One of the best ways to explore vegan cooking is to hop from one cuisine to the next. This will expose you to an incredible variety of dishes, relying on all manner of ingredients, cooking techniques, and seasonings.
Vegan Cuisine Possibilities
Vegans don’t gravitate to any one cuisine in particular, since they’ve got so many standout choices. But some parts of the world are far more vegan-friendly than others. If you’re already vegan or you lean in that direction, it’s helpful to know which cuisines offer the most satisfying plant-based meals.
To help you on your way, check out my guides below. You’ll thereby discover each cuisine’s most exciting and reliably vegan dining options.
- Ethiopian Food
- Indian Food
- Italian Food
- Japanese Food
- Mexican Food
- Middle Eastern Food
- Soul Food
- Thai Food
- Vietnamese Food
Top Cuisines for Cooking Plant-Based Meals at Home
If you want to learn how to cook vegan-friendly international dishes, consider starting with Mexican food. It offers a vast assortment of delicious and healthy plant-based dishes, and most are remarkably easy to prepare.
When you’re ready to branch out to try other cuisines, you have countless enticing possibilities. See the Cuisines from Around the World section of my cookbooks page for 20 different recommendations. And if you want a “greatest hits” collection of international recipes packed into a single cookbook, pick up Vegan Eats World by Terry Hope Romero.
Finding Vegan-Friendly Restaurant Food
When dining out, Middle Eastern restaurants offer the most consistently vegan-friendly menus. Nearly everything that isn’t meat is commonly vegan, especially falafel, hummus, tahini dressing (but check that it’s yogurt-free), tabbouleh salad, and lavash bread or pita. Many Middle Eastern restaurants also accompany your dish with an assortment of fresh vegetables, plus vegetarian dolmas, Kalamata olives, and pickled turnips.
My How to Go Vegan guide offers additional coverage of vegan-friendly restaurant cuisines. Exploring these menu offerings pays off in all sorts of ways, enabling you to make your plant-based diet even more diverse.
