Can anyone recommend a vegetable cookbook?

[JulieAnderton]

I've been getting a weekly veg box for a few months and would like to extend my meal repertoire using veg as the main ingredient.

I'm not interested in recipes that use quorn/tofu etc as a substitute for meat; I'm not vegetarian, I'd just like to make more meals using veg as the main ingredient.

Thank you.

Who do you get your veg box from?

The Riverford book is very good

Hugh Fearnley-W's Veg Every Day is good.

Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian.

It is organised by vegetable, so if you have okra or green beans or just too many potatoes, you turn to that section and have a list of recipes from Indonesia to Greece! For the stuff that you're unfamiliar with it also includes preparation info.

It's a local veg box - everything from within the county I live in. Thanks for the recommendations for the Riverford and Hugh Fearnley-W's books.

Ottolenghi's Plenty

(His garlic and goat cheese tart is the scrummiest!

Ooh, the Madhur Jaffrey book looks fab as well.

Sorry, another x-post! I'll look up Ottolenghi's book in a minute. Definitely think I'm due a trip to my local bookshop to browse all of these suggestions.

Second Madhur Jaffrey and Hugh FW, not got Ottolenghi's book or the Riverford book but am off to look for them - thanks for this thread OP.

Abel and Cole do a good book and the Covent Garden books have some fab soups too.

As well as Hugh's Veg everyday, and the Riverford book and website(where I get my veg box), Leith's Vegetarian Bible is really brilliant because it clusters the veg together (eg stalks, brassicas, vegetable fruits) so you can easily substitute. Learn to love beetroot and kohlrabi. And Hugh taught me to put swede in risotto.

As Lego says, Leith's Vegetable Bible has a recipe for any kind of vegetable you could ever hope to come across

Another vote for HFW's Veg Everyday. I also bought 'Cooking Outside the Box' which is specifically for veg box ideas.