The Essential Vegan Air Fryer Cookbook: 75 Whole Food Recipes to Fry, Bake, and Roast

One thing I have discovered about this author is that every recipe she puts in print is always delicious, healthy and has a meticulously balanced blend of spices, seasonings and supporting ingredients. As a long time vegetarian (48 years) I have tried many recipes by other authors that although were healthy were not that tasty or tasty but not that healthy. I have purchased every recipe book this author has written and have yet to have one of about a hundred that I have tried not be a success. I know that this author will not put a recipe in print until it meets the very highest of standards, which involves a great deal of testing and refinement to get the recipe just right. I like this book not only for the recipes but also that (as I have a too often desire for unhealthy 'fried' food) each recipe is color coded (green, blue or purple) for it's nutrition, balance, and level of healthiness. Don't worry there are no reds but she does recommend the purple recipes be consumed no more than 2-3 times per week, which will be no problem for me as six of the eight total 'purple recipes' were in the dessert section, and I usually go sans dessert anyways. Also her directions on how to exactly adjust the 'air frying' process for each recipe is priceless in making the recipe a success. Every recipe also lists prep time, cook time and per serving calories, fat grams, saturated fat g, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates g, fiber g and protein g for the time and health conscious among us. Her list of pantry staples and spices was helpful too for anyone starting out in healthy cooking or in my case to remind me to pick up some arrowroot as an alternative to cornstarch. I am so glad to now have the ability to exponentially expand the use of my air fryer and eat healthier! Thanks again Tess!

This cookbook is the best! So many good recipes and very helpful information - as in the perfect, easy to read and find list of how to air fry each vegetable! I made the “Immune-Boosting Grilled Cheese Sandwich” last night....it was the best grilled sandwich I have ever had! What a fantastic idea putting kimchee on your sandwich (at the end -not when in the air fryer.) Who knew you can do PERFECT grilled cheese sandwiches in your air fryer?!! I used the Chao cheese which melted perfectly. Tomorrow night I’m making the “Mexican Stuffed Potatoes”. I can’t wait to try every single recipe! I am a cookbook addict and am disappointed with a lot with my choices - not this one- I highly recommend this one.

It's pretty good, but not very much to it.

We're not vegan, but we don't use our air fryer for meat and I wanted recipe ideas. Super happy with it! We made the crispy salt and pepper tofu and my husband's immediate response was, "well the cookbook was officially worth it." Lots of tasty dishes with easy to find and common ingredients, and I like that it doesn't require a million accessories (she recommends a 6 inch round baking pan for some recipes, but there's plenty to make without it). I also appreciate that there's some nutrition information. She also uses a color system as a quick guide to how heavy or light a dish might be, but because she uses green, blue, and purple rather than traffic light colors, it's much easier to ignore if you're more into intuitive eating or just not interested

I bought this for a friends birthday gift and if course I had to check out the recipes first. Amazing delicious recipes. I would highly recommend this book.

75 recipes here, note there are other kindle books that have more. Probably worth the ninety-nine pennies I threw down. FEW PICTURES including a gratuitous but pretty shot of an aqua colored air fryer. The pictures tend to be full page arty shots and not informative on what the dish will look like. The usual blather about pantry staples in front (like you need this if you are already into vegan cooking and an air fryer. Skim past this.) Not all the recipes here use the air fryer for the main cooking; for example, Lemony Lentils with "Fried" Onions stews the lentils as you would do in a pot, but garnishes with air-fried onions. This isn't a bad recipe and it's a riff on dal with "tempering" (lentils Indian-style with a topping of onion, spices and oil.) The recipe book has kale chips, air-fried taco chips and if I had to name a style of cuisine, I'd say it tends to the Southwest and Mexi-American rather than international though there is a Panang curry bowl. Again, the air fryer's job is to make crunchy toppings on your typical stews and such. Not all the recipes are crunchy toppings and the book is trying to give you uses for that big football-helmet sized appliance on the counter, but it's basically air baking, so anything you can bake in a small round pot or more or less deep fry, you can do in the air fryer. Tofu with coating does well--when you do this in a fryer it absorbs a lot of oil and air frying makes sense. The dessert section is very full, so if you want baked goods baked in the air fryer there are many delights such as gooey lemon bars and raspberry streusel cake, even cookies and there is a breakfast cobbler with berries and oatmeal in the breakfast section. I'm not a big eater of baked goods and sweets. And if I'm making Apple Crisp I'm doing it in the oven or even toaster oven but wouldn't limit myself to the air fryer because I'm making enough for company. Most of these recipes I wouldn't bother to make because it's just extra work to get out the air fryer for a crunchy topping and I'm not baking in it, no real reason to do that. And a lot of the recipes are adjective-loaded, which is a writing thing that bugs me "Cozy Apple Crisp." "De-Light-Full Caramelized Apples." I think adjectives should be used for describing food the way you use salt: just a pinch and not a scoopful. Otherwise it gets a bit twee. Pro: Makes tasty dishes probably the entire family would like, because of texture and flavor Con: a bit of work and you can do many without the air fryer so why bother?

I like that the recipes have lots of explanations as to what variety of potato, or what kind of thickener, or variety of oil spray I can use. It is not entirely Whole Food Plant Based because some recipes call for the addition of oil, which the author explains, but I try substituting applesauce or water. I appreciated that her recipes are coded as to which are Fast, Family-Friendly, and Gluten-Free and are additionally color coded as to what is low fat/sugar (green), medium fat/sugar (blue), and high fat/sugar (purple). I own an Air Fryer, so it is very nice having this vegan option to use it.

After borrowing a ton of different air fryer and vegan cookbooks from the library I settled on this one. This is a big deal. There are so many cookbooks to choose from. And I don’t like to just collect them. This book is truly vegan but not using crazy ingredients. The recipes are easy to follow and tasty. In addition I love that it has a spiral binding which makes it fit nicely on my Pioneer Woman cookbook holder. ☺️Thank you Janet and Maddie for writing a normal, easy to use vegan air fryer cookbook. Not an easy task!