The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vegan Cooking: Bring Health and Compassion to Your Table with 240 Plant-Based Recipes

by Beverly Lynn Bennett, Ray Sammartano

Delicious recipes for the growing vegan lifestyle.

There are so many reasons to go vegan—health and nutrition, weight loss, green and sustainable living, and prevention of cruelty to animals. With over 200 mouth-watering recipes and tips for converting meat- and dairybased dishes into vegan ones, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Vegan Cooking will help readers enjoy a healthy vegan diet without sacrificing taste.

Genres: Cookbooks, Vegan, Nonfiction, Cooking

352 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 2008

Reviews

[Ry Herman · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's fine. The dishes are reasonably tasty. Although the measurements used are often weird. Why would you measure things like red bell peppers or garlic in cups and tablespoons, instead of a number of red bell peppers or cloves of garlic? It's particularly odd in a book meant to be a beginner's guide.

[Gail Clayworth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not crazy about the title and I'm not a committed vegan, but this book is a good place to start if you want to eliminate or reduce the animal products in your diet and cooking. I have to avoid soy and don't care for meat substitutes in general, but I still found some great recipes that I go back to over and over again.

[Lori Lyons · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has a good staple of recipes to get started on the Vegan diet. I don't care for the high use of tofu and other soy products in the recipes. However, overtime I have leaned to use coconut milk, coconut meat and/or coconut yogurt instead of the soy products.

[Iryna D · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great info about healthy vegan nutrition and awesome recipes.

[Cheryl Devine · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has very simple tasty recipes. It doesn't require you to get any fancy ingredients and substitutions are easily made

[Tamara Catlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't cooked a lot out of this one.... but the lentil bolognese is amazing and everyone who makes it loves it!!

[T Adams · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good variety of recipes as well as variety of ingredients used.

[Drew · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a single recipe in this book that intrigued me . . . and most of them add a ton of oils. Not exactly plant-strong.

[Mary Kay · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good recipes with 'normal' ingredients.
Also good info on substitutions and how to make it easy to be vegan.