Customer Reviews

Lean Bean Cuisine: Over 100 Tasty Meatless Recipes from Around the World

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I've had this book for nearly 2 years and I use a recipe from it at least once a week. I love the wide range of cuisines presented - from Jambalaya to Sambar to Groundnut Stew to Pasta e Fagioli. I haven't tried a recipe, yet, that I didn't like.

These recipes are spicy and exciting -- just the thing to prove that vegetarian food is ANYTHING but boring! I love spicy food but I truly hate dishes that are pure heat with no flavor. Not true of these dishes -- Jay's recipes literally sing with flavor. Wonderful fare!

This book is great for the fall and winter time when you're craving hearty, healthy food with mostly ingredients you are apt to have in your cupboard. Mr. Solomon uses a lot of different beans, hot peppers, and squashes, in a variety of ways. A good addition to your cookbook shelf!

This book reminds us all that is wealth when you have your health. To you, this book gives an alternative diet that has been proven to be creative and healthful awakening for connoisseurs of healthy choice meals as well as for vegetarians and non-vegetarians acrooss the globe. This book also recommend that cooks use high quality, natural products to ensure that your recipes meet the high standards and optimum taste they have set for each dish.

I've used this book for around 10 years. I own a number of bean cook books but this is the one I go back to over and over.

Nice variety of unusual recipes. I found this book when I was looking for Anasazi bean recipes. The Anasazi bean chili I found is the very best veggie chili I have ever tried. It was so good I got a copy of the book, and am I glad I did.

The recipes use either canned beans or dried beans. I think using dried beans and good quality spices gives the best results. I wonder if the reviews saying the recipes were bland used canned beans. That said the cowboy chipolte beans are hands down the best baked bean recipe I have ever had, that includes meat recipes.

As for high fat, yes some recipes can be. But if you are a full time vegetarian fat is usually not a problem for you. The kidney bean pasta salad using pesto as a dressing was very rich, but with the wheat pasta is was also very filling, so it was hard to over eat. This is a good book for vegetarians looking for more then the usual bean recipes.

Very few of these recipes are lean. Many recipes have up to 30 grams of fat. When I fix bean dishes, I want to improve my health not give myself a heart attack. This recipe book has adequate recipes for beans, but the title is very misleading, most every recipe is very fattening and not too good for your heart.

Despite his generous use of herbs and spices, the four recipes I tried all tasted generic and dull.