Table Of Content“Plant-based cuisine that is inventive, flavorful, fun and above all else, accessible to the
masses. You will fall in love with Dustin's approachable recipes that flourish with familiar
ingredients we all know and love. Not just for vegans, everyone will enjoy this over-the-
top spin on comfort classics paired with beautiful images, personal anecdotes, and an
entertaining, can-do approach!”
—Miyoko Schinner, author, television host, founder and CEO of Miyoko’s Kitchen
“Dustin has taken his vegan creations to a whole other level! Every recipe in Epic Vegan
starts off as a true classic, but then he puts his magical twist on it to make it unique,
scrumptious, and, most importantly, very easy to make. I’ve been lucky enough to taste-test
all of these recipes and, let me tell you, they are amazing! What’s not to drool over in his
Almost Famous Buffalo Chicken Lasagna and Pumpkin Cream Cheese Latte Shake? His
Double-Stacked Cookie Dough Cake had me begging for more!”
—Chloe Coscarelli, vegan chef and author of Chloe Flavor
“Everyone is going to be able to cook, create, and bake everything they have been
craving, sans animal products. And, they’ll be healthier, happier, full, and satisfied without
any excuses.”
—Doron Petersan, Food Network Cupcake Wars champion, author of Sticky
Fingers’ Vegan Sweets, and owner of Sticky Fingers and Fare Well D.C.
“Pure vegan joy! From succulent seitan to lobster rolls in a biscuit, this treasure trove of
recipes shall turn your normal dinner rotation into a vegan road trip for the ages.”
—Kale Walch, The Herbivorous Butcher
“Dustin Harder throws the plant-based party of the year with Epic Vegan. With genius
recipes (hello, Franks ’n Mac Pizza, Breakfast Nachos, and Birthday Cake Shakes) and
Harder’s signature humor, this cookbook is an absolute blast.”
—Colleen Holland, publisher and co-founder VegNews Magazine
“If you have ever had an inkling or craving for some serious stunt food as a vegan, Dustin has
you more than covered with Epic Vegan. Combinations that only a mad food scientist could
come up with are executed beautifully for dishes that are guaranteed to make you salivate.”
—Jackie Sobon, author of Vegan Yack Attack On the Go! and Vegan Bowl Attack!
“Epic Vegan is a kick-ass cookbook, breaking the stereotype that vegan food is bland,
limited, and boring. A great addition to that must-have cookbook list!”
—Chad Sarno, chef, author, and co-founder of Wicked Healthy
and VP Culinary Good Catch Foods
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WILD AND OVER-THE-TOP
PLANT-BASED RECIPES
DUSTIN HARDER
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© 2019 Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc.
Text © 2019 Dustin Harder
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This book is dedicated to
all of the adults who still
like to play with their food.
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CONTENTS
Introduction 08 The Cheesiest Cheese Sauce 44 Sweet Chili Cocktail Peanuts 80
Saucy Mozzarella 45 Jumbo Phish ’n Chips Sushi Roll 82
Chapter 1 12 Sweet Thai Chili Sauce 46 Loxed and Loaded Bagel Bites 83
Basic Betty: Mellow Mushroom Gravy 47 Everything Buffalo Cauliflower
FUNdamental Recipes Red, White, and BBQ Sauce 48 Bites 84
Quinoa Bacon Bits 14 Fuss-Free Tartar Sauce 50
Chapter 5 86
Hemp Parmesan 14 Avocado Sour Cream 50
Monster Handhelds:
Happy Hash Browns 15 Crackle and Fudgy
Beastly Bites Fit for
Easy Creamy Shells and Cheese 16 Chocolate Sauce 51
Kings and Queens
Meet the Meats 18 Silky Sunflower Caramel Sauce 52
Triple-Decker Brekky Sammy 88
—All-American Burgers 18 Easy Whip 2 Ways 53
Bacon Macaroni and Cheese
—Breakfast Sausage Patties 18 BBQ Blue Burger 90
Chapter 3 54
—Meatballs 18 Lobster Roll ’n a Biscuit Sliders 92
Brazen Breads: All the
Philly Cheesesteaks 20 Bacon–Cinnamon Roll Burger
Dough You Knead!
Simply Seitan 22 with Peanut Butter 92
Cray Cray Bread 56
Fried Chicken 23 Breakfast Platter Dog 94
Pizza Dough 57
Lobster Rolls 24 Waffle Tot Grilled Cheese 95
Festive Cheesy Spinach Bread 58
Mom’s Chili 25 Sweet Thai Peanut
Pretzel Dough 60 Cauliflower Tacos 96
Crispy Drive-Thru Potato Wedges 26
—Pretzel Bowls 60 Noritos Los Tacos 98
Murphy’s Slaw 27
—Pretzel Bites 60 Fried Chicken ’n Waffle
Beer-Battered Tofu Phish 28
—Soft Pretzels 60 Benedict Sandwich 99
Crab Rangoon 30
Cornbread Croutons 62 Hushpuppy Phish Fillet Sandwich 100
Eggsellent Eggs 32
Monte Cristo Rolls 63 The Hangover Breakfast
—Baked 32
Sandwich 102
Cinnadiction Rolls 66
—Scrambled 32
Mac Daddy Crunch Burrito 103
Garlicky Cheddar Biscuits
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough 33
with Sausage Gravy 68
Cake Batter and Buttercream Sweet Potato Waffles with Chapter 6 104
Frosting 34
Cardamom Butter 70 Pizza! Pizza! Cheesus
Fudgy AF Brownies 36 Crispy Cream Donuts 71 Take the Wheel!
Very Vanilla Ice Cream 37
Deep-Dish Brunch Pizza 106
Chapter 4 74 Pizzabon 108
Chapter 2 38
There’s an App for That! Franks ’n Mac Pizza 109
Sauced Up: Sauces and Dips Nibbles and Passed Bites
Pizza Burrito Supreme 110
for Slatherin’ and Dippin’ for a Crowd
Stuffed-Crust Meatball Parm Pizza 112
Beet Marinara 40 Mac and Cheese Pretzel Bites 76
Upside-Down Deep-Dish Pizza 114
Hollandaise for Days 40 Disco Pretzel Bites 77
Cheesesteak Pizza 115
Dreamy Creamy Cream Cheese 41 Chili Cheese Potato Wedges
Crab Rangoon Pizza 116
Blue Cheese Dressing 42 with Quinoa Bacon Bits 77
Unicorn French Bread Pizza 118
Coconut-Cheddar Fondue 43 Breakfast Nachos 78
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Chapter 7 120 Chapter 9 150 Acknowledgments 186
Pasta Paradise: The Shake It Off! Chill Sips for
Pastabilities Are Endless! Every Occasion Index 187
Spinach and Artichoke Ultimate Caramel Cookie
Stuffed Shells 122 Brownie Shake 152 About the Author 192
Creamy Jambalaya Pasta Cinnamon French Toast Shake 154
with Crispy Chicken 123 Coffee and Donuts Shake 155
French Onion Pasta Bake Birthday Cake Shake 156
with Pizza Croutons 124
Strawberry Short Shake 158
Almost Famous Buffalo
Pumpkin Cream Cheese
Chicken Lasagna 126
Latte Shake 160
Lobster Mac and Cheese 130
Cookie Dough Frostee 162
Baked Spaghetti and
Blood Orange Mimosa Float 162
Meatball Pie 131
The Fancy Marga-Reba 163
David’s Carby Carbonara 132
Red Wine Tempeh with
Chapter 10 164
Creamy Bucatini 134
Sweet Emotions: Donut
Chocolate Chickpea Ravioli 135
Come for Me! Sweets
to Make Friends
Chapter 8 136
Epic PB&J Bars 166
Bowls of Stuff: Fork It,
Caramel-Stuffed Cookies
Spoon It, Slurp It!
‘n Cream Cupcakes 167
Fried Chicken Noodle Soup 138
Double-Stacked Cookie
Savory Cheddar Fondue Dough Cake 168
Waffle Bowl 139
Matcha Mint Pops with
Loaded Baked Potato Soup Pistachio Crunch Shell 170
with Pretzel Bowls 140
I Try to Think About Elvis
Keepin’ It Clean Bowl 142 Ice Cream 171
Wonton Bowls with Garlic- Churro Cup Sundaes 172
Fried Quinoa 144
S’mores Cookie Cups 174
Bless-Your-Heart Bowl 146
Sneaky Pickle Pineapple
Cheesesteak Baked Potato Bowl 147 Ice Cream 175
Grilled Romaine Bowl with Kale Me Crazy Ice Cream 177
White BBQ Sauce 148
Power Tower Brownie Sundae 178
Captain Chow Donuts with
Salty Peanut Butter Filling 180
Pad Thai Cupcakes 182
The Hotel Cookie Ice Cream
Sandwich 184
Sweet ’n Salty Bookmark Bars 185
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8 | EPIC VEGAN
INTRODUCTION
Why This Book? it will ignite a spark, relieve some While plant-based restaurants are
intimidation, and help guide that offering more stunt food or over-the-top
Let’s get epic! It’s time to stop taking person toward a happier, healthier, creations to excite the masses these
food so seriously and letting pretentious and more compassionate lifestyle. days, I thought it would be epic if you
chefs scare you out of the kitchen. It’s could create some stunt food of your
time to play with your food. Who’s In 2007, when I was transitioning own at home. You know—foods to
with me?! into a plant-based lifestyle, I found wow guests at parties, put together
myself turned off from it because I felt
with friends and family, and take
This book was heavily inspired by my judged within the vegan community
pictures of for Instagram.
travels while filming my video series for my past meat-and-potatoes lifestyle,
The Vegan Roadie. During these travels, and because I was eating processed Some of these recipes truly are a
I learned many things, primarily that animal-free foods. After muddling my marriage of wacky ideas, while others
people are hesitant about plant-based way through the judgment of others, I are replicas and combinations of foods
eating because they feel it’s unfamiliar, have this advice to offer: It’s about that will be familiar to you from our
boring, or bland. Consumers have YOU. I want you to honor your journey, fast-food nation.
been heavily influenced by a fast-food and for goodness sake, have some
I know the idea of building recipes
nation with snappy ad campaigns epic fun along the way! I applaud
on top of each other might sound
boasting over-the-top creations. But you for taking any steps, big or small,
intimidating, but fear not! This book
vegans can create fun, irreverent, toward eliminating animal products of
starts you out with some very simple
and exciting food too! This book is any kind from your diet and lifestyle.
variations of classic comfort foods
an invitation for vegans (and their My only hope is that this book gets you
like macaroni and cheese, fried
nonvegan friends) to come together in excited about the possibilities that lie
chicken, pizza, burgers, and donuts.
the kitchen, communicate, and create. ahead for you.
Each chapter incorporates these
I started The Vegan Roadie in 2014 basics, combining them to make epic
The Epic Food
after I graduated from the Natural stunt-food creations. So here’s your
Gourmet Institute in New York City. I This book is greatly influenced by what chance, beginners and experts alike:
had a committed mission to bridge the is known as “stunt foods.” What is a Grab your apron (or your wig and
gap between vegans and nonvegans, stunt food, you ask? You know when high heels to turn on your inner Julia
to make plant-based eating accessible a Broadway show brings in a really Child—whatever gets you excited in
and welcoming, and, above all else, big television or movie star to play a the kitchen), and get ready to create
to entertain and make cooking or lead role in order to sell tickets? That’s some magic. Get ready… to be EPIC.
dining out a FUN experience. I have called “stunt casting,” and “stunt
always said, “I can’t get someone to food” is sort of the same thing. Crazy
go from eating double cheeseburgers creations like the Dorito-shell taco at
to drinking green smoothies in one Taco Bell or the fried chicken bun at
day. But I can replace that double KFC serve the same purpose: to lure
cheeseburger with an exact replica customers.
in taste, texture, and sight.” Maybe
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