Richa Hingle

Richa Hingle is an Indian vegan/plant-based cookbook author, known as the blogger Vegan Richa.

Hingle grew up in India.¹

She was forced to give up her career as a software engineer after a craniotomy in 2006.² During the recovery period, she adopted a rescue dog and became involved in animal welfare.³ She also began to blog about baking and learned about veganism.³⁴¹²

Hingle started her blog "Vegan Richa" in 2009,¹ and fully shifted to a vegan diet around 2010,² motivated by her rescue experience.¹

Vegetarian Times listed her first cookbook, Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook (2015), as one of their "favorite" cookbooks of 2015,⁵ PETA listed it as one of "7 Must-Have Vegan Cookbooks" in 2016,⁶ Good Housekeeping named it one of the "15 best meat-free cookbooks in 2019,"⁷ and Women's Health (magazine) refers to it as one of the "20 Best Vegan Cookbooks Of 2022 For Every Type Of Cuisine And Interest."⁸ VegNews named it one of the "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time," in 2024.⁹

VegNews listed Hingle as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food" in 2023,¹⁰ and gave her a Bloggy Award in 2016.¹¹

In 2022, Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond was nominated for an IVFF award.¹²

Hingle lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband.¹²

• Vegan Richa's Instant Pot™ Cookbook: 150 Plant-based Recipes from Indian Cuisine and Beyond. Hachette Book Group, 2022. ISBN 978-0306875038.
• Vegan Richa's Everyday Kitchen: Epic Anytime Recipes with a World of Flavor. Vegan Heritage Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1941252390.
• Vegan Richa's Indian Kitchen: Traditional and Creative Recipes for the Home Cook. Vegan Heritage Press, 2015. ISBN 978-1941252093.