Power Plates: 100 Nutritionally Balanced, One-Dish Vegan Meals

Zeroed in on the specialty of making total, adjusted dinners that convey continued energy and sustenance, this book highlights 100 convincing and delightful plans that incidentally turn out to be vegetarian.

These 100 plans for healthy and feeding veggie lover food from blogger, nutritionist, and Food52 creator Gena Hamshaw assist you with making scrumptious vegetarian dinners that convey adjusted and continued energy. Each formula contains the key macronutrients of solid fats, complex starches, and proteins, which together make for a total supper - things like Smoky Red Lentil Stew with Chard, and Falafel Bowls with Freekah and Cauliflower. Photos go with every formula, indicating how Gena's basic strategies and new fixings yield delightful dinners. Extra tips and deceives for taking food in a hurry, and for cooking ahead toward the end of the week for snappy non-weekend day snacks and suppers, balance the assortment.

About the Author

GENA HAMSHAW is a certified nutritionist, recipe developer, cookbook author, and food writer. Her recipes and articles have been featured in the Huffington Post, Whole Living, O magazine, VegNews, Thrive magazine, Well and Good, Mind Body Green, Glamour, and the Chalkboard, among other publications. She is also a nutrition student, working toward a master's in nutrition and education and her RDN (Registered Dietary Nutritionist) at Teacher's College, Columbia University. She has written two cookbooks, Food52 Vegan and Choosing Raw, and is the author of the blog The Full Helping.

Phenomenal cook book! Ordered it on a whim based on the description and the author's nutrition background, and I was not disappointed. There's a variety of recipes in here inspired by cuisines across the globe, which really appeals to my variety loving palate. There's a lot of unique and delicious breakfast options featured that I would never have thought to make, amazing and hearty salads, vegan bowls, pastas... it's honestly everything I wanted in a vegan cookbook. I can see myself making all of these recipes, and I feel inspired and ready to cook, which is exactly what a good cookbook should do! The photos are glossy and gorgeous, and the pages are so thick. It's hardcover and high quality. You won't regret purchasing this book! --Alexa Joy

I have been a fan and follower of Gena’s blog from day 1, when she was challenging me to change the way I thought about plant-based eating and more specifically, raw food. It has been a joy to go on the journey she’s made as a nutrition counselor and masters’ student, culminating here with a plate that encompasses so much more than a label or a box to check. Her food is nutritious, but it is also delicious, inspired, and cozy. I now have a few more kids since first following Gena, and some of them have quite picky tastes. I’ve had Power Plates for less than a week, and we’re 5/5 on the recipes we’ve tried so far, including the Creamy Brown Rice with Peas (mushrooms omitted), the Brown Rice Tabbouleh Salad, the Warm Tofu Chop Salad, the Apple Ginger Muesli, and tonight’s Cheesy Cream of Broccoli Soup with Smoky Roasted Chickpeas. All the family, ages 5 through 41, loved all of the meals, I didn’t have to spend hours in the kitchen, find exotic ingredients, or make multiple sides to complete our plates. Though I’m vegan, the rest of my long-time vegetarian family has yet to strictly give up their dairy products, so I’m always looking for family-friendly vegan meals that will satisfy everyone. This book is it. I’ve bookmarked at least twenty more recipes to try and can’t wait to crack this book open again and again. You will not regret adding this book to your kitchen. --Sarah M.

What I really like about this book is the focus on meals. The chapters include: Breakfasts, Salads, Soups, Bowls, Skillets & Stovetop and Bakes. There is no chapter wasted on desserts. It has a focus on whole food plant based (WFPB) style but does utilize tempeh, tofu, miso, nutritional yeast and some prepared condiments and optional accompaniments (e.g. tortillas, bread, mock meats). The food styles are diverse and span across the globe from Indian, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Asian and etc. Unlike other cookbooks I’ve bought that had a few solid recipes, I found that I tagged at least 20 that I’m going to start with and then circle back for others. Well done --Dutch Girl

Power Plates: 100 Nutritionally Balanced, One-Dish Vegan Meals