1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes [Paperback]

Sue Spitler (Author), Linda R. Yoakam (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997

Here are more than a thousand great-tasting recipes from appetizers to desserts that are as easy to make as they are interesting and delicious. With so many from which to choose, you'll find tasty family meals, savory dishes perfect for one or two, and hundreds of entrees elegant enough to please the most discriminating guest. Committed vegetarians will appreciate the way each recipe carries a symbol indicating its status as vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, or ovo-vegetarian. Closet carnivores and those just looking for an occasional healthy alternative will be surprised to find how easy, enjoyable, and filling a low-fat vegetarian meal can be. To make healthy eating even easier, nutritional information and diabetic exchanges are included with each recipe.

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Review

1001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes features easy-to-prepare, great-tasting, healthy, appealing dishes for everyone, from appetizers and soups to entrees and desserts. Committed vegetarians will appreciate the way each recipe carries a symbol indicating its status as vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, or ovo-vegetarian. To make healthy eating even easier, nutritional information and diabetic exchanges are included with each recipe. From Indian Lentil Soup, Grilled Portobello Mushroom Sandwiches, and Easy Herb Lovosh to Quinoa with Roasted Eggplant and Squash, Freezer Coleslaw, and Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake, the diversity of delicious, palate pleasing vegetarian cuisine is as impressive as it is delicious! -- Midwest Book Review

From the Author

I really enjoy eating vegetarian meals, especially in the summer on the Indiana/Michigan border where I live. I love the fresh, crisp veggies and fabulous fruits I buy at local farm stands in June, July and August.

Like most of you, I don't have enough time in my day for the things I have to do, let alone the things I want to do, like inventing delicious new recipes and serving them to my friends at a dinner party. That's why I tried to make the dishes in "1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes," and indeed in all my cookbooks, easy to prepare and quick to make. And keeping everything low in fat is a challenge, as we all know that fat tastes good! The secret is to replace most of the fat in a dish with aromatic herbs and spices, and I've had to do a lot of experimenting to get the amounts just right. A low-fat recipe may look intimidating as it typically has a long list of ingredients, but as they are often mostly herbs and spices, the job is really easy. A dash here, a shake there, a teaspoon of this and that, and you've got something quick, delicious, and healthy on the table in no time.

I hope you'll enjoy my recipes, as I enjoyed creating them for you. If you have a question or comment, be sure to let me hear from you at Surrey Books, 230 E. Ohio St., Chicago, IL 60611.

Sincerely, Sue --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 854 pages
• Publisher: Surrey Books; 1st edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572840110
• ISBN-13: 978-1572840119
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.1 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,123,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of recipes, but not much guidance, January 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes (Paperback)

I consider this an "advanced" cookbook. If you're a seasoned vegetarian & are looking for new, exciting dishes, then this may be a five-star book for you. If you're just beginning vegetarian cooking, or if you're looking for quick, easy vegetarian recipes, you may find this book somewhat daunting.

For example, though the book provides a brief glossary of foods you'll encounter in the recipes (like tofu, tempeh, fillo pastry, etc.), I would've appreciated some drawings or pictures or perhaps a little more explanation and encouragement regarding these uncommon foods. I'm a pretty experienced cook and yet I was still a little intimidated, charging blindly into soy proteins & foreign foods like this.

In addtion, many of the "simple" stews and casseroles described depend on one of the book's vegetarian stocks that require 4 hours' simmering time. Furthermore, many of the recipes ask for hard-to-find ingredients like "Mesquite-flavored cooking spray," "broccoflower florets," "sprouted wheat berries," "cactus paddles," and "fat-free half-and-half."

Also, I didn't care for the way the book was organized. As with the veggie broths, many recipes ask for ingredients like smoked tofu, potato pizza crust, sun-dried tomato pesto, chorizo, mushroom gravy, tortilla sauce, etc. that require you to flip to another recipe and take additional time to prepare.

Finally, recipes for condiments or accompanyments are tacked onto entre recipes, rather than given their own chapter. Subsequently, it may be hard to locate these recipes weeks or months later, when you want to use a particular sauce or chutney apart from the entre it was recommended for.

Complications aside, this book certainly does provide a wealth of vegetarian recipes that are both interesting and inspiring. I found it useful, though, to first learn about vegetarian cooking from a more basic cookbook, and now I return to 1001 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes when I'm tired of the usual veggie fare.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars you'll never run out of ideas!, August 4, 2001

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This review is from: 1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes, 2nd ed. (Paperback)

I suppose, like the reviewer above said, that this isn't a beginning vegetarians cookbook, in the sense that it does not guide you through what it means to be vegetarian etc, etc, BUT, I'd like to point out that nowhere on the book does it say that is what it is (there are books for that). I also will agree that yes, in SOME of the recipies there are strange ingredients: fat-free half and half, cactus paddles, flavored cooking sprays... but there are over 1,000 recipies! Of course they had to get creative!

I think this cookbook is excellent, if you've been a vegetarian for awhile, and you like to cook, then this book is perfect for spicing up your everyday cuisine. The recipies are easy to follow, and so far (I've cooked a lot of dishes from this book) almost everything has been yummy. I'd like to add that if I can't find something I substitute. I use veggie bullion in place of stocks, and skim milk in place of fat free half and half, and I've never had any problems. The book has widened my scope on mixing vegetarian ingredients, enabling me to scan my pantry and whip up combinations I'd never thought of before. There is so much to chose from that you can keep it simple or get a little fancy!

Highly recommended!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the BEST vegetarian cookbook I've found., July 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: 1,001 Low-Fat Vegetarian Recipes (Paperback)

1001 Low Fat Vegetarian Recipes is the best vegetarian cookbook we own. We have others that are good, a few that are pretty bland, a few others which require ingredients only found in Zamibia and perhaps in a few other remote locations across the globe. This book is absolutely the BEST. We've had it for only three weeks, so it didn't take long to become our favorite. Most recipes require easy to find ingredients, though that doesn't take away from the recipes' flavor or variety. If you are vegetarian, you won't regret the purchase.