Easy, quick, and delicious
Vegan cookbook review
What can you make with only four ingredients? More than you think! The 4-Ingredient Vegan has dozens of quick and easy recipes.
The first chapter is an introduction to quick cuisine, with tips on stocking your kitchen and explanations of potentially unfamiliar ingredients. Then the recipes are divided as follows:
- Morning meals – Chocolate chip pancakes, Cream of quinoa…
- Beverages – Raspberry-lime cooler, Almond butter shake…
- Soups – Red onion, Pumpkin bean…
- Salads – Roasted beet, Succotash…
- Dips, spreads, and savory sauces – Butternut sauce, Hazelnut-yam pâté…
- Main dishes – Stuffed onion casserole, Roasted eggplant and pesto roulade…
- Side dishes – Sweet-and-tangy chickpeas, Cabbage with sesame sauce…
- Desserts, treats, and sweet toppings –
There are some unusual combinations like Tomato and yam pizza and Linguine with sea greens, but most of the recipes are more traditional: Black bean roll-ups, Spinach casserole (with potatoes), and Bell peppers stuffed with rice, to name a few. This is a good cookbook for people who don’t cook from scratch, instead relying on store-bought ingredients like frozen pierogi, jarred spaghetti sauce, and mixed vegetables.
Note that oil, margarine, salt, pepper, and water are excluded from the ingredient count.
The 4-Ingredient Vegan, by Maribeth Abrams and Anne Dinshah – buy it: