Jane Butel's Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook [Hardcover]

Jane Butel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 30, 1999

When it comes to Southwestern cuisine, no one can hold a candle to the innovative and simply delicious style of best-selling author Jane Butel, one of the most renowned cooks in her field. In these pages, she has created more than one hundred intensely flavorful recipes that take the worry and work out of cooking authentic Southwestern cuisine. And because you can never be too thin, too healthy, or have too much extra time on your hands, each of these mouthwatering recipes is low-fat, healthful, and quick and easy.
    
Jane Butel's Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook is a completely contemporary collection of recipes that makes creating a variety of fabulous dishes easier than ever. Give in to the lure of Shrimp with Mint Mango Salsa, Quick Corn and Green Chile Chowder, and Grilled Lobster Tail with Lemon Cucumber Salsa. Jane Butel lends her signature style to these mouthwatering dishes and more--Black Bean and Goat Cheese Chalupitas, Grilled Squash Medley with Herbs, Chipotle and Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Green Chile Cheese Rice, Grilled Lamb with Soft Tacos, and a Spicy Hot Chocolate Mousse that will have your guests in a state of ecstacy.
    
Sound elaborate? These delectable recipes are easy to prepare, often requiring no more than five or six easy-to-find ingredients per dish and taking only twenty minutes to cook. Each recipe contains extensive nutritional information, as well as timesaving ideas, meal planning, and fat-reduction tips. A special entertaining section includes suggested menus for everything from a New Year's Eve party to a Fourth of July fiesta to an All Saints' Day dinner.
    
The superb flavors and subtle delight of Southwestern cooking continue to make it grow in popularity, and Jane Butel is at the forefront of innovative and simply delicious ways to make this wonderful cuisine a big part of your culinary life.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Recipes that can be thrown together in 20 minutes or less with no more than five ingredients--that's the quick and the easy of Jane Butel's Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook. "The two pillars of the cuisine," she writes, "are chiles, which provide the personality, and corn, which provides a great deal of the structure." Jane Butel provides the know-how. That includes how to reduce fat, plan a week's worth of cooking for a family, find ways to speed the process, and stock your pantry so you have on hand what you need to get that Southwestern flavor you are looking for.

Among the 14 chapters, you will find recipes for main dish salads, wraps, Southwest seafood, sauces and salsas, desserts, fast-cooking meat dishes, quick-action poultry, and vegetarian dishes. Try the Beef Enchilada Bake. It's a casserole combination of browned ground beef, red chile sauce, tortillas, chopped onion, grated cheese, and lettuce and chopped tomato for garnish. It cooks in 17 to 20 minutes. The Scallop Tostado Salad looks tempting. So does the Swiss Chard-Wrapped Salmon, a dish that includes chipotle chiles and slices of lime.

Jane Butel has taught Southwestern cooking for years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so these recipes are tried and true. Home cooks looking for something new for weeknight dinners will enjoy a little chile-and-corn infusion from Jane Butel. --Schuyler Ingle

From Publishers Weekly

Sometimes credited with beginning the serious Tex-Mex interest in the U.S. in the early 1960s, Butel (Jane Butel's Tex-Mex Cookbook) provides more than 100 simple, low-fat recipes with a Southwestern flair designed to get the home cook out of the kitchen pronto. Most dishes, which range the Tex-Mex spectrum from hot and spicy to mild and gentle, are made with six or fewer ingredients. Others with more ingredients are labeled "A Sunday Best." For starters, there are Stuffed Jalape?os and Pinto Pat? as well as savory soups such as Chipotle-Teased Black Bean Pumpkin Soup and Salsa Snapper Soup. There are hearty entr?es such as Cumin Chicken Chimi (chili con carne rolled in tortillas) and Grilled Lamb with Soft Tacos, and vegetarian delights such as Sweet Potatoes with Chile and Herbs and Black Bean Green Chili. To top off a meal, she suggests a Watermelon Freeze or Mexican Cinnamon Chocolate Roll-Ups, made with ice cream and chocolate-flavored tortillas. Butel provides nutritional information for each dish and helpful suggestions for further reducing fat content. In all, this is a good introduction for those time-constrained home cooks. Author tour.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harmony; 1 edition (March 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609602284
• ISBN-13: 978-0609602287
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #753,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jane Butel, the first to write about southwestern cooking, is an internationally recognized authority on the regional cooking of the American Southwest. In the late 1970's, following a successful career as one of America's top Consumer Affairs executives, she launched her southwestern writing, teaching, television, consulting, and spice business. Her Southwestern Cooking Schools in New Mexico and Scottsdale, Arizona, have garnered high recognition. Bon Appetit magazine selected it as one of the four best in the world and Gayot.com listed her hotel-based schools as the best in the United States and one of the world's top ten.

She also conducts tours to Mexico and Spain. Pecos Valley Spice Co., a trusted source for chiles, spices, and other authentic southwestern ingredients, was founded in 1978. She continues to spice up America's favorite cuisine with recipes from the rich culinary, cultural, and historical heritage of the Southwest. She has written eighteen cookbooks, including Northland's Real Women Eat Chiles, which was just released on March 24, 2006.

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I found this cookbook in the library, love the recipes and book is so informative explaining types of chilies, spices, etc. and informs how use and prepare them. preparing.

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