Rachel Rappaport - The Big Book of Vegetarian Recipes: More Than 700 Easy Vegetarian Recipes for Healthy and Flavorful Meals

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If youre looking for flavorful vegetarian meals you and your family will enjoy, look no further!

Millions of people all over the world are living the vegetarian lifestyle. There are many reasons people abstain from meat, ranging from the philosophical to the practical. Health-conscious people adopt the vegetarian diet for a variety of reasons. A vegetarian diet rich in whole grains and vitamin- and fiber-rich vegetables and fruit has been shown to dramatically decrease the risk of certain chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, heart disease, and high blood pressure. A vegetarian diet has been shown to reduce the risk of some cancers. Beyond the health benefits, eating a vegetarian diet is very cost-effective. By eliminating expensive meat from your diet, grocery bills will be drastically reduced.

Some new to the vegetarian lifestyle might wonder what exactly vegetarians eat. They will be happy to learn that vegetarians eat a wide variety of foods. Vegetarians refrain from eating meat and instead make up their diet with grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, dairy, and eggs.

The basic vegetarian pantry includes canned or dried beans, sweeteners like sugar, agave nectar, honey, and maple syrup, lentils, various varieties of rice, canned tomatoes, pasta, oils such as olive and canola, vinegars, hot sauce, mustards, peanut butter, dried fruit, mayonnaise, spices, and whole grains like wheat berries, oats, and kasha. The vegetarian refrigerator is stocked with not only fresh fruits and vegetables but calcium-rich dairy like milk, yogurt, and cheese, soy or almond milk, tofu products, pickles, sun-dried tomatoes, salsa, and relishes as well.

Well-stocked pantries can include items from regions with a rich history of vegetarian cooking. Chinese condiments like soy sauce, hoisin sauce, tamari, and sesame oil; Indian ingredients such as mango chutney, red lentils, and garam masala; and Japanese ingredients like miso paste, rice vinegar, soba noodles, sushi rice, and wasabi all make international vegetarian cooking a breeze.

Now that you have all of these ingredients, what do you do with them? Youre in luck. This cookbook is jam-packed with more than seven hundred recipes ranging from breakfast recipes to beverages, main dishes, and desserts. With so many recipes, it is simple to find one that meets your needs.

Use that Japanese miso in delicious Miso Eggs Benedict. Eliminate the need for bottled condiments with mysterious ingredients by making your own barbecue sauce, aioli, tofu sour cream, and flavored compound butters. Wow dinner guests by serving Mini Lentil-Scallion Pancakes with Cumin Cream or Wild Mushroom Risotto with Truffles. Feel like baking? Whip up some Golden Delicious Apple-Strawberry Crisp, Simple Cloverleaf Dinner Rolls, or Red Velvet Cake.

If you are a busy cook, you will appreciate that some of the recipes call for a slow cooker, so you can put up dinner in the morning and come home to a warm vegetarian meal, or a pressure cooker, which makes a full meal in a quarter of the usual time. Slow cooker and pressure cooker recipes are indicated with the following icons for easy reference.

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Use this book as your guide into the wonderful, flavorful world of vegetarian cooking.

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