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Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook: 100 Incredibly Good Vegetarian Recipes That Take Plant-Based Air Frying in Amazing New Directions
Move over, fried chicken. In Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook, air-frying expert Michelle Anderson shows you how to make 100+ amazing vegetarian dinners, sides, snacks, desserts, and more.
The air fryer is not just for carnivores. Whether you are a full-time vegetarian or one of the millions of omnivores who are adding more plant-based dishes and meals to your weekly routine, you will love the imaginative, healthy, and terrifically tasty ideas in this book. Air fryers cook fast and easy—that's why everyone loves them!—and, because they use less oil, the food they deliver is crispy, crunchy, and delicious but much better for you than traditional deep-fried or pan-fried foods.
Start your day with Crispy Buttermilk Waffles or zesty Huevos Ranchero Wraps and end it, after dinner, with an amazing air-fried dessert, such as Caramelized Pineapple Shortbread, Churros with Chocolate Sauce, or Lemon-Blueberry Donuts. In between, you will find lots of substantial meatless main courses, like Sesame-Orange Tofu and Broccoli, Turkish Cauliflower Fritters, and Zucchini-Feta Pancakes with Tzatziki Sauce.
Are you a potato lover? Try the recipes for Sensational Sweet Potato Fries or Potato Wedges with Cheddar Dip. From snacks like Smoky Candied Pecans to appetizers like Roasted Garlic Guacamole and sides like Low Country Hush Puppies, the ideas are boundless and incredibly delicious.
Expand your air frying repertoire with these thoroughly delicious, tested-to-perfection recipes.
The air fryer is not just for carnivores. Whether you are a full-time vegetarian or one of the millions of omnivores who are adding more plant-based dishes and meals to your weekly routine, you will love the imaginative, healthy, and terrifically tasty ideas in this book. Air fryers cook fast and easy—that's why everyone loves them!—and, because they use less oil, the food they deliver is crispy, crunchy, and delicious but much better for you than traditional deep-fried or pan-fried foods.
Start your day with Crispy Buttermilk Waffles or zesty Huevos Ranchero Wraps and end it, after dinner, with an amazing air-fried dessert, such as Caramelized Pineapple Shortbread, Churros with Chocolate Sauce, or Lemon-Blueberry Donuts. In between, you will find lots of substantial meatless main courses, like Sesame-Orange Tofu and Broccoli, Turkish Cauliflower Fritters, and Zucchini-Feta Pancakes with Tzatziki Sauce.
Are you a potato lover? Try the recipes for Sensational Sweet Potato Fries or Potato Wedges with Cheddar Dip. From snacks like Smoky Candied Pecans to appetizers like Roasted Garlic Guacamole and sides like Low Country Hush Puppies, the ideas are boundless and incredibly delicious.
Expand your air frying repertoire with these thoroughly delicious, tested-to-perfection recipes.
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176 pages, Paperback
Published February 16, 2021
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November 22, 2020
It's important to note that this is not a vegan cookbook, despite the words "plant powered" in the title, so don't expect a plant-based cookbook. It's a vegetarian cookbook and a pretty nice one if you just want vegetarian air fryer recipes with frequent use of ingredients like eggs and cheese.
There is no nutritional information provided, which is a major detraction for me in a cookbook. Many people need to know the fiber, protein, fat, sugar, calorie and/or carbohydrate content of recipes and there's no excuse for a major publishing house not to give that information. Since my husband and I are closely monitoring some of these macros right now for health reasons, it's not a book that can be useful for me.
There are a lot of international dishes and a nice variety of unique recipes. Photos are provided for about 1/2 to 1/3 of the recipes. There's a pretty heavy use of eggs, dairy and gluten, so it's not the best suited for those with dietary allergies. Vegetarians eager to find some novel air fryer recipes will probably really enjoy it.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
There is no nutritional information provided, which is a major detraction for me in a cookbook. Many people need to know the fiber, protein, fat, sugar, calorie and/or carbohydrate content of recipes and there's no excuse for a major publishing house not to give that information. Since my husband and I are closely monitoring some of these macros right now for health reasons, it's not a book that can be useful for me.
There are a lot of international dishes and a nice variety of unique recipes. Photos are provided for about 1/2 to 1/3 of the recipes. There's a pretty heavy use of eggs, dairy and gluten, so it's not the best suited for those with dietary allergies. Vegetarians eager to find some novel air fryer recipes will probably really enjoy it.
I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.
November 13, 2020
This cookbook is well organized, and I appreciate there are photographs with about half the recipes. Unfortunately I hoped that with "plant powered" in the title there would be more vegan recipes, but most of the recipes contain eggs or dairy. There are some different recipes than what you get in many other air fryer cookbooks, so that's a plus.
January 2, 2021
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook is a tutorial and recipe collection written and developed by Michelle Anderson. Due out 12th Jan 2021 from Quarto on their Harvard Common Press imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This is a beautifully styled and formatted book full of tasty plant based recipes developed to utilize the air fryer. The introduction covers the basics of cooking with the air-fryer and essential accessories as well as tips, tools, supplies, and how-to. The following chapters include the recipes arranged roughly by category: breakfast, soups & sandwiches, lunch, snacks & appetizers, sides, mains, and desserts and baked things.
Ingredient measurements are supplied in American standard measurements with metric measures in parentheses (yay!). The nutritional information is not included. Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made for the most part with easily sourced ingredients (not all though, some of the recipe ingredients are vegan substitutions for other products (butter, cheese, chorizo, etc)). Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex and they represent a refreshingly wide variety of world cuisines.
The photography is not abundant; most of the recipes are not illustrated, but the photographs which are included are clear and beautifully well done. I wish there had been more photographs and serving suggestions, but I do understand that extra photography increases the price of book projects very quickly and the lack is not crippling.
This is an interesting collection of recipes. It struck me however, that many of the recipes were really things which could more easily be made (and in larger volume) *without* the air-fryer. The recipes also rely very much on store-bought ingredients. Cooks who prefer to cook completely from scratch will have to do some pre-cooking to make the necessary ingredients.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook is a tutorial and recipe collection written and developed by Michelle Anderson. Due out 12th Jan 2021 from Quarto on their Harvard Common Press imprint, it's 176 pages and will be available in paperback format.
This is a beautifully styled and formatted book full of tasty plant based recipes developed to utilize the air fryer. The introduction covers the basics of cooking with the air-fryer and essential accessories as well as tips, tools, supplies, and how-to. The following chapters include the recipes arranged roughly by category: breakfast, soups & sandwiches, lunch, snacks & appetizers, sides, mains, and desserts and baked things.
Ingredient measurements are supplied in American standard measurements with metric measures in parentheses (yay!). The nutritional information is not included. Extra tips or recipe alternatives are listed in the recipes. The recipes themselves are fairly straightforward and are made for the most part with easily sourced ingredients (not all though, some of the recipe ingredients are vegan substitutions for other products (butter, cheese, chorizo, etc)). Many are very simple, none of them are overly complex and they represent a refreshingly wide variety of world cuisines.
The photography is not abundant; most of the recipes are not illustrated, but the photographs which are included are clear and beautifully well done. I wish there had been more photographs and serving suggestions, but I do understand that extra photography increases the price of book projects very quickly and the lack is not crippling.
This is an interesting collection of recipes. It struck me however, that many of the recipes were really things which could more easily be made (and in larger volume) *without* the air-fryer. The recipes also rely very much on store-bought ingredients. Cooks who prefer to cook completely from scratch will have to do some pre-cooking to make the necessary ingredients.
Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
December 2, 2020
I received a copy of this book through NetGalley. I am providing my honest opinion voluntarily.
I've had an air fryer for a while, and was really looking forward to getting some mileage out of it. However, I was rather disappointed in this cookbook, and my air fryer will continue to gather dust.
As someone who has recently transitioned to a vegan way of eating, I was excited to find a plant-based cookbook that centered around the air fryer. To me, this sounded like the perfect book, and I was hoping to find it full of healthy recipes that I'd actually be able to use. Unfortunately, more than half of the recipes were not suitable for me, since they incorporated items like eggs, cheese, milk, and heavy cream. This meant I couldn't even think about cooking more than half of the recipes.
If you think that being plant-based automatically means eating healthy, this book will quickly fix you of that myth. The appeal that led me to get an air fryer in the first place was two-fold. It allowed me to cook unhealthy, fried recipes in a healthier way, and it saved me the mess of clean up. However, a lot of the recipes I could actually prepare required more than just the air fryer. Most of the vegan-friendly recipes in this book were soups, which required not just the air fryer, but other forms of cooking. Which to someone like me, means having to do twice as much work and twice as much clean up. For soups, my air fryer isn't the first appliance that comes to mind (that would be my all-time favorite appliance, the instant pot).
This would probably be a better fit for vegetarians who don't mind making more complex recipes, and aren't planning to use their air fryer to prepare healthy recipes. While some of the recipes sound interesting, they're mainly full of eggs and dairy. I wish I could have said I'd tried at least one of the recipes, but tofu fries just don't sound very appealing when I can just make regular fries in my air fryer.
I've had an air fryer for a while, and was really looking forward to getting some mileage out of it. However, I was rather disappointed in this cookbook, and my air fryer will continue to gather dust.
As someone who has recently transitioned to a vegan way of eating, I was excited to find a plant-based cookbook that centered around the air fryer. To me, this sounded like the perfect book, and I was hoping to find it full of healthy recipes that I'd actually be able to use. Unfortunately, more than half of the recipes were not suitable for me, since they incorporated items like eggs, cheese, milk, and heavy cream. This meant I couldn't even think about cooking more than half of the recipes.
If you think that being plant-based automatically means eating healthy, this book will quickly fix you of that myth. The appeal that led me to get an air fryer in the first place was two-fold. It allowed me to cook unhealthy, fried recipes in a healthier way, and it saved me the mess of clean up. However, a lot of the recipes I could actually prepare required more than just the air fryer. Most of the vegan-friendly recipes in this book were soups, which required not just the air fryer, but other forms of cooking. Which to someone like me, means having to do twice as much work and twice as much clean up. For soups, my air fryer isn't the first appliance that comes to mind (that would be my all-time favorite appliance, the instant pot).
This would probably be a better fit for vegetarians who don't mind making more complex recipes, and aren't planning to use their air fryer to prepare healthy recipes. While some of the recipes sound interesting, they're mainly full of eggs and dairy. I wish I could have said I'd tried at least one of the recipes, but tofu fries just don't sound very appealing when I can just make regular fries in my air fryer.
December 28, 2020
Every holiday season I buy a gift for “the house”. This year it was smokeless indoor grill. Last year, it was an air fryer. I have yet to even open the air fryer. Here’s to trying again to motivate myself to use it by reading the Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook.
From breakfast to dessert, there is something for every taste here. The recipes span the globe from Fried Green Tomatoes with Remoulade (Southern US) to Kaassouffle (Netherlands) to Mango Turon (Philippines).
The Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook is a nice choice for vegetarians due to its variety. However, vegans and dieters should stay away. The recipes are chockful of whole milk, eggs and real butter. Even though there is no nutritional information, this is obviously not a low-calorie cookbook. In addition to the lack of nutritional info, the book has few pictures too. Overall, 3 stars.
Thanks to Harvard Common Press, Quarto Publishing and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.
From breakfast to dessert, there is something for every taste here. The recipes span the globe from Fried Green Tomatoes with Remoulade (Southern US) to Kaassouffle (Netherlands) to Mango Turon (Philippines).
The Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook is a nice choice for vegetarians due to its variety. However, vegans and dieters should stay away. The recipes are chockful of whole milk, eggs and real butter. Even though there is no nutritional information, this is obviously not a low-calorie cookbook. In addition to the lack of nutritional info, the book has few pictures too. Overall, 3 stars.
Thanks to Harvard Common Press, Quarto Publishing and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.
January 1, 2021
I love my air fryer, and I've been trying to incorporate more plant-based meals into my eating habits lately, so I was excited to recieve an ARC of Epic Air Fryer Plant-Powered Cookbook from NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group/Harvard Common Press to review.
It should be noted that the title is slightly misleading. If you are vegetarian or vegan, you should be aware that while the recipes are vegetable-centric, many of them contain animal products. And while the air fryer is used in all the recipes, some of them also use additional cooking methods.
The recipes themselves are are easy to follow and the necessary ingredients will be easy for most cooks to source, however, the cookbook lacks nutritional info, and more importantly (to me, at least), there aren't photographs of all the recipes. I like knowing what my creation should will look like. Still, I'm looking forward to trying quite a few of these recipes.
It should be noted that the title is slightly misleading. If you are vegetarian or vegan, you should be aware that while the recipes are vegetable-centric, many of them contain animal products. And while the air fryer is used in all the recipes, some of them also use additional cooking methods.
The recipes themselves are are easy to follow and the necessary ingredients will be easy for most cooks to source, however, the cookbook lacks nutritional info, and more importantly (to me, at least), there aren't photographs of all the recipes. I like knowing what my creation should will look like. Still, I'm looking forward to trying quite a few of these recipes.
December 2, 2020
For a book that is labeled plant-powered I was very disappointed by the fact that almost every recipe has animal products. I know the byline says vegetarian friendly and not vegan but when dairy and eggs are the focused this is in no way close to "plant-powered". If it was one or two recipes then I wouldn't care, or if it was easy to substitute for vegan alternatives, but cheese, heavy whipping cream, eggs, etc. are in every recipe. Very disappointed. The "plant-powered" label is very misleading.
December 8, 2020
This book is chock full of plant powered recipes to use in your air fryer. I love learning new plant-powered recipes, and not many books have any done in an air-fryer. Many scrumptious photos. I enjoyed the addition of the personal stories of the author before each recipe, such as her experience with the recipe or her first kitchen job. That was a nice touch not found in many cookbooks. Guidelines for prep time and cook time. Recipes were organized well. A nice book for anyone who wants to cook plant-powered recipes in their air fryer.
August 20, 2024
This is an okay cookbook with a lot of inventive vegetarian recipes. It is aimed at air fryer owners however there are many recipes that could be easily prepared with a conventional oven or stovetop. There are some recipes which don't really belong in this book, for example there is a soup chapter where each recipe might only have a small ingredient that uses the air fryer. I appreciate that the recipe instructions are listed with clear bullet points. I will be donating this one because I am not a big fan of cookware-specific cookbooks and I only use my air fryer for reheating.
December 1, 2020
This is a plant based/vegetarian cookbook and instead of using a regular pan you'll use your air fryer. There's no many photos so it's hard to picture how the recipe will look like specially when doing it in a different way like using an air fryer instead of regular pan I need to see the dish before wanted to cook it. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review
December 20, 2020
Received a free advanced copy in exchange for an honest review!
Personally I can deal with the recipes presented in this book. But I'm a bit disappointed about the tile. The title is misleading, I was expecting more vegetarian recipes, in reality this book isn't really about plant-based recipes.
Personally I can deal with the recipes presented in this book. But I'm a bit disappointed about the tile. The title is misleading, I was expecting more vegetarian recipes, in reality this book isn't really about plant-based recipes.
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