This Is How We Do It: 11 Amazing Vegan Recipes

When my wife and I started One Green Planet, we were certain that no platform focused on spreading good ideas that benefit people, animals and the planet would be complete without showcasing the most delicious instrument of change... vegan food! So, we tapped into some of the best vegan chefs, cookbook authors, food bloggers and enthusiasts with amazing culinary talents to create original recipes for One Green Planet.

We're happy to report that we've tried many of these recipes and they taste as delicious as they look. Give them a try, and find out how amazing vegan food can be.

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[ac89]

10:03 PM on 09/10/2011

The recipes look amazing. My favorite vegan cookbook is 1000 Vegan Recipes by Robin Robertson. There's just a few steps to each recipe and nearly all of the ingredients are easy to find at the farmers market, supermarket, or natural foods store.

It's so great to see veganism entering the mainstream.

[starshine65]

04:23 PM on 09/04/2011

I'm not a vegan or vegetarian, but I would definitely try these dishes. They look delicious!

[InedaName]

11:34 PM on 09/02/2011

I love fried green tomatoes but I can't find green tomatoes!

[Mundane Egg]

07:36 AM on 09/02/2011

I was vegan for 6 weeks. My downfall was cheese. Was vegetarian for years. Our diet is about 80% vegetarian now.

[EatMeSF]

11:47 AM on 09/01/2011

Do Pyaaza is one of my fav curry's, but I use potatoes in place of tempeh.

[Chuck Bluestein]

06:23 PM on 08/30/2011

Some vegans are doing it for ethical reasons. But some people, like Bill Clinton, are vegan for health reasons. So in the recipes above make sure to use dried can juice for where it says to use sugar. Or you can use raw agave. Regular sugar is refined and has no nutrients so it robs your body of nutrients.

[DanInAustin]

04:34 PM on 08/31/2011

It doesn't "rob your body of nutrients," it just doesn't add any.

[Chuck Bluestein]

03:51 AM on 09/12/2011

The body needs chromium to metabolize sugar. So it robs the body of chromium that was originally in the cane sugar.

[crom14]

06:34 PM on 08/31/2011

The CNN special on being Vegan was amazing. It will be replayed soon.

[garystartswithg]

01:18 AM on 08/30/2011

love me some fried artichoke hearts -- try them with simple bread crumbs and olive oil, you don't have to get a 100% coating, the artichoke showing through is all kinds of sexy. serve with a romesco sauce -- if i am lazy i make one from a jar of red peppers, a small can of salsa ranchero, and a small can of spanish tomato sauce, wine vinegar, and some pimenton -- spanish paprika should be a staple in any kitchen. get some now! you won't eat artichokes any other way after that -- guarantee.

[French Toast]

12:19 AM on 08/30/2011

Not my cup of tea, personally. I prefer as local as possible, as healthy as possible, and relatively unprocessed.

I avoid overuse of soy products. I actually quite enjoy a quality tofu, but I generally otherwise avoid soy cheese soy milk, and soy derived products. I refuse to eat seitan and on an unrelated note people need to stop trying to add chickpeas everywhere unless it has always been a part of that kind of dish (ie hummus).

Also, hemp milk ftw.

[garystartswithg]

01:09 AM on 08/30/2011

i think the further people move away from the concept of desert as treat the better off they are -- most vegan deserts are a boatload of overprocessed franken-soy stuff and sugars galore. if you want healthy decadence carmelize a little sugar and drizzle it on fresh fruit. melt a bar of dark chocolate if that isn't enough. i just had a peach cut up and steeped in wine. if that isn't decadent enough you really should rethink your diet.

[French Toast]

12:54 PM on 08/30/2011

So true. I do this all of the time. I drizzle dark chocolate or syrups on things or caramelize some sugar. Never too much. Always on something that is healthy.

I also eat slowly and take small bites. It's the same amount of flavor and I'll feel full with the same amount of food. Just this morning I had two normal sized blueberry pancakes drizzled with maple syrup. Afterwards I felt full. Eating slow can not be overstated IMO.

People tend to balk at the hemp milk price until I show them the glasses I drink them out of. They're not even American size small glasses. They're those really small Ball jars. I only drink water in any big quantity.

[training123]

12:04 PM on 08/30/2011

Why do you refuse to eat seitan?

Do you also refuse to eat bread?

[French Toast]

12:32 PM on 08/30/2011

1) I don't miss meat. I don't need mock meat.

2) I don't eat a lot of bread, no. My love of French toast partially arises from the fact that I eat so little bread that it stales. French toast was actually invented to save stale bread, hence why it tastes even better when you use it instead of fresh bread.

[crom14]

06:33 PM on 08/31/2011

Seitan is a very good form of protein.

[DebbyM]

09:29 PM on 08/29/2011

The food looks marvellous, the descriptions are clear and explain what we're looking at very clearly. Thanks for the article and pictures.

[Zimmers]

04:17 PM on 08/29/2011

While most of those looked delicious, repeating on every slide that the item is vegan when this article is on vegan recipes got to be very annoying. It seemed like you either thought that the reader would forget what the article is about or that you just wanted to cram the vegan-ness down our throats. Also a lot of those descriptions sounded like they were straight from a restaurant menu; meaning flat and insincere. Food should sell itself, we don't need elaborate descriptions to entice us.

[Nick Kuiper]

04:54 PM on 08/29/2011

I'm not sure if the author feels the same way, but whenever I describe food I eat to people who know I'm vegan I make sure to let them know it's vegan. It's not because I'm trying to "cram it down their throats" it's just that a lot of what I eat seems so non-vegan. Like I want people to know that the cheezy sauce on my nachos is dairy-free and that I haven't abandoned my veganism.

[DanInAustin]

04:36 PM on 08/31/2011

I veganly agree with your veganish descriptions of your vegan foods for your vegan friends.

[InedaName]

10:33 PM on 09/02/2011

"Food should sell itself, we don't need elaborate descriptio­ns to entice us."

I think people who write about food for a living, bloggers, critics, columnists, etc., would disagree with you about that.