Amazing colourful recipe book packed with delicious recipes.
Being new to trying Vegan dishes, I loved how this was set out on the pages and also how the sections were broken down.
This is definitely one I would buy for my cookbook shelf but also for vegan friends too.
Thanks Netgalley for this ARC.

"1000 Vegan and Vegetarian Meals: Everyday Recipes to Make Healthy Eating Easy" provides recipes in various categories, such as grazing dishes and comfort food. Many of the recipes are delicious and experienced cooks will enjoy working through the wide variety of dishes.

For me, most of the recipes were far too complicated or required too many ingredients (or ingredients I do not keep on hand). While the book advertises the meals as quick and easy, I think that most are for more ambitious chefs. For example, in the quick and tasty category, recipes call for ingredients such as pine kernels, chipotle paste, cumin seeds and sliced baby leeks, none of which I would have on hand. I'm not even sure how hard it would be able to find some of these ingredients in most grocery stores. Further, many recipes require techniques that less experienced cooks are not familiar with, such julienning vegetables. I found myself wishing that all the recipes were vegan as well.

Experienced cooks or novice cooks looking to learn and experiment will find much to enjoy in this book.

Thank you to Netgalley for providing me with a galley of the book in exchange for providing an honest review.

This past New Year’s Day I celebrated my thirteenth year of being vegetarian. Time has flown and I’ve never been unhappy with my decision–ever. The one thing that has made it easy for me to make what was a drastic change at that time was finding lots of tasty recipes. If you’ve been reading my reviews of vegan and vegetarian cookbooks, you know I have a pet peeve about seeing the same recipes over and over again: smoothies, shepherd’s pie, and most things that have arugula in them. Ha.

1000 Vegan & Vegetarian Meals brought to us by the editors of Chartwell books has something for everyone in it. Yes, even a couple of smoothie recipes but not shepherd’s pie. (wink) I love the variety of recipes that encompass most cuisines from Asian to Mexican to Middle Eastern. And there are many new versions of recipes in this book. One I am eager to try is the pastitsio recipe, which is a Greek ground beef and lamb dish that here is filled with vegetables with a tomato and yogurt sauce.

The variety of dishes range from comfort foods that you want to eat in these cold winter’s months to dishes like Greek Tortellini salad that sound perfect for a summer’s meal. Among the soups are a Tortilla Soup with fresh flavors that will make you forget that chicken was ever once supposed to be an ingredient. And while shakshuka seems to be in everyone’s cookbook lately, the one here is filled with baby greens with the tomato sauce (8-9 cherry tomatoes in this case) taking a back seat to asparagus, beans, spinach, leeks to make a very healthy dish that I look forward to cooking.

Beet brownies? Yeah, I might not be able to convince everyone around me to give them a try, but I will. Maybe even with some walnuts thrown in. Also there’s a non-dairy cheesecake to try…and a strawberry tart.

Honestly, I vowed not to buy anymore cookbooks (except for maybe Ottolenghi), but there is an excellent chance I’m going to buy this hardcover and start cooking right away.

I have only one gripe about this book and that is the inconsistency of the measurements. In the breakfast recipes, flour and the like are given in ounces (which I find annoying but doable) but in later recipes flour, etc. are given in cups (which I prefer). This is by no means a game changer. Consistency is just a plus.

Also, for those of you who note these things. Nutritional information is not provided. Most recipes have pictures but not all. The ones that do currently have my drool all over them. Good thing that this isn’t your copy of the book, eh? 😉

I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I didn't really find many recipes that inspired me or were new to me, and that's the cardinal sin for a recipe book for me. Now, I'm a fairly experienced vegetarian cook, but this book is also not so basic and simple that I'd consider it ideal for complete beginners. It's beautifully illustrated though, and there were a few recipes that seemed interesting: oaty apple pancakes, onion and arugula fritter, garlicky miso cavolo nero, cashew spread, sweet potato steaks, gnocci in cashew 'cheese' sauce, West African peanut stew, Bangkok satay noodles, gnocci with butterbeans, tomato and spinach, and balsamic mushrooms with polenta. Written out like that it sounds like a lot, but overall I just felt a little underwhelmed by the majority of the recipes, which often seemed obvious or unoriginal.

3/5

***Special thanks to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for providing me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review***

I really like this book. As someone who s not vegan, but is trying to add vegan this book has a ton of awesome recipes (the Lentil and Quinoa Burgers are oustanding).

My only problems were with the online format, it was very hard to look through the recipes which in turn made it not very visually apealing. The recipes are awesome though.

I would recommend this book, just not an online copy.

There are a plethora of good recipes for the non-meat eater in your life within these pages! Many creative and unique things compared to many other veggie cookbooks I own.

As a newish Vegan I'm always looking for new recipe ideas, so the idea of having so many in one place was appealing.

The recipes are nicely laid out with easy to follow instructions and don't rely on hard to find ingredients, which can be an issue with Vegan cookbooks.

There is a good mixture of recipes presented - with foods from different cultures being included. The food photography is nothing special, however, which might be a sore point if you're one to eat with your eyes.

The recipes just didn't inspire me, however. There was little that felt new or exciting. I'd recommend the collection to new Vegetarians or Vegans, or those looking to explore meatless meals. If you're more familiar with this kind of cooking, however, I'd look elsewhere.

Are you or someone you know a vegan? If yes, this book is sure to be a hit. It is also a terrific resource for non vegans. Imagine so many recipes all accessible in one large volume. Included are ideas for breakfast, salads, soups, hearty comfort food, sweet treats and more. There is even a section called Quick and Tasty for when time is scarce.

It is impossible to list even a fractions of the recipes included in this compendium. Just a few are those for French Toast Maple Syrup Muffins ; Cauliflower Rice with Spiced Walnuts;, Coconut, Zucchini and Mushroom Soup; Three Tomato and Goat Cheese Tart; Vegetable Pastitsio and Chestnut and Mushroom Bourguignon. Each recipe has clear directions and there is a photograph to accompany each.

This is a wonderful resource. Enjoy!

Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title. All opinions are my own.

4 out of 5 stars

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a copy of this in exchange for an honest review.

I have been trying to get back into eating plant based and trying to get others around to me to at least see it’s benefits.

Plant based diets are often ‘dumbed down’ and turned basic and its the main reason people aren’t interested. The recipes in this show that all food can be made plant based very easily. I mean a 1000 recipes come on how many more do you need.

As one of my new year resolutions I want to eat less meat from now on, and so when I encountered this book I though it would be the perfect opportunity to discover new recipes. As for the recipes themselves, there was a vast variety of dishes and they looked delicious. I am excited to try so many of these during this year, and further in the future of course! As soon as peaches are in season I will be trying the arugula and peach salad, it was definitely one of my favourites.

One thing I kind of want to complain is the digital format was a bit difficult to read and some of the pages were kind of weird, but I don’t think that will happen in the printed copy. Also this didn’t lower my rating by any means.

Such a large variety of meals and each one has so many variations to change up the dish and make it unique! Gives me so many amazing ideas for meals and such delicious and easy recipes to make during the week and for a crowd!! This is a winner!

Best vegan/vegetarian cookbook I’ve seen. I’m not a vegetarian but I am trying to make a few meat free meals a week for my family. This book is easy to follow with recipes that won’t have you missing the meat. The Mediterranean roasted veggie wrap is going to be a weekly meal in my house. Quick and flavorful. Biggest positive in my opinion is this there are pictures with 90% of the recipes. We eat with our eyes first so it makes sense to entice us with what the meal will (or should) look like when finished. Also there’s ways to switch up or switch out ingredients included with some of the recipes too.

This is one of the most exciting vegetarian books I’ve read in a long time. Every recipe enticed me and I can’t wait to make them.

I was thrilled to receive this cookbook to review. My young nephew has some significant egg/milk allergies.  Finding recipes for meals and snacks for him has been extremely difficult.  This cookbook was a godsend, it has some fantastic recipes in it.  The limited photos are not problematic for me as I am mostly interested in the recipes and content.  If you need a easy to use vegan cookbook, this is a great selection.  I like the alternatives to “non-vegan” foods that are included

I'm trying to make fewer meat-based recipes, so this is a treasure trove of recipes for new ideas! The ones I've already made were liked by the family!

I am neither vegan or vegetarian, but I am however trying to make an effort to eat a little less meat, both for health and cost reasons.
What I wasn't expecting to find was many beautiful and interesting dairy free desert ideas (I am lactose intolerant)!

This cookbook has clear and easy to follow instructions to make creative dishes which are interesting in their own right - not just 'animal product free' versions of already popular meals.
As someone who was openly rather skeptical when I first sat down to read it, I am pleased to say I am genuinely impressed.

Make 2021 the year you explore cooking that little bit more and stop relying on the same few tried and tested meals (easily done, I know I'm guilty of it!).

I enjoyed reading through this book and finding some new vegan recipes. Many of the recipes that I thought would be vegan, weren't, when they really could have been just by subbing plant milk or using a flax egg.

A nice book with good recipes. In the beginning I thought they were quite rich and fatty, but there are healthy salads and soups in the book as well. Not every recipe comes with a picture. I will try some of these recipes and I can see a few becoming favorites. Hard to pick out a favorite one yet, but I especially appreciated the vegan milk recipes at the very beginning. Points for the more exotic recipes. They look very interesting!

This is a nice compilation of recipes, especially for vegetarians (as opposed to vegans) as quite a lot of the recipes use animal products like eggs and dairy. It won't work for me as there is no nutritional information provided for the recipes and it is rather high-carb and low-protein, plus there are a lot of wheat-based recipes and one of my kids is gluten free. There are photos for some recipes but not the majority. Several recipes are put on each page, with relatively easy directions. It honestly didn't seem like 1000 recipes at all to me but I'll take their word for it. This will be a nice addition to a vegetarian cookbook collection or good gift for the newly vegetarian, especially younger vegetarians who don't have to be as conscious of things like carb, protein and fiber counts.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

This cookbook is a useful compilation of all sorts of vegan and vegetarian recipes, from many different cultures. Most seem easy to make, with nice photos to illustrate the final product in most cases. In some recipes, the traditional methods are altered to make it easier and lower fat content--for example, the Baked Zucchini Falafel avoids frying in oil. There are also some interesting chapters: Grazing Dishes, Quick & Tasty, and Feed a Crowd. With such a wide assortment of foods, this cookbook will be well-used in any household, whether vegan/vegetarian or not.