The Fifteen Minute Vegetarian Gourmet

by Paulette Mitchell

Book Overview

A cookbook dedicated to easy to prepare vegetarian meals includes recipes that taste delicious, are quick to make, and are nutritious, such as Moroccan Chick Pea Soup, Herbed Macaroni Parmesan and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0025854305
• ISBN13: 9780025854307
• Release Date: June 1987
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

decent small cookbook

For a small cookbook this has a pretty good range of recipes and better yet, some very helpful sections on general cooking principles. I found the recipes a bit generic, but on the other hand they are easy to prepare and use very common ingredients, which is consistent with the time-saving goal of the cookbook. Best of all, there were some great nuggets of information in the "hints" and general topic overviews which will have a postive impact on my overall cooking skills.

Short Lists of Ingredients-Thank you!!

Perhaps not in 15 but at 30 minutes max you can dish up some fabulous vegetarian recipes with this book. I have loved every dish that I've tried and she keeps the shopping list at a managable length. I hope she writes a sequel.

I used to dislike cooking, but now...

I received this book a couple of years ago as a gift and it may be one of the best gifts I've ever received. I cannot recommend it enough. I've cooked nearly every recipe in the entire book and they've all turned out very well.Maybe the best thing I can say about this book is that I didn't care much for cooking--nor did I know how to cook very well--when I first got this book, but it has really changed my mind. I feel that I learned a lot of key cooking skills from this book, in addition to picking up a few little extra tips that have added a lot to my cooking beyond the recipes in this book. Now I love to cook! These recipes gave me confidence that I could.The techniques and the ingredients are simple, but the results are always good. The Meatless Mission Chili is something we often serve at parties (my meat-eating friends really like it) and the Pasta with Peanut Szechuan Dressing is a staple in our house.The helpful hints that accompany each recipe (usually, a little tip about preparing or storing one of the ingredients in the recipe) are great. The nutritional information at the end of each recipe is a big plus, too.

Easy and Delicious

I own an older version of this book and have found it extremely useful over my nine years of being a vegetarian. With most vegetarian cookbooks I own, the ingredients are hard to find, exotic, expensive, or just plain strange. I've found this book very accesible and easy to work with, and have been pleased with every recipe I've tried, especially the chili and the chick pea stew.

The busiest cookbook on my shelf!

Six years after purchasing The 15-Minute Vegetarian Gourmet, I can still say that this is the most often used cookbook in my collection (and the most often shared). Recipes are simple, honestly delicious, quick, healthy, and distinctive without being too strange for mainstream American tastes. I have blessed Ms. Mitchell many nights when it was my turn to cook and I was exhausted. This is also a good source of "company food" for people whose gifts do not lie in the kitchen yet want to entertain with a (manageable) bit of flair.