Kansha: Celebrating Japan's Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions is a cookbook that is written by Elizabeth Andoh. There aren’t a lot of resources for Japanese vegan and vegetarian recipes, so this book is highly praised for its offerings. The recipes are inexpensive and the book serves as a guide to this style of eating rather than just a compilation of recipes. There are over 100 vegan recipes within this cookbook and kansha cooking makes sure you waste nothing. Some of the recipe categories include rice, noodles, stocks and soups, fresh from the market and desserts. Along with the recipes are chapters covering tools and techniques, a guide to the kansha kitchen and a catalog of ingredients.
Vegan cooking gets even more interesting with the Japanese twist that these recipes include. You will definitely want to check out the introduction as well as the other chapters that aren’t specifically recipe oriented. They will give you some great insight into the food you’ll be cooking with this book.
Book offers help with techniques and tools you’ll need
Encourages vegan way of eating
Kansha cooking eliminates waste
Not just a recipe book
Recipes broken out into categories
Inexpensive to prepare
CON
Only contains vegan recipes
DIET and NUTRITION
Kansha: Celebrating Japan's Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions offer some great vegan recipes for those wanting to learn the Japanese technique of kansha cooking. There are over 100 recipes within this book and they are inexpensive to prepare. The various categories of recipes include rice, noodles, stocks and soups, fresh from the market and desserts. Some of the included recipes are:
Classic sushi rice
Rice with salted cherry blossoms
Skillet-tossed curried rice
Pom-pom sushi
Flat plate udon noodles
Chilled sobu noodles with miso dip
Slithery somen noodles
Steamed soy milk custard
Tricolored vegetables rolled in fried tofu
Warm and spicy cabbage and pepper slaw
Gingery enoki mushrooms with carrots
Vegetables picked in rice bran
Good fortune pickles
EXERCISE
There is no exercise component with this cookbook.
CONCLUSION
Kansha: Celebrating Japan's Vegan and Vegetarian Traditions offers a wonderful array of recipes for those wanting to learn to cook vegan foods in a Japanese way. There are over 100 recipes within the cookbook so you have plenty to choose from. This cookbook doesn’t only offer recipes; it also teaches you the techniques you need to be successful with this style of cooking. This book covers a new range of vegan eating and can be great for those interested in cooking this way.
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