Rainbow Plant Life

Y’all have been asking me for years about the aprons I wear in my videos, and I’m excited to share that we finally have our very own Rainbow Plant Life apron 🥳 Designed with Hedley & Bennett, who makes all the aprons I wear.

Grab your own apron by October 17, 2026 and get 20% off using code NISHA20 at checkout. See pinned comment!

For me, this apron isn’t just a piece of cloth I wear to protect my clothes from stains (though of course it is that given how clumsy I am).

It’s also a piece of me and my journey. When I first started making YouTube videos, I had no idea what I was doing. I had no professional culinary experience and assumed no one would be interested in what I had to say about cooking. And I was still figuring out how to be myself on camera.

So I started wearing aprons in my videos to give myself a confidence boost, to make myself feel a little bit more like a real chef. In those early years, an apron felt like my armor.

While I no longer need that armor, I still love putting on an apron before I set foot in the kitchen. These days, it feels less like a costume and more of a reflection of who I am as a cook: joyful, a little messy, and all about color.

I hope you love the apron, and thank you for all of your support over these years 🫶🏽

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5 days ago | [YT] | 1,630

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I love when a recipe can upend your expectations of an ingredient you don’t like.

I have always disliked kidney beans. They remind me of salad bars in the 90s/early 2000s that invariably featured “three bean salads” (i.e., canned beans coated in store-bought Italian salad dressing).

But this rajma masala—a north Indian kidney bean curry with a rich tomato-onion gravy—completely changed my mind.

It’s made with dried beans, and while dried beans are always tastier than canned, I think the difference is even more pronounced with kidney beans. As the kidney beans cook, they release a starch-heavy liquid and become so creamy they kinda melt in your mouth.

When you mix the beans and their starchy cooking liquid with the masala ingredients, you end up with something magical—a truly velvety gravy with so much richness and body (and lots of flavor).

I hope you love this recipe as much as I (and some of these readers) do 🫶🏽

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1 week ago | [YT] | 2,235

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BTS of some recent recipe tests! Which one are you most excited about?

1️⃣ Sticky Orange Tofu Stir Fry. Just wrapped testing on this, so expect this on YouTube next month!

2️⃣ Rajma Masala. Tested this one a dozen times but it was worth it. Just shared the YouTube video for this (featuring my parents 🥰).

3️⃣ Shaved Cauliflower Salad with Coconut-Lime Dressing. Unfairly pretty (and possibly my favorite way to eat cauliflower). Recipe is now on the blog!

4️⃣ An absurdly creamy alternative to risotto. Coming to YouTube later this fall!

5️⃣ High-Protein Sweet & Salty Tahini Bark. This one just hit our meal plans app and it sits squarely in the middle of a Venn diagram of indulgent and healthy.

6️⃣ Spicy Tofu Roll Bowl. Tastes like sushi but in bowl form and ready in 30 minutes. Also new on our meal plans app!

7️⃣ Roasted Beets. So simple but tastes like luxury. This is a meal prep staple for me. Will be on the blog soon!

8️⃣ Matar Tofu. The perfect blend of a creamy gravy meets crunchy tofu. Coming to YouTube in October.

9️⃣ Spiced baked rice and chickpeas. Everything happens in one pan in the oven but with exceptional flavor. Coming to YouTube later this fall.

As always, thank you for choosing to make my recipes for you and your loved ones 🫶🏽

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3 weeks ago | [YT] | 2,175

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If you need a baking project this weekend / someone to impress / a birthday party or end-of summer party to attend, here are some of my *favorite indulgent desserts*

There’s a mix of chocolate, lemon, and summer fruit desserts–all the best types of treats IMO.

Check the pinned comment for links!

PS: If you enjoy a recipe, one of the best ways to support my work is to leave a rating and review on the site 🫶🏽

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If there's one thing that's elevated my weeknight dinners, it's this sheet pan formula.

Check the pinned comment for two recipes, and then use the formula to come up with your own combos for delicious weeknight meals!

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1 month ago | [YT] | 2,667

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I love a good sandwich, especially in summer! Whether you want a gourmet treat that’ll catapult you to sandwich heaven or an easy option you can meal prep for lunch, there’s something for you here!

Check the pinned comment for links!

PS: If you enjoy a recipe, one of the best ways to support my work is to leave a rating and review on the site 🫶🏽

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Celebrating 10 years vegan! When I decided to go vegan 10 years ago today, I never imagined how much it would change my life, personally and professionally.

What a privilege it has been to feel more aligned and compassionate, more joyful, more energetic, more creative both in and out of the kitchen, and to have found a new love for animals.

And thanks to all of you—whether you watch just one of my videos or all of them, whether you make one recipe or one hundred of them—you’ve given me purpose in a way I didn’t know was possible.

Teenager Nisha dreamed of being able to share food with the people she loved. She could never have imagined she could build an actual career out of it.

Thank you for inviting me into your kitchens and for trusting my recipes to nourish you and your loved ones 🥹

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We’ve (almost) arrived at my favorite month: August!

Peaches so juicy they drip down your face but you welcome the mess, corn so sweet it tastes like dessert, zucchini so lovely you forget that it tastes like cardboard in January.

Here are 45+ seasonal recipes to try before summer ends! rainbowplantlife.com/45-seasonal-recipes-to-make-i…

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1 month ago | [YT] | 1,447

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For all the noodle lovers: here are my top 7 noodle dishes! Which one would you make first?

Get all the recipes here for free: newsletter.rainbowplantlife.com/7-noodle-recipes

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1 month ago | [YT] | 1,830

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Rank your carbs! 1 is your favorite, 5 is your least favorite

Here are my rankings, which are admittedly fluid and complicated 😅

#1 (or 2): Bread: Because I love a good sandwich; also naan for dipping into curries and fluffy pita for everything.

#2 (or 1): Noodles: This sometimes moves into spot 1 because (a) I love the flavors typically paired with noodles (basically all Asian food) and (b) there’s no such thing as sad noodles but there is a lot of very sad bread.

#3 (or 4) Rice: Typically not transcendent but always reliable and a great accompaniment to two of my favorite meal categories, curries and stir fries.

#4 (or 5) Potatoes: It really depends on the preparation. Crispy smashed or scalloped in a creamy casserole? Sign me up. French fries or mashed potatoes? I’m fine without.

#5 (or 2 to 3) Pasta: This moves up to 2 or 3 if it’s great-quality pasta paired with a really flavorful sauce and ideally, a seasonal vegetable. But a lot of pasta is middling and I’d rather skip it.

Let me know if you think I'm nuts, if you agree, or if you're somewhere in the middle!

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