Japanese cuisine: Fatty tuna Wagyu beef Pork broth Fried chicken Squid guts It's a MINEFIELD for mindful vegans. OR SO IT SEEMS. In reality, there's an enormous amount of Japanese food that is inherently vegan or can be made vegan with just a few simple substitutions. And it's not just abstemious vegan Buddhist temple fare (although that is very lovely) - you can enjoy the same big, bold, salty-sweet-spicy-rich-umami flavours of Japanese soul food without so much as glancing down the meat and dairy aisles. Because Japanese cooking is often inherently plant-based, it's uniquely vegan-friendly. The oh-so satisfying flavours of Japanese cuisine are usually based in fermented soybean and rice products, and animal products were seldom used in cooking throughout much of Japanese history. Yes, there is fish in everything, in the form of dashi, but you can easily substitute this with a seaweed and mushroom-based version that's every bit as delicious. This book won't so much teach you how to make dubious 'vegan versions' of Japanese meat and fish dishes - because it wouldn't be good, and there's no need Instead, Vegan JapanEasywill tap into Japan's wealth of recipes that are already vegan or very nearly vegan - so there are no sad substitutions and no shortcomings of flavor.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
QUADRILLE Publishing, The Limited
ISBN-10
1784882844
ISBN-13
9781784882846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
9038675510
Product Key Features
Book Title
Vegan Japaneasy : over 80 Delicious Plant-Based Japanese Recipes
Author
Tim Anderson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Regional & Ethnic / Japanese, Vegan
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Cooking
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
7.7in
Item Weight
32.2 Oz
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Reviews
It is, quite apart from being a ravishingly beautiful book, full of recipes that make even this meat eater hungry and happy. It's also something of a primer on flavour, pointing the home cook towards one taste sensation after another.