500 Greatest-Ever Vegetarian Recipes [antikvár]

ntroductionSome of the most exciting and innovative food available today is vegetarian. Glorious colours and enticing flavours epitomize this type of cooking, and when you consider the superbsoups, starters, snacks, salads and main courses that make up green cuisine, it seems inconceivable that vegetarian food could ever have been considered dull or unappetizing. ft ^B^^BK^'^^ ?SB^B^W^k^ V When it comes to vegetarian cooking, the ' .I pleasure starts long before the cook reaches thekitchen. What could be more sensual than stooping to pick fresh herbs, bruising them between the fingers and releasing those wonderful scents? Or meandering through a market, filling a basket with dark purple aubergines, fat red tomatoes, glossy peppers, tiny radishes or creamy bulbs of fennel with their feathery fronds? Shopping for spices is another delight, as is discovering a new type of oil or vinegary or a supplier of superb fresh pasta.Vegetarian food has come a long way from the dreary days when it had a reputation for being brown and beany. It may once have been marginalized, but today it is very definitely mainstream. Visit any good restaurant, especially at lunchtime, and many of the most delectable items on offer will be meatless. Chargrilled slices of aubergine or courgette, layered v\/ith goat's cheese and served with a rich tomato sauce, pasta with pesto and pine nuts, puff pastry boxes filled with baby vegetables, asparagus risotto - such delicious dishes aren't on the menu because they are vegetarian, but because they are what people really love to eat.The good news is that you don't have to go to a restaurant to taste treats like these.There are more than five hundred wonderful vegetarian dishes in this collection, each one as appealing to the eye as the palate. Many of the dishes will naturally promote good health, but