The 15-minute Gourmet: Chicken [Paperback]

Paulette Mitchell (Author)

Book Description

Series: 15-Minute Gourmet | Publication Date: December 20, 1999

From the author of the popular 15-Minute Gourmet series, here are more than 100 fabulous chicken dishes—delicious, nutritious, and ready in a flash! Attention chicken-lovers! As you know, chicken can be enjoyed in so many ways—sautéed, stir-fried, and grilled; in sandwiches, soups, and salads—and it's on the table fast. In The 15-Minute Gourmet: Chicken, author Paulette Mitchell shares her no-fail recipes for tasty chicken 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: Chicken Fajitas Mediterranean Chicken with Penne Chicken Kabobs with Tomato-Soy Marinde (on cover) Tex-Mex Chicken Salad with Southwestern Vinaigrette Visit us online at www.idgbooks.com

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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: 256 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; First edition. edition (December 20, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028632796
• ISBN-13: 978-0028632797
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 8.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,334,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tender chicken at last!, April 27, 2000

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Nancy F. Brown - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 15-minute Gourmet: Chicken (Paperback)

I have always had a tough time with chicken. Chicken is one of my favorite meats, and mine always came out like rubber. This cookbook is wonderful! The recipes are very simple, very modern, and always delicious. I love the side dishes (with recipes) that the author recommends. Chicken with basalmic vinaigrette, apricot-glazed chicken, chicken satays, chicken with pastas...all use boneless chicken pieces (quick!) and most have great technique tips. Fifteen minutes is rather optimistic and doesn't take all prep time into account, but the recipes are real time-savers. Good for company and children, as well.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous recipes, fairly quick, July 30, 2002

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Karen Abraham (Hoboken, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 15-minute Gourmet: Chicken (Paperback)

This is a GREAT cookbook. I own quite a few, and most are only useful for a few recipes, or only for one type of food, etc. But the most negative thing I can say about any of the recipes I've tried from this book has been that it was okay (and that was only one recipe!). Among my favorites are the black bean and peppers with chicken and rice, the pesto, pasta and grapes chicken salad (sounds a little strange, but is EXCELLENT), chili chicken and rice, and the black bean and chicken soup. This cookbook has inspired me to try some more ethnic cooking without being worried I'll completely mess it up! The recipes are mostly low to moderate fat, and often encourage the use of various beans, whole grains, etc. I've frequently substituted brown rice for other rices, whole wheat pasta for regular pasta, etc. with really delicious results.

The only thing I will say is that the 15 minute part for a lot of the recipes I like most is pretty optimistic... but there are some that are genuinely 15 minute recipes (the chicken and corn skillet is a fast and tasty meal).

Definitely try this cookbook - the recipes are fun, encourage you to experiment a bit, and are really good. It would make a great gift for someone who has mastered the true basics of cooking (how to pick out produce, boil water, grill plain chicken, etc.) and is looking for a versatile but fast set of recipes to enjoy.
Highly recommended!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes - yummy, April 10, 2005

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A. Karoum (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 15-minute Gourmet: Chicken (Paperback)

My uncle, a culinary arts instructor, gave me this book when I first moved out on my own after college and commented to him that I didn't know how to cook. This book is full of great easy recipes. Some take more than 15 minutes (they start the clock once all the veggies are chopped, chicken cut into thin strips to cook faster, or some start with cooked rice), but all are relatively easy and tasty. Some of my favorite recipes are the black bean chicken soup, the curry one with fruit (I think I made it with apricots), the chicken corn skillet, and the stir fry one with the sesame oil and snow peas. I apologize - I don't have the book in front of me so I'm not getting the names exactly right. These recipes are good, easy, and many are reasonably healthy (or can be adapted, as someone said, to be more healthy). This book is far better than the celebrity Food Network 30-minute meal books. Also, this is a nice "gourmet: cookbook in that it occasionally requires an unusual ingredient, but most recipes don't require a trip to the store to search for really unusual and pricey ingredients. Many recipes involve things that a lot of people might have on hand. Also, some of the recipes offer a substitution suggestions (e.g. other vegetables that work well with the same sauces), which also makes shopping for them or cooking with what you have on hand easy.