The 30-Minute Vegan: Soup’s On!: More than 100 Quick and Easy Recipes for Every Season

For the uninitiated, adopting a vegan diet can be challenging, particularly when the focus is on what you cannot eat. No dairy. No meat. No eggs. What else is there? If you’re ready for a change and you have a good guide, you’ll find plenty of alternatives. The 30 Minute Vegan: Soup’s On is an excellent starting place with its singular focus on one type of food. There’s no need to totally restock your kitchen with uncommon ingredients because Mark Reinfeld offers an accessible means for easing into vegan cooking. Thankfully these recipes, ranging from vegetable-based to creamy to raw and dessert soups, feature commonly used items to create appetizing, uncomplicated soups that will make you reconsider veganism. Veggies, grains, beans, pasta, and lots of spices feature prominently in most of the recipes. Soups like African Peanut and Corn Chowder are prepared using almond butter and nuts, respectively, instead of heavy cream. Readers will learn other substitutions to make non-vegan dishes vegan, and Reinhold provides variations for many of the soups. Consult the chapter on garnishes and side if you’re unsure what to serve with your soup. Appendices provide additional opportunities for expanding your knowledge of vegan and healthy cooking.