The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook: 300 Mouthwatering Recipes for Making the Most of Your Rotisserie Oven (Non) [Paperback]

Diane Phillips (Author)

Book Description

Series: Non | Publication Date: September 5, 2002

We’ve all seen them in grocery stores and restaurants: delectably juicy, evenly browned, picture-perfect rotisserie chickens. Do you think they look unattainable, like something that can only be bought in a store and never replicated at home? In truth, it’s as easy as can be with a rotisserie oven.

 

A small rotisserie oven that fits right on your kitchen counter will effortlessly transform a humble chicken (and so much more) into a gloriously crispy, moist, and delicious family dinner in about an hour (while you are busy doing other things, or maybe even finding time to relax).

 

The rotisserie is one of the most recent additions to the kitchen-appliance repertoire. What you may not realize is that it’s also one of the most versatile and user-friendly. It can cook everything from meat and poultry to vegetable side dishes and desserts; it works without heating up he rest of the kitchen like an over; it’s compact enough to occupy only a small amount of valuable counter space; plus, it’s easy to clean!

 

In The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook, Diane Phillips creatively takes the rotisserie oven well beyond chicken to every kind of food and every course of the meal. Go on, give it a whirl with recipes such as Calypso Jerk Chicken Kabobs, Roasted Garlic Prime Rib Roast, Plum Crazy Pork Chops, or Roasted Salmon with Mustard Chive Butter. Since the rotisserie bastes food in its own juices and allows excess fat to drain away, everything cooks up lighter and healthier than the same food that is cooked in the traditional oven or stovetop manner.

 

For easy, no-fuss hors d’oeuvres or side dishes, try Blue Bayou Stuffed Mushrooms, Sugar Cane Shrimp, No-Fry Pommes Frites, or Pesto-Grilled Eggplant. With an extensive chapter of marinades, sauces, and rubs to spice things up or cool them down (how about Southwestern Fiesta Rib Sauce or Cucumber Mint Salsa?) and one on desserts to sweeten the deal (ever thought of making Rotisserie Caramel Apples or Fire-Roasted Pineapple with Macadamia Caramel Sauce?), your possibilities are limitless.

 

The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook is, simply, the be-all and end-all book for the rotisserie oven, with 300 recipes for every possible way you could think of to use this amazing machine.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Is a countertop rotisserie the one small appliance every cook needs in order to save time in the kitchen while producing fabulous meals? Phillips (The Soup Mix Gourmet) thinks the answer is yes, and she presents a strong case. If cooks have a tabletop rotisserie with a good timer, she says, they can "set it and forget it," leaving Spicy Thai Ginger Chicken, Peach and Ginger Pork Roast or Scallop Kabobs to cook (and self-baste) to perfection with little help from the cook-and minimal cleanup time. In chapters devoted to poultry, beef and lamb, pork, fish and vegetables, Phillips provides many good ideas for using every part of any rotisserie-the spit, kabob rods and basket-even suggesting that the basket be used for cooking "Dillicious" Salmon Cakes, Pesto-Grilled Eggplant and Chipotle Meatloaf. Almost every section of the book offers advice on rubs, marinades and sauces, but there is also an extra chapter completely devoted to sauces, as well as another one on such side dishes as Garlic Smashed Potatoes with Cream and Asian Slaw. Desserts such as Caramelized Bananas with Hot Fudge provide an additional argument that cooking with a rotisserie can actually be fun. (Oct.)
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The "top manufacturer" (could it be Ronco?) of rotisserie ovens has sold more than three million of the countertop appliances in the last several years, and Phillips's latest book (after The Soup Mix Gourmet) supplies dozens of easy and delectable recipes for anyone who owns one. There are several chicken recipes, but she also uses her rotisserie to cook other meats, vegetables, and even desserts ("I know what you're thinking," she writes, "this woman is mad! But wait ."), including Bittersweet S'mores and Grilled Drunken Figs. Each chapter opens with "No-Brainers" that offer advice on using condiments, prepared sauces, and the like. A chapter on homemade salsas, rubs, and sauces and a selection of (nonrotisserie) side dishes round out the book. For most collections.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Harvard Common Press (September 5, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558322337
• ISBN-13: 978-1558322332
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #70 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Appliances

More About the Author

Welcome to my Amazon.com profile page. I'm the author of 14 cookbooks including the James Beard Award nominated Perfect Party Food. I travel and teach do-ahead entertaining and cooking classes all over the country and in the Dordogne region of France. Teaching is my passion and I love being able to do something that I love that includes meeting my readers and students all over the country. Check out my website www.dianephillips.com for my fall class schedule featuring my next book: Slow Cooker; The Best Cookbook Ever, information about La Combe en Perigord, travel tips, and do-ahead entertaining tools. Follow me at my blog: www.cucinadivina.blogspot.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've Been Waiting For This Book For Years!!!!, October 12, 2002

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Daniel F. Moore (Yarmouth, Maine USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook: 300 Mouthwatering Recipes for Making the Most of Your Rotisserie Oven (Hardcover)

Diane Phillips is truly amazing! In 'The Soup Mix Gourmet', she elevated the humble and oft-maligned canned and/or dried soup to haute cuisine. She's done it again with 'The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook'. This appliance has exploded onto the kitchen scene and is now, thanks to Ron Popeil and George Foreman, widely used in American homes.

Phillips cites dry rubs as 'part and parcel of what makes delicious rotisserie and grilled food'. In the chapter, 'A Whole Lot of Saucin' Going On', she delights us with recipes for not only rubs, but marinades, salsas, pesto, and a wide variety of finishing sauces. The Fiesta Rub combining chili powder, cumin and oregano made a meal of chicken breasts exploding with flavor. There are over 50 pages in this chapter and this alone will allow you to experiment with new and old flavors and tastes.

Additionally, Ms. Phillips discusses poultry, beef, lamb, pork and vegetables. Each chapter begins with a listing of the recipes and the appropriate page number. Also included are spice and sauce 'no brainers', a list of spices and sauces that complement the particular meat or vegetable. Cooking times for doneness are particularly helpful in the meat chapters.

Just when you think you have tried almost everything in the rotisserie, comes the chapter entitled, 'Hot and Sweet'. Fruit is showcased here and the Rotisserie Caramel Apples will have the kids screaming for more! The book concludes with a collection of side dishes to accompany your rotisserie meal. Here you will find baked beans, potato and rice dishes and some salad suggestions, to mention only a few.

As you can probably tell, I love this book! I have owned a Showtime Rotisserie for over five years and there is nothing to compare to the simplicity of use and the scrumptious results. Dianne Phillips has increased the possibilities for this appliance dramatically AND deliciously. A book on this subject is long overdue as it is easy to get tired of whole chickens. If you are a rotisserie user or considering the purchase of one, this book is a 'must buy'.

24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The cookbook that makes the showtime grill worth the $$$, October 13, 2003

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E. Hennessey (Collinsville, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook: 300 Mouthwatering Recipes for Making the Most of Your Rotisserie Oven (Non) (Paperback)

We bought one of those showtime grills you see advertised on tv - the Set it and Forget It! rotisserie. Bed Bath and Beyond sells a smaller version for $100 - that is the one we got. Unfortunatly it did not come with a lot of recipes - just basic cooking tips - x pounds = x mins. I saw this book on Amazon and the reviews were pretty good. Those reviews did not do it justice. This book is a MUST HAVE if you have one of those grills. It is tailored to the kitchen counter rotiserie - not the big rotisserie kits for your BBQ.

I never imagined being able to rotisserie a banana or an apple. This has recipes from that to chicken, pork, fish, kabobs, etc. I just got the book the book and already made 3 recipes out of it today! I made a whole chicken on it that rivals anything the supermarkets can produce. You MUST buy this book if you want to take full advantage of your rotisserie grill! Tonight for dessert I am suprising my wife with the Caramelized Apples! Yummm I can hardly wait!

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Perfect for someone who has a rotisserie oven or wants one!, September 28, 2002

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Catherine S. Vodrey (East Liverpool, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook: 300 Mouthwatering Recipes for Making the Most of Your Rotisserie Oven (Hardcover)

I would not have believed that there could be gathered together 300 recipes all making use of a rotisserie oven, but Diane Phillips has done just that with "The Ultimate Rotisserie Cookbook." Perfect for someone who has a rotisserie oven--or is seriously considering buying one--this is, of course, heavy on the meat and kabob recipes. These are mouthwatering: Creole Mustard-Crusted Rib Roast, Indonesian Pork Satay, Romano-Crusted Swordfish, and so on. There are even, surprisingly enough, some "sides" and dessert recipes. The Strawberry S'Mores and Pineapple with Macadamia Caramel Sauce could just as easily be made without a rotisserie, but what fun that Phillips had the imagination to include them here!

The book is pleasingly heavy in the hand, and the graphic design attractive to the eye. I wish some color other than red had been used for notes and recipe titles (red is so hard on the eyes), but that's a small quibble with an unusual and useful cookbook.