Starters: Colourful Recipes for Health and Well-being

by Unknown

With New Healthy Kitchen Main Dishes, you can improve your diet while enjoying recipes such as Honey-Glazed Lamb Chops with Apricot Salsa, Quail with Roasted Fresh Figs, or Tabbouleh with Lemony Scallops. This colorful series of healthy cookbooks takes a commonsense approach to eating right. Food fads and trendy diets may come and go, but your family doctor can tell you that you will never go wrong eating a wide variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, whole grains, and legumes. We all know that we're supposed to be eating several servings of each of these foods every day. But you might not know that we're also supposed to be eating as many different colors of fruit and vegetable as possible. The naturally occurring pigments that give vibrant colors to fruits and vegetables also offer an array of unique health benefits, boosting your immune system and fighting common diseases and conditions as you age. These pigments and other plant compounds -- known as antioxidants and phytochemicals -- work in tandem with vitamins, minerals, and fiber to keep our bodies strong and well. The amazing benefits of colorful foods, whole grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts are being studied in labs across the country and touted by government experts on nutrition. But all the good advice in the world won't help you put a healthy dinner on the table. The books of the New Healthy Kitchen series -- Starters, Main Dishes, and Desserts -- will do just that. The 60 recipes in these pages, grouped by the color of a key ingredient, offer dozens of appealing and easy ways to bring a rainbow of fruits, vegetables, and grains into your daily meals. Even better, 24 "Fresh Ideas" suggest simple ways of enjoying fresh produce as a snack or side dish. With New Healthy Kitchen Main Dishes, eating right won't be a sacrifice or a chore. In these books, healthy food means good food, simply prepared and a pleasure to eat.

Genres: Cooking, Cookbooks

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

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Reviews

[Lauren]

An amazing compilation of appetizer/starter recipes - all based around colors and seasonality. Perfect when you have a certain ingredient and have to figure out what to do with it. While it is not vegetarian, it has a lot of vegetable options, and can easily use substitutes. The photos are stunning!

[Jennifer]

The pictures in this cookbook are pretty, but the recipes aren't the type of dishes I would want to cook for myself and definitely not for a group of people. Most of the dishes are a bit too fussy to for me, and I'm not interested in cooking a single dish. For some people, this might be a good choice, but if you're not looking for hoity-toity dishes, this book won't be a good choice for you.