9 Plant-Based Cookbooks to Inspire Your Next Meatless Monday
Want to add new tastes and techniques to your Meatless Monday repertoire? We’ve compiled some of our favorite, meatless cookbooks to offer a little inspiration. In the list, you’ll find endless ways to liven up your meals: Whether you’re an Instant Pot fanatic or want to finally put your extensive spice collection to use, you’re bound to find something that sparks joy below.
The Complete Vegan Cookbook: Over 150 Whole-Foods, Plant-Based Recipes and Techniques
The Natural Gourmet Center compiled pages upon pages of satiating recipes that can help you up your plant-based cooking game using whole foods and local ingredients. The book is teeming with techniques that explain how to transform animal-free foods into divine dinners like a pro, along with seasonal-driven recipes that’ll have even the most skeptical diner forget about the meat. Find it on Amazon.
Mostly Plants: 101 Delicious Flexitarian Recipes from the Pollan Family
The Pollan Family — Tracy, Dana, Lori, and Corky — have been producing inspiring recipes for years that follow Michael Pollan’s famous food advice — “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” In Mostly Plants, their new, flexitarian-focused cookbook, the Pollan Family shows how vegetables can shine when they’re at the center of the meal rather than a side. Most of the recipes in these pages can be cooked up in 35 minutes or less, and many can be easily modified for any dietary need. Find it on Amazon.
Veg: Easy and Delicious Meals for Everyone
Chef Jamie Oliver’s newest cookbook, which will be released on August 22, 2019, celebrates tasty and simple food that, as Oliver puts it, “just happens to be meatless.” Beyond its very viable recipes, the book shares cooking hacks and tricks that’ll help any level chef become more comfortable in the kitchen. Find in on Amazon.
Dinner for Everyone: 100 Iconic Dishes Made 3 Ways — Easy, Vegan, or Perfect for Company
Mark Bittman shares 100 straightforward recipes in his new cookbook that can feed a group filled with all types of dietary needs. Every recipe can be modified to appease the palate of any guest, making this cookbook an essential manual for anyone tasked with the challenge of feeding a vegan and a carnivore at the same time. Find it on Amazon.
Food Is the Solution: What to Eat to Save the World—80+ Recipes for a Greener Planet and a Healthier You
The easiest thing a person can do to combat climate change is to eat less meat. Matthew Prescott, the senior food policy director of the Humane Society, incorporated this philosophy into his first cookbook, which is equal parts educational and drool-inducing. Let this book guide you in changing the way you feed yourself and the way you think about food. Find it on Amazon.
The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook
Indian food is a staple for many plant-based eaters because there are so many flavorful, meatless recipes integral to Indian cooking. Pushpesh Pant makes Indian cooking accessible to western readers while maintaining the integrity of what’s so good about Indian food in the first place. Vegetables are anything but boring, but if you needed convincing, this book should do it. Find it on Amazon.
OMD: The Simple, Plant-Based Program to Save Your Health, Save Your Waistline, and Save the Planet
Suzy Amis Cameron is a mom of five, so she understands how important it is for meals to be effortless and kid-friendly. The author is the founder of the MUSE School in California, where Meatless Monday is implemented. This book will help any parent make meatless meals that their children will love, and also offers great wisdom around why eating meatless is so crucial in the first place. Find it on Amazon.
Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories from the Tables of Immigrant Women
Without immigrants, there’d be nothing good to eat. Anna Francese Gass, who migrated to the U.S. from Italy as a young girl, recognizes the importance of immigrant women cooks through her own experience growing up in the U.S. Her new cookbook serves as a record of history; in it she collects and preserves her Italian mother’s recipes so that they can be enjoyed by generations to come. And they are simply timeless. Find it on Amazon.
Masala Mamas: Recipes and Stories from Indian Women Changing Their Communities Through Food and Love
This incredible story is peppered with recipes from the Masala Mamas — 16 women who live in the Kalwa slum in India who’ve dedicated their lives to cooking up hot and nutritious meals for school children who often can’t afford much to eat. All proceeds from this cookbook support the Masala Mamas in their mission. Find it on Amazon.
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