Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking: Easy Meatless Main Dishes Your Family Will Love! [Hardcover]

Betty Crocker Editors (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 5, 1998

Vegetarian cooking has become one of the hottest topics in cooking today. It's only natural that people who trust Betty Crocker -- the expert on delicious, family-friendly meals -- would turn to her for the best and easiest vegetarian recipes. Without a doubt, Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking is the perfect primer for vegetarian cooking. With over 200 fabulous meatless recipes to choose from, everyone from novice vegetarians to old hands will find enjoyable and easy-to-prepare dishes.

Each recipe has 8 or fewer ingredients and most can be prepared in 30 minutes or less -- the perfect cookbook for people with busy lifestyles. Vegetarian Cooking features hearty soups, sandwiches and meal size salads, and easy skillet and one dish recipes. Plus you'll find helpful fix-it-and-forget-it oven meals along with slow cooker directions for some recipes. Variations using poultry and fish are great for variety and help to please the whole family. For those not familiar with vegetarianism, Betty Crocker brings you the information you need by providing you with a meatless glossary, information on how to stock the vegetarian pantry, and 14 no-hassle meatless menus. It's so easy to enjoy meatless dishes with Betty Crocker!

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking It's found in all cultures and has been around for thousands of years. It has endless variety, tastes great and is easy to do. What are we talking about? Vegetarian cuisine! Jump right into cooking meatless meals using ingredients you already have on your shopping list. You won't need special ingredients, special equipment or special trips to out-of-the-way stores. Are you hungry for a hearty soup, a mile-high sandwich or a zesty pizza? How about making an easy skillet meal? You can warm up to cozy one-dish oven meals and add pizzazz with simple side dishes and breads right here. With Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking, it's hard to go wrong. Inside, you'll find 200 delicious, family-style meatless recipes making it easy to cook vegetarian meals any day of the week. Since you may have both vegetarian and non-vegetarians at your dinner table, we've created an easy option: Over 40 recipes include a variation on how to add chicken, fish or seafood for occasional vegetarians or families with non-vegetarians. Vegetarian eating is becoming increasingly popular for many reasons: the desire to reduce or eliminate meat and eat healthier foods overall, or for philosophical reasons. If you're a newcomer to vegetarian eating, Betty Crocker can help. Learn about the different kinds of vegetarian diets and their nutrition benefits. We disarm common myths about vegetarianism such as "I Won't Get Enough Protein." Scan "Going Meatless: A Glossary" to learn about foods and ingredients and get helpful advice when all of a sudden your teenager says, "Mom, I Want to Be a Vegetarian!" Let Betty Crocker put it all together for you, with just the right information; study "Stock Options: The Vegetarian Pantry," make easy "Vegetarian Substitutions" and be ready with "Munchies to Have on Hand." Then try it all out with "14 No-Hassle Meatless Menus." Whether you're a full or part-time vegetarian, you'll want to have this book. You'll find that whatever you're craving, the recipe is right here!

From the Back Cover

Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking Indulge in Delicious Homestyle Meals any Day or Every day! Whether you are eliminating meat, just reducing the amount of meat you eat or choosing to eat healthier meals with pasta, vegetables and grains, you will find endless variety right here!

• 200 easy recipes to help with your busy lifestyle
• Everything you need to know about vegetarian eating
• 14 no-hassle meatless menus offer simple meal planning

Easy-to-Make, Heart-Warming Dishes from Betty Crocker: Hearty Soups, Sandwiches and Salads Curried Sweet Potato and Lentil Stew Pesto-Eggplant Sandwiches Santa Fe Nacho Pizzas Autumn Harvest Salad Sweet-and-Sour Oriental Pasta Salad Savory Pasta, Skillet and One-Dish Meals Fresh Mushroom Fettuccine Easy Italian Skillet Supper Lemon-Pepper Pasta and Asparagus Alfredo Pasta Pie with Toasted French Bread Crust Mom's Macaroni and Cheese Simple Side Dishes and Breads Roasted Rosemary-Onion Potatoes Southwest Cheese Bread Fettuccine and Broccoli with Sharp Cheddar Sauce Banana-Gingerbread Muffins Plus:

• Options—over 40 recipes give you the option of adding chicken, fish or seafood
• Myth busters about vegetarianism
• Comprehensive charts for buying, cooking and storing beans, rice, grains and pasta
• Flavor secrets for cooking rice and grains

Visit Betty Crocker online at http://www.bettycrocker.com and Hungry Minds online at http://www.hungryminds.com

Product Details

• Hardcover: 240 pages
• Publisher: Betty Crocker; 2 edition (February 5, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028622618
• ISBN-13: 978-0028622613
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,971 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Since 1921, the Betty Crocker name has symbolized the General Mills continuing tradition of service to consumers. Although Betty was never a real person, her name and identity have become synonymous with helpfulness, trustworthiness and quality.

Betty Crocker has survived the decades by providing consumers with food information and food products that are contemporary without being faddish. The first hardcover cookbook, Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook was published in 1950 and quickly became a national best seller. Since then, more than 250 Betty Crocker cookbooks have been published.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent vegetarian cookbook!, March 31, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking: Easy Meatless Main Dishes Your Family Will Love! (Hardcover)

The recipes in this book are simple but interesting, and use ingredients which can be found at a typical grocery store. Each recipe provides an approximate required preparation and cooking time. Color photos are offered for many of the dishes, and the recipes are well-organized and easy to follow. There are a great many recipes (I didn't count them!), so I find myself reaching for this book often, to find something different to make. I think this is a good book for new vegetarians, as it should erase the common misconception that vegetarian food is difficult to make and requires things like tofu and nutritional yeast! Many recipes suggest a simple meat addition, which would be helpful for families with both vegetarians and meat-eaters.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recipes, July 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking: Easy Meatless Main Dishes Your Family Will Love! (Hardcover)

The few recipes I have tried from this book I liked. They are easy to prepare and the ingredients arent too hard to find. I didn't think I could make so many good dishes without meat. There is also tips on the bottom of some recipes for adding meat if you wish. Great book.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful recipes with common ingredients!, August 14, 2000

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This review is from: Betty Crocker's Vegetarian Cooking: Easy Meatless Main Dishes Your Family Will Love! (Hardcover)

I've been looking to cut back on the amount of meat my family eats, with the added complication that my husband is a died-in-the-wool meat and potatoes man who is allergic to beans and soy. I've acquired a sizeable collection of vegetarian cookbooks, and while I've found recipes that we like and that my husband isn't allergic to in most of them, this is the cookbook I turn to again and again. The recipes here are easy to cook and feature ingredients that are found in any grocery store. The first time I flipped through this book, I was delighted to realize that I had the ingredients for several of the recipes already sitting on my pantry and refrigerator shelves! This isn't vegetarian "gourmet" fare, but the recipes are tasty and filling and easy to prepare. Serious vegetarians might scoff at this book, but I would definitely recommend it for "occasional vegetarians" or for those who are very new to, and perhaps intimidated by, the idea of vegetarian cooking!