If you are new to eating a plant-based diet or just looking for some new recipes, a new plant-based cookbook may be a good thing to add to your wish list! Today, I’m going to share a list of the Best Plant-Based Cookbooks! Ok, it’s totally my opinion but these are the books I have on my shelf or hope to add soon!
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The Best Plant-Based Cookbooks
I believe this list of plant-based cookbooks has something for everyone! Most of the authors mentioned have websites where you can do a little research to see if the recipes are your style before purchasing.
Budget-Friendly Recipes
If easy and budget friendly plant-based recipes are what you are looking for, try Plant-Based on a Budget.
Family-Friendly Recipes
Are you looking for recipes your whole family will eat? Then look no further than The Meatless Monday Family Cookbook. Jenn Sebestyen knows how to make delicious plant-based meals that her family love! I’ve been a fan of Jenn for years and know you will be too!
Instant Pot Recipes
I have recommended this book many times and will continue to do so. If you are looking for plant-based recipes for your Instant Pot then buy The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook for your Instant Pot! Kathy Hester is a genius! Her vegan queso is life changing and the recipe is in this book!
Plant-Based Newbies
I don’t know as much about Gabriel Miller’s new cookbook, the Plant-Based Diet for Beginners, but I’ve seen a lot of excitement about it, and well, it’s contagious! This book is SOS free (salt, oil and sugar free) for people who are avoiding those. I think this book would be helpful to anyone new to plant-based eating but especially young men who could benefit from a former athletes perspective.
The Most Flavorful
If I had to choose one word to describe Vegan Richa’s Everyday Kitchen it would be FLAVOR! Richa Hingle is known for her amazing recipes and flavors from all over the world. She is passionate about making vegan recipes easy and delicious but admits that many recipes have a long list of spices to create that amazing flavor. Richa provides plenty of substitutions for allergy or dietary needs, FYI some recipes do include oil.
Air Fryer Recipes
I purchased the Vegan Air Fryer by JL Fields in 2017! I really wanted to tackle foods like crispy french fries without the oil! 
The Most Variety
There is no way I could include every book in this list! There are so many good ones! I hope this list has something for everyone!
If you have a favorite plant-based cookbook, let me know! Maybe I’ll add it to the list!
If you are looking for more book recommendations, check out my list of my The Best Plant-Based Diet Books.
Some great tips! Makes me want to get all of them, even though I pretty much always cook without recipes, haha – it’s just so fun to read and get new ideas 🙂 Two of my all-time favourite cookbooks are ones I got as e-books, but they are available printed as well: “Straight Up Food” by Cathy Fisher of the blog by the same name is amazing, so many great SOS-free recipes, super flavourful, and with some of the best tips and tricks I’ve seen in a cookbook; and the Andrew Taylor’s “SpudFit” cookbook, which is perhaps surprisingly one of the most versatile cookbooks given that all recipes include some form of potato, since every single recipe comes from a different contributor – which also makes it a wonderful way of discovering more amazing people 🙂
Thanks so much for these recommendations. Cathy Fisher is wonderful! Her book definitely belongs in this list. I’m aware of Andrew Taylor but haven’t seen his cookbook. I love potatoes so I’m certain I would love the book too!
I’m like you and rarely use recipes. After I make something a few times I think, I should write this down and share it. 🙂
Our first plant based cookbook was “Give them something better”, but it uses plenty of SOS. It helped us with the transition immensely. Now we also enjoy “plant powered families”, “the how not to die cookbook” and YOUR recipes!