500 Five-Ingredient Recipes

by Better Homes and Gardens

Book Overview

Features: Over 500 flavour-packed family-friendly recipes including appetisers, beverages, salads, 250+ main dishes, sides, sauces and desserts; Each recipe calls for five easy-to-find ingredients and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Spiral-bound
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0696215470
• ISBN13: 9780696215476
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Better Homes and Gardens Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Cookbook for busy people

I use this cookbook several times a month when we want to try a new recipe. Everything we have made has turned out good.I like the simplicity of the recipes and the 5 ingredients list. Keeps it simple but delicious.

great condition book

Thanks so much for the cookbook, it's exactly what I was looking for, great condition

Absolutely perfect!

As a college student, the thought of purchasing several ingredients just to put something interesting on the table for dinner is certainly daunting. This book is absolutely perfect for that very reason. 500 Five Ingredient Recipes is, as the title states, a list of 500 dishes that require five (or less) ingredients! Obviously, you can add your own little herbs and such to spruce it up, but even on their own the recipes are delicious and diverse. What's more, the book is filled with recipes for things a person would ACTUALLY eat (I seem to have a bit of a knack for picking up cookbooks filled with weird sounding food that require ingredients I can't even pronounce!). There is even a section for Kids! The recipes are so clear and easy to follow that even my husband has no trouble using it! This is definitely a must-have for any amateur chef who prefers the taste of a home-cooked meal.

Another Better Homes and Gardens winner

Produced by the Better Homes and Gardens and tested through their test kitchens "500 Five Ingredient Recipes" is a wonderful collection of no fuss recipes. Don't make the mistake of thinking these are necessarily fast recipes. While some take only a few minutes to prepare others such as the "Easy Elegant Beef Roast" can take several hours to prepare. The purpose of the book is exactly as the title states - each recipe takes only five ingredients. If you are tired of recipes that requires so many ingredients that the clean up time is longer than the preparation time then this is the book for you. No corners are cut on these recipes, they are absolutely delicious, just what you would expect from Better Homes and Gardens. It contains the typical divisions for a cookbook - appetizers, beverages, salads, main dishes, sauces, sides, and desserts. In addition it has a section of recipes just for children and a section on meatless main dishes. Make sure to try the Stuffed mushrooms in Phyllo or the German style beef roast. They are both excellent. Although I really liked the cookbook and it definitely has its place in the library of anyone who loves to cook, there are two things that I did not like. First, is that it is not spiral bound and so does not lie flat so you can reference while cooking (although I understand that they do have a spiral bound version available - definitely get the spiral bound if you can find it). Secondly, I found the cooking times to be deceptive. You should always read the instructions in detail if preparation time is an issue. For example, the "Easy Elegant Beef Roast" is listed with 15 minutes preparation time and one and three quarters of an hour roasting time. If you read the roasting instructions they state that one and three quarters to two and a quarter hour for medium rare and two and a quarter to two and three quarters of an hour for medium. The preparation time listed under the recipe name should not have the minimum time but either an average time or a time range such as "one and three quarters to two and three quarters of an hour depending on taste preference" or something similar. For this cookbook just keep in mind that the roasting, cooking, baking, etc. times are the minimum times.Still, a highly recommended read and a real asset to any cookbook collection.