Simple Healthy: The Easiest Light Cookbook in the World

by Jean-François Mallet

From the internationally bestselling author of Simple comes easy, healthy meals with no more than four steps, five ingredients, and 1,000 user-friendly photographs.

Want to eat light without sacrificing flavor? Simple Healthy will have you enjoying a meal in minutes. Through combinations of interesting flavors and all-natural ingredients, chef, food photographer, and cookbook author Jean-François Mallet helps anyone, the novice and gourmand alike, prepare tasty time-saving entrees, sides and desserts. He also includes recipes for base sauces along with multiple ways to use them. With its clean design, large type, straightforward photos, and handy icons, you'll find it easy to make Shrimp Springrolls, Tomato Watermelon Gazpacho, Spinach and Green Pea Quiche, Spicy Sausage and Broccoli, and Chocolate Raspberry Mousse. Each recipes also includes the calorie count and if it is vegetarian, gluten-free, or dairy-free.

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cuisine, Cooking

368 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

Jean-François Mallet has taught at the École Supérieure de Cuisine Française Ferrandi in Paris, and worked for many years with such chefs as Joël Robuchon and Gaston Lenôtre. Today he is a food writer and photographer and contributes to French magazines, such as Saveur, Elle à Table, and Etoile.

Reviews

[Keawna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tasty simple recipes. The cauliflower & shrimp has been my favorite so far with the creamiest cauliflower I’ve ever had. You can substitute some of the ingredients for American ones if you just google great substitutes for such & such. I’m sure the pairing are intentional though. It will still be delicious regardless.

I can find baby squid in my freezer section or the Asian market. Sometimes swordfish will be available in the freezer section as well. White fish can be substituted with other white fish. Double scan the produce section. Figure it out y’all.


The recipes are simple but with ample flavor. 6 ingredients or under. Easy simple steps. The freshness of herbs plays a major part in the bright fresh taste. They are low calorie. I never knew I didn’t have to sacrifice creamy dishes for low calories. Well done.

The only suggestion I have for the author, every once in a while something is translated poorly.

Stuffed tomatoes for dinner tonight. Breakfast tomorrow will be the goat cheese green apples over arugula. Just finished a plate of chicken pineapple salad with creamy dressing. I feel satisfied, full but not groggy for only 380 calories. Wonderful.

[Megan Green · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’m giving this cookbook a rating of 3 stars. I was really disappointed in the recipes inside. They are all made from strange or hard to get ingredients. I don’t have octopus on hand to make Octopus Curry. One thing I did like was the enlarged pictures of the ingredients AND the final product. I’m grateful I got the opportunity to receive this cookbook through a Goodreads Giveaway! I also was given another cookbook by the same author. It had more recipes in it that I could actually make! There’s a link to it at the very bottom!


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[Kerstin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pros: This book deserves 5 stars for design! Best layout design I have ever seen in a cookbook! Beautiful pictures! And every recipe has a photo, which I love!! Very well done.

Cons: Uh, 90% of the recipes…. I guess these are popular French foods? I’m not sure where I would even buy several of the ingredients in Rocky Mt America area. Most of the recipes were weird and not that appetizing to me. I did like several of the desserts, they looked good. But I haven’t actually tried them.

Overall I was disappointed. But amazing design!

[Cherop · Rating 5 out of 5]

I went through the entire book after borrowing from the library. There are many tasty looking and easy recipes which I want to try so I'll need to borrow it again.

[Šárka R · Rating 2 out of 5]

DARUJI! Tahle kniha byla impulsivní nákup na Knihobotu, ale pro mě to není. Pokud ji chcete, napište, ráda vám ji daruji.

[Elizabeth Nordquest · Rating 4 out of 5]

I won this book in a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway.

4.5 / 5
When I entered the giveaway I expected it to be small and without photos, so I was pleasantly surprised when a huge, colorful book arrived. There are a ton of recipes in here, all with big photos and easy instructions. There's also a helpful index arranged by ingredient in the back. Recipes are boldly labeled gluten free, lactose free, and vegan/vegetarian.

I would take half a star off for the recipes. There are some tasty looking ones, but some of them don't sounds too appetizing and I think that has to do with the LIGHT in the book's title. I also received a copy of Simple: The Easiest Cookbook in the World and the recipes in there seem more appealing (lots more meat!).

I highly recommend this if you're like me and want quick recipes that you can master easily and modify for your own needs/tastes.

[Laroy Viviane · Rating 4 out of 5]

Le livre a avoir dans sa collection de livres de cuisine.

Les recettes sont effectivement simples et composées de 3 à 5 ingrédients parfois moins connus mais toujours goutus.

Le côté light, vous l'avez surtout grâce aux modes de cuisson préconisés : à l'eau, four et/ou vapeur. Et les saveurs grâce aux épices comme le thym citronné ou le gingembre. Ce sont des yaourts ou des fromages blanchs qui au niveau de la texture remplacent les crèmes.

[Book Grocer · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Proclaimed as the "easiest cookbook in the world", this is a weighty book that definitely delivers. With photos of the finished product but also of the ingredients, and calories included, this is truly an easy, breezy cookbook.

Elisa - The Book Grocer