Steaming: Great Flavor, Healthy Meals (Healthy Cooking Series) [Hardcover]

Brigid Treloar (Author)

Book Description

Series: Healthy Cooking Series | Publication Date: June 15, 2008

We all want to provide tasty and healthy meals for our families, but few of us have the time. This book shows busy cooks how to keep the delicious and healthy meals coming without spending hours in the kitchen to prepare home-cooked dinners. An ancient Asian cooking technique, steaming fits in perfectly with contemporary eating styles. Quick and easy to prepare, steaming is a flavor-packed and nutritious alternative to cooking with fats.

Steaming is a wonderful introduction to this classic Asian art of cooking. Each recipe includes step-by-step directions that anyone can follow, and provides information on how to use a variety of steaming equipment, including tips for creating your own steamer. With recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts, everyone is sure to find new family favorites for dinner!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Brigid Treloar's experience and culinary skills are wonderfully showcased in Steaming. Brigid has been working as a food stylist, consultant and teacher for 20 years, and she is a presenter of specialist cooking classes at many top hotels and cooking schools.Throughout her travels in Europe and Asia, Brigid has gathered wonderful ideas and cooking techniques, and has prepared a truly enjoyable combination of recipes. She has also appeared on numerous television and radio programs, and writes for many magazines and newspapers.Brigid also advises many leading food companies on product and recipe development, food styling and photography and provides recipes, cooking information and tips for company web sites and on-line chat sessions. She lives in Sydney, Australia.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 96 pages
• Publisher: Periplus Editions; Hardcover with Jacket edition (June 15, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 079460580X
• ISBN-13: 978-0794605803
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 8.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #243,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Emphasis is on a healthy cooking method with excellent flavor., February 19, 2009

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kiwanissandy "Go Bucks!" (Heart of Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steaming: Great Flavor, Healthy Meals (Healthy Cooking Series) (Hardcover)

This book puts emphasis on using steaming as a cooking method. This method reduces any oil needed for the food as well as locking in all the flavor and keeping the texture of the food.

Many people only think of vegetables when steaming and then steam them to death on top of it. Most of the recipes in this cookbook are oriental as perhaps that culture has been the leader in steam cooking. I made the Chicken and Spinach Wontons and they were wonderful. The book also covers steaming of other vegetables making them look like artforms. The Stuffed Zucchini Blossoms and the Squash Soup in the gourd were beautiful. I'm not sure I could eat them after I'd finished cooking them because they were so pretty.

Many of these recipes do take some time to prepare. There is wrapping of wontons, using multiple wrappers, making California rolls, Sushi, Veal Rolls, Thai Fish Curry which were all time consuming to get such beauty. The Fish wrapped in toasted seaweed was beautiful.

There were even desserts, Grand Marnier Creme Caramel, Fruitcakes, and Creamy Coconut Black Rice Pudding. The tips and training for steaming that are in this book are excellent. You would learn the trade without question.

There are less than 50 recipes in this book so it's a little expensive per recipe. But if you want to learn steaming the techniques are here.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recipe Book, January 27, 2010

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Blue Rose (Liverpool, NY USA) - See all my reviews

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Lots of great recipes. Must have recipe book for anyone who uses a bamboo steamer.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Steaming cookbook, December 22, 2010

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This review is from: Steaming: Great Flavor, Healthy Meals (Healthy Cooking Series) (Hardcover)

I thought I would purchase a book to go along with my purchase of my new steamer. When I received the book and looked through to see what I could make as a meal and was surprised to see that almost all the Items weren't that common to me and seemed a bit fancy for my simple tastes. Was a bit disappointed and gave it away to someone that I knew those types of foods would appeal to.