Vegan Cookbook
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A vegan cookbook provides new inspiration for healthy and delicious dishes. We recommend these six guides.
Whether out of love for animals or for the climate: More and more people in Germany are eating vegan and avoiding meat, fish, eggs and dairy products. Nevertheless, vegan cuisine is by no means monotonous or boring – quite the opposite. Countless colourful, delicious and healthy dishes can be conjured up from plant-based foods. These six cookbooks prove it.
Vegan Cookbook: Which is the Best?
Which vegan cookbook is right for you depends entirely on what your needs are: Would you like to find as many varied dishes as possible in the cookbook? Is a regional and seasonal diet important to you in order to protect the environment? Do you cook for yourself or for the whole family? Here we present six vegan cookbooks with different approaches. There is sure to be something that is right for you.
VEGAN! The Golden of GU
The Spiegel bestseller offers a huge selection of everyday vegan dishes: In addition to breakfast ideas, salads, soups, stews and pasta, there are also recipes for vegan schnitzel, vegan currywurst and delicious desserts in the cookbook. Extra plus: The “Vegan Basics” chapter provides useful know-how and practical tips. You will learn, for example, how you can make plant-based milk yourself or which plant-based foods provide important nutrients.
title: VEGAN! The Golden of GU
number of recipes: 300
Price: 20 Euros
Simply Vegan: Simply cook seasonally
If you cook vegan to protect the climate, you should ideally avoid mangoes from Brazil or avocados from Mexico and instead use regional and seasonal ingredients. The cookbook “Simply Vegan” shows which varied and healthy dishes can be created from local plants such as chard, black salsify, beetroot, swede or rhubarb.
title: Simply Vegan: Simply cook seasonally
number of recipes: 100
Price: 24.95 euros
Vegan for the family
This cookbook by the successful author Jérôme Eckmeier provides a wide range of vegan recipes that are easy to prepare, fill you up and taste good for the whole family. How about, for example, aubergine lasagna, sweet potato pancakes or a lentil and mushroom burger? The book also contains many helpful tips and explanations on how vegan nutrition can be healthy for children, which nutrients and vitamins are important and what is behind common nutritional myths.
title: Vegan for the family
number of recipes: 80
Price: 19.95 euros
Elena Carrière: Plant Based
In her first cookbook, the influencer and GNTM finalist from 2016 reveals her favorite vegan recipes. These include, for example, a lentil stew with coconut rice, a lukewarm sweet potato and spinach salad or crispy fried gnocchi with tomato sauce. There are also recipes for breakfast or desserts in the very personal book, which also provides insights into Elena’s everyday life.
title: Plant based
number of recipes: 55
Price: 22 euros
Vegan food porn
The recipes of the food blogger and influencer Bianca Zapatka are not only incredibly delicious, but also extremely photogenic. Whether burrito samosas with guacamole, tortellini with almond ricotta or vanilla pancakes with blueberry cream – the 100 extraordinary dishes show how varied and creative vegan cooking can be. The step-by-step pictures make cooking easier.
title: Vegan food porn. 100 easy and delicious recipes
number of recipes: 100
Price: 22 euros
Orient meets vegan
Oriental cuisine is known for fragrant spices, aromatic herbs and creations made from fresh vegetables and legumes. In the Spiegel bestseller “Orient meets vegan” Serayi presents her favorite recipes. In addition to all-time favorites such as vegan kebab, shawarma or sucuk, you will also find delicious combinations such as pointed peppers with rice and raisins filling or dumplings with pumpkin filling as well as dreamy oriental desserts such as date balls with turmeric or fine pistachio ice cream.
title: Orient meets vegan
number of recipes: 80
Price: 24.95 euros
Is it healthy to eat vegan?
According to the German Nutrition Society (DGE) a plant-based diet is very healthy, as eating too much meat can increase the risk of certain types of cancer. With a purely vegan diet, however, you should make sure that you have an adequate supply of certain nutrients. These include proteins, long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin D, vitamin B2 and calcium, iron, iodine, zinc and selenium. You can find out which plant-based foods you can use to meet your needs, for example in the position paper the German Society for Nutrition.
Danger: You cannot ensure an adequate supply of vitamin B12 with a purely plant-based diet, which is why taking a vitamin B12 supplement is recommended.