12 Best Cookbooks (Review) In 2021

With over half a million fans and lovers on Facebook, the Thug kitchen has started a movement that enables you to eat healthier so that you can be a better you. Now, with the release of their cookbook, Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck, this movement has been taken to a whole other level. This cooking book teaches more than just the regular pretentious information about healthy food that is ever-present in most healthy cookbooks. It instead gives you deep insight into how to take charge of your diet and cook good yet healthy meals.

It features over 100 loved recipes including main meals, snacks, breakfasts, side dishes and even desserts that you would be sure to enjoy regardless of the time of day. With tasty meals such as beer and cauliflower tacos and grilled peach salsa, this cookbook will have you full yet fit. In addition to recipes, it also comes with insightful tips and techniques on how to shop healthy even when you’re on a budget. All in all, it goes to show that healthy eating doesn’t require you to break the bank.

Written by marriage ministry blog founder, Jennifer Smith, the Instant Pot Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 500 Everyday Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users is the ideal cookbook for anyone who owns an instant pot. This recipe book enables you to cook quicker and tastier meals for the entire family. It is equipped with 500 unique recipes that include breakfast, quick lunches, filling dinners and even snacks, desserts and side dishes.

More so, it contains recipes that can even be enjoyed by vegetarians so as to cater to those with vegetarian dietary restrictions. Ideal for anyone with a busy lifestyle, this book ensures that none of the recipes have a stretched out cooking time. As such, you have enough time to go about your other activities. It even comes with an ingredient list, as well as precise cooking times to help you make every dish as perfect as possible. In addition, it features helpful tips and tricks on how to successfully cook up a feast with an instant pot.

Colorful, flavourful and easy to make are just some words that can be used to describe the recipes in the Half Baked Harvest Super Simple. Written by food photographer and cookbook author, Tieghan Gerald, this cookbook is a great way to learn how to cook delicious meals that are sure to satisfy the entire family. This cookbook contains 125 amazing recipes that are sure to be loved by all. This includes recipes that cater for meat-eaters, vegetarians, and vegans alike. So, no matter the dietary restrictions in your home, this book still remains a valid choice.

The recipes included have been organized according to the types of meals as well as popular main ingredients. With sections such as breakfast, appetizers, sides, pizzas and pastas, salads and soups, and poultry and pork, this book makes it easy for you to figure out what to have eat. So, anyone who’s constantly in a conundrum during meal times is in luck. For more amazing titles like this, check out our selection of the best camping books.

When it comes to preparing easy meals, you need a cookbook that is well detailed, incorporating simple instructions and a complete list of ingredients. The Skinnytaste One and Done has all that and more. This easy to follow recipe book features 140 simple recipes that are both healthy and family-friendly. It is equally equipped with 120 full color and vivid photographs of the completed meals of each recipe so that you have an idea of what the finished product looks like.

This cookbook contains recipes that can be prepared in a wide range of vessels, and it has been organized accordingly. So, you’ll find categories under the Dutch oven, instant pot, skillet, sheet pan, slow cooker and air fryer. It doesn’t matter the kind of cookware you have you home, this all-inclusive book makes sure that you always have a good and tasty meal to prepare.

Cooking has never been easier than it is with the 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food cookbook. This recipe book, by the global food phenomenon Jaime Oliver, is sure to take away the complications that sometimes comes with preparing meals. The book itself features recipes that require a maximum of 5 ingredients to prepare, and the good thing is that this doesn’t take away from the quality and taste of the food.

With easy to prepare meals accompanied by detailed lists of ingredients and instructions, this book is an absolute must-have for every home or professional cook. It further contains 130 new and unique recipes ranging from pasta to salads to meats such as beef, pork and poultry. It even incorporates special bonus chapters dedicated solely to sweet treats. Focusing on delivering maximum flavor that only takes a short amount of time and an even shorter list of ingredients, this book is going to make you love the kitchen. You may also be interested in some of the top business books from our list, so check them out.

If you love good food and you’re a fan of witty humor and banter, the Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat by celebrity Chrissy Tiegen is just the recipe book for you. This book is amazing and hilarious in every way. Everything from the recipes to the funny remarks to the interesting life tips here, are golden. It contains recipes that are divided into spicy, salty, sticky, crunchy, juicy and oozy, all of which feature delicious meals that are sure to leave your mouth watering.

Incorporating breakfast, lunch and dinner, this book caters to your everyday eating needs, even including recipes for tasty snacks and sides. Whether you’re hosting a dinner party, date night or family dinner, you will always find a recipe that perfectly suits the occasion. The book further incorporates downright stunning pictures of the finished products to go alongside the recipes so that you have a guideline of what your meal should look like when it’s done. Just like Chrissy, this book is sure to make you love cooking, eating and life.

If you’re a fan of the celebrity, Snoop Dogg as well as cooking, then the From Crook to Cook: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen is just the right fit for you. This book of recipes is the first cookbook by the Potluck Dinner Party host, and believe us when we say that it’s a good one. It features 50 unique recipes that are straight from Snoop Dogg’s own personal collection of recipes, including instructions on how to whip up amazing and delicious southern soul food.

It is also filled with classic weeknight favorites that you and your loved ones can enjoy any day. More so, with dishes like the lobster Thermidor, snoop gives you an insight on the high-end food that you can prepare in your own kitchen thanks to his complete list of ingredients and clear and precise cooking instructions. 

Written by a television host, entrepreneur and author, Kristin Cavallari has outdone herself with the True Roots cookbook. When you hear healthy food,  what pops into your head is often bland, boring or tasteless food, but in this recipe book, Kristin shows that that’s not the case at all. Altogether, she provides you with recipes for meals that are both healthy and delicious.

The recipes in this book are completely dairy, gluten and refined sugar-free. They have also been designed to guide you towards living a healthier lifestyle when it comes to your eating habits. The book contains over 100 different recipes that you can try out in your very own kitchen.

If you’re a self-proclaimed meat lover and enjoy preparing and consuming delicious meat dishes, then Meat: Everything You Need to Know is a cookbook you should invest in. This recipe book is for all beef, pork, lamb, veal and even poultry lovers as it has been designed to showcase these meats as the centers of your meals. In this book, the author gives detailed explanations on what the best and most flavourful cuts of meat are. Furthermore, techniques on how to prepare each cut perfectly are shared.

Including delicious recipes as well as insightful knowledge that has been passed down from up to four generations of butchers, this book not only gives you great meal ideas but also educates you. With seventy-five delicious recipes that each focus on the meats, this cookbook is going to have you trying out meat dishes like you’ve never done before.

When going on travels in the great outdoors, one common concern is what to eat. What is safe and what should be stayed away from? If a few of these concerns ring a bell, then The Bushcraft Field Guide to Trapping, Gathering, and Cooking in the Wild can act as your guide during your treks and camping trips. This cookbook, by well know outdoor expert Dave Canterbury, provides you with everything you need to know about packing, trapping as well as preparing foods when you’re out in the wild.

This book ensures that you always have something to eat when you’re left in the great outdoors. Teaching not only how to hunt and gather food, but it also gives you a wide range of recipes you can make with the food you find. With helpful illustrations that come alongside the recipes and instructions as well as full-color photo guides on plants to forage and avoid, this cooking in the wild book gives you the confidence you need to survive in the wild.

For when you value simple yet quality food, The Clean Plate: Eat, Reset, Heal cookbook by Gwyneth Paltrow is your absolute go-to. With this book, you get to enjoy delicious flavors as well as clean ingredients that will set you on the right path to healthy eating. It comes with over 100 delicious and easy to recreate recipes that you and your family would be sure to enjoy. A collection of recipes and customizable meal plans allow you to create a diet that best suits your health goals.

From smoothies to soups to main meals to sides, this recipe book contains everything you need. Mouthwatering highlights like the turkey meatball pho and the sheet pan chicken broccolini will have you excited to get a-cooking in your own kitchen. Equipped with helpful meal plans, detoxes and cleanses, it addresses specific health and diet needs so that you can achieve your desired results.

Healthier Together: Recipes for Two–Nourish Your Body, Nourish Your Relationships is one of the best cookbooks for vegetarians. Trust us. Written by food writer and health blogger Liz Moody, this book is practically a vegetarian love story. Containing over 100 tasty veggie-packed meals for you to try, this cookbook has been specially designed to be cooked and enjoyed by two parties.

All the recipes are gluten-free as well as dairy-free, so if you have these dietary restrictions, then this book is just right for you. It features finger-licking homemade alternatives to food that you know and love. With meals such as the cardamom banana bread pancakes and the cornflakes fried chicken, the meals featured in this book will have you excited to get right into the kitchen.