Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook: 100 Mouth-Watering Recipes for Time-Crunched Vegans
Versatile vegan recipes for quick and easy meals.
Whether you’re a full-time vegan or just interested in eating more plant-based foods, variety will spice up your life. The Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook brings a new selection of fresh meals to your table, pronto! From one-pot to pressure cooker, choose your favorite cooking method—without being held hostage for hours in your kitchen.
This flavorful vegan cookbook doesn’t require a long list of ingredients or a huge time commitment. The preparation techniques are simple—there’s even a chapter devoted to not cooking at all (Gazpacho, anyone?). Every recipe lists nutritional information, and most include tips for ingredient substitution, adding more protein, or other easy customizations.
The Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook includes:
- 100 tasty recipes—Whip up meals full of personality and variety like Artichoke Heart Salad, Spicy Pinto Bean Skillet, Mushroom Stroganoff Bake, and more.
- Fast, easy, or both—Choose from chapters on 30-minute recipes, sheet pan and casserole meals, 5-ingredient dishes—or even recipes with no cooking required!
- Dietary options—This vegan cookbook lets you adapt menus to your needs with handy labels for gluten-free, nut-free, oil-free, or soy-free diets.
Eat easily, healthfully, and deliciously with the Fast & Easy Vegan Cookbook.
Reviews (111)
contradictory, can't find its niche
I find this book contradictory, what the authors says about it contradicts what I see in it. On the one hand, it's a basic, beginner level cookbook with the basic, beginner, recipes you'll find in every single veg cookbook ever written (miso soup, tofu scramble, pita pizza, etc.). But the author then complicates these beginner recipes by using ingredients that beginners won't have (jackfruit, tandoori spice mix, black bean pasta, etc.) and equipment that beginners don't usually have either (spiralizer, pressure cooker, etc.). Advanced cooks who might have those ingredients and tools will probably be let down as the recipes are basic and beginner stuff. The author does the same thing in regards to the recipes being fast. Yes, the recipes may cook in 10 minutes but if you include the time it would take me to go to specialty grocers to find the special ingredients she calls for, then the recipes are no longer quick. I live in Florida, in an area with a large Caribbean and Indian population and I have never, ever, seen jackfruit for sale in my produce section. I'd have to make a special trip to a specialty market for it which would take me an hour. If I was "time crunched" which is who this book is directed at, where would I come up with that time to do all that specialty shopping? Ditto equipment. I've been veg for almost 40 years, it was my New Years resolution for 1980. I ran a vegetarian dinner group for 13 years. I consider myself an advanced cook but I don't own a pressure cooker or spiralizer and both are used a lot in this book. One whole chapter is devoted to just pressure cooking. The book is well done, printed in color, with a photograph for each chapter in full color, nutritional info given on each recipes, indexed in two ways, and more. I have tried two of the recipes so far (tofu scramble and egg-y salad) and they were good, but basic. I see some recipes in the book that I cannot wrap my head around and sound, to me, horrid (a portobello sandwhich made with uncooked mushrooms, or mac an cheese where you just add nutritional yeast to the pasta cooking water and serve), (and being a lover of mac n cheese, I know there are many ways of getting a nice thick cheez sauce other then putting yeast in cooking water, I own a few cookbooks devoted exclusively to vegan cheese recipes which I love so I know of what I speak). So, I can't recommend this book for beginners or advanced cooks, or those inbetween with a time crunch. I'm a lover of veg cookbooks, I have over 80! but I'm sorry, this isn't going to be one I'd use. There are other quick and easy books (and uncheese ones) that I would recommend first.
Not what it appears
Got book, went through entire book, reading tips, etc. and checking out all recipes. The recipe we were most interested was the front cover of the book. NO recipe in the book had those ingredients. So, I wrote her on given website. No answer, but I received TWO different emails advertising other things to purchase. I wrote again and specified, she wrote back w/a 9 word reply giving the recipe page number. It was the recipe for which I originally wrote. So, returning book, as I have no clue how many errors are in book and that's important for purposes of using. It seems to me, anyone who has a name on a recipe would care that it was correct. Not sure "she" even answered email, but whomever was cavalier and careless, not what I want in a "cookbook" ESPECIALLY since this is an entirely NEW way of cooking AND eating. I would NOT recommend this book for that reason.
Great for busy moms- A lot of useful information, and good recipes ideas!
What drew me to this book was that it offers mainly quick recipes/simple: no cooking required (for those hot summer days), thirty minute or less meals, five ingredient recipes, one pot wonders, pan/casserole dinners, and "no-pressure cooking." I cook just about every night of the week, but since I have a 5 month old I dont always have alot of time to make dinner. The recipes all tell you if they are oil, soy, nut, or gluten free and if they arent some suggest substitutions. It also gives you prep time, cook time, general nutrition facts and serving information. It contains so much useful information as well such as: measurement conversions, the EWG's produce list of clean fifteen/dirty dozen, how to store fruits/veggies, and so much more! I would've loved to see more pictures of the dishes though! I am not vegan but I do try to eat plant based as much as possible. I make dinner basically every day of the week so these recipes will be a big help with that! I dont eat much soy, so I will substitute for other things if I can, I usually customize all recipes I make anyways!
Best cookbook for quick vegan meals!
JL Fields gets it. She doesn’t expect her readers to search high and low for weird ingredients and she certainly doesn’t expect them to spend (waste) a lot of time cutting, peeling, and prepping. I bookmarked so many recipes in this book and picked up excellent tips along the way. Buy this. You will not regret it.
Fast, easy, and thoughtful
Good looking fast & easy vegan recipes! Whether you are plant curious , starting on your vegan journey, or a vegan veteran looking to switch up your meals, JL has something for you! I also love that she acknowledges so many allergies and preferences with gluten free, soy free, nut free, and oil free options to almost every recipe. I am going to try to narrow down my first couple of recipes to try!
Meh...
I found this boring. It was tofu/soy heavy, minimal pictures and just a so-so cookbook.
Easy and tasty!
Simple ingredients and easy to follow instructions to create some tasty go-to plant based/vegan meals. Great purchase! I look forward to getting JL’s other cookbook.
Wonderful information and delicious recipes
I am new at eating plant style. I thought it would be hard and not fulfilling, but I'm actually enjoying it. This cookbook is a helpful resource. It not only shares recipes, it explains what certain foods are, how they positively effect the body, and how to make a meal with them.
Love all her cookbooks!
All her recipes that I've tried in all her cookbooks has been great. This one I love especially for the fact that each recipe is not long and involved. I got a copy for myself and one for my daughter.
This cookbook is my best friend & it feeds me
My mom bought this for me for Valentine's (10 months ago) after I told her I wanted to try going vegan (I'd been Vegitarian for 7). And it's the gift that keeps on giving! The first bit of the book has a ton of awesome info about ingredients, equipment, and more! Then you get into the recipes and they are exactly as promised, fast & easy! And, bonus, they are all DELICIOUS! I've been through at least half the recipes in the book and have loved all but 1! Plus there are very few ingredients I didn't recognize or already use from the start so it made the transition easy (just TVP, jackfruit, and nutritional yeast which she explains those in the first chapter) and I just had to upgrade my spice rack a bit since I only had salt, pepper, & garlic... Also, I started a diet about 3 months ago (7 months into using this cookbook) and was delighted to find these recipes are surprisingly low calorie for how DELICIOUS they are! And the book has all the nutrition info you need to input the recipes into my logging app! I LOVE THIS COOKBOOK! It has made me confident in my ability to cook and fed me so good for almost a year!
