vegan is packed with more than 100 easy recipes for exciting and nutritious recipes perfect for anyone who chooses to follow a meat- and dairy-free diet.
Hearty and warming soups include Butternut Squash with Allspice and Toasted Pine Nuts, plus lighter choices for summer such as Zucchini, Fava Bean, and Lemon Broth. Try delicious Snacks and Light Meals such as Hot Red Pepper and Walnut Dip; Lentil, Carrot, and Cilantro Pâté; Sesame Potato Wedges with Peanut Dipping Sauce; and Vegetable Potsticker Dumplings with Citrus Dipping Sauce. Satisfying Salads to enjoy include Tabbouleh with Chickpeas and Spring Greens; Spicy Cauliflower and Swiss Chard Salad; and Fennel and Orange Salad with Black Olives. Filling Hot Dishes to savor are Stir-fried Tofu with Crisp Greens and Mushrooms; Barley Risotto with Radicchio; and Creamy Vegetable and Cashew Nut Curry with Coconut Milk. Sweet Things are a must—choose from Tropical Fruits in Lime and Chile Syrup; Rhubarb and Apple Crumble; and Cherry and Hazelnut Oat Cookies. Finally, Drinks include nutritious yet delicious concoctions such as Vitamin C Boost Juice; Pineapple and Passionfruit Soy Shake; Peanut and Carob Smoothie, and Date, Banana, and Rice Milk Frappé.
Hearty and warming soups include Butternut Squash with Allspice and Toasted Pine Nuts, plus lighter choices for summer such as Zucchini, Fava Bean, and Lemon Broth. Try delicious Snacks and Light Meals such as Hot Red Pepper and Walnut Dip; Lentil, Carrot, and Cilantro Pâté; Sesame Potato Wedges with Peanut Dipping Sauce; and Vegetable Potsticker Dumplings with Citrus Dipping Sauce. Satisfying Salads to enjoy include Tabbouleh with Chickpeas and Spring Greens; Spicy Cauliflower and Swiss Chard Salad; and Fennel and Orange Salad with Black Olives. Filling Hot Dishes to savor are Stir-fried Tofu with Crisp Greens and Mushrooms; Barley Risotto with Radicchio; and Creamy Vegetable and Cashew Nut Curry with Coconut Milk. Sweet Things are a must—choose from Tropical Fruits in Lime and Chile Syrup; Rhubarb and Apple Crumble; and Cherry and Hazelnut Oat Cookies. Finally, Drinks include nutritious yet delicious concoctions such as Vitamin C Boost Juice; Pineapple and Passionfruit Soy Shake; Peanut and Carob Smoothie, and Date, Banana, and Rice Milk Frappé.
240 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2010
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July 10, 2010I was seduced into buying this by the beautiful photos accompanying every recipe.
September 4, 2011
Fabulous food photographs! There is one for every recipe and they appear on adjacent pages to their recipes. A huge plus for this book!
So, it kills me to rate this book with just 3 stars, but it’s just not my kind of book. Lots of eggplant and some okra and other “unusual” ingredients I love. But, too much oil and vegan margarine and too many unrefined grains. And, TOO MUCH FUSS for the results, in my opinion.
Contents: introduction; soups; snacks & light meals; salads; main dishes; sweet things; drinks; index; credits (Yes, the book’s title is in lower case letters too.)
I like some of the extra info given at each recipe, particularly when it related to region of origin of recipe and/or ingredients.
I notice that in the book description I see many of the recipes are mentioned so was going to mention just one from each category that struck my fancy, though did quite rein myself in to that extent. Actually, many more dishes than this looked good to me, but particularly enticing are: under soups: butternut squash soup with allspice and pine nuts; under snacks & light meals: Italian bean dip; under salads: tabbouleh with chickpeas and spring salad; under main dishes (I couldn’t narrow it down to just one): eggplant, tomato, and red lentil curry, and imam baildi, and baked stuffed mushrooms, and butternut squash with pistou sauce; under sweet things (which I also couldn’t narrow down to just one despite the deplorable paucity of chocolate): baked apples and pears with dried fruit and hazelnuts, and oaty plum crumbles, and rhubarb and apple crumble; and under drinks, well, I’m a water and occasional teas person, but for people who like fruity drinks and fruit smoothies, there are plenty of great ideas here.
I’m buying very few books these days, and I’m very grateful that I was able to borrow this one for the library. The photos are definitely worth 5 stars, but this is a cookbook, after all, and the recipes overall were worth no more than 3 stars to me, especially since because of the title I expected easy, and while these recipes were not overly difficult, there was nothing especially easy about them either.
So, it kills me to rate this book with just 3 stars, but it’s just not my kind of book. Lots of eggplant and some okra and other “unusual” ingredients I love. But, too much oil and vegan margarine and too many unrefined grains. And, TOO MUCH FUSS for the results, in my opinion.
Contents: introduction; soups; snacks & light meals; salads; main dishes; sweet things; drinks; index; credits (Yes, the book’s title is in lower case letters too.)
I like some of the extra info given at each recipe, particularly when it related to region of origin of recipe and/or ingredients.
I notice that in the book description I see many of the recipes are mentioned so was going to mention just one from each category that struck my fancy, though did quite rein myself in to that extent. Actually, many more dishes than this looked good to me, but particularly enticing are: under soups: butternut squash soup with allspice and pine nuts; under snacks & light meals: Italian bean dip; under salads: tabbouleh with chickpeas and spring salad; under main dishes (I couldn’t narrow it down to just one): eggplant, tomato, and red lentil curry, and imam baildi, and baked stuffed mushrooms, and butternut squash with pistou sauce; under sweet things (which I also couldn’t narrow down to just one despite the deplorable paucity of chocolate): baked apples and pears with dried fruit and hazelnuts, and oaty plum crumbles, and rhubarb and apple crumble; and under drinks, well, I’m a water and occasional teas person, but for people who like fruity drinks and fruit smoothies, there are plenty of great ideas here.
I’m buying very few books these days, and I’m very grateful that I was able to borrow this one for the library. The photos are definitely worth 5 stars, but this is a cookbook, after all, and the recipes overall were worth no more than 3 stars to me, especially since because of the title I expected easy, and while these recipes were not overly difficult, there was nothing especially easy about them either.
June 6, 2011
I loved the recipes in this book. Easy to read format. tons of pics, great sounding recipes from all kinds of exotic places. Yep, just a great one.
December 26, 2011
I loved that all the recipes were accompanied with a photo so I could see the end result, but too many recipes required some uncommon ingredients and more preparation than I want to put into my meals as a beginner vegan.
November 11, 2015
This recipe book had its high points (stunning photographs to accompany every single recipe!!) and it's low points (nearly every recipe contains oil and some desserts call for olive oil). I can't wait to try out some of the recipes, nonetheless.
my-cookbooks
April 18, 2023Enticing pictures on every page
No nutritional information
Weirdly author not listed anywhere in book
Index not as ingredient oriented as I would prefer (eg. no entry for Preserved Lemon)
Special recipe to try: Preserved Lemon Dressing, p 92, also see Herb salad p 108
No nutritional information
Weirdly author not listed anywhere in book
Index not as ingredient oriented as I would prefer (eg. no entry for Preserved Lemon)
Special recipe to try: Preserved Lemon Dressing, p 92, also see Herb salad p 108
July 30, 2012
Superb recipes easy and tasty :)
January 21, 2017
I love a lot of the recipes and photos.
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