Recs for Vegan Recipe Sites?
Recs for Vegan Recipe Sites?
Hey all,
Obligatory not a vegan, though I am wanting to move more in the direction of fully doing so, kinda in a transition phase atm where I'm figuring out what dishes I can make that I enjoy, and that's the issue I'm kinda dealing with currently that's preventing me from doing a full swap.
I was wondering what websites y'all recommend for vegan recipes. I recently came across Veggieboards, which is a great resource, but beyond that I'm a bit lost. I'm hoping to find more simple recipes since I'm just starting out in the kitchen and trying to get a hang of things. As an example, I've recently been trying to make hummus at home, and I quite literally need to smooth the recipe a bit since it came out lumpy when I made it last. Another example is black bean burgers, where getting them to hold together/firm up has been a pain despite how good they taste.
Thanks in advance!
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https://thestingyvegan.com/ cheap meal prep.
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https://www.veganricha.com/ Indian and international food through an Indian lens. Highly reliable and repeatable, often good cooking wisdom. If you buy her books they're laid out like technical manuals and vastly more useable than other cookbooks. Given your basic skills her one pot meals might be a good start?
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https://lovingitvegan.com/ usaian food. Varying degrees of complexity, tends to be on the sweet side for me but a good selection of easy to execute pleasers.
There's a veganhomecooks discord with some recipes. They're good, more out there than most blogs.
- https://www.lazycatkitchen.com/ I use this sometimes. Usually middling complexity, reliably good recipes.
7Various and sundry food hacks:
- tvp is love, use it
- bean water from cans (chickpea is popular because of neutral colour) is very proteiny and binds stuff like egg or blood during cooking. Baking espesh
- nutritional yeast thickens stuff and tastes amazing. Combine dry with salt, cashews and msg (little) for a crumbly pasta topper.
- besan (chickpea flour) thickens and holds together well. Also healthy, buy at an Indian grocery.
- black salt lends eggy flavour, again Indian grocer
- oat flour can help bind stuff up like patties, if you don't want to use besan.
- flax meal and little tapioca starch whisked into water and soaked for 5 minutes binds everything up
- msg isn't scary, asain groceries sell it. Often helps reduce total sodium in cooking to hit the magic mmmmmm point.
- molasses and liquid smoke in patties and chilli non carne makes it next level.
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Forks Over Knives is amazing for plant based recipes.
6Thanks! I'll be sure to give it a look tonight!
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I'm a big fan of Indian food. Depending on where you live, it can be tricky to find everything, but if you have an Asian supermarket near by give Hebarr's Kitchen a go.
5They also have a vegan section.
4I have a vegetarian cookbook that has some vegan recipes in it. Saw some things that looked good using cauliflower, so looking forward to seeing what's there!
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Plant based news has a section for vegan recipes.
4Thanks! Site sounds familiar, may have come across it before and forgot of it. Will look into!
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I’m not vegan myself, but I’ve got to plug a good friend of mine’s food blog. If you’re interested in some vegan versions of Chicago food staples, you’re in for a treat.
3Oh cool! Canadian myself, but down to give Chicago stuff a try since they seem to have a lot of cool food from there.
3Nice, I'm canadian too on the west coast. It felt lonely here being the only one lol.
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Kitchen Stories to start off, as it gives you just the ingredients and recipe. You can often swap out a lot of the vegetarian ingredients for vegan ones!
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Supercook will help you cook with whatever you have at home. It takes a little while to set up and filter, but it can be handy in a pinch.
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If you have iPhone, “Crouton” is the best recipe storage app I have used. I put everything there now. When I had an Android I used “JustTheRecipe” and it was pretty good.
3If you self host , I’ve been a fan of mealie for recipes
3Please do not suggest a vegetarian resource on the instance. Vegnews has great suggestions.
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https://www.noracooks.com/about/ - Everything we've tried from there has been good. The blueberry pancake recipe is great (and also works as waffles)
Also check out your library. Few years ago we got a ton of books and just copied a bunch of recipes that sounded good. Still trying new things from that because we found a lot of favorites.
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