Jane Butel's Quick and Easy Southwestern Cookbook (Hardcover)

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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.
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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harmony; 1st edition (March 30, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609602284
• ISBN-13: 978-0609602287
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
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