The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian [Paperback]

Paulette Mitchell (Author)

Book Description

Series: 15-Minute Gourmet | Publication Date: January 15, 2000

Here is a terrific collection of easy recipes that will appeal to both busy vegetarians and meat-eaters who enjoy making vegetarian dishes because they are quick, tasty, and nutritious. This book, previously published as The 15-Minute Vegetarian Gourmet and updated for this series, proves that tasty, satisfying, and healthful meatless meals can be ready in a jiffy. Recipes include: Italian Garden Frittata, Potato Salad with Light Pesto Vinaigrette, Moroccan Chick Pea Soup, and Herbed Macaroni Parmesan.

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From the Back Cover

From the author of the popular 15-Minute Gourmet series, here are more than 100 fabulous meatless dishes—delicious, nutritious, and ready in a flash! Attention, vegetarians (and sometime-vegetarians)! Here is the update to a classic collection of easy vegetarian dishes that are quick and delicious. You'll find soups, salads, pastas, stir-frys, dips and spreads, and desserts! In The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian, author Paulette Mitchell shares her no-fail recipes for tasty meatless dishes that are impressive enough to wow guests, yet hearty enough to satisfy a hungry family. So, forget fast food places and toss those take-out menus! You can have great food on the table in 15 minutes with this terrific cookbook geared to help busy people eat well. special features for 15-minute success:

• Tips on how to choose, prepare, cook, and store recipe ingredients
• Recipe variations and advance preparation ideas
• Nutrition information for every recipe

some of the great recipes: Italian Garden Frittata Potato Salad with Light Pesto Vinaigrette Asparagus-Cashew Stir-Fry (on cover) Moroccan Chickpea Soup Visit us online at www.idgbooks.com

About the Author

PAULETTE MITCHELL is a cooking instructor, food lecturer, and award-winning author of numerous cookbooks, including The 15-Minute Gourmet series, The Complete Soy Cookbook, and The Complete Book of Dressings. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028635299
• ISBN-13: 978-0028635293
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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87 of 87 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When she says 15 minutes, she means it, January 31, 2001

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Rachel Himes (Indiana, Pennsylvania USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian (Paperback)

I have a VAST collection of vegetarian cookbooks. Recent changes in my lifestyle and schedule mandated that I learn to cook faster meals, so I ordered several books promising fast meals. This one delivers. While some of the recipes take a bit longer than 15 mintues, few take more than 30, and much of that time is cooking time, not preparation. Most of the ingredients are common, and a few, such as tahini and miso are less common, but not rare. 15 Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian is divided into food groups such as soups, sauces, entrees, desserts, and appetizers. She includes some "basics" on nutrition and good health, as well as suggestions for balancing a healthy vegetarian diet. There are several complete menu suggetions and many recipes include a suggestion for a recipe that would make a good companion. There are even good ideas for setting up an organized kitchen to save MORE time. These are not Standard Amercian Diet foods made faster. These are very nutritious recipes with some ethnic diversity. Quite impressive for a collection that all can be assembled in moments, and many are even low in fat. For those who are curious, some recipes include...quick tomato sauces, pesto, orange-tahini sauce, cheesy vegetable spread, peanut dip, asian stew, quick pea soup, moroccan chickpea soup, fresh croutons, strawberry and blueberry soups, peach vinaigrette (and many others), thai cucumber salad, pasta with herbed ricotta and pine nuts, sweet and sour tofu, vegetable curry, nut burgers, vanilla poached pears, and chocolate dipped pineapple with raspberry sauce. In addition to all of these wonderful features, the layout is simple to read, directions are numbered and divided by steps (less confusing) and there are quite a number of full-page color photographs of the recipes. I highly recommend this book to those who are afraid that "quick" vegetarian food also has to mean "bland". Paulette, I commend you.

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Super-quick food that delivers on Taste!, May 18, 2005

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This review is from: The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian (Paperback)

I've cooked over 40 of these recipes and they have all been easy to make and most of all delicious! I've been a vegetarian for 20 years, and one thing I've often hated about many vegetarian cookbooks is that a) the recipes take forever to cook; b) they call for a million ingredients, and often just one Tablespoon of something you'll never use again c) after all that effort, the meal is simply flavorless.

Well, there's GOOD NEWS TONIGHT with "The 15-Minute Gourmet"!
- Fast prep and cooking times
- Short ingredient lists with Things You Have in Your Kitchen Right Now!
- Tasty, Delicious Results that Your Family WILL EAT!

I can say that because while I am a vegetarian, my family does eat at least some meat. This cookbook is making it easier for him to "swallow" vegetarian cooking.

Highly recommended! Good food fast!

35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I used to dislike cooking, but now..., December 6, 2003

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Heather Zimmerman - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 15-Minute Gourmet: Vegetarian (Paperback)

I received this book a couple of years ago as a gift and it may be one of the best gifts I've ever received. I cannot recommend it enough. I've cooked nearly every recipe in the entire book and they've all turned out very well.
Maybe the best thing I can say about this book is that I didn't care much for cooking--nor did I know how to cook very well--when I first got this book, but it has really changed my mind. I feel that I learned a lot of key cooking skills from this book, in addition to picking up a few little extra tips that have added a lot to my cooking beyond the recipes in this book. Now I love to cook! These recipes gave me confidence that I could.
The techniques and the ingredients are simple, but the results are always good. The Meatless Mission Chili is something we often serve at parties (my meat-eating friends really like it) and the Pasta with Peanut Szechuan Dressing is a staple in our house.
The helpful hints that accompany each recipe (usually, a little tip about preparing or storing one of the ingredients in the recipe) are great. The nutritional information at the end of each recipe is a big plus, too.