Plant-Based Filipino Food: Plant-Based Recipes You Should Try Today

The Filipino food has a heavy emphasis on meats, many vegans may not have had the chance to try dishes from the island country. But still, Filipino food can be vegan and still full of soul. This book is for those who prefer the food that Filipinos love to eat on regular and uneventful days. The goal of this book is to make this purpose-driven diet change an enjoyable undertaking that people do for themselves as it seeks to minimize the guesswork out of the leap to purely plant-based nutrition. But more than just a collection of recipes that are set the vegan way and are also suitable for vegetarians, this book provides a complete look at Filipino food and offers practical means to make the cuisine a viable staple for healthy eating. It begins with a brief history of Philippine cooking from the little that we know of its origins, its influences, and how it evolved to be both the familiar but unique-tasting food type that we know today. Finally, the book outlines simple steps in adapting the food to plant-based nutrition which includes a concise discussion of essential food ingredients as well as the lone supplement that plant-based consumers like us need to include or add more of in the food that we love to eat.