Product Description
WINNER GOURMAND WORLD COOKBOOK AWARD 2007
This practical and comprehensive cookbook opens up a world of delightful dishes and provides numerous, inspiring ideas for healthy eating. Monique Bassila Zaarour brings three great gifts to her Lebanese Kitchen: from her Lebanese heritage, an intimate knowledge of one of the world’s great cuisines; from her training as a nutritionist, scientific understanding of the health benefits of food; and from her life as a working mother, eminently practical tips. She will whip your cupboards into shape, with her advice about plastic bags and advance preparation and her arsenal of tips on how to defend your kitchen from fast-food culture.
She organizes; she inspires. With packets of minced lamb and grilled pine-nuts on hand in your freezer, you too to can make healthy, delicious meals such as fortifying eggplant lamb stew, lentil soup, falafel sandwiches, stuffed zucchini, rice pilaf–in just a half hour. And for people with particular health concerns such as diabetes or heart disease, each recipe has comprehensive nutritional information.
* Beautiful photography and design * Detailed, easy-to-follow recipes * Comprehensive nutritional information * Useful tips and variations
The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes
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This is the best lebanese cookbook I’ve seen to date. You know how I know? My mom, the best lebanese cook this side of the atlantic who doesn’t believe in arabic cookbooks, took mine so I had to buy another copy for myself! Trust me, that’s the ultimate form of approval!
Rating: 5 / 5
The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes
I fell in love with Lebanese food about 15 years ago. I have made a few dishes through the years but always ended up being disappointed. Thank goodness I live in an area with a huge Lebanese community. It makes it easier to just go to one of the many restaurants and order my favorite dishes, that is, until now.
About a year ago I saw this book at the library and took it home. The first thing I made, the Fattoush, FANTASTIC! It tastes exactly like the one at my authentic Lebanese restaurant. As I made each recipe, the same reaction. Delicious. The thoughts of taking my library book back made me crazy. As I went to return it, I couldn’t let it go. I asked the librarian to sign it out again. I ended up doing this for about 5 months. Finally, I thought I would take it back and let someone else enjoy these wonderful recipes.
One month later I returned to the library to take MY book out again. IT WASN’T THERE. It has not shown up to this day. I had to have this book.
I am thrilled to say, I bought The Lebanese Kitchen. Having not had it for about 6 months, I forgot how wonderful it really is. The recipes are all incredible. When you eat the dish you have prepared, it feels like you are eating a home cooked meal in Lebanon. And the photos, MOUTHWATERING. The best thing, there is a photo for each recipe and complete nutritional information. This is a cookbook you MUST have if you like Lebanese food.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes
This is a visually beautiful cookbook – one recipe per page, which I like. The recipes look great, and are very similar to what my husband’s family (Lebanese) makes. However, we were surprised to see no lamb, which is very popular in Lebanese cooking.
Rating: 4 / 5
The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes
“The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes” showcases recipes drawn from the Lebanese culinary heritage of food writer, nutritionist, and healthy eating expert Monique Bassila Zaarour. Enhanced with full-color photographs of each finished dish, the mouth-watering, palate-pleasing, body-healthy, instructive recipes range from Toasted Pine Nuts; Potato and Egg Salad; Moussaka; Artichoke Stew; and Stuffed Zucchini; to Shepherd’s Pie; Chicken and Cilantro; Moughrabieh (chicken with pea-shaped dough); and Baked Fish Fillet. “The Lebanese Kitchen” is particularly recommended for ethnic cookbook collections in particular, and would make a welcome and much appreciated addition to personal, family, and community library cookbook collections in general.
Rating: 5 / 5
The Lebanese Kitchen: Quick & Healthy Recipes