If you want to sit down to a special vegan brunch, delicious menu possibilities abound.
Brunch is a delicious fusion of breakfast and lunch, usually served as an indulgent meal on a lazy weekend morning. Given its traditionally heavy reliance on eggs and meat, brunch might appear off-limits to vegans. But in reality, it’s a remarkably vegan-friendly late-morning feast that lends itself to a multitude of enticing plant-based options.
Popular Vegan Brunch Items
Man, oh man, look at all these delicious possibilities!
- Vegan pancakes
- Vegan muffins
- Toast with vegan butter
- Tofu scramble
- Vegan sausages
- Home-fries or hash browns
- Vegan waffles
- Fruit slices or fruit cocktail
- Vegan cinnamon rolls
- Vegan bacon
- Coffee with vegan creamer
- Orange juice
- Mimosas
All of the above items are easy to prepare. So if you’re new to cooking, brunch is a great place to start. The most popular recipes are nearly impossible to screw up, yet they’re satisfying and full of flavor.
Vegan Egg and Meat Dishes
The preceding list makes clear that vegans have always had abundant brunch options. Yesterday’s vegans simply had to make do without omelets or traditional breakfast meats, since good vegan alternatives didn’t exist. But these limitations are no longer in place.
JUST Egg lets you make an omelet so eggy that your non-vegan friends wouldn’t know the difference. You can use this product in any egg-based omelet recipe, making no modifications whatsoever, and get perfect results.
When it comes to breakfast-style meats, you can choose from numerous vegan bacon and sausage products. If you’re new to vegan meats, start with vegan sausage, which is much more convincing than vegan bacon. The vegan bacon products currently on the market, while delicious, won’t fool anyone. They taste best shredded into a vegan omelet or as part of a vegan BLT.
Vegan Brunch Cookbooks
If you want to create a knock ’em dead vegan brunch, here are some cookbooks that deliver the goods:
- Vegan Brunch: Homestyle Recipes Worth Waking Up For, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz
- The Ultimate Vegan Breakfast Book, by Horn & Mayer
- Easy Vegan Breakfasts & Lunches, by Maya Sozer
- The Global Vegan Waffle Cookbook, by Dave Wheitner
