The One-Dish Vegetarian: 100 Recipes for Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals [Paperback]

Maria Robbins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 21, 2000

In this expert and one-of-a-kind collection, veteran cookbook author Maria Robbins lifts the lid off healthy, hearty vegetarian cooking. Anyone who longs for something new on the table will find plenty to choose from, with recipes that use techniques and flavors from Creole, Chinese, Mexican, Italian, Moroccan, and other cuisines--each one a well-rounded meal in itself. A colorful cookbook that celebrates whole grains, fresh vegetables, and spices from around the world, The One-Dish Vegetarian is just right for part-time, full-time, and first-time vegetarians-and anyone else with a taste for fast, flavorful meals that come all in one dish.

Whether you're a card-carrying vegetarian or one of millions of people looking for lighter, healthier alternatives to traditional meat-as-main-course meals, The One-Dish Vegetarian will bring an irresistible feast of fresh ideas to your kitchen. Veteran cookbook author Maria Robbins presents one hundred new soups, stews, chilis, pasta and rice dishes, casseroles, sautes, curries, and salads-each in its own pot, and each a healthful, flavorful delight.

Using the freshest ingredients of each season and vibrant spices from around the world, the recipes include Fusilli with Broccoli and Peanut Sauce; Moroccan Eggplant, Tomato, and Chick-Pea Stew; Soba Noodles with Mushrooms and Peas; Sag Harbor's Vegetarian Chili; Risotto with Butternut Squash and Sage; Vegetarian Paella; Saute of Summer Vegetables with Corn; Green Chili with White Beans; and many more.

For anyone who's ever thought, "I'd love to cook vegetarian meals-but what's the entrée?" the answer comes in one delicious dish!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Declaring herself to be "a part-time vegetarian," Robbins (Biscotti and Other Low Fat Cookies) draws from diverse cuisines?traditional American, Latin, Asian and Mediterranean?for these 100 meatless dishes that can be cooked in a single pot or pan. Home cooks pressed for time will appreciate these quick-assembly (and easy clean-up) recipes. Salads are hearty (Wild Rice Waldorf Salad; Brown Rice and Lentil Salad). Full-meal soups include Barley Vegetable Soup and Very Hearty Corn Chowder. Pasta and rice dishes figure heavily into Robbins's one-pot scheme: Spaghetti with Roasted Fennel and Tomatoes; Penne with Broccoli, Red Pepper and Garlic; Risotto with Butternut Squash and Sage; Buckwheat Pasta with Cabbage and Sage. Adventurous palates may appreciate the likes of Tofu in Red Chili Sauce with pumpkin seeds and Caribbean Vegetable Stew, starring tomatoes, white cabbage, okra, sweet potatoes, lime juice and peanuts; and Six Vegetable Curry (yellow peas, eggplant, potatoes, yams, tomatoes and string beans), flavored with chilies, ginger, cumin and tamarind. Such basics as Light Vegetable Stock and Vegetable Broth are also included. Nutritional analyses of the recipes are not provided, but there is a short list of mail-order sources.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Casseroles and vegetarianism often seem mutually exclusive. One does not find "tofu helper" in many supermarkets. But it is possible, as Robbins points out, to produce one-dish meals without any meats or fish. Her one-dish meals rely on pastas, beans, and grains, but she shows how, by using a vegetable broth in place of the usual chicken broth, the home cook can produce elegant, flavorful risotto. This includes both a classic Venetian-inspired rice-and-peas version and a trendy squash-and-sage risotto sure to be a dinner-party hit. Robbins even comes up with a way to take the classic Spanish paella, with its wealth of meats and seafoods, and to turn it into a vegetarian treat by adding reconstituted dried chestnuts for texture. Other recipes use brown rice mixed with cut-up vegetables for more traditional vegetarian fare. Mark Knoblauch --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; 1st edition (January 21, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312254032
• ISBN-13: 978-0312254032
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #178,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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63 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredibly easy, delicious cusine, November 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The One-Dish Vegetarian: 100 Recipes for Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals (Paperback)

I have cooked just about every recipe in this book at least twice and it was all very easy and absolutely delicious. My friends ask for several of the dishes over and over, including the Lentil Soup with Spicy Greens (the best lentil soup I have ever had), and the Penne with Broccoli, Red Pepper and Garlic.

This book alone has given me the reputation of being an excellent cook, but I'll never tell it was the book and not me! I highly recommend this one to anyone who wants to eat very, very well and boost their reputation as a cook. I would buy copies for everyone I know except I don't want to share my culinary secrets....Thank you Maria Robbins.

43 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book, June 14, 2006

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Sarah M. Turner (Kirkland, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The One-Dish Vegetarian: 100 Recipes for Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals (Paperback)

This book is filled with wonderful recipes. My family asks for me to make them again and again, and when I have guests over I always rely on this book to make something wonderful for them. I have gotten many compliments, and many satisfying meals from this book and I would heartily recommend it to anyone. I especially like that she does not use "replacement" foods. Even though I am a strict vegetarian, I do not care for tofu, seitan, soy cheese, or veggie meats, which seem to pepper so many of the recipes in other vegetarian cookbooks. This is just good plain food!!

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good meals, not strictly vegetarian, August 18, 2006

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Stacey (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The One-Dish Vegetarian: 100 Recipes for Quick and Easy Vegetarian Meals (Paperback)

I really like the recipes in this book, because vegetarian meals don't need to be entree-side dish in format. You can use good fresh ingredients to make great meals, and this is an excellent resource. But I want to warn those who may be new to vegetarianism that the recipes are not stricly vegetarian. At least one uses fish sauce, and another uses worcestershire sauce, neither of which is vegetarian (worcestershire sauce has anchovies, which are fish). If you're a pesco-vegetarian (can eat seafood), or if you just want meatless meals, you're fine; if you are actually vegetarian, watch the ingredients carefully and make substitutions as appropriate. The author herself is not vegetarian and probably does not realize that these ingredients make a meal non-vegetarian for most of us.