There are plenty of reasons to go vegan. For one, it can help you contribute to animal welfare and do your part to save the planet. Thanks to the diverse nutrients found in plant-based foods, a vegan diet can also be one of the best for your health. However, transitioning to veganism doesn’t come without challenges. One of the biggest hurdles? You’ll have to cook from scratch.
A study from the academic journal reports that the research time cooking skills needed to whip up plant-based meals intimidated its participants. In fact, researchers find that it’s among the biggest perceived barriers to becoming vegan in the first place. After all, you need to determine the ingredients you need, where to find them, how to prep and season them, and how to cook them to perfection.
If you’re a new vegan and find the prospect of cooking with restrictions daunting, don’t worry! There are plenty of ways to expand your plant-based knowledge in the kitchen and kickstart your vegan transition. One of the best ones are vegan cooking audiobooks. Written by experts, this format is easy to listen to even as you do some culinary experimentation, making it a quick and easy way to build your vegan know-how.
To get you started, here are some of the best vegan audiobooks to try cooking with—and where to get them.
Cooking from the Spirit: Easy, Delicious, and Joyful Plant-Based Inspirations
This audiobook comes from none other than America’s mom, Tabitha Brown. The vegan foodie went viral on TikTok for popularizing surprising plant-based recipes, such as BLTs, carrot hotdogs, and even vegan scallops. Today, she’s released vegan product lines—including cookware and plant-based seasoning blends—with the likes of Target and McCormick, and was recently featured as one of Kean University’s distinguished lecturers for her message of enacting positive change.
That’s what makes her cookbook perfect for new vegans. In Cooking from the Spirit, you’ll get that same transformative energy. Instead of focusing on limitations, it reminds those new to plant-based cooking to have fun in the kitchen! From recipes on “sausage” scrambles and crab-less cakes to tips on seasoning and cooking, this audiobook can effectively dispel the myth that vegan cooking is restrictive and can’t be tasty—and with Brown herself narrating her insights in warm and friendly tones, you’ll only be further encouraged to find your own path as you transition to a meatless diet.
Vegan Nice Cream Recipes: 56 Guilt-Free and Delicious Banana Ice Cream Recipes
If you’ve read our post , you’ll know that taking baby steps and finding vegan substitutes can be crucial for easing the transition to a plant-based lifestyle. Instead of going cold turkey, slowly phase out meat and dairy and replace them with alternatives. The beauty of these tips is that they can be applied to all the comfort foods you’re going to miss—including ice cream. For this, A Healthier Michigan recommends nice cream. You’d typically make it with bananas sliced, frozen, and blended to smooth perfection. Aside from being vegan, it’s keto, lactose- and gluten-free, low in calories—and it surprisingly tastes like the real thing!
But how much can you play with it? Listen to Vegan Nice Cream Recipes for the answer. Written by prolific vegan author Kelli Rae, who’s also behind titles like Vegan Diet for Beginners and 42 Vegan Burgers and Sandwiches, it lists more than half a hundred recipes that can help you recreate your favorite flavors, whether it’s mint chocolate chip, peanut butter, or cookie dough. With additional tips on how to ensure nice cream tastes more like its traditional counterpart, this audiobook means you won’t have to give up on your guilty pleasures as a vegan.
Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook: Healthy and Delicious Plant-Based Recipes for Your Pressure Cooker
Plant-based cooking can be time-consuming, especially if you’re trying to recreate non-vegan dishes. Seitan alone can take anywhere between 20 minutes and five hours to make if you want to replicate the fibers that make it such a good chicken alternative, and you’re likely to land on the extreme end of that range if you’re new to vegan cooking. As mentioned above, that can be particularly discouraging for starting vegans, and even more so if you’re on a busy schedule and don’t have time outside the weekends to dedicate to learning the necessary skills.
That’s where the Vegan Instant Pot Cookbook can come in handy. Pressure cookers create meals you can “set and forget,” making this audiobook ideal for plant-based meal prepping. Containing both sweet and savory recipes for everything from beans and vegetables to soups and grains, it’s perfect for learning how to cook the vegan way when you don’t have the time to try more involved dishes. The cooking audiobook itself also only takes an hour to get through, making it a truly quick and easy solution for new vegans.
Where to listen to vegan audiobooks
As a beginner, you’ll probably want to parse through a number of vegan cooking audiobooks to find titles that perfectly suit not just your culinary preferences, but any dietary restrictions and nutritional requirements you may have. You may end up listening to one and putting it down for another if it doesn’t suit your needs, which can get pretty pricey. To avoid this while still benefiting from the insights audiobooks have to offer, try using a subscription plan to access digital libraries. Everand’s audiobook selection is particularly suited for this because of the sheer range it offers in exchange for a flat monthly fee.
This includes bestsellers like The Korean Vegan Cookbook and Vegan Bodybuilding. To take it further, you can get audiobook recommendations from Spotify. This is another platform you can try that uniquely highlights new authors, helping expand your library of vegan insights. Notably, it’s set to come out with a Daylist feature that was previously used to recommend music to listeners depending on their mood. When adapted for audiobooks, it can help you come up with meal ideas on the spot—which can be especially useful if you’re craving something specific and want to know how to cook it the vegan way.
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