Are you a new or old vegan? If you’re a new vegan, are you looking for easy recipes for beginners? If you’re an old vegan, are you looking for new exciting dishes? Or are you a non-vegan who simply wants to take a break from their old diet and try healthy, plant-based, vegan recipes that are low-fat yet surprisingly tasty?

We’ve put together a list of 5 of the top vegan recipe sites and blogs that we know you’ll love.

1. Plant Powered Kitchen

Cooking for the whole family?

Best-selling author of The Everyday Vegan, Vive Le Vegan and Eat, Drink and Be Vegan, Dreena Burton, is behind Plant Powered Kitchen, a site that has recipes for the whole family including snacks and school lunches. There’s something for even the pickiest eaters. She also has recipes for oil-free dressings!

2. Happy Herbivore

If you want to be inspired by people whose health has improved thanks to their vegan diet, Happy Herbivore periodically shares “Herbie of the Week” stories. You’ll meet people who have lost weight, stopped needing to take medication, and are just healthier overall.

And of course, Happy Herbivore is filled with plant-based, low-fat recipes you will love. Easily search for recipes by tags such as gluten-free, single-serving, kid-friendly, and so on.

3. The Vegan 8

Want easy and simple vegan recipes? This is a great site for vegans who don’t consider themselves skilled cooks but want to try creating delicious meals on their own. The dishes on The Vegan 8 has an emphasis on using only 8 ingredients per recipe, not including salt, pepper, and water. All the recipes are also allergy-friendly and oil-free.

4. IsaChandra.com

Isa Chandra is the creator of Post Punk Kitchen, a fun and vibrant blog where you’ll still find her old vegan recipes. Isa is the bestselling author, or coauthor of the hit books Isa Does It, Veganomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance, and many other titles. Her new site has all the old PPK recipes and so many new ones.

Beyond cooking, she’s also into food photography. Expect to find amazing photos of her dishes on her site!

5. Fat Free Vegan

The Fat Free Vegan site makes searching for recipes for super easy thanks to its categories on the left-hand side of the homepage. We’re talking about a massive collection of recipes. The database has about 1200 recipes and counting.

You’ll find categories like Blog Recipe of the Week, Featured Recipes, Holiday, Meat Substitutes, among familiar categories such as breakfast, snacks, and desserts. Susan also keeps all her old recipes in her personal recipe blog, FatFree Vegan Kitchen. We should also mention that each dish is photographed beautifully!

Do you have a favorite vegan recipe site or blog? Tell us about it!