Veganuary has always been sold as a kind of moral reset – lighter, cleaner, better behaved. But if the idea of a month-long diet of limp salads and joyless “swaps” fills you with dread, this collection is here to prove that eating vegan doesn’t mean eating small, bland or boring. Quite the opposite, in fact.
What links these recipes isn’t restraint, but generosity: big flavours, clever textures and the sort of dishes you actually look forward to cooking after a long day. There’s comfort here – from steaming bowls of ramen and rich, brothy soups to pasta slicked with lemony, creamy sauces – but also a sense of playfulness. Think baked beans transformed into a dal that somehow feels both nostalgic and genuinely new, crispy tofu standing in unapologetically for fried chicken, and jackfruit doing what it does best: soaking up sticky, savoury sauces and pretending, very convincingly, to be something else entirely.
