Cook Healthy and Quick

by D.K. Publishing

Want to eat healthy - fast? Cook Healthy and Quick makes it easy. Bursting with ideas for clean and green salads, plant-based main courses, protein-packed breakfasts, virtuous grab-and-go snacks, and much more, this book offers over 300 recipes using nourishing, easily sourced ingredients for which you won't need to search the health food shops.

Follow the latest health trends, such as natural sugar, gluten-free, raw, souping, plant-based meals and intermittent fasting. Each easy-to-follow recipe in Cook Healthy and Quick has detailed nutritional information, with calorie, fat and sugar content highlighted. Plus each recipe can be made in 30 minutes or less, so you'll be rustling up Broad Bean Tortillas, Prawn Kebabs, Spicy Turkey Burgers, and Banana and Cranberry Ice Cream in no time.

Genres: Cookbooks

400 pages, Hardcover

First published April 5, 2016

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Carla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Life is busy whether you have one partner staying at home or with both parents working. Many families (and individuals as well) are constantly on the go - from work, to doctor and dentist appointments, to extra curricular activities and to the holidays. The last thing so many of us want to do is to have to come home, cook an elaborate meal while trying to make sure it hits all the nutritional guidelines. Many of us have good intentions will check the internet for recipes, print them out, get the ingredients but then when the day comes we are too tired and resort to the old and faithful recipes. I am one of those!

This recipe book breaks recipes down not only by the type of meal (breakfast, soups, mains, sides, etc..) but also by time. Only have fifteen minutes to whip together something before soccer practice? Check the list in the beginning of the book and head straight to those pages to pick out a recipe. All of the recipes (and there are 300!) can be prepared in under thirty minutes. Most of the ingredients you will find at home in your pantry but some of the items are a bit more specific (for example not all of us stock veal or liver in our freezer). There are enough recipes that you could easily prepare two weeks of meals that are different each day.

The recipes each take up about one page and include a colour photo as well as easy to follow instructions that are straight and to the point leaving no guess-work. Each recipe also includes a colour coded nutritional guide that highlights whether the recipe is dairy free, low in saturated fat, high fiber, gluten free and so on. Which is very helpful for those that have dietary restrictions due to health or personal reasons.

This recipe book would make an excellent gift for the cook in your life, the individual that loves healthy food but just doesn't have the time to prepare meals and even a young adult moving out on their own who needs to learn how to prepare healthy meals for themselves.

[Lorrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I flipped through this book. And I say that because very little in it looked even remotely palatable let alone something I would want to try. I'm always looking for things I can prepare quickly, add healthy on top of that, and even better. But, unfortunately, very little in this book inspires that mentality.

In a cookbook with 300+ recipes, I flagged exactly NINE of them to try... Nine out of 300+... that's ridiculous.

Too many recipes included weird, hard to find ingredients. Too many recipes, even with the perfectly photographed pictures, looked, well, disgusting. Weird ingredient combos abound. Not only that, if you're not fond of fish, you're seriously out of luck with this cookbook, since I'd wager 75% of the recipes include fish of some sort. Plus there is very little variety in ingredients (the weird shit notwithstanding).

I'm rating this book a 2 simply because I DID actually choose a couple recipes to try, and it was decently well layed out, and the categorization system/nutritional analysis was ok.

[Brigitte · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely beautiful book with great pictures and delicious recipes. I am excited to try as many of the recipes as possible from this book as they all look yum!