The Complete Mediterranean Cookbook: 500 Vibrant, Kitchen-Tested Recipes for Living and Eating Well Every Day

by The Editors at America's Test Kitchen (Editor)

Overview

500 recipes are now at your fingertips in a single comprehensive cookbook inspired by the renowned flavors and heart healthy diet of the Mediterranean!  Using the guidelines of the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid to create a variety of tapas, soups, salads, grains, pasta, flat breads, beans, vegetables, seafood, poultry, meat, eggs, fruits, and sweets. 
 
This impressive go-to kitchen resource also includes helpful tips for cooking success including:
How to integrate the Mediterranean diet into your diet;
“Why This Recipe Works” educational notes from our chefs on why a particular ingredient or technique worked best;
Recipe variations for creative inspiration;
Nutritional Information;
Helpful conversion charts for both volume and weight;
A detailed index to quickly find the recipe you’re looking for.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940352640
Publisher:	America's Test Kitchen
Publication date:	12/27/2016
Pages:	440
Sales rank:	3,155
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

America’s Test Kitchen is well-known across its top-rated television shows with more than 4 million weekly PBS viewers, bestselling cookbooks, magazines, and cooking schools. The highly reputable and recognizable brands of America’s Test Kitchen, Cook’s Illustrated, Cook’s Country, and Cook’s Science are the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts who put ingredients, cookware, equipment and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best. Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Table of Contents

Welcome to America's Test Kitchen ix

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Meze, Antipasti, Tapas, and Other Small Plates 14

Chapter 2 Soups 40

Chapter 3 Salads 66

Chapter 4 Rice and Grains 100

Chapter 5 Pasta and Couscous 136

Chapter 6 Beans 168

Chapter 7 Vegetables 194

Chapter 8 Seafood 242

Chapter 9 Poultry and Meat 288

Chapter 10 Eggs 328

Chapter 11 Breads, Flatbreads, Pizzas, and More 342

Chapter 12 Fruit and Sweets 366

Nutritional Information for Our Recipes 390

Conversions and Equivalents 402

Index 404

Editorial Reviews

11/07/2016
America’s Test Kitchen tackles Mediterranean cooking with 500 recipes. The book opens with an introduction to the “Mediterranean Diet Pyramid,” instructions on creating a Mediterranean table, and menu planning; the fundamentals are outlined to help readers integrate this lifestyle into their daily menus. As always, America’s Test Kitchen has exhaustively tested each recipe and included serving sizes, time delineations, culinary categories, an introduction that explains why the recipe works, and ways to change up the dish with other flavors or ingredients. The flavorful recipes include a spicy Moroccan-style chicken and lentil soup, tagliatelle with artichokes and Parmesan, and garlicky roasted shrimp with parsley and anise. These and other dishes can easily be integrated into readers’ existing menus. Helpful notes fill the book, such as “Buying Mussels and Clams” and “Shaping a Press-in Tart Shell.” A chapter for “Fruit and Sweets” finishes the book with such treats as lemon-anise biscotti, baklava, and Greek lemon rice pudding. This title will be a workhorse in any kitchen. Photos. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

12/01/2016
America's Test Kitchen has published many books on "light" cooking but are relative newcomers to diet cookbooks. Showcasing the Mediterranean diet, which has been shown to contribute to good health and reduce risk of heart disease, this book shares more than 500 recipes aligned to the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid. These recipes make it easy for readers to put together a meal that limits saturated fats, salt, and calories. Appetizing dishes include stuffed grape leaves, grilled sea bass with citrus and black olive salad, chicken in Turkish walnut sauce, and roasted pears with dried apricots and pistachios. Vegetables and grains are well-represented, boasting fatter chapters than meats and seafood. VERDICT Home cooks of all skill levels can use this book to explore a new lifestyle and to sample a wide range of Mediterranean cuisine.

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